Who will succumb to the thirst sleep?

A troll invasion forced the dwarves to flee their home in Gorsk Mountain.

Now, five hundred years later, an expedition of dwarves has returned, seeking to reclaim the mountain kingdom. They have great and glorious plans as they rebuild, including brewing beer.

But most of these dwarves are young, still in their first century. Too young to have experienced running out of beer, let alone the devastating effects of the thirst sleep.

Brewmaster Shrem knows better. She grew up in the Gorsk. She's witnessed firsthand the death that prolonged lack of beer induces. The supply of beer the expedition brought with them is running dangerously low and Shrem is forced to ration what remains. She must brew new beer but needs a source of water, one that partakes of the mountain's strength.

Accompanied by an apprentice and a journeyman brewer, and the young daughter of the mountain's runemaster, Shrem will follow her memories from half a millennium ago and seek out suitable pools deeper into the mountain than the returning dwarves have yet ventured. Can she lead her small group through tunnels riddled with troll blight and blocked by the ensorcelled corpses of hundreds of goblins in time? Can a young runesmith help clear the way before any of them succumb to the thirst sleep?

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