HORROR OF

FANGSTONE MINE
Horror of Fangstone Mine is an adventure for expert characters.

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 HORROR OF FANGSTONE MINE
SUMMARY
While searching for imperial records in the former
capital, the player characters encounter an enclave
of dökkálfar. If they successfully negotiate with the
steam devils, they learn of an even greater threat:
a troop of orcneas has descended on Heimsslit and
is planning a bloody assault. The player characters
complete this adventure when they uncover this
threat and return to Hjálpmakaar to raise the alarm.
THE SEASON
This adventure is set in the last days of autumn, when
the darkness is broken by a shimmer of pastel pink,
gold and silver in the southern skies. As the charac-
ters explore, the landscape is bathed in a subtle, yet
mesmerising twilight, deep shades of blue seeping
across snow-covered mountains and fjords. Crea-
tures are partially obscured, but the crimson scar in
the sky is clearer than ever.
THE SAGA
Following the event’s of Finnbogi’s Wake, Krapti will
offer to organise passage to Kóngssteinn. The aban-
doned town is best reached by boat.
The lawspeaker will make introductions to a local
pilot, Bytta, who knows the churning waters of the
Helsund well. Bytta is a taciturn mann, who grunts
his acceptance. Thankfully, he has another passenger
today, an Institute geologist named Villiblóm, who is
to be dropped across the fjord at a distant field sta-
tion. If questioned, the researcher is a good source
of background on the destination and the diamonds
that lie beneath. Otherwise, the geologist alights on
the far shore, scans the dimming horizon for ísbjörn
and then waves farewell. By the time the player char-
acters round the next headland, all is silent.
After a journey of three hours, the players spy
Kóngssteinn across the ice-bound waters.
THE GHOST TOWN
Forty years ago, Kóngssteinn was the main city of the
World’s End archipelago, with more people living
there than live in Hjálpmakaar today. It was a major
diamond production centre during the Jötunn War,
with miles of rich, profitable mining shafts. But then,
the miners stumbled across something in the dark-
ness: an underground knot, a direct portal to Niðavel-
lir, through which they spied legions of steam devils.
Barely comprehending what they saw—it would
be twenty more years before the dökkálfar revealed
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themselves fully—the miners dropped everything
and fled in terror. The town they left behind is an ee-
rie monument to the empire at war. Clean dishes are
stacked on the cafeteria shelves, neatly folded sheets
rest on the former residents’ beds and mining equip-
ment lies where it was abandoned.
Many of Kóngssteinn’s buildings were construct-
ed during the war, designed with rounded edges to
deflect the winter winds. Now, they are entirely de-
serted. Each time the players force open a rusted or
frozen door roll on the following table. Each of these
encounters is designed to heighten suspense and give
the impression that there is someone watching them.
In fact, the dökkálfar are watching the player char-
acters very closely using Black Sight. The only other
recent visitor—an orcneas scout—passed through the
town three weeks ago and met a violent end.
D6 RESULT
An ísbjörn pursues a reindeer into the sea be-
fore killing it, dragging it ashore and eating
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it. The bear only attacks if disturbed, or if the
players need a short sharp shock.
A distant, discordant piano note echoes out
2 of the Urðr palace (the result of the drone
Look After losing power momentarily).
A pale blue fox watches the players, then
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quickly darts out of sight.
A scratched cross, with the words aos sí un-
4 derneath (a warning sign left by the orcneas
scout, meaning álf in Jötnar Brogue).
A shadowy figure stands motionless at the
end of the adjoining room. On seeing the
5 players, it immediately drops through the
floor with a hiss (the figure is not an actual
ghost, but a dökkálfar using Stone Walk)
A flock of white rock rjupa fly out of a broken
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window, excreting on players as they escape.
DOKKÁLFAR DELIGHTS
The dökkálfar who dwell under Kóngssteinn are
keen to capture the players alive, so they can find out
more about the unusual events on the surface. The
dökkálfar stalk the players from the get-go. If the par-
ty split up, they might decide to pick them off one
by one. If the players avoid the mine, the dökkálfar
instead capture the pilot and use him as bait.
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TOWN LOCATIONS
The town nestles under bleak outcrops that rise from
the fjord beaches, stony and deserted. The streets
are littered with mining detritus—steel girders and
rusted ironworks lurch at odd angles among build-
ings that are half-collapsed into rubble. As far as the
players can tell, the only inhabitants are a few hun-
gry guillemots tussling for food, their high-pitched,
whistles heard all around the abandoned town.
WHARF
The chartered vessel remains docked here. Bytta
agrees to wait for 4 hours. He makes a fire near some
of the outbuildings and recommends the characters
avoid the mine. The pilot has never set foot in the
town and doesn’t intend to.
FARM
The farm consists of a few dilapidated barns, rusted
wire and animal pens. It once held dairy cattle, pigs,
hens and horses but is empty now.
SICKHOUSE
The hospital building is well-preserved, with twenty
beds lining the ward. The pharmacy has been thor-
oughly ransacked.
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KÓNGSSTEINN
1. Wharf
2. Farm
3. Sickhouse
