The Screaming Cheese
Hook
Rivalis residents are clamoring for Screaming Cheese from the Two Brothers Creamery while its cattle suffer from red boils.
Evidence
- Ewing said people were “going crazy” for the cheese and demanding it.
- Cattle have reportedly been dying around the factory.
- The creamery lies south of Rivalis and is said to be impossible to miss.
- The cheese caused Rage to laugh uncontrollably and experience vivid nature visions.
- Neither the cheese nor its living blue mold displayed an obvious magical aura.
- A gentle female visitor from far away donated the mold and cheese of her own.
- Carver and Rage retained samples.
Open questions
- Is the demand ordinary enthusiasm, addiction, enchantment, or contamination?
- Why are the cattle dying?
- Is the cheese connected to the gray roots or another local threat?
- Who donated the mold?
- How does an apparently nonmagical substance produce such extreme effects?
- Is it connected to the cattle’s red boils?
Next steps
- Examine Carver’s retained sample.
- Identify the female donor.
- Compare the mold with the cattle’s biological growths.
- Ask customers when their unusual cravings began.