Oil and Occult

About the adventure

Welcome to Cindralume, where the city of Ironvale chokes on its own progress and Etheroil—the arcane fuel mined from the bones of forgotten gods—powers everything from sky-trains to spelltech. But Etheroil is more than energy: it's a drug, a miracle, a curse. It sharpens the mind, bends magic, and feeds addiction like no substance before it. Dealers peddle it in back alleys, corporations refine it in holy vats, and the Department of Ether Regulation kills to control its flow. Now a regulator is dead—lungs flooded, body hollowed—and some say the machine that killed him whispered his name. You’ll play as investigators, saboteurs, rogue inventors, or spell-runners navigating a crumbling city of conspiracies and cults. Whether you're upgrading a steam-forged automaton or decoding a haunted broadcast from the Ashwastes, every clue you uncover pulls you deeper into a mystery no one is meant to survive. As Etheroil surges through veins and circuits alike, strange awakenings ripple across the city: haunted factories speak in forgotten tongues, junkies perform impossible rituals, and the dreams of machines leak into waking minds. Will you ride the high to power, fight the system, or lose yourself to the oily dark pulsing beneath the streets? In Cindralume, every hit of Etheroil costs more than gold—it costs something real.