u/Fine-Independence976 — reddlx

So, we played a fairly simple homebrew story game with my friends. We planned to play a marathon, 10 hour game. Me, as the DM, was prepared. Multiple stories, side quest, characters, back-up plans if the back-up failed. I was ready for EVERYTHING.

So we started playing, and as Inwas describing the area of the town, I mentioned a wheelbarrow. What was that wheelbarrow? Nothing. It was just a random element in the area to give them some vibes and flavour.

So they FORSOMEREASON started talking about the wheelbarrow. I'm not lying, I'm not exaggerating, they talked about the wheelbarrow FOR 40 MINUTES STRAIGHT!!!

After that, they FINALLY entered the pub. They talked to the pub owner about the wheelbarrow FOR AN HOUR. Who's this wheelbarrow belongs to? Why is there no one around the wheelbarrow?

When the owner couldn't answer that, they started asking the alcoholist of who the wheelbarrow belongs to. Aprox. 30 minutes later I gave up, and I told them a random name of who is the wheelbarrow owner. I thought it's gonna end. Nope.

So they went on a small quest to find a wheelbarrow owner. I gave time a few investigation checks and half an hour later, they found the owner.... And they beat him up for putting trash on the street (?) and loosing something valuable like this.

The local guards chaught them in the act, so they had to ran. They succesfully got away, but they decided to go back for the wheelbarrow.

Long story short, during the rescue the wheelbarrow broke down (I may or may not lied about the dice result) and I thought it's over, but no. They collected the pieces of the wheelbarrow to find a proffesional wheelbarrow maker to fix it.

That was the point I just gave up and rolled with the flow.

They made some druid disguise in the forest and went back to the town for the third time to... Find a merchant who can help bringing the broken wheelbarrow to another settlement amd find a wheelbarrow maker. I even mentioned to them as the merchant, that a wheelbarrow maker lives close, right next to the town, but they ignored it.

During the PEACEFULL ride to the closest settlement I asked them what are they talking about while riding the merchant cart. They answered "the wheelbarrow" and talked FOR ANOTHER 40 MINUTES ABOUT THE WHEELBARROW. (and another 3 minutes about wheelbarrow bandints???)

When we finally arrived the another town where they were not wanted criminals, they... went to the nearest pub to tell the story of the broken wheelbarrow. They accidentally told the story to a guard who wanted to arrest them. But they succesfully persuated him to not arrest them and instead, help them fix the wheelbarrow.

And do you guys know what they did to the wheelbarrow? They literally forget about it IN 2 MINUTES.

We spent SEVEN hours about the wheelbarrow just to forget about it in 2 minutes.

3 weeks and 4 seasions later they asked me what happened to the wheelbarrow. I told them, that you guys just forget about it and left it in the pub.