The Black Forest

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The Black Forest
Location	Distant Woods
Unlocks	upon receiving Level 11 Quest
Min Stat	104
Combat %	90
ML	123 - 133
Special adventures
Clover	What the Cluck?
Bad Moon	A Potentially Offensive Reference Has Been Carefully Avoided Here
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The Black Forest is located in The Distant Woods. It's called the Black Forest because it's black and a forest. You gain access to it during the Quest for the Holy MacGuffin.

If your main stat isn't high enough, you will see the following message:

Your yellow streak combined with the blackness of the forest triggers both your fear of getting your ass beaten and your fear of bees. You should come back when you're better equipped to handle this.

(You must have at least 104 <stat> to adventure here.)

Combat Adventures

black adder -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: adder bladder, black snake skin, sunken eyes Meat Drop: 80-120 Monster Level: 129 • Substat Gain: 32.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 139 Monster Defense: 115 Hit Points: 124 Initiative: 50 Elemental Alignment: None Note: Successful attack may give 5 turns of Really Quite Poisoned.

Black Knight -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black greaves, black helmet, black shield, black sword Meat Drop: 72-108 Monster Level: 123 • Substat Gain: 30.75 • Moxie for No Hit*: 133 Monster Defense: 122 Hit Points: 135 Initiative: 50 Elemental Alignment: None

black panther -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: Black No. 2, broken wings Meat Drop: 120-180 Monster Level: 133 • Substat Gain: 33.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 143 Monster Defense: 113 Hit Points: 128 Initiative: 50 Elemental Alignment: None

black widow -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black pension check, black picnic basket Meat Drop: 40-60 Monster Level: 129 • Substat Gain: 32.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 139 Monster Defense: 119 Hit Points: 120 Initiative: 50 Elemental Alignment: None Note: Successful attack may give 10 turns of Really Quite Poisoned.

blackberry bush -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: blackberry, blackberry, blackberry Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 126 • Substat Gain: 31.5 • Moxie for No Hit*: 136 Monster Defense: 115 Hit Points: 136 Initiative: 30 Elemental Alignment: None Note: Attacks with melee weapons will cause the blackberry bush to deal damage from its thorns.

Non-combat Adventures

A Man in Black
	Item Drops: black market map Note: This is a one time adventure, occurring either as a normal noncombat adventure, or, if it hasn't occurred after 11 turns in the zone, as a "guaranteed" superlikely.

An Olith, Mon
	Item Drops: black kettle drum Substat Gain: 50 Magicalness Note: This is a one time adventure.

The Blackberry Cobbler

Make some slippers: blackberry slippers Make some moccasins: blackberry moccasins Make some combat boots: blackberry combat boots Make some galoshes: blackberry galoshes Make like a tree and leave: Nothing. (Does not consume an adventure.) Note: Occurs immediately after you obtain at least 10 blackberries. Note: Each pair of shoes costs 10 blackberries. Note: If you choose to make nothing, this adventure will not show up again for 30 turns (can be turns spent anywhere). Note: The adventure will continually occur until you run out of blackberries or choose to skip. Note: A superlikely adventure.

What the Cluck?
	Item Drops: black picnic basket Note: This adventure is triggered whenever you adventure here with a ten-leaf clover in your inventory.

A Potentially Offensive Reference Has Been Carefully Avoided Here
	Effects: Tar-Struck (10 turns) Note: Bad Moon only.

References

• The Black Forest, with all its references to African-American culture, is likely itself a reference to infamous forum trolls Team Shortbus who, in a racial trolling attempt, would often troll the forums and more often in-game chat extensively using the phrase, "If there's a Whitey's Grove why isn't there a Blackie's Grove?" or some variation thereof, also implying that Jick was racist.
• Alternately, it was apparently tossed around as idea after the creation of Whitey's Grove, and was mentioned (along with the Black Panther and Black Knight) on a long-ago Jick and Skully radio show.
• The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany.