Outside the stables

• A Mastiff has scattered the horses! Your party must deal with the Mastiff and corral the horses.
• There is a Draft Horse for each party member. One wears a powdered wig, one wears a key around its neck, one has a dapper bow tie, and the last gleams metallic with glassy black hoofs and patches of red on its flanks. Each party member should select a horse to calm and mount one of the horses. This is nominally a skill check (Animal Handling, DC 15) but the DC can be lowered by successful actions to calm the horse, and an adventurer could attempt to use other skills. (SpiderPig can be another horse if your party has five members, described as a horse with web-like markings and a squashed nose.)
• After all the horses are mounted, the SREs will reveal the horses' names: Composer, Zuul, Jenkins, and Selenium. Anytime Selenium is involved in an action, a d4 should be rolled; on a 1 the horse flakes out and does something unexpected, possibly mildly injuring or endangering the party.
• The party now needs to collect their newbie editors before heading out on their journey. Encourage each PC to narrate who their Newbie Editor is (what pages they edit, their personality, appearance, etc) and where they go to collect them. The newbie editor will have Commoner stats, and ride behind the PC on their horse.

Journey through Disambiguation Hills

• The journey through Disambiguation Hills will take all day, and the party will arrive outside Troll Woods as night is falling.
• Travel is handled as a skill challenge. Each character will take one of the following roles (juggling two is at Disadvantage for each), and two characters sharing a role grants the Help action benefits.
  • A Provisioner who hunts and gathers and makes sure the water is safe (Survival roll).
  • A Navigator who makes sure the characters are oriented and actually heading to their intended destination (Survival roll).
  • A Naturalist who minds the environment for things that are out of place or hidden dangers ("These aren't black bear tracks, they are owlbear tracks!") (Nature check).
  • A Watcher, who's keeping an eye on everything for ambushes (Perception check).
• Reward high rolls with the Wand Of Mild Rebuke (see below), which will be useful in the final battle. This could be discovered via high perception, or at a location discovered by high navigation, or hidden beside a fresh-water spring discovered by the Provisioner, etc.
• The travel can be divided into segments, with each PC rolling for the outcome of that segment. For example, on a d4 roll:
  1. Minor Attack (see monster list below)
  2. Environmental hazard (see list below)
  3. Change of weather (see below)
  4. Visit by helpful NPC or visit to interesting monument (Ruins of Brittanica, Barnstar Tattoo Village, witness majestic Data Center Migration, etc)
• If the adventuring party gets lost, you might roll a d8 to determine a direction on the map in which they stray (1=North, 2=North East, 3=East, 4=South East, etc), or have them end up in Barnstar Tattoo Village, where a helpful resident can help guide them (and provide the Wand of Mild Rebuke if that has not already been discovered; this is something many experienced Wikimedians own).

Outside Troll Woods

• Night is falling as the party approaches the edge of the Troll Woods. The party can elect either to camp outside for the night, or enter the woods in the dark.
• Either way, Web Crawlers and an AI Spider attack at night, using Phase Spider Tactics. If the party is traversing the woods, they likely stumble into sticky webs woven between the trees as well.
• The spiders attack the horses and editors, and the party must defend them.

