A lone dirt path runs two hundred and twenty four miles first north and then east deep under the trees of the endless forest.  Travelers might first meet inhabitants of The Falcon Nest Woods a days travel north of Rockcliff Castle, and, if there is no delay or need to stop, they might meet something bigger and hungrier as they pass on to The Green Mountain Thickets another days travel away. Whatever the case, it becomes very clear that this forest is dominated by the fey.  The trees thin out just a bit on the third days travel, but, when they reach The Rotting Woods, seasoned travelers know to keep their course due east no matter which way the path leads.  Many have come to their end following the ever changing path blindly into the depths of The Rotting Woods.  It happens often because travelers weary for a sight of the sun, instead of the broken patches of shadowed light.  Travelers can often be led astray by small gusts of fresh air promising an end to the stifling interior of the forest in the midst of summer.

 Moreover, the sprites, pixies, centaurs, and fairies give way to hags, blights, witches, and wickedly awakened trees and shrubs.  Ogres and trolls are often found in the company of orcs or goblins traveling the Rotting Wood Forest. Travelers who hold their course due east will encounter difficult terrain along the way, deep gorges with rushing streams far below, crowded trees barring the way with only a narrow winding path leading east, and steep hills littered with foilage that always push travelers north, south, or west, and always bar the east.  On the fourth day, usually early in the morning, travelers, as if by magic, reacquire the dirt path and enter the crowded tall trees of Mockingbird Grove, and the suddenly reappearing path will head straigt to the rising sun and true east.  By the end of that day, travelers will just enter White Deer Forest, where, by the afternoon of the next day, they will follow the path into the clearing at Yellow Meadow Village.

 Yellow Meadow Village was originally designed as a low level module.  PC's would wander into the village and be informed that the previous years harvest (and all other goods) were stolen by an army from the town of Onegap.  PC's have, at least, 4 months and 3 weeks before the next harvest (nearly 8 months of earth time).  That is plenty of time to adventure and explore the surrounding forest areas, including Kyper's Canyon which had dwarf mines, goblin camps, and kobold caves, and Moradin's Temple on top of Yellow Meadow Village Hill.  Time passes, the time of the invasion comes up, and the bandits and thugs show up.  The PC's wake up the next morning in the dungeons of OneGap and the adventures continue.  No problem, right?  Except, as any DM knows, PCs never do what you plan.  One large group changed everything when they armed and trained the villagers in the 8 months that I gave them.  When the time of the bandits occurred, they had a fighting force of 82 well armed and heavily shielded militia soldiers.  The "wake up in jail" module had just turned into Kurusawa's Seven Samurai.  Now the module is more flexible: If the PCs are in or around the village at the time that the bandits and thugs attack the village, then they too will be overcome and captured, unless, the PC's have collaborrated and used the NPC's to their advantage and have trained a small but effective militia, and have transformed the normally wide open village grounds into a maze of spiked fences, pits, and traps to confound and defeat the invading army.