Roots Beneath Millbrook
Roots Beneath Millbrook
“A hungry thing in the roots is killing the harvest, and someone in the village helped it find the way.”
— Hook · kill
“The village of Millbrook is losing livestock every night, and the people are one bad moon away from panic. The tracks lead to an abandoned farm, but the farm's old roots hide something that has been killing with purpose. End the deaths before the harvest is ruined and the village turns on itself.”
— Hook · kill
At dusk in the village green, Mara Ellet gathers the heroes beside a cart of missing stall doors, broken yokes, and a bloodied goat bell. She points toward the dark fields and says the next attack is expected before dawn unless someone brave enough goes into the old farm country and ends it now.
Mara Ellet
Urgent plea from a practical village reeve who can offer food, shelter, and the trust of the farm families.
Rumours
d4 · table- 01The old Sallow well was bricked up because the water tasted like iron and rot.
- 02A cow was found with no wounds on its body, only mud packed into its mouth and eyes.
- 03Osric Vale has been buying up seed grain cheaper than anyone else in the district.
- 04The scarecrows in the western field turn to face the same direction each night.
If the heroes fail, Millbrook loses livestock, confidence, and possibly several families before the harvest is in. If they succeed, the village survives the season and the party gains the gratitude of people who remember who stood with them when the fields went dark.
Background Lore
The village of Millbrook sits among wheat fields and apple orchards at the edge of a low timberline. For three weeks, livestock have vanished, scarecrows have been found torn apart, and at least one farmhand swears the night wind speaks with a hungry voice. The local folk think a beast has moved into the old root-cellar tunnels beneath the abandoned Sallow Farm.
Livestock vanish from a small farming village, and the trail leads to an abandoned farm with a buried den. The heroes must locate the lair, kill the creature responsible, and keep the village from collapsing into fear.
