CharGen Icon
The Eye in the Trenches - AI-generated fantasy Quest

The Eye in the Trenches

The Eye in the Trenches
Workshop · Quests
Create your own Quest
investigation

The Eye in the Trenches

Lvl 52 players1-2 sessions· medium

“In the mud of the Great War, some secrets are older than time itself.”

— Hook · investigation

C
QuestgiverColonel Alistair Thorne
Investigation
D&D 5E
Medium
Lvl 5
2 players
1-2 sessions
3 NPCs
2 encounters
The Opening

“Gentlemen, the shelling has stopped, but the screaming hasn't. Men are vanishing from the foxholes of No Man's Land without leaving a footprint or a shell casing. You have forty-eight hours to find them before the next offensive, or we will be charging into a graveyard we built ourselves.”

— Hook · investigation

Set the Scene

Rain lashes against the corrugated tin of the command dugout as the distant thunder of artillery shakes the earth. You are standing before a map of the Argonne Forest where red ink circles a location labeled simply as Tomb of the Silent. Beside you stands a man in an officer's uniform you have never met, but the air around him hums with the same divine resonance as your own blade.

Patron
C
Questgiver

Colonel Alistair Thorne

The Colonel is desperate and pragmatic. He knows the Detective has a 'nose' for the truth and knows the Eldritch Knight is 'touched' by something greater. He treats this as a military operation but his hands shake as he lights a cigarette.

On the Streets · In the Books

Rumours

d3 · table
  1. 01
    Soldiers say the fog in the Argonne doesn't just hide the enemy; it eats the men whole.
  2. 02
    A German defector claimed they found a door underground that screamed when hit by artillery.
  3. 03
    The Eldritch Knight in our unit claims his visions are leading him to a forgotten ruin.
Stakes

If the Weaver completes its ritual, it will freeze the local flow of time, trapping the entire battalion in a loop of the exact moment they are killed by an upcoming chemical gas attack.

Ticking Clock·The dawn whistle. In six hours, the Allied command will launch a gas-shell barrage on the sector, which will trigger the Weaver's ritual.

Background Lore

During the construction of trenches, the 14th Infantry broke into a subterranean complex dedicated to Mimir, the keeper of wisdom. The disturbance woke the Chronal Weaver, a guardian who views the chaotic death of the war as an affront to the orderly flow of fate.

What the World Knows

An experimental German infiltration unit is using gas-masks and silent weapons to abduct soldiers from the front lines to gather intelligence.

Relationships

Gallery

No gallery images yet.