If you want to flesh this out further for your RPG build, here are a few ways to add more "meat" to the narrative:
It sounds like you're working on a story for a game build called (or perhaps a project inspired by it). Since that game is known for its sci-fi horror setting in rural Canada during the Gold Rush era, I’ve prepared a narrative outline that fits that gritty, eerie atmosphere. The Story of the Crimson Thaw File: Meat.RPG.Build.6259228.zip ...
The story begins when your quiet morning is shattered by a frantic knocking. It's not a neighbor, but a hollow-eyed shell of a man, coughing up a black, oily bile. He whispers about a "Great Vein" uncovered in the mines—not of gold, but of living, pulsing tissue. Key Story Beats: If you want to flesh this out further
As you reach the heart of the mine, you realize the "substance" isn't a disease; it’s an intelligence. It’s been waiting for the miners to "feed" it enough greed to finally wake up. Need to refine the "Meat"? It's not a neighbor, but a hollow-eyed shell
Use "Show, Don't Tell" by leaving behind old journals or blood-stained maps that hint at how the town fell. ADVENTURE! Make Your Own TTRPG Adventure by Exeunt Press
Tormented by visions of a fleshy, subterranean god, you take up your old bayonet and rifle.