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The Sanguine Seep - AI-generated fantasy Quest

The Sanguine Seep

The Sanguine Seep
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Investigation and Dungeon Crawl

The Sanguine Seep

Lvl 3 to 53 to 5 players3 to 4 hours· Moderate

“Some secrets are better left buried beneath the red dust.”

— Hook · Investigation and Dungeon Crawl

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QuestgiverSilas Thorne
Investigation and Dungeon Crawl
System-Agnostic
Moderate
Lvl 3 to 5
3 to 5 players
3 to 4 hours
3 NPCs
1 encounter
The Opening

“The sun beats down on Cinnabar Gulch, turning the jagged cliffs into a furnace. A panicked prospector stumbles into the town square, his skin stained a glowing, impossible crimson. Help me, he wheezes, the earth is bleeding gold but it is eating us alive.”

— Hook · Investigation and Dungeon Crawl

Set the Scene

The party is resting at the Rusty Pick Tavern when a dust-covered miner bursts through the doors, his arms covered in weeping red sores, collapsing before the bar while clutching a shard of crystalline gold.

Patron
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Questgiver

Silas Thorne

Silas is the frantic foreman of the Deep Sluice who offers the party a pouch of raw gemstones if they can stop the 'rot' at its source.

On the Streets · In the Books

Rumours

d3 · table
  1. 01
    The Deep Sluice mine is haunted by the ghosts of prospectors who died in the Great Cave-In.
  2. 02
    The new gold vein discovered last week glows with a sickly red light and hums when touched.
  3. 03
    Overseer Elara Vane is buying up all the antitoxins in the region for an unknown reason.
Stakes

If the source is not contained, the entire water table of Cinnabar Gulch will become permanently toxic, forcing the abandonment of the town.

Ticking Clock·Every hour spent inside the mine increases the 'Corrupted' track. At level 5, characters begin taking permanent attribute damage from the red dust.

Background Lore

Cinnabar Gulch was founded on the extraction of mercury and rare ores. Deep beneath the surface, the miners have accidentally breached the prison of an ancient earth spirit known as the Iron-Heart, whose essence is now leaking into the mineral veins.

What the World Knows

A new vein of Living Gold has been found, but it carries a virulent mining plague that threatens to wipe out the settlement.

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