An mini-adventure idea I've had in my PS game, wanted to get some feedback
on it. It started as a Mercykiller 'civil war', with the Sodkillers and
Sons of Mercy showing their divisions once again within the faction. It's
finally culminated in a trial at the Hall of Speakers, where Nilesia is
exposed for manipulating the faction to her own ends, and murdering the old
Factol to take his place. In the course of events, one PC was poisoned with
a small amount of diluted Bebelith poison in an attempt to stop him from
helping the LG MKs in exposing Nilesia. I've declared that the poison,
being so potent and magical, cannot be healed normally. After the trial was
over, and the LG Mercykillers took back the Prison, the player was still
poisoned. To extend the adventure further, I made him hear a rumor that the
Guardinals of Elysium know of a way to cure an otherwise incurable disease
or poison, but that he must seek them out.
Anyways, that's all backstory leading up to my idea. Using the Traveller's
Way thing from the Planes of Conflict box, I'm going to present them with a
series of opportunities to help people along the way to the City of the
Star, where they seek the aid of a Leonal prince. The moral situations they
find themselves in will become more and more complicated and difficult to
deal with. If they can find Good solutions to these moral quandries, then
they make it to the city. But if they don't, I had an idea. Rather than
just declaring that they can't get anywhere (as is said in Planes of
Conflict) I wanted to have the Traveller's Way spin them off into a side
road, kind of the like Sigil's Mazes. This would be a dimensional prison
within Elysium, where evil and selfish berks get trapped in an infinite,
looping environment. Eventually, as more and more evil beings find their
way into this dimension-trap, the environment becomes saturated with Evil.
When too much evil accumulates in one place, the environment slides out of
Elysium (like a rotten fruit falling off the tree) and dumps the trapped
victims into a Lower Plane appropriate to the tone of evil set by those
trapped within. This seemed like a very NG way for the plane to deal with
Evil. Trap it within itself, like an infection, and then expel it.
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