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<blockquote data-quote="fafhrd" data-source="post: 4911069" data-attributes="member: 18517"><p>The Stepstones: </p><p></p><p>A set of 3 demiplanes that are nested within the Far Realm. Each demiplane is a bounded sphere with transparent borders looking out into a specific region of Farspace. Early elven planar explorers(or whathaveyou) created these demispheres as observation posts from which to safely study Farspace. In spite of powerful reality stabilization magics and containment locks between each sphere, the project was a failure.</p><p></p><p>The third and deepest sphere encountered a massive entity which was able to penetrate the spheres defenses via a gaze. The gaze drove several of the original participants mad. In their madness the inhabitants opened the sphere to the beyond and horror quickly ensued. The sane occupants of the third sphere naturally fled back to the second. However, several altered members of their team came through with them.</p><p></p><p>The inhabitants of the second sphere enact containment protocols and destroy the portal keys to the first sphere. The altered explorers from the third sphere destroy or transform the remaining inhabitants of the second sphere, but are unable to proceed to the first. Naturally, the first sphere is abandoned by the architects of the project. </p><p></p><p>So you have a quiet, abandoned demiplane with perhaps some interesting research and magical oddities. The second sphere is full of insane, altered mortals(perhaps a good use for foulspawn and other anthropomorphic enemies) and the third sphere is a portal into the heart of darkness, not just to the Far Realms but to the vicinity of particularly nasty entity and its progeny. Since the keys that lead back to the prior 'hop' have been destroyed, you can only venture forth, deeper into madness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fafhrd, post: 4911069, member: 18517"] The Stepstones: A set of 3 demiplanes that are nested within the Far Realm. Each demiplane is a bounded sphere with transparent borders looking out into a specific region of Farspace. Early elven planar explorers(or whathaveyou) created these demispheres as observation posts from which to safely study Farspace. In spite of powerful reality stabilization magics and containment locks between each sphere, the project was a failure. The third and deepest sphere encountered a massive entity which was able to penetrate the spheres defenses via a gaze. The gaze drove several of the original participants mad. In their madness the inhabitants opened the sphere to the beyond and horror quickly ensued. The sane occupants of the third sphere naturally fled back to the second. However, several altered members of their team came through with them. The inhabitants of the second sphere enact containment protocols and destroy the portal keys to the first sphere. The altered explorers from the third sphere destroy or transform the remaining inhabitants of the second sphere, but are unable to proceed to the first. Naturally, the first sphere is abandoned by the architects of the project. So you have a quiet, abandoned demiplane with perhaps some interesting research and magical oddities. The second sphere is full of insane, altered mortals(perhaps a good use for foulspawn and other anthropomorphic enemies) and the third sphere is a portal into the heart of darkness, not just to the Far Realms but to the vicinity of particularly nasty entity and its progeny. Since the keys that lead back to the prior 'hop' have been destroyed, you can only venture forth, deeper into madness. [/QUOTE]
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