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Underroot Tunnels

Environments Designed by cadra
Tier
1
Type
Traversal
Difficulty
11
Impulses
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Environment overview

Fortified and well-kept tunnels leading to underborne communities within the great forest.

Potential adversaries

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Features

Passives

passive
  • Hidden Embrace

    The first challenge of the Underroot Tunnels is finding them. PCs must complete a Progress Countdown (3) to find a viable entrance to the tunnels (Instinct and Knowledge are most applicable, though Finesse could be used to search manually for a seam or switch and Presence could be used to gain information from a denizen of the Sablewood).

    Questions
    • How do they camouflage the tunnels so well?
  • A Series of Passageways, All Alike

    Navigating to a particular location in the tunnels requires a Progress Countdown (4 for most known settlements, 6 for less well-known or more-remote destinations). Potential Challenges include identical passageways, damaged stairwells leading to a lower level, root blockage, flooded tunnel.

    Questions
    • How was this place built to purposefully confuse outsiders?

Actions

action
  • Root Blockage

    Reveal that the path ahead has been blocked by the shifting of a great Sablewood tree. The party can dig around the root (Finesse), try to cut through it (Strength), or double back to find another path (Instinct).

    Questions
    • What other obstacles did the Underroot community build their passages around?
  • Toll-Keepers
    Fear 1

    Spend a Fear to introduce a number of Jagged Knife Lackeys equal to the size of the party plus two Jagged Knife Bandits and a Jagged Knife Lieutenant seeking a ‘toll’ of two handfuls of gold per character for passing through their “protected territory.”

    Questions
    • How do the Underroot folk feel about these toll-keepers?
    • What else might they be guarding?

Reactions

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About this environment

Route to any Underroot city, temple, Root’s Hollow, etc.

Underroot Tunnels

Tier 1 Traversal

Fortified and well-kept tunnels leading to underborne communities within the great forest.

Impulses: —

Difficulty: 11

Potential Adversaries: —

Features

Hidden Embrace - Passive: The first challenge of the Underroot Tunnels is finding them. PCs must complete a Progress Countdown (3) to find a viable entrance to the tunnels (Instinct and Knowledge are most applicable, though Finesse could be used to search manually for a seam or switch and Presence could be used to gain information from a denizen of the Sablewood).
  • How do they camouflage the tunnels so well?
A Series of Passageways, All Alike - Passive: Navigating to a particular location in the tunnels requires a Progress Countdown (4 for most known settlements, 6 for less well-known or more-remote destinations). Potential Challenges include identical passageways, damaged stairwells leading to a lower level, root blockage, flooded tunnel.
  • How was this place built to purposefully confuse outsiders?
Root Blockage - Action: Reveal that the path ahead has been blocked by the shifting of a great Sablewood tree. The party can dig around the root (Finesse), try to cut through it (Strength), or double back to find another path (Instinct).
  • What other obstacles did the Underroot community build their passages around?
Toll-Keepers - Action: Spend a Fear to introduce a number of Jagged Knife Lackeys equal to the size of the party plus two Jagged Knife Bandits and a Jagged Knife Lieutenant seeking a ‘toll’ of two handfuls of gold per character for passing through their “protected territory.”
  • How do the Underroot folk feel about these toll-keepers?
  • What else might they be guarding?

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