Weekly J3H Campaign Starts 10: Greenfield
I'm going to be making 3 hexes and a town every week of 2024 in the style of Chgowiz's Just 3 Hexes format. Check the J3H tag to see all entries in the series.
(Hex tiles used in the image are from Zeshio's Pixel Hex Tileset, the map was created using Hex Kit)
Campaign: Hope springs eternal for the human survivors of the former Greenfield region. Fighting off slavers, horrifying mutated undead, and the ever-present specter of starvation leaves little time for survival, but they manage. Will you capitulate and bend the knee to Fairhaven in exchange for food and troops, will you join the cannibal slaver gangs of Caraway Manor, or will you manage to survive long enough to form your own regional power?
Homebase (1302): Sprouts - A village built from the scraps and survivors of the old human town of Greenfield. Though a lot of effort is being made to restart agriculture in the region, the majority of food eaten here is hunted mutated animals from the surrounding wastes. Sprouts is currently looking to lay more of a claim on defending their destroyed kingdom from pillaging and looting by the nearby city of Fairhaven.
Location 1 (1202): Caraway Manor - The home of the Caraway family, aristocrats from before the land was burned to ash. The Caraway family offers a no-questions-asked policy for accepting new serfs, even promising to feed and clothe anyone who can find their own way to their estate. This policy also conveniently hides the existence of hunting slaver squads who roam the wastes looking for new meat (both labor-wise and literally).
Location 2 (1301): Greenfield Ruins - The former city center of Greenfield, a wealthy agricultural market town. The streets are now stalked by ashwraiths and pyrohounds instead of farmers and ranchers hawking their wares. Rumors abound about an underground survivor settlement made up from mutated survivors of Greenfield hiding in the basement of the city's temple to Domotor.
Location 3 (1401): Shroomcap Gate - A greenhouse within the eastern edge of Greenfield was one of the first to mutate after the burning stopped. The cultivated mushrooms inside grew and grew and grew until they burst out of the greenhouse, then the walls themselves. The mushrooms have grown and mutated so quickly that they're warping the local biome, forming new species nearly every week.