4. Square
5. Urðr Palace
6. Swimming Pool
7. Mess Hall
Apartment Block
9. Diamond Mines
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SQUARE
On the far end of Kóngssteinn is a bust of the previ-
ous emperor, Dietbald, who watches over a parade
ground overgrown with weeds. The main square is
grassy and brown, which is not what you’d expect in
the middle of the polar circle (as the natural soil can’t
support much vegetation, the empire imported soil
from the fertile south).
UROR PALACE
Behind Dietbald is the Urðr Palace. With no power to
light the interior rooms and corridors, the building is
especially dark and eerie. The palace includes a re-
cords library, full of card catalogues, and an auditori-
um. There is also a glíma court with antique posters
calling on athletes to run faster and jump higher.
Clue: A character who investigates the records library
can make a Wits challenge roll. On a success, they
discover marriage records that show Bjarnie’s wife,
Fenja, was originally from Kóngssteinn. There is no
corresponding birth record for Daniel, even under his
real name Bjarki.
The large auditorium has a grand piano on the stage.
In the projector room above, alongside the two old
projectors, hundreds of old propaganda film reels lie
strewn across the floor. If the characters watch any of
the films or play the piano, they draw the attention of
an old Urðr drone, Look After (see Treasure below).
The drone is a Bound Object and can be programmed
to accompany the one of the players, hovering at
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shoulder height. If the players think to check its sur-
veillance footage, they find recordings of a heavy set
orcneas walking through the auditorium. The time
stamp shows there were recorded twenty days ago.
SWIMMING POOL
On the other side of the town square is an empty
swimming pool, named after Vilhelm Bjarnarðr (the
first mann to discover the World’s End archipelago).
The heated indoor pool was quite impressive in its
day, the mosaic floor tiles detailing the nine daugh-
ters of Ægir and Rán. If the characters wander inside,
they see a half-eaten reindeer (the remnants of the
orcneas scout’s meal, treat as gallows corpse). The
carcass staggers to its feet, little more than a bag of
skin and bones, before lurching toward the nearest
player character.
MESS HALL
This canteen and dining hall is near the centre of
town. An enormous mosaic depicting the death of the
jötunn Geirröd forms the backdrop to the large din-
ing room on the second story. On the bottom floor,
the industrial cooking equipment capable of meeting
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the needs of up to a thousand people, lies abandoned.
APARTMENT BLOCK
Just off the main square is an apartment block where
families were accommodated. The floorboards sag
and creak along corridors of sad, monochrome rooms
with worn, brown carpet. Bedroom walls are still cov-
ered with maps, travel magazine clippings of trips to
Morguneyjar, pin-ups of Frigga, posters of verulí-
ki games and I love Nyja Jórvík stickers. Next to the
abandoned apartment block is a playground, looking
rather incongruous in the desolate landscape.
Clue: A success on an Awareness challenge roll re-
veals a photo of a young Bjarnie pinned to one of walls.
He is standing next to a pregnant woman.
THE DIAMOND
MINES
After the war, the Empire didn’t have the resources
to contest Kóngssteinn, and the intervening years ha-
ven’t changed that. The town’s riches are now owned
by the dökkálfar.
Most natural diamonds are formed as crystals
some 90 to 120 miles beneath the earth’s surface,
in the intensely high pressures and temperatures
found in the earth’s mantle. But they only become
accessible when thrust up close to the earth’s sur-
face through volcanic activity, when the magma
is allowed to cool into diamond bearing pipes.
THE MINE ENTRANCE
Derelict mine railways scar the steep hillside away
to the north. When a light is shone in their direc-
tion, scattered diamonds (worth 500 crowns) sparkle
on the tracks. Wary player characters may suspect a
trap…and they would be quite right!
THE FANGSTONES
Fangstones are a form of sentient quartz that have
been transported to Midgard from the depths of
Niðavellir to act as guards. The creatures begin emit-
ting their hypersonic song as soon as any creature
approaches the diamonds at the mine entrance. Char-
acters must make a Will challenge roll with 3 woes, or
be compelled to rush into the mine.
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TRAPPING PIT
The dökkálfar have dug a deep pit twenty yards from
the mine entrance to pen intruders. The pit has a false
floor that collapses when a Size ½ or larger creature
steps on it or when a Size ½ or larger object is placed
on it. A character that gets a success on a Sleight chal-
lenge roll does not fall into the pit. Anything that falls
takes 2d6 damage on landing at the bottom. The false
floor cannot be disarmed but can be safely triggered.
Five fangstones wait on the other side of the pit, forty
yards from the entrance. They eagerly descend into
the pit to pick off prey.
CAVE INS
The well-constructed mineshafts are at no risk of
collapse unless the characters detonate a bomb, de-
stroy the supports, or do something similarly foolish.
In such an event, debris falls in a 2d6-yard radius
around the damage. Any creature in the area takes
damage equal to its Health and dies.
3 want to understand why they have returned.)
2 What do you know about frequency 1111?
1 (The dökkálfar know Nóatún Gapmenn have sent
THE DIAMOND MINES
1. Mine Entrance
2. Trapping Pit
3. Fangstones
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PRISONERS OF
RAUDGULUR
During the battle with the fangstones, a dökkálfar
