A one-shot dungeon of a buried construct, a failing engine, a race against annihilation
An adamantine ark of knowledge lies crippled beneath the ground, its engine fractured and humming with unstable energy. Only daring heroes can brave its depths, racing against time to stop the ruin that seeps from its broken core.
The colossal subterranean craft known as the Scarab was built at the command of the iron golem, Xarkissus the Curious, to observe, catalog, and capture the unknown. The Scarab’s steward, called the Curator, set out to retrieve a rare Far Realm predator. Alas, the creature escaped containment, crippled the ship’s systems, and damaged the engine beyond stability. Now, a magical overload threatens to annihilate the Scarab, the nearby village of Walsylor, and gods know what else in a radiant blast of catastrophic proportions.
Drawn into the crisis when the vessel’s mobile minions, the Retrievants raid the surface for resources, the characters descend into an adamantine dungeon of shifting chambers, and fractured laboratories filled with the strange beings from the Far Realm. Time relentlessly ticks away as the heroes investigate the Archives, try to mend the damage in the craft and navigate the zero gravity chambers. The Curator may offer an uneasy alliance, promising knowledge and rare rewards in exchange for capturing the aberration alive. But inside the blazing heart of the Scarab, where magnetism warps steel and radiation seeps into bone, survival will demand ingenuity, sacrifice, and decisive action. This is a high-pressure, tactical adventure where every minute matters and every ounce of metal around you may be your undoing.
This product includes FoundryVTT modules and PDFs compatible with the following RPG game systems:
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D&D 5e (2014)
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D&D 5e (2024)
Features:
- Optimized for 4+ hours of online gameplay
- Detailed map of the mysterious vessel, the Scarab, with chambers featuring interactive dungeon systems like vacuum containment fields, anti-magic pulses and arcane surveillance networks.
- Introduces the destructive Magic Item, the Disintegrator.
- Showcases new creatures including the relentless Retrievants, the calculating The Curator, various strange and unknown flora of the Far Realm, and the alien Corrosive Devourer.
- Utilize the new Magnetism spell for dynamic ferrous manipulation in combat.
- Comes with a free Drayl City-States Gazetteer PDF to keep the players informed about the setting's rich history and lore.
- Compatible with any campaign world, or easily dropped into the Drayl City-states setting.