Years ago in the barren valley, workers tunneled and toiled and extracted near endless hauls of valuable ores from the mine. Further surveys were made, and plans were drafted for more and more tunnels through the earth. Equipment failed. Workers went unpaid. Mice went missing. Weeks of quota vanished without a trace.

Now, the mine lies dormant. Deed-holders cast blame about sabotage. Rumors circulate of poisonous gasses and mice gone mad. Interlopers rummage around in the remains. A former mining town dwindles into obscurity. And in the deep wound of the earth, writhing in slag and runoff, something slithers, crawls, then steps upward.

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Masuritter is a rules-light RPG system where you play as a band of mice exploring a huge world and (hopefully) living to tell the tale. It encourages careful and clever planning, applying real-world logic to tackle problems, and open-ended scenarios what could go any number of ways.

Stragglers is a scenario I've written myself and run multiple times, where the players are tasked with retrieving valuables from a less-than-abandoned mine.