band led by Heidrek Rauðgulur (a devil priest) ar-
rives. They aim to take the intruders alive, dragging
unconscious combatants out of danger and forcing
the surrender of others. There are ten Dólgr in total,
with dozens more living in the underground maze of
mineshafts. Once captured, the player characters will
be bound and interrogated.
Rauðgulur is an especially vain dökkálf. Their
headdress drips with diamonds from the mine, sway-
ing like a chandelier as they talk. Clever players who
flatter the dökkálf can make all further social rolls
against the devil priest with 1 weal.
Like many cunning interrogators, Rauðgulur asks
a series of questions to which he already knows the
answers, primarily to test his captives. The comments
in parentheses explain his reasoning.
Characters can try to bargain for their freedom by
making a Will attack roll against Rauðgulur’s Will
with 3 woes. For each question characters answer
well, reduce the number of woes by 1. For each ques-
tion they answer poorly, increase the number of woes
by one.
Who sent you?
(The dökkálfar haven’t seen mennfólk for years and
Why is the Evergreen signal fluctuating?
(The dökkálfar are connected to the Evergreen and
are keenly aware of the interruptions.)
(The dökkálfar monitored the transmissions from the
Ghost Signal but don’t understand “the noise”.)
What did the Shipwise find in the Nailfarer?
bots to the crash site of the orcneas ship—although
because the clouds are uniquely thick and the weath-
er deeply capricious, they have found only the im-
pact site and not the wreck itself. Players are unaware
of this, of course, which is an answer in itself as far as
the devil priest is concerned.)
What has the empire hidden away in Sökkvabekkr?
(Rauðgulur is especially hungry to find out more
about Sökkvabekkr and the secrets inside. The player
characters should have no idea that the Data Archive
exists, let alone what is contained therein, but might
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be able to secure their freedom by volunteering to
find out.)
Secret: The dökkálfar know nothing about Daniel or
Bjarnie but are quick to recognise the land deed’s age
and value if it is revealed. Handing over the docu-
ment to the dökkálfar ensures freedom—and befriends
Rauðgulur.
RIDDLES IN THE DARK
If the characters don’t bargain for their release,
Rauðgulur offers them a contest of wits. If the play-
ers can answer four riddles correctly, they will be set
free.
“What is that lamp
which lights up men,
but flame engulfs it,
and wargs grasp after it always?”
The answer is the Sun.
“Who is that giant that goes over the earth
who swallows the waters and woods,
who dreads the wind but doesn’t fear men
and fiercely fights the sun?”
The answer is Fog.
“What is that wonder
I saw outside
before the Doors of Day?
White they whirl, strike stone,
and bury themselves black in the sand.”
The answer is Hail.
“I saw a most wondrous tree raised on high, wound
round with light, the brightest of beams. All the englar
of the Lord looked on; I saw a road under them, and a
road over them, and a road fair throughout eternity.
What is this felon’s gallow?”
The answer is the Cross (as in the scar in the sky—al-
though the dökkálfar won’t discuss it further).
If the characters are successful at persuading
Rauðgulur to let them go, or if they successfully an-
swer all four riddles, the dökkálfar send them back to
their boat unscathed.
Before they depart, the devil priest reveals that they
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have had other captives who fared less well. Three
weeks ago, an orcneas scout entered the mine and
was ensnared by the fangstones. The corpse-devil
didn’t answer any of the riddles correctly, and so was
decapitated, his body fed to a passing ísbjörn. How-
ever, before it was killed, the orcneas spoke of its di-
vine purpose. If the dökkálfar intelligence is correct,
an orcneas troop is planning a full-scale assault on
a location known as the Sökkvabekkr Data Archive.
Rauðgulur is quite convinced the orcneas are only
waiting for the sun to vanish for the long winter be-
fore attacking.
A player character with fluency in True Norse
knows that Sökkvabekkr translates as “sunken
bank”. A character with the Sagas and Eddas
profession recognizes the word refers to a place
where Óðinn and Sága daily drink from cups of
gold, one of the abodes of the Æsir. A character
who has the spy or analyst profession recognis-
es the name from redacted top-secret documents
but knows nothing substantive.
CONCLUDING THE
ADVENTURE
A Sense of Urgency
The dökkálfar interrogation reveals that the empire
has a secret facility on Heimsslit that none of the
player characters had the faintest idea existed! Hope-
fully, they decide to investigate further—if not out of
a sense of duty, then because it might explain exact-
ly why the land deed is so contentious. If the player
characters kept Bytta safe, they might hurry back to
Hjálpmakaar to raise the alarm, for which they earn
1 Honour. Conversely, they receive 1 Shame if they
decide to dally or do nothing with the information.
If the player characters ignore the threat entirely,
they will inevitably encounter the orcneas in Hjálp-
makaar (see Fleeing into the Wildness in the next
adventure) and start the time loop at that juncture.
Of course, if the players fail to extricate themselves
from captivity, they will be treated much like the orc-
neas scout...
Diamonds in the Rough
The dökkálfar demand the return of any diamonds
the player characters might have collected. It is possi-
ble to deceive them and hide up to 50 crowns worth
of gems. NB: Stealing gemstones is an act worthy of
Shame!
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Dead Ends

