Step up for a look
I'll take thee away
Into a land
Of enchantmentStep up for a look
The time's come to play
Here in my garden
Of lights and shadows
There are many secrets to discover here...
The Wagon's shelves and displays are jam packed with a mind-melting, vibrating, buzzing, glowing, spinning, levitating sheer hoard of unique arcane artifacts, curiosities, and books with secrets all their own and stories to tell. The stock is always changing and you never know what you'll find.The Ephemeral Wagon is here, where yesterday it was not. Won’t you step up, take a risk, and come play in this wandering shop of wonders, this eclectic emporium of enticing enigmas, transcendent trinkets, captivating curiosities, and sensational secrets?
There are no price cards set in front of anything. Everything must be bartered for or you must pay a tithe to The Forest Altar.
A wooden board full of parchments is set up on a post at a table full of potions on the left side of the booth. It’s decorated with star shaped tacks that twinkle and a border of roses. The items you need to complete the quest are on the table! Each parchment bears a task and promises rewards upon completion!More quests are added during the week, progressing as The Wagon Story this year unfolds...
The innkeeper of Stormglen Village is hoping to hire a groundskeeper for The Blackwald, or maybe an arborist to help the trees, or definitely probably a gravekeeper so that the graveyard in The Blackwald can finally be tended to. But they need somewhere to stay more long-term than the inn. Wood's End Cabin in The Blackwald has a long history, but with a little cleaning, and a little sanctifying, she thinks it could be a cute place to live!A hearthwitch has provided a cleaning basket of supplies to help do the job, but with the trouble in the forest, she's unable to do the cleansing herself.Get a basket of supplies from The Quest Table at The Ephemeral Wagon and then head to Stormglen Village to see how you can help!
How to Do The Quest
This quest REQUIRES TRP Extended.
Use the TRP Extended "Stash Scan" feature at the booth.
Loot one of the [Hearthwitch Home Cleansing Baskets] there, right-click it, and begin the quest!
You don't have to be in line to grab a quest, but you do have to get in line to turn it in.
Alternatively, get in line and directly see Hazella to be traded a basket. (Horde + cross-server players can still get one through an import string.)
Everything you need to know to complete the quest is included within the basket item, including a scroll of more directions if you need help!
Auras automatically update on you as you progress and guide you on what to do next!
The residents of Stormglen Village in Gilneas perfectly exemplify the tenacity, unwavering hope, and iron-clad will it takes to overcome the worst things that can happen to someone and still find the sun again.Hazella has had many many dealings and encounters with them even before her own ordeal in The Blackwald, but they banded together to help her recover once she was saved from The Thing in the Deep Dark Woods and now she seeks to repay their compassion and kindness.Rebuilding the village is tough work and with the host of, you know minor inconveniences plaguing them, such as a deadly siren haunting the sea just outside the village, vilebrood spiders, and of course...The Thing...they could use a lot of help, but pride stops them from accepting charity. So..well...we gotta come up with something to get them to take all of this.Donate anything that you think the villagers could benefit from and help Hazella figure out how to get them to accept it without making it seem like a handout and Hazella will greatly reward you! All of the collected donations will be sent to Stormglen at the end of the week!
How to Do The Quest
Trading TRP Extended items to donate to the supply drive is purely optional and not required, but I love it if you do!
You can come up to Hazella and emote what you're donating, why, and if you'd like, offer a suggestion ICly about how to give the item to the residents of Stormglen Village without making it seem like charity to spare their pride.
Items will be collected all week and compiled into a Google Slides for everyone to enjoy together!
Exceptionally creative ideas may make it into a TRP Extended Quest with credit given for them!
The Wagon's shelves, displays, hooks, nooks, crannies, weird lil space between the tiny iron stove and the bookshelf, front counter, side counter, back windowsill, side windowsill, second floor...The second floor??? Since when???All of this holds a sheer plethoric mass of magical items, glowing, spinning, walking themselves across shelves, levitating in the air, jostling to be seen by shoving each other off of the shelves! Things do seem to be getting quite out of hand and chaos reigns. Oh no...a light show is going off on the second floor as something is shooting fireworks off inside of there.
