Re: The Twin Cages - Portal Research and Investigation Team
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:23 pm
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Sigil: City of Doors - A NWN2 Planescape Persistent World
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Toko is cleared to investigate the Slags and see what she can find. Her initial investigation turns up nothing about a lady in red - just the story of the Slags itself, as found in a book on Sigil history in the Hall of Records:Quiverling wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:33 pm Asked into it, she would want to seek information about the slags and prominent creatures involved around it - especially a being with the description of red hair, red wings, tendencies to red robes and possibly a fiend with the probability of it being a devil more likely than a demon. She would start her research by the Hall of Records.
A few millennia ago, a portal the size of a tenement opened up smack in the middle of the Slags. Within days, a horde of abominations began pouring through - leathery skeletons with horns sprouting from their skulls, dog-faced monstrosities with pincers and bat wings, flame-enshrouded titans, humanoid insects, slime-spewing frog creatures. The skeletons attacked the insects, the dog-faces slaughtered the frogs, and the neighborhoods of the Slags became their battlefields. And woe to anyone who got in their way - for every insect and dog-face that bit the dust, a dozen Hivers went with them.
See, a portal linked the Hive to a Blood War Battleground, where the Tanar’ri and Baatezu have been at each other’s throats since time began. The Tanar’ri leaders got it into their heads that the portal was a gift from one of their two-bit powers. The portal allegedly led to some fantastic magical weapon in the Hive, so off went the Tanar’ri in hot pursuit. When the baatezu leaders got wind of this, they rallied their armies and followed the Tanar’ri into the Hive; they wanted the weapon, too.
The Tanar'ri and Baatezu spent the next six weeks tearing each other to pieces while looking for a weapon that, of course, didn’t exist. By the time they figured this out, broken stone and dead bodies were all that remained of the Slags. The portal began to recede about the same time both armies decided they’d had enough. They abandoned the Hive as fast as they’d arrived.
The portal’s gone now, and except for a few stragglers, the armies’re gone, too. Left behind were hundreds of casualties and a community reduced to a junkyard.The magical forces employed by the invaders permanently disrupted the landscape; continual
earthquakes make rebuilding an exercise in futility. Left-behinds include gangs of flesh-eating vargouilles and slobbering dretches.
And then there's the Kadyx, a creature said to have been developed by the Tanar'ri wizards. But after dragging him all the way to the Hive, turns out they couldn’t use him - too uncontrollable. And they couldn’t take him back to Carceri - too dangerous. So they left him in the Slags, where he remains today.
Of course, most of that is speculation, because nobody's actually seen the Kadyx and lived to tell the tale. . . a few lucky berks have seen a claw here, or a tail there, and lived to tell the tale, but they're few and far between.
Communication opened. Negotiating with Athar for privilege to approach the tree. Will keep informed.
Fritz
Since our last meeting was concluded, careful consideration gave me a thought I wish to share.
Before turning to more drastical measures and thus setting their irrevocable effects in motion, I would like to suggest one further option for consideration:
As there is something we need that we are unable to easily acquire for reasons that are at least in part political, perhaps it would be wise to reach out to the war effort's diplomatic delegation. Through either their guidance or their direct involvement we might have better success with our current predicament. This may be a prudent first step, as it will cease to be an option should more drastic plans be set in motion: it would most likely cost us nothing but time, as, should it prove unsuccessful, we can continue considering other paths.
With regards,
Tindra Tir'ein