The Quarantine House

A caravan went in six days ago and will not come out.

They are not sick. They are not mad, they are not hiding anything, and they have barred their own door from the inside and asked the warden not to open it. She has read every page of the illness chart on her wall and found nothing that fits.

IT GETS DARK AT SIX. IT COMES AT EIGHT. It will not be reasoned with and it does not stop coming.

NINE ROOMS, FOUR OF YOU, TWO HOURS OF DAYLIGHT. Every door you bar is a door somebody else is not barring, and the house has fourteen ways through it. The choice is not whether to hold the building - it is which part of it you are prepared to lose, decided before dark while you still have hands to do it with.

THE DARKEST ONE ON THIS ROAD, and the only one written that way on purpose. If your table wants a night with real dread in it, this is that adventure.

WHAT YOU GET - 37 pages, and nothing left for you to invent

- 5 scenes, every one written out in full: read-aloud text, what happens if they fail, what to do if they skip it

- 2 battle maps in three versions each - DM, player, and no grid, 70 px per 5-foot square

- 4 ready-to-play 3rd-level characters. No session zero

- 11 secrets, tables and printable handouts

PART OF THE SALT ROAD. Sixty miles, sixteen stops, each a day apart. Every one of them has noticed the same thing and not one of them has said so out loud. This adventure stands completely alone - it needs nothing from any other - but a table that plays four of them starts comparing notes without being prompted.

THE FILES - four PDFs: A4 and US Letter, each in colour and in a printer-friendly build. The printer-friendly version is the same book in pure white, nothing removed. Plus 6 map images.

Compatible with Fifth Edition. Instant digital download - nothing is posted.

Made with AI assistance: the text and maps of this adventure were written and generated with AI, then edited, checked and laid out by hand.