Beneath These Grasses Grieving

Knee-deep with mud, the fen is a place where things go to get stuck. Death layers beneath death, never fully rotting. Bones grow soggy, and the chalk within too. Memories cling and fester and ooze, unable to find closure. Careful ears hear their sobbing in the wind-swept grasses.

Come summer, Imago carpet the muck, slurping up the fetid chalk like pigeons over breadcrumbs. Travelers avoid it, knowing better-smelling places to risk death.

Yet wintering in the fen has its comforts. The climate stays temperate and there is plenty to eat. Most importantly, the Slip stays at bay, with chalk safely stored under the sedge-grass roots.

But in a changing world, safety is never a guarantee.

Beneath the Grasses Grieving is an adventure module for the Cloud Empress game. The core rulebook can be found for free at https://cloudempress.com/.

Writing & Layout: Wade Bennett.

Art: pbbeta, Garin, Amanda Lee Franck.

Public Domain Art: Kathe Kollwitz, Charles François Daubigny, James Hamilton.

Layout template provided by watt.

All art has been modified from the original.

Content Warning: Bugs, climate change, death, processing grief.

Beneath the Grasses Grieving is an independent production by Wade Bennett and is not affiliated with worlds by watt.