Warden of the World-Wound

A fissure has opened. The beetles are missing. Something ancient stirs beneath.

Near the beetle-farming colony of Burrowmark, a jagged crack has torn open the earth. The so-called World-Wound hums when no one is listening. Mice tasked with guarding it have vanished—leaving behind only scattered gear, muttered warnings, and gnawed bones. Beetles are disappearing. Now mice are too.

Beneath the fissure, the truth festers: a Jerusalem Cricket, swollen and twitching, twisted by parasitic mites and maddening gas, now haunts the dark. It is not alone.

The beetle-farmers offer 750 pips and a rhino beetle companion to any adventurers brave—or foolish—enough to descend.

Can your party survive the suffocating gas, outsmart the Creeper, and prevent the Wound from spreading?

Warden of the World-Wound is a short A5 pamphlet adventure for Mausritter featuring:

• A claustrophobic descent into a toxic sinkhole riddled with gas, insects, and fear

• A mite-infested Jerusalem Cricket—a grounded, non-fantastical horror

• 9-point vertical caverncrawl with natural hazards, caved tunnels, and eerie ambient threats

• New conditions: Infested and Radiation Poisoning

• A devious relic, the Wounding Stone, which both empowers and destroys

• Designed for one-shots, convention play, or as a grim detour in your ongoing campaign

Warden of the World-Wound is an independent production by ManaDawn Tabletop Games and is not affiliated with Losing Games. It is published under the Maursitter Third-Party License. 

Mausritter is copyright Losing Games.

This adventure was created for and submitted to the Appx. N Jam

The idea for a grounded, non-fantasy adventure site for Mausritter was inspired by Clayton Notestine's Haus Rules for Mausritter blog post of Explorers Design