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A towering mechanical walker crosses the Southern Valleys under its own power, crushing ground beneath iron feet and leaving poisoned plasma in its wake. Fields are scarred, streams turn sickly green, and trade roads begin to shift around the moving threat. What began as a private test has become a public danger, and every mile the machine travels leaves more damage behind.
Ironwake sends the party after a roaming war machine built by Klemwick Coilgrin, a disgraced engineer from Olbia whose ambition outgrew the limits others tried to place on him. The adventure begins with the party tracking the Iron Strider through the Southern Valleys, then pushing onto its exterior while it is still in motion.
Act 1 focuses on boarding and fighting across the unstable top of the walker, where shifting footing and exposed hazards make every position matter. Act 2 moves into the body of the machine, where tight corridors, crew resistance, and a volatile engine room turn the walker into a compact moving dungeon. Act 3 returns the action to the exterior as the machine begins to fail, plasma spills across the valley floor, and the final confrontation unfolds in the middle of a full collapse.
Encounters are built around movement, instability, and hazard pressure. The battlefield keeps changing as the walker moves, the interior tightens around the party, and the plasma system becomes more dangerous the closer the party gets to shutting the whole machine down.
Ironwake is a 5th edition adventure designed around a moving battlefield and a compact, high-pressure structure. The walker itself is the central mechanic of the adventure, shaping footing, boarding, interior pacing, and the final collapse. Plasma hazards and Spillborn Plasma Oozes turn the finale into a fight against both Klemwick and the consequences of his design.
The structure supports multiple outcomes depending on how the party handles momentum, environmental pressure, and Klemwick himself. Success here is not only about surviving the machine, but also about deciding what happens once it finally stops moving.
This adventure can be adapted to your own campaign, played as a one-shot, or be part of the Starlight Chronicles setting that connects everything made by Kelfecil's Tales.
Collaboration Organization, Design & Writing: Constantine "Kelfecil" Christakis
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This adventure can be played at any level by adjusting the number of monsters in it as well as their behavior. It has been made with Roll20 in mind and can therefore run very smoothly on this Virtual TableTop.
As a Kelfecil's Tales adventure, you can expect the following:
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