The Churning Plains of Brinemarch

08 Dec, 2025

Type: Environment / Hex (6 miles) [p]: Unstable plains

• The land is thisty. Each character loses one [ration] of water at sun peak each day.

• The land is restless. Roll a terrain form each day.

• The land forgets. Rolls over grass, trails, ruins, and roads.

• The water remembers. The churn does not affect rivers or trees (usually).

• The land forgives. Sometimes things come back. [Siphon mushrooms] count as 1/2 of a water ration.

While on the Plains of Brinemarch · once per day · Roll 1d6

1. Spongy hills: soft soil drinks sound, reward stealth.

2. Hillocks: small vantage and little cover

3. Firm, flat plains: Hyphae footprints. Each footprint sprouts threads that glow for one day.

4. Valley: always runs parallel to the nearest river.

5. Fissures: running cracks filled with water flow toward the coast Depth equals the tallest thing on the horizon.

6. Karst: sinkholes open caverns with unstable ceilings. Full of echoes.

DAILY RETURNS · d6

1. Ruins stir

   • A sign of settlement rises from the churn
   • Collapses in the rain
   • May hold shelter, spores, or memory traces

2. Stone migration

   • A line of stacked stones ( sizes equal to the weight of the party) walks toward the south pole at five feet per round, away from a stationary megalithic cube
   • If stopped, it slumps into a stone row
   • The megalithic cube weighs twice the weight of the party
   • Touch grants a vision: one fact about one of six adjacent hexes
   • If several people touch at once, they must {SAVE vs shared mind} or lose their last ration as they vomit

3. Corpse bloom

   • Number of corpses equals party size plus **1d6 **
   • Bodies swell with glowing threads
   • Five in six chance they match the last species encountered
   • Each corpse holds a jar with the same result on **1d3 **
     1. A memory jar
     2. A full water ration
     3. A siphon mushroom (**1d3 **a list of last three spells cast)
   • Each disturbed corpse rises as a [lichen bound] zombie
     • One hit point
     • Spits glowing spores that absorb water and magic

4. Sacred well

   • Encircled by [lichen bound echo kin] 2d12, treat as zombies
   • They block a well that holds a [lost object]

5. [Red Spore Veil]

   • Red fog rises from the churn
   • Penalty to vision.
   • Veil fades 1 hour after it was triggered (by fast travel OR daily returns)
   • When it clears, roll for {encounter}

6. Catapultus Mycorise

   • Mushroom looks like a five-foot-wide bread bun
   • Basts spores with compressed force
   • Creates ten foot dome of green spores
   • Triggered by touch
     • Launches the target 4d6 times 10 feet
     • Save to land on feet OR land prone + falling damage
   • Resets if watered
   • Distance is doubled if triggered by a pound of herbivore dung

TRAVEL MODIFICATIONS

• Movement: Normal pace for the current landform
• Fast travel: Any pace faster than Normal speed in these plains has a** 50/50 chance **to trigger a reaction from the land and either a re-roll of the next landform and/or a continuous [Red Spore Veil]

The land drinks both water and power.

• Each traveler needs an extra ration of water per day

• Whenever a spell is cast in this hex 50/50 the spell success.

  • On a failure, 1d6 [siphon mushrooms] sprout within **3 minutes **near the caster

• Each [Siphon mushrooms] function as scrolls based the failed spell

• It contains 1/2 ration of water

• Dry out after one day unless given one [full ration] of water

• Watering for one minute revives a dried mushroom