Bone-Silt Mine
The pickaxes have stopped, but the scratching continues behind the walls.
A collapsed iron mine now choked with necrotic residue and the restless remains of its former workers. The air is stale, smelling of rusted iron and old death.
Rhythmically dripping water, the scent of damp soil and metallic rust, and dim green phosphorescent lichen providing low light.
☠ Threat
The specter of Taskmaster Vorn haunts the deepest chamber. Driven by a twisted obsession with his former quotas, he compels the skeletal miners to continue digging toward a dark power he senses further below the earth.
History
Originally known as the Grey Rock Claim, it was a prosperous iron mine until a pocket of necrotic gas was breached thirty years ago. The miners died instantly and rose as mindless undead shortly after. The town elders sealed the entrance, but a recent earthquake has cracked the stone doors open once again.
Encounter Table
CRA miner carrying a broken shovel, searching for a seam that no longer exists.
Severed hands that scuttle along the ceiling, dropping onto the heads of travelers.
Rumours & Whispers
The miners were digging up something they shouldn't have, something older than the mine.
A blue light flickers in the mine at night, said to be Taskmaster Vorn's ghost checking his ledger.
If you hear a pickaxe hitting stone three times, you must answer with two knocks or the ghosts will find you.
Quest Hooks
Quest giver: Elias Grey
The grandson of the mine's owner wants the signet ring returned to prove his inheritance.
25 gp and a favor from the merchant's guild.
Quest giver: Hilda Bronze-vein
A local mining consortium wants the undead cleared so they can begin surveying the site for silver.
100 gp upon successful clearing of all major threats.
Corridor Notes
A discarded iron mine cart tipped on its side, blocking half the hallway.
A set of initials 'T.V.' carved deeply and repeatedly into the wooden support beam.
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