About This Adventure

You're herding your goats when you see smoke in the distance from an advancing Marinthian Army. You must evacuate your quiet perch in the foothills.

Opening Scene

You’re on the high shelf above the dry creek, staff in hand, counting the mottled nannies as they nose the last of the thorn-grass. The wind shifts. A black column lifts from the far saddle—too thick for brushfire, too steady—and then another, closer, where the old cart-road comes down from the Marinthian side. Below you, the stone hut and the little hay rick look suddenly thin. Mira, who came up at dawn to help drive the yearlings, has gone still beside the spring trough. She doesn’t look at the smoke. She looks at you. “Do we cut the flock loose and run for Rivenholt, or try to push them down the back draw before the column reaches the ford?”

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Tags

adventure, custom, environment:mountains, environment:ruined-civilization, social-structure:tribal-clan, role-profession:working-class, tone-atmosphere:grimdark, tone-atmosphere:mundane-danger, story-mechanics:war, story-mechanics:survival-game, fantasy-magic:low-fantasy, historical:medieval, target-audience:neutral, lang:en