Deplane de plane

Following another self-imposed exile, the group returns to a changed land. Their influence is waning in Shadowdale, and the prolonged bout of stability is bad for the adventuring biz. Luckily, there are always old friends who are getting sucked into interesting things and it is the news that ole Stumpy is having troubles that provides a raison d’etre.
It seems that the Stumpmeister has had his forge master killed and corpse-robbed, by a large steel lion no less. The omens are ominous and the portents are portentious, for the trail leads off of this world and into the outer planes.
Within days the group has made its way to the plane of neutrality and into the city of Rigus. In the warlike city, they ask questions, and eventually spot one of the steel beasts that was described to them. A bit of tailing reveals that the hunt for blade smiths is still on as the lions kill and consume another dwarven smith.
The lions head towards a giant staircase. The stairs lead to a portal, to Archeon – a plane of eternal strife. Specifically, the portal deposits them onto a large iron cube that is one of many such cubes, spinning and flying across the ‘sky’. On most of the cubes, wild battles rage and the sounds of strife echo across the plane. Seeking a less strifey area, the group has no encounters except the elephant-sized spider being ridden by a drow. They hide. Deploying Clairvoyance and Find the Path allows them to see a smallish cube in the sea of cubes and determine that is the target. A quick teleport and they are on the cube.
It is pleasant enough, resembling the woodlands of the north, but seeing a sky full of war cubes helps remind them that Thudheim is far, far away.
They set out along the path still indicated by the spell and cross one of the cube faces. When they peek over the edge, they see a bunch of ant-warriors slaughtering humanoid slaves. The group ponders, and decides to rest up in advance of their next jaunt across a cube face.
There is a bit of general wtf and puzzled head scratching, but Dalliance seems to think that the forge masters are being used to create some sort of uber weapon, so it is probably incumbent upon the group to act with relative haste, lest the project go completion. On the morrow, they brave another face.

2 comments to Deplane de plane

  • Nil  says:

    Whoa! We are actually plane hopping!! Are we using the staff?? Very cool!

  • Dalliance  says:

    One of the most unusual planes ever. Dalliance stays close to the plane shifting priest.

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