Shrine Depths: A Solo Adventure

by Stellagama Publishing

Welcome, brave adventurer. Shrine Depths is a solo fantasy dungeons crawl RPG designed for quick play using only six-sided dice.

Your journey leads you into the forgotten depths of a crumbling shrines, once raised in solemn reverence to long-lost deities. Stone columns lean like weary sentinels, choked by ivy and sea-mist, their runes faded by time and neglect. What remains is a broken monument to something greater, a force worshiped in an age before memory, when the skies cracked with lightning and gods still walked the earth in shadow and storm.

Rumors cling to this place like mold to damp stone. Locals refuse to speak of it openly, but travelers hear the whispers: of cursed artifacts buried in vaults no light has touched in a hundred years, of restless spirits who guard ancient secrets, and of power raw, divine, and dangerous locked beneath the lowest chambers.

Some say the power is sacred. Others call it a punishment left to rot in silence. Whatever truth lies buried, the shrines remain untouched, feared, and forgotten.

But something has changed

Beneath jagged cliffs and salt-heavy winds lies the hidden path to the Shrine Depths, a sanctum once built to honor the storm gods. In a time when the sky split open and the seas rose to devour the coast, the shrine was sealed, entombed under layers of stone and divine warding to contain what raged inside. The winds that tore at the world were still. The ocean fell silent. And the world forgot.

But now the winds scream again

Fishermen speak of strange lights flickering on the waves. Children wake from nightmares of drowning skies. Thunder rolls on cloudless days. Something stirs beneath the earth, and the call has gone out to anyone bold or desperate enough to answer. You have heeded that call. Whether your heart seeks treasure, truth, or redemption, your feet now carry you down into the dark, where gods once ruled and storms once spoke.
The shrine does not welcome you. Its corridors twist like a drowning man’s last breath, filled with echoes that do not belong to you. The stone under foot feels warm, as if remembering the blood of those who walked it last. Water drips from above, pooling at your feet with the scent of brine and rot. Every step forward feels like a challenge, as if the shrine itself is testing your worth.

Monsters are said to dwell here, things twisted by divine wrath and time, shadows that feed on fear, guardians bound by oaths too old to be broken.

Cursed relics might grant terrible power, if you survive their toll. Some say a final chamber lies at the very end, where the heart of the storm still beats, untouched and waiting.

You carry little more than hope and steel. And yet, it may be enough.

For not all who enter are lost. Some emerge changed, scarred, perhaps, but carrying truths the world has forgotten. Others vanish, their names swallowed by the tide and the wind. You have made your choice. The threshold lies ahead. The darkness yawns open.

And the shrine remembers.

Shrine Depths: A Solo Adventure is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.

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