The Drowned World

About the adventure

Seventy-five years after the Breach, the sea is finally letting go of the world. Mudflats spread where oceans once churned, and the skeletons of drowned forests and cities surface in the grey light. No one living remembers true land, only mountain peaks and storm-beaten decks, and the stories of the Great Flood are contradictory at best. They agree on one thing: the gods once walked among mortals, and when mortals revolted, the gods vanished. Now the rain is gone, the water is receding, and every new strip of ground is a prize worth bleeding for. Your home is the Rust Tangle Flotilla, a tangled mass of lashed-together pre-Flood ships: a cargo vessel, fishing trawlers, a military corvette, and a rusted cruise liner. It is equal parts refuge and pressure cooker, with industry in the Guts, food coaxed under the Grow Lights, permits and prison in the Gavel, and a crowded marketplace in the Hearth. Three factions hold it in a permanent cold war: the Quartermasters rule by law and force, the Chain Crew controls labor and essentials, and the Tide Knives trade in secrets and illicit passage. This campaign is for players who want faction-driven sandbox play, hard choices, and consequences that stick. Expect tense negotiation, smuggling and infiltration, risky salvage runs into newly exposed ruins, and escalating power struggles as you decide who profits from the drying world, and what it costs to build something that lasts.