The Sanguine Prospect

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The Sanguine Prospect

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

“Buried deep in the red dust lies a hunger that never sleeps.”

— Hook · Mystery and Dungeon Crawl

QuestgiverForeman Silas Vane

Mystery and Dungeon Crawl

System-Agnostic

Hard

Lvl 3 to 5

3 to 5 players

3 to 4 hours

3 NPCs

2 encounters

The Opening

“The air in Cinnabar Gulch tastes like pennies and old blood. Foreman Silas Vane stands before the rickety elevator cage, his face pale beneath a layer of red dust. He needs someone brave enough to descend into the whispering depths to find his missing crew.”
— Hook · Mystery and Dungeon Crawl

Set the Scene

The party stands at the lip of a jagged canyon where the soil is the color of dried scabs and the air tastes of iron.

Patron

Questgiver

Foreman Silas Vane

Desperate and shivering, Silas clutches a stained ledger and offers a pouch of heavy coins to anyone who will step into the lift.

On the Streets · In the Books

Rumours

d3 · table

01
The red dust in the air makes the miners see ghosts of the old world.
02
Silas Vane hasn't paid the last three shifts of miners who came back up.
03
No bird flies over Cinnabar Gulch without falling dead from the fumes.

Stakes

If the catalyst is perfected, the earth-god will wake, shattering the canyon and consuming every living soul in the region to fuel its rebirth.

Ticking Clock·The Deep Pulse: Every hour spent in the mines increases the intensity of the earth-god's heartbeat, dealing psychic strain to the party.

Background Lore

Cinnabar Gulch was founded sixty years ago on a rich vein of red mercury and rare crystals. Lately, the deeper shafts have broken into porous, organic-looking rock that bleeds when struck with a pickaxe.

What the World Knows

Miners in the lower veins have vanished without a trace; the foreman suspects a rival mining consortium is sabotaging the operation or that a gas pocket has caused mass confusion.