A Deep and Creeping Darkness

It's finally time for the level 4 Adventure from Candlekeep Mysteries that you all voted on A Deep and Creeping Darkness! Coming in at over 20 pages of notes and 23 tracks to set the mood! This Adventure was quite the endeavor, but I'm very excited with how it turned out! I can't wait to hear all the stories from your sessions! Good Luck to all your players...they'll need it!

Candlekeep attracts scholars like a flame attracts moths. Historians, sages, and others who crave knowledge flock to this library fortress to peruse its vast collection of books, scribbled into which are the answers to the mysteries that bedevil them. Many of these books contain their own mysteries—each one a doorway to adventure. Dare you cross that threshold?

A Deep and Creeping Darkness came to Candlekeep with another group of adventurers, given to them by a villager who found it among her grandfather's old possessions. Her grandfather, a traveling bard in his youth claimed to have written it. Though appearing to be nothing more than a combination of diary and penny dreadful, the book satisfied the requirement of a unique work to grant that party entrance to Candlekeep. It chronicles the death of a mountain village called Vermeillon by slow, unknown means. Following a terrible accident in the platinum mine, survivors and other villagers began disappearing. Eventually, Vermeillon's population all vanished or fled, leaving the village abandoned...They never discovered the cause. It will be up to your players to uncover the truth!

*Estimate Session Length: 6-8hrs

Without further ado:

• Google Docs Notes for A Deep and Creeping Darkness: DM Notes
• Link to: A Deep and Creeping Darkness Playlist
• Link to: The AAA Collection 

Included in The AAA Collection is:

• A Word document with all my notes, including links to music tracks for ambiance and fights
• Special PDF for all encounters. This includes the enemy stat blocks organized neatly, along with an initiative tracker and a spot to mark HP
• A More Challenging Final Encounter (Credits: u/Acceptable_Aspect586)
• Custom Maps (Credits: LehenAlpha, Laptopmimic, M00nlight)

As always, If you see something you think I can improve, add, change, etc. please let me know!

Cheers,
Advent

Credits:
Art: Julie Dillon
One-Shot: Wizards of the Coast (Sarah Madsen and MicheleI Carter)
Vignettes: Phixium