This is an installment of a new dungeon adventure set in the Portown milieu, which I'm writing for Holmes Basic D&D. You can find the Introduction to the dungeon here: Area 1.
Each entry includes part of a "pointcrawl" map showing the area & any exits, which include links allowing you to navigate the dungeon:
Each entry includes part of a "pointcrawl" map showing the area & any exits, which include links allowing you to navigate the dungeon:
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| Area 3 === | 4. END OF THE LINE |
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4. END OF THE LINE: The rusty rails from Area 3 extend east into a tunnel 10 ft. wide and high, the walls and floor of which show occasional signs of being worked to widen and smooth the passage. The tunnel slopes up slightly to the east, and there is no natural light here. Every so often an odd bit of timber, rope or metal, or empty rum bottle lies discarded at one side or the other of the tunnel. Heading east, every 20 feet there are old timbers shoring up the ceiling.
Cave-in. At 150 feet, the passage ends at a mass of collapsed rubble and a few timbers, which covers the rails and completely blocks the way further east, which once continued towards Portown.
Discards. Scattered about on the floor in front of this area are a torn open backpack and several other pieces of equipment, all that remains of a failed attempt by a previous explorer to flee down this passage from the carrion crawler in Area 3. The pack is empty but contains a concealed pocket holding a large rough agate (worth 100 g.p. if properly polished; see Area 3 for the reputed property of agates) and the other equipment consists of 3 torches, an empty tinderbox, a rusty dagger, an oil flask, and another apparent oil flask that on closer inspection will be revealed to be filled with a red liquid (a potion of healing).
Despite the name, this is not the end of the adventure, merely a dead end in one direction from Area 3.
Chronologically on this blog, the next posted installment was Area 5.
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