The Moon Under Oakhaven
The Moon Under Oakhaven
“Enter the dream manor beneath Oakhaven, bargain with a vampire court, and decide whether the village's nightmare should be broken or preserved.”
— Hook · explore
“For three nights in a row, the people of Oakhaven have awakened with blood on their lips and hours missing from their lives. Every account points to the same impossible place, a flooded manor that appears only in dreams, where a candlelit feast waits for guests who never arrive. If the nightmare is not stopped, the village will sleep itself into something worse than death.”
— Hook · explore
At dusk in Oakhaven, every window is curtained, every bell is tied off with twine, and every villager speaks in lowered voices as if the night can hear. Edda Thorne shows the party a bowl of salt-blackened water in which the same image keeps forming: a moonlit manor half-sunk in a black marsh, with candles burning inside rooms no one remembers building. She asks the party to enter the dream before the next sleep cycle takes another victim.
Edda Thorne
Urgent and fearful, but practical. Edda offers coin, shelter, and access to village records if the party will treat the problem discreetly and avoid provoking a panic.
Rumours
d5 · table- 01The manor appears only when the village sleeps at the same time.
- 02No mirror in Oakhaven reflects the same face twice after midnight.
- 03The missing hours are not stolen, they are traded.
- 04The old bell tower rings underwater when the dream grows too deep.
- 05Some villagers have begun dreaming in a language older than the town.
If the party fails, Oakhaven will sink deeper into a shared dream where people can be harvested without ever leaving their beds. If they succeed, the village survives, but the old bargain beneath it may awaken new enemies, old debts, or hidden allies.
Background Lore
Oakhaven sits at the edge of a blackwood marsh where old roads sink into dream-haunted mist. For three generations, its people have locked their shutters against the night and left salt at the threshold, because the village has long whispered of pale nobles who feed not only on blood but on memory. Recently, sleepers have begun waking with hours missing, and the town's shared dreams have turned into a strange, recurring vision of a flooded manor under a moon that never moves.
A wave of shared nightmares has gripped Oakhaven, and the villagers believe an old manor in the marsh is causing the hauntings. The party must enter the dream, survive its dangers, and put an end to the source before more people vanish into sleep.
