CCVV-0074

Dicey Dangers, The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Vineyard

Game by Joel Hills

Ancient Stone Arch

At the eastern edge of town, where the buildings stop as if by agreement, an ancient stone arch rises from a raised dais of steps. Every surface, arch and steps alike, is cut with runes in a language no one in Vulture's Vineyard can read, worn shallow by centuries of mountain weather but never quite erased. A soft, rhythmic humming hangs around the monument, felt in the teeth as much as heard, and the air above the dais shimmers faintly on cold mornings.

The arch was here before the town, before the vineyard, before anything anyone can name. The locals neither fear it nor love it; they simply leave it room, the way you'd leave room for a sleeping bear. Grape vines grow to within twenty paces of the dais and no closer, and no bird has ever been seen to land on it.

Event

Roll 1d6 on a 6, As you step onto the dais, the arch answers with a single low tone, like a bell struck once, and every vulture over the vineyard rises at the same instant. Make a Luck(1). On a failure, add 1 Threat Die , something noticed you. On a success, nothing happens, which may be worse.

Local Gathering

Roll 1 time on this table

Roll 1d6	Townsfolk
1 thru 4	Nobody is here
5 or 6	Carla Pebbrust

Conditional Actions

• If you traveled here through a Natures Gate, the portal still hums between the pillars. You may step back through to the location you cast it from; the gate then closes.
• If Today is Friday and you believe Carla's hint follow LINK
• If you have the Steward Keyword then South to LINK

Travel Locations

• North to the Field of Grape Vines
• West to Vulture's Vineyard Town Center

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