The Stranding Day

Three ships have stood upright in a wheat field forty miles from the sea for three hundred years, since the water that stranded them went away.

Once a year the valley eats lunch between them. Nobody goes aboard.

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🌾 THIS SUMMER, DURING LUNCH

The eastern ship drops a foot.

It is going over, and it will take forty acres of standing wheat with it.

A customs officer is pinned under the keel.

A fourteen-year-old has already gone up the rope and down the hatch on her own.

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⏳ A SIX-SETTLE CLOCK, TWO PEOPLE TO SAVE

The ship settles further every ten minutes, and is down on the sixth.

A fast, well-organised table gets both people out.

🎲 A 44-page one-shot adventure for D&D 5e — 3-4 hours, 4 players, level 4.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 43 pages, 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 a copy with no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square, so it drops straight into Roll20 or Foundry already aligned

▪ 4 ready-to-play 4th-level characters, finished — ability scores, armour class, hit points, attacks, spells and gear. Hand them out and roll

▪ Every character in it, player and NPC alike, has a drawn portrait

▪ A plain-English glossary of the basic rules words — DC, saving throws, advantage

▪ A section for your first time running a game

▪ A summary up front listing every scene with its page and how hard each fight is

▪ 10 secrets, tables and handouts, and written help for when the party goes sideways

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🗓️ PART OF THE LOWMERE YEAR

Sixteen adventures in one valley, spring to winter, collected in one campaign book with a finale that is not sold on its own.

This adventure stands completely alone — it needs nothing from any other — but a table that plays four of them starts seeing the year take shape.

Anser Pell is in this one, and in three more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You want a rescue against a clock that will probably cost something

▪ You like a disaster rather than a monster

▪ You want a dnd one shot that fits in an evening and finishes

▪ You are new to running games and want every stage of the collapse written out

▪ You run on Roll20 or Foundry and want maps that import at the right scale

▪ You want to hand out finished characters instead of spending session one building them

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📄 THE FILES

Four PDFs, plus the maps.

▪ A4 — 44 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ US Letter — 50 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ 6 map images

🗺️ The battle maps also print at table scale — two extra PDFs, A4 and US Letter, lay every map out at one inch per five-foot square across numbered sheets with a cut line. Print them at home, tape them together and put miniatures on them.

The printer-friendly build is the same book in pure white, nothing removed.

⬇️ Instant digital download. Nothing is posted to you.

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📜 THE SMALL PRINT

Compatible with Fifth Edition.

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.

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🕯️ ONE GOOD EVENING

Games for a table, and for a chair by the fire.