The Buzzing Temple | One-Page Dungeon
Follows is a cleaned up version of The Buzzing Temple, the adventure location I used for the first session in Hither and Yon Infinite. Please feel free to use this dungeon in your own campaigns and non-commercial works.
The overview is that this is a dwarven temple dedicated to a god of brewing and beekeeping that's been taken over by a cursed medusa. She's losing touch with reality from dehydration due to her curse, which prevents her from drinking water. She came to the temple after hearing that their healing mead might be able to break her curse. She accidentally petrified the dwarven priests and her magic warped their beehives, turning them giant and protective. At the same time, her curse has prompted a pack of giant weasels to hunt her down, seeing her as easier prey in her weakened state.
Potential Hooks for your table:
- The mead is all out at the tavern and the innkeeper says his supplier hasn't come through like they normally do. Maybe someone should go look at the source, that dwarven temple up the road.
- [Party Member] has contracted [affliction]. We've heard stories about the healing mead from the temple downriver, maybe let's check there?
- Travelers report seeing a string of petrified statues leading right to that ominous temple at the crossroads. Surely someone should take a look inside?
- Nobody at the temple outside of town is asnwering the door and their mail is piling up. They're not paying for specialty brewing parts they ordered months ago and the merchant is throwing a fit about it in the town square.
- The front gate's magic mouth is yelling for help from random passersby.
- [NPC] went to go live at the temple at the foothills of that mountain a few months ago. Let's go visit them!
