Travellers of the Last Eon

An Adventure for 2nd level 5th Edition

Over the last eon a beast has slumbered at the center of a deep cave, awoken only when travellers pass. They are trapped inside and forced into the beasts lair by a vicious storms conjured in their minds. Their mortal doom awaits at the center and their souls languish trapped inside.

Running the Adventure

The characters start trapped in the cave by a devestating storm, no weather control helps.

• Travellers have been trapped and consumed here over ages, remnants of them will be distinct as most are from long lost cultures.
• Keep pacing using the Psychic Storm and hint at its unusual origin - the storm is a lie.
• The beast send souls (Soul Spawn) to do its bidding, kept under the lake they are lucid and not aggressive.
• There is no light in much of the cave.

Locations

1. Cave Maw

Rocky slate cavern with a pit that drops into darkness. A thin corridor veers to one-side a faint damp wind flowing from it (4.). A second tunnel leads in the opposite direction with deep wagon wheel marks worn into solidified mud (2.).

2. Travellers Camp

Ancient remnants of fire-pits, an old wagon with iron chains which manacle 3 skeletons and carry 2 locked chests.

3. Shale Slop

A steep slippery shale slope which opens out to a cavern filled with many chrysalides, what ever lay inside long since departed. Traversing down the shale disturbs 3 Grubs which wriggle out from the slope and attack immediately.

4. Waterfall

A waterfall roars into a great river 30ft below, an old bridge stretches across. Shining like small turquoise stars, large glow worms hang from the high roof.

5. Fungus Fields

Glowing mushrooms cover the ground; among the field lays a worn backpack. Tiny bats roost on stalactites diving down to feed on the fungi. A zip-line stands at the edge of a cliff.

6. Walking Corridor

A dead knight in Iridescent armor lies at the mouth of a tight corridor where a low wail of pain begins to echo.

7. Worshippers Chamber

Blackened coals of an old campfire sits at the center of the chamber. A stack of books, a well used bed roll and other detritus lay about the cavern. A pile of chitinous grub heads sit discarded next to a huge stalagmite which is covered in paintings in a red oily pigment.

8. Silent Lake

A glassy black lake, on the far side of the pebbled shore the remnants of a ruined shelter.

9. Beasts Lair

A thin corridor opens out to a huge circular cavern, the floor a concave sandy pit of fine black sand.

Psychic Storm

If an intelligent creature attempts to rest, or dwells in a cavern for too long the dangerous winds will begin to buffet through the area - the beast is hungry.

• DC 16 Dexterity save or take 1D4 force and 1D4 psychic damage repeating each turn.
• Retreating deeper into the cave will quell the storm. Characters are free to traverse any cavern there-after.
• Leaving the cave will inflict 1d12 psychic damage every round outside.

1D4	Mushroom Effect
1	You hear wails in long forgotten languages, you can understand any language but have disadvantage on wisdom checks.
2	An awakened mushroom begins to follow you, it makes annoying high pitched shrieks and smells foul.
3	Confused, you must say the opposite of what you mean.
4	Fungus grows across your body. +2 AC.

Effects last until the end of a long rest

Magic Items

Amulet of Lucidity

The wearer is not effected by the Psychic Storm and is resistant to psychic damage.

Golden Sword

Glows with 5ft of golden dim light. On a hit the sword creates an illusionary thunderous boom.

Iridescent Armour

Once per short rest use the exceeding iridescent shine to impose disadvantage on an attack roll.

Monsters