The characters might have learned enough to verify

that Bjarnie was married and determined that Fenja
is his next of kin. However, there is not enough evi-
dence for Krapti to make a ruling in favour of Daniel,
at least for now. Enterprising characters might sug-
gest a paternity test, but jötnar DNA is too contami-
nated to prove anything. If the characters persist and
use spácraft or similar divination to help their case,
the lawspeaker reluctantly advises that there are oth-
er parties with deep pockets who’ll contest the docu-
ment. He advises the players to keep the deed secret
and safe until the time is right.

BOUND OBJECTS
LOOK AFTER (Líta Eftir)
Look After is an antique Urðr surveillance
drone, left behind in the panicked evacuation of
Kóngssteinn. When bound to the imager, the owner
gains the Dream Sight (Follow 1) gift in addition
to the object’s usual abilities.

DÓLGR DIFFICULTY 25

Size 1 mannkyn
Awareness 10 (+0); Infrared, Black Sight
Defence 11 Health 11
Might 11 (+1) Sleight 11 (+1)
Wits 11 (+1) Will 11 (+1) Speed 10

ATTACK OPTIONS

Seax: (melee) +1 with 1 weal (1d6)

Rifle: (long range) +1 with 1 weal (2d6)

SPECIAL ACTIONS

Self-Fortification: The dólgr can use an action, or

a triggered action on its turn, to harden its skin
for up to 1 minute. While the dólgr’s skin is

NEW CREATURES
Dólgr are dökkálfar miners, creatures who relish the
great wealth hidden in the mountains of the arctic.
They spend their endless days probing the depths in
search of new riches, hoping to adorn their bodies
with ever greater splendour.
hardened this way, it takes half damage.
Stone Walk: The dólgr ignores the effects of mov-
ing across difficult terrain made of earth, sand,
or stone. In addition, they can pass through solid
obstacles made from earth, sand, or stone that
are no thicker than 1 yard.
CRAFT

Power 1
Runar Fart Runes (2), Victory Runes (1)
Gand Elf Shot (2), Land Wolf (1)

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BATTLE MAP

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Writing and Design

Ian Stuart Sharpe
Art Direction
Tom Lai

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Tom Lai

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Robert J. Schwalb

Proofreading
Bill Hopkins

Illustrations
Ger Curti

Viking Ornaments
Jonas Lau Markussen

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