Wilderness Adventure: The Black Summer

It has been a particularly hot and dry Summer when the first whiff of smoke reached the village. And as the distant glow of a forest fire appeared in the mountains the villagers began heaping earth bricks onto the timber rooftops of their wooden huts and building earthworks up against walls and windows. The fire's arrival was preceeded by fleeing animals and monsters...a sure sign it was close.

The PCs are sent to the hill to guage the distance of the fire. Rather than a simple bushfire they see the giant tentacled horror of metal spewing a ray of burning light as it drags itself slowly across the landscape.  They can watch their village burn, or they can venture into the caves seeking the fabled rust monster that dwells within that you might use the creature as a weapon against this unstoppable foe.