Against the Darkness (Patreon)

“We found the fell shrine where they perform their vile deeds, and should you be reading this that same temple has become our tomb. We had encountered something foul in a dead-end chamber just off the stream that tore Erno in half. We made him a simple cairn to protect his body until our return. We finally found the temple up the second fork of the cave, turning right at the mushroom chamber. Then they came, following us in through the caves. We secured the shrine door and they could not or would not break it down. Then the chanting started and the statue of their demonic patron began to glow red. Fendra smashed off the statue’s head with her greatclub, but that did not seem to change anything… when the chanting ended, the grinding sounds began. Something is chewing through the stone, inexorably approaching us from every side…”

There isn’t that much more to add to this map. A small cave complex that was used by demon cultists for their dark rituals and guarded by a minor demon. The shrine proper is a room with a single door (locked and barred) and a number of benches and low tables and bookshelves (almost all of which are pushed against the door as a barricade). A small stream moves through the cave and out into the fields beyond, feeding through a damp chamber with dirt floors that is full of fungi of all sizes.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,000 x 5,400 pixels (30 x 18 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 100 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 200 pixels (for traditional 10‘ foot squares) – so resizing the image to 3,000 x 1,800 pixels or 6,000 x 3,600 pixels, respectively.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2026/10/19/against-the-darkness/