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Lostvein

The party escaping Lostvein
The party escapes Lostvein after the uprising.

Summary

Lostvein is a crater mine town and jade-mining region near Belburn, labelled Lostvein on Browning’s pre-Dome map. Its kobold workers were exploited by lamias, Envy, and other taskmasters, while the Noxia Countess operated a hive there and contaminated the mines with Noxia blood. Ore shipments fed Envy’s army until the party’s uprising freed children and elven husks. TJ Biggins identified himself as a patrician of New Lost Vein outside the Dome; whether that is the same place under an older name or a separate settlement remains unresolved.

Description

Lostvein appears as a crater mine town with old rim buildings, kobold workers, and human-looking, snake, scorpion, and wasp taskmasters. A fast, silty, polluted river runs below the ancient dwarven bridge into town, and the Noxia Countess’s hive occupied an old dwarven stone building overgrown with papery hive material, wax cells, grubs, and wasp attendants.

Source: data/4-days-cleaned/day-60.md.

Known Details

  • Belburners told the party that Envy was at the jade mines called Lost Vein.
  • TJ Biggins, rescued from the Goldenswell prisoner transport on Day 35, identified himself as a patrician of New Lost Vein outside the dome.
  • The spoken form Lost Vein is treated as the same place as Lostvein; New Lost Vein remains unresolved as either an older name or a separate settlement.
  • Lamias at Lostvein extorted goods and materials and stole children at night to work in the mines.
  • Lostvein can be reached across the Sulphur Flats or by a longer route through the foot of the Flame Scar and Belburn roads.
  • Day 59 confirms Lostvein produces copper, gold, jade, amethyst, and other minerals. A kobold refugee says jade miners were favoured by Envy but taxed most heavily.
  • Day 60 reveals Lostvein as a crater mine town with old rim buildings, kobold workers, and human-looking, snake, scorpion, and wasp taskmasters.
  • The ancient dwarven bridge into Lostvein crosses a fast, silty, polluted river and is roughly 2,000 years old.
  • The old dwarven mining house is a location in Lostvein and served as temporary lodging and shelter for frightened kobold children during the party’s infiltration.
  • Noxia blood was found in the mines; a kobold exposed to it began transforming into a wasp creature.
  • The Lostvein hive building is a location in Lostvein: the Noxia Countess’s hive occupied an old dwarven stone building covered in papery hive material, wax cells, grubs, and wasp attendants. The Countess worked adjacent to Envy and wanted blood for royal jelly.
  • After the party killed the Countess, Lostvein erupted into wasp frenzy and kobold uprising. The party escaped with rescued elven husks and stolen or commandeered wagons.
  • Ore and jade shipments from Lostvein travel toward a mountain/dwarven forge site associated with Envy’s army.

Open Questions

  • What remains of Lostvein’s defenses after the Countess’s death and hive fire?
  • What happened to the Belburn children taken by lamias?
  • Who claims the newly found Noxia blood after the Countess dies?