The Mithril Mines of Airgead Canyon

Before your elders spoke or sang
Before they first felt love
Deep in Airgead Canyon
The Terlin Mine was dug

The Terlin family owned this town
With mithril stacked up tall
Though only for the briefest time
Until they lost it all

Some old folks say they dug too deep
And other say too fast
The mithril mine that fed this town
Could never truly last

The town was drunk on argent wealth
Each miner fully fed
Until the beasts of old Kalduhr
Filled every soul with dread

Each miner sang a different song
Of scratching in the walls
Or shifting earth or sharpened fangs
And crashing rocks that fall.

Despite these tales, the Terlins pushed
Each day a faster pace
Until the Great Beast’s massacre
Not one returned that day.

Finally the mines were closed
The few left blocked the way
Now braves ones delve though few return
While wise folk stay away.

The Mithril Mines of Airgead Canyon is a simple, yet surprising, three set incursion for Trophy Gold designed to be played as an introductory one-shot. The incursion takes advantage of multiple fantasy tropes, but is particularly focused on what happens when we dig too deep and go too far in pursuit of treasure.

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From Jason Cordova's Capsule Review on Twitter

This one has an AMAZING poem at the beginning. Seriously. This poem should be set to music; it's so clever and fun. I could just see a bunch of dwarves singing it around a fire while the hobbits do up the washing (or something)

The big twist here is really great. The moment is really striking on the page, and I can imagine the players yelling with excitement when it becomes apparent what's really happening ... I'd run it.

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The Mithril Mines of Airgead Canyon requires a copy of Trophy Gold to play.  The High Res file is suitable for printing in letter size.

This work is based on Trophy, product of Jesse Ross and Hedgemaze Press, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Trophy is adapted from Cthulhu Dark with permission of Graham Walmsley. Trophy is also based on Blades in the Dark, product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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