Encountering the Troll

• In the center of the Troll Woods the party encounters the Flaming Troll of the woods. A body of water nearby is really a Lake Mimic.
• The ground is covered in Risky Patches. Any movement (PC, NPC, or monster) is followed by a d20 roll; on a 4 or below the location the creature is standing on is unstable and suddenly sinks 10ft and all nearby creatures must succeed on a DC 15 dexterity saving throw or takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage from the fall. On a natural 20 the moving creature stabilizes the area: just underneath the surface you find bedrock and this area is now no longer risky. On a natural 1 the ground sinks 50 ft, you take 5d6 falling damage, and it will be difficult to climb out of the patch.
• The party can use their Wand of Mild Rebuke to discover the damage type that will prevent the troll from regenerating. They can also attempt to lure/drag the troll into the lake, which will also prevent regeneration.
• The Lake Mimic will only attack if characters get within 10 ft of it, and will revert to pond form if left undisturbed. If the players look into the lake they will see a chest at the bottom of the lake. This is not another mimic, but instead a chest containing Temporary Barnstar Tattoos, Unicorn Stickers, and (if needed) Potions of Healing.
• If not revealed earlier, the newbie editors can reveal that they were each given a Potion of Healing (or a Greater Potion of Healing) because Castle Wikimedia was tired of having new editors burn out on this journey. This will motivate the player characters to stay close to their editors.
• Increase difficulty if necessary by adding additional Web Crawlers or other monsters which might be drawn by the commotion, or combine this with the battle outside troll woods by having the troll emerge from the tree line at some point.
• Once the Flaming Troll is defeated, the rest of the journey through the woods and to the Editor Decline is uneventful. Have the players narrate this final stage of the journey. How do the new editors contribute when they arrive? Do the player characters stay to assist, or ride immediately back for another escort mission? Perhaps the Wikimedians at Editor Decline have something they wish our players to bring back to the Castle?

Barnstar Tattoo Village

Barnstar Tattoo Village is filled with passionate Wikipedians. It can be hard to find someone to talk to, as everyone seems constantly occupied with wikignome tasks. When you find someone with a momentary bit of free time, they are eager to help you, but prone to long disgressions: either war stories from the time that Jimbo thanked them on their talk page, or an eager tutorial on the fine points of WP:NPOV. They love nothing more than process.

Disambiguation Hills

A long series of hills, at times hard to distinguish from each other, which makes it easy to get lost. The hills seem to arc in long chains of parentheses. Be careful: packs of Vandals can roam these hills, and intense Edit Wars can arise from out of nowhere as different parties via for the Primary Topic. Web crawlers and AI Spiders can also often get confused among these hills, and you may see Broken Wikitext, or Frequently-Used Templates here.

Troll Woods

The home of a notorious Flaming Troll. Web crawlers and AI spiders can often be misled by trolls.

Wand of Mild Rebuke

Wondrous item, rare (does not require attunement)

A short rod, with swirling colors, which can be held in a fist or attached to a weapon. When the user selects a damage type the rod shifts to a color corresponding to that type. Used on-wiki by experienced editors to deliver just the right amount of sting on talk pages to correct misbehavior without triggering a flame war or risking censure by admins.

While carrying this item, melee attacks do 1 additional point of damage, in the holder's choice of damage type: acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, piercing, poison, psychic, radiant, slashing, or thunder. Does not require an action or bonus action to change damage type; multiple attacks in the same turn will each do 1 additional damage which can be of different types for each attack.

Temporary Barnstar Tattoo

Same effect as a Potion of Heroism.

Unicorn Sticker

Same effect as a Potion of Resistance.

Flaming Troll

A fearsome beast, seemingly created out of igneous rock. Between cracks in its stony skin you see bright flame, as if from lava under the surface. Oddly it is wearing socks and what seem to be gloves.

A flaming troll has the same stats as the SRD Troll, including the "Loathsome Limbs" feature, except that regeneration is prevented by Cold ("the cold tempers the flames") or Fire damage ("it can dish out flames, but it seemingly can't take them"), or by a sufficient quantity of water.

The first Troll Limb severed should be a leg, which is described as animated by its sock. If an arm is severed, the gloves are described as "like socks for the hands" or more-or-less literal sock puppets.

Lake Mimic

A pleasant body of water dotted with lily pads, with gently waving green weeds under the surface. When awakened, the lily pads sprout eyes and the green weeds turn into grasping pseudopods.

Identical stats to the SRD Mimic, except with 0 movement speed; its size is the same as the pond in which it lives, and it cannot leave it. It will attack any creature within its reach; that is, within 10 ft of its pond.

Lesser Ghost

Medium Undead, Neutral (Thanks to AtriusUN)