Scenario: A retrieval quest for a mid-level adventurer in a coastal trading city. Trigger: a warehouse clerk flags down the player at the docks. 1. HOOK — "You look like you can carry more than you're paid for. The spice caravan never made port — and my ledgers won't balance until it does." Trigger: the salt-stained docks at low tide. 2. OBJECTIVE — Recover the missing shipment manifest and two sealed crates from the caravan's last known stop on the cliff road. Success: return both to the clerk before the guild audit. 3. TWIST — The crates were never spices. They hold sealed survey maps of a contested reef, and the "bandits" are a rival house's surveyors who will hand over the cargo only if you falsify the audit. 4. REWARD — A guild seal that grants one no-questions-asked ferry passage, and a follow-up: the reef maps point to a charted cove the guild wants re-surveyed. 5. CAST — Quill (clerk): precise, over-caffeinated, terrified of the guild auditor. Marlow (rival surveyor): calm, patient, offers you a better deal with a straight face.