Out of Mirkwood

A custom scenario, to be played in the Hobbit campaign between Flies and Spiders and The Lonely Mountain, or as an independent quest.

Quest 1: The Elf King's Hospitality.
Setup: Remove Orcrist from the Campaign pool. Remove Barrel Room, Keeper of the Keys, and all 6 Elven Guards from the encounter deck, along with the Lake Town Mayor and Lake Town Docks. Add Keeper of the Keys to the staging area, and make Barrel Room the active location.
Quest 1b: (4 quest points)
During each Quest phase, instead of revealing cards from the Encounter deck, each player must chose a set-aside guard and add it to the staging area, or add two resource tokens to this card (if all guards have already been added).

The total Threat in the staging area is increased by 1 for each resource token on this card.

Forced: when the 4th progress token is placed on this card, discard all Elf enemies from play

Barrel Room (Unique Location; 4 Threat, X quest points, 1 VP)
X is equal to the total number of characters in play

Keeper of the Keys (Unique Enemy; 50 engagement level, 4 Threat, 5 ATK, 4 DEF, 7 HP)
Elf.
Forced: after Keeper of the Keys attacks and destroys a character, return him to the staging area.

Elven Guard (Enemy; {22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37} engagement (one of each), 2 Threat, 4 ATK, 2 DEF, 4 HP)
Elf.
Forced: after Elven Guard attacks and destroys a character, return him to the staging area.

Quest 2: Barrel Rider
When Revealed: Reveal cards from the Encounter deck until the total Threat in the staging area is at least equal to the number of players. Skip the engagement phase this round.
Quest 2b: (SIEGE quest; 14 quest points)
Forced: After placing any amount of progress on this quest, the players as a group must assign that much damage among characters they control (to a maximum of the number of characters committed to the quest).

Quest 3: Masters of the Lake
When Revealed: add the Lake Town Mayor to the staging area, make Lake Town Docks the active location (discarding any previous location)
Quest 3b: (8 quest points)
The players cannot complete this phase unless the Lake Town Mayor is in the victory display.

Laketown Docks (x1) - Unique, 3 Threat, 5 Quest Points, 3 VP
While Laketown Docks is the active location, each Hero gains "Action: Exhaust this character to heal 1 damage from it"

Lake Town Mayor (Unique Enemy; 1 engagement level, X Threat, 2 ATK, 6 DEF, 1 HP, 4 VP)
X is the total number of players. The Mayor cannot leave the staging area, and is immune to player card effects. Attacks against the Mayor use Willpower instead of Attack.

Each hero gains "Pay 1 resource from this hero's pool, this hero can attack the Lake Town Mayor this phase as if he was engaged with you."

Remaining Quest Deck (30 cards) - 2 location, 1 enemy, 2 treachery removed for Easy Mode

Locations (10):
Banks of the River (x4) - 1 Threat, 3 Quest Points
Surge
{if this attack is undefended, raise the defending player's Threat by 3}

Rapids (x2) - 3 Threat, 2 Quest Points {one with difficulty indicator}
Forced: after any amount of progress is placed on the Rapids, each player must deal 2 damage to an ally he controls.

Streets of Laketown (x2) - 2 Threat, 2 Quest Points
Immune to Player card effects
{attacking enemy gets +2 Defense for remainder of the round}

Staging Area (x1) - 4 Threat, X Quest Points {difficulty indicator}
X is the total number of characters in play
{Raise defending player's Threat by 1 for each damaged character he controls}

Manor House (x1) - Unique, 1 Threat, 4 Quest Points
Travel: Raise each player's Threat by 3. Each player may heal up to 3 damage from his or her characters.
{Heal all damage on attacking enemy}

Enemies (12):
Goblin Archer (x3) - 33 engagement; 1 Threat, 3 ATK, 1 DEF, 3 HP. Goblin. Orc.
Archery 1
{deal 1 damage to defending character}

Goblin Scout (x2) - 45 engagement; 3 Threat, 4 ATK, 3 DEF, 3 HP. Goblin Orc.
Forced: at the end of the round, raise each player's Threat by 1.

Wargs (x2) - 20 engagement; 2 Threat, 3 ATK, 1 DEF, 3 HP. Creature.
Forced: if Wargs is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Wargs to the staging area after it attacks.
{+1 attack; +2 if undefended}

Black Forest Bats (x2) - 15 engagement; 1 Threat, 1 ATK, 0 DEF, 2 HP. Creature
When Revealed: Each player must chose 1 character committed to the quest and remove them from the quest.

Man of Dale (x2) - 28 engagement; 2 Threat, 3 ATK, 2 DEF, 4 HP.
When Revealed: Any player may exhaust a Hero he or she controls with Willpower of 3 or higher to discard Man of Dale
{cancel this attack}

Goblin Chieftain (x1) - {difficulty} 35 engagement, 2 Threat, 3 ATK, 3 DEF, 6 HP, 4 VP. Goblin, Orc.
While Chieftain is in the staging area, other Goblins have +1 Threat and +1 Attack.
When Chieftain attacks, deal it an additional Shadow card.
{If attacking enemy is a Goblin or Creature, deal it 2 additional Shadow cards}

Treachery (8):
Chilled to the Bone (x2): When Revealed: attach to a Hero. Counts as a Condition attachment with "Attached Hero gets -1 Willpower, -1 Attack, and -1 Def for each damage on him."

Fighting among Friends (x2) When Revealed: The first player names a sphere. Then, all non-baggins characters not of that sphere are removed from the quest
{+1 attack; +2 if undefended}

Hatred Rekindled (x3) {2 with difficulty} When Revealed: Each engaged enemy makes an attack (without shadow cards). If no attacks occur, Surge.
{Attacking enemy makes an additional attack}

Elven Delegation (x1) Surge. When Revealed: shuffle each Elf enemy from the encounter discard pile into the deck.
{Shuffle this card back into the Encounter deck}