Well...at least the light illuminates the wares especially available today!
A Shelf of Items Created from Travels Through Gilneas to Get to Stormglen Village
Set in a Trophy Cup on the Front Counter to Gloat About Them, Items Won in a Game of Dice with Darkmoon Faire Traveling Troupers
A Silver Clothes Rack of Costumes in Front of the Wagon, Traded from Darkmoon Faire Traveling Troupers
Carrying on the Spirit of Carnival Fun, Levitating and Bobbing in the Air Above the Front Counter…
A Tiered Black Velvet Display of Lovingly Traded Items from The Darkmoon Campfire
Mystical, astral, otherworldly, and cosmic...this set of wares levitate in mid-air in beams of moonlit display light, rotating slowly above plush little violet velvet pillows to show off all their details or they are held mid-air by a spectal violet hand.
Cosmic puppies snooze and dream on celestial silver pet pillows in front of the wagon, clouds of nebulas glowing around their heads as they sleep.
Disquieting candles draw the eye to a shelf arranged next to a small altar. Ribbons of white sanctifying incense curl off of the altar and around these candles to protect their energy.
Wares of the dark forest, made from foraging and harvesting materials in The Blackwald, glimmer darkly from trays made of black tree bark, lined up along The Wagon's front counter. A conjured shadowy mist roils and floats all around them...
When you are a Friend of the Forest, the forest becomes a friend to you...
Sometimes, not often, but in extreme cases, the way to beat the darkness is to turn it on itself...
Strange reagents for crafting glimmer curiously from one of the black wood trays.
A twinned pair of enchanted petrified wood rings spinning in mid-air, orbiting around each other above an open night sky black velvet open double ring box.This pair of rings radiates a soft crimson aura of enchantment.
A twinned pair of enchanted petrified wood rings spin in mid-air, orbiting around each other above an open dove grey double ring box.This pair radiates a soft pale golden aura of enchantment!
Additional wares levitate above their respective black wood trays, shimmering with promising enchantments...
Many witches are goodly, kindly, Bright Hearth Witches, and not all of them wear pointy hats.These items are inspired by the indomitable and big-hearted Grandma Wahl of Stormglen Village, time Hazella and Millicent spent healing and recovering with her after a harrowing ordeal, stories of her previous cottage home in Duskhaven, and her roses.
You see a shelf of gently shimmering jars of honey neatly lined up, nearly glowing in hues of amber, gold, and bronze under the booth’s star-shaped gold string lights swaying in the breeze.
Sensational Secrets Await You
You have found a secret...This is what the Level 1 Cryptic Coin looks like. There are many more levels and the coin grows in power and changes, the more you interact with The Ephemeral Wagon.Do quests at the wagon, and generally do creative things during your visit and you will be rewarded with additional levels of the coin.
What Does All of This Get You?
Coin bearers get to explore The Wagon in whole new ways.They deliciously get to come play at the wagon when Hazella's not there or sneak around to the back when she is. Coin slots wait for you to push your coin in to open secret doors or pop out secret shelves and see what happens...And...coin bearers get invited to secret events.
Witches love being inscrutable, cryptic, and mysterious and riddles are one of their most beloved favorite pastimes.Is your mind sharp enough to untangle these erudite enigmas?Pull a riddle from the box and see if you can puzzle it, or pay the price of one of your sins or secrets...
Curious? Brave? Just like cats?Try your hand at wooing the most cryptic aspect of the Wagon, Hazella's ever-present familiar Millicent who is so much more than the devious black kitty she appears to be. Attempt to get past her to open The Cryptic Chest that she guards for access to the Wagon's most exclusive secret wares that you can only see if you win...
Make sure to use your Lucky Loot here!
A huge circular prize wheel ringed by big star shaped lights rests dormant beside the caravan, waiting for a spin.It's painted in alternating wedges of violet, white, silver, and gold, with celestial symbols along the rim. Two handles for easy reach to those of varying heights wait to be grabbed, painted in purple and white stripes.You could win a lucky necklace that speaks to you, cooing encouraging words...among other things...