The “Ferret Caves” are part of the mountainous Northwest region around Goldvale. There's a big cave entrance at the top of one particular area of it and entering into this area allows player characters to find an odd series of challenges, which shall become increasingly more obnoxious over time as lesser ones are solved. The idea is that ferrets, just normal ferrets, not monster ferrets, live here and have hauled all sorts of mostly small loot in over time as real life ferrets do. The cave has areas in it where that loot has been stashed and one must be clever to solve how to get that loot out.
Players had a 50' long by 6“ diameter “tunnel” they could look horizontally down and spot a gold necklace at the end. They solved it by summoning a
blue crab familiar to crawl in and grab it. The necklace counts as loot that is art and is only work 25gp.
Players had a 4” wide square hole in the ground that dropped 75' deep with platinum pieces in it. Again the blue crab was used by lowing it on a rope a few times to pinch up a couple coins per lowering, solving this.
Next up (still active) is a 2' tunnel that descends into the ground at a 45' angle. It is full of spider webs containing small venomous spiders. 50 feet in there are 6 trinkets, that no one knows what they are but at the very least the width of this tunnel, the spiders, and the potential to accidentally destroy trinkets if fire or force is used has stalled this from being solved.
Also (active) is another horizontal tunnel challenge. This one is 8“ wide, 60' long, and a gem can be seed at the far end. There are however little holes a good bit down this tunnel and ferrets can be seen dodging through it. This stopped the potential “blue crab” method.
Additional future challenges await!