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  1. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    You can imagine a circle of 'loths repeatedly stabbing one another, with each of them laughing and going, "Hahaha I'm brilliant! Look at how much those fools are getting hurt!" Relatively late on a full and open tell-all on Vorkannis. There will be repeated hints prior to that. The seeming...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Athas was a means to an end. There are already hints as to why and what for. There are suggestions that Daru's box is similar in some capacity to Ghyris Vast's "Divinity Leech" and that both were designed by Lazarius ibn Shartalan, The Architect. Now one of those was clearly operating on behalf...
  3. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    It'll be resolved within this storyhour. I'm thinking of a few specific incidents involving some specific 'loths being very true to their nature.
  4. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    I'm glad that you think that I do them justice! And as for showing them as they truly are: Oh, you 'aint seen nothing yet.
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Villain interludes before we rejoin our heroes! **** The doors into the inner sanctum of Shylara the Manged loomed high, twenty feet at their peak, a dull black, flecked with crimson mineral inclusions, locked in place and surrounded by the pulsing, flesh-like matrix of the Tower of Incarnate...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Yes it is. My work has been under that name for about a year and a half, since 'Concordance of Rivals'.
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    blush I'd be writing this all for myself for fun anyway, but knowing that you folks enjoy it makes it a genuine pleasure. Thank you! And, storyhour aside, just wait until I can show off the not-yet-published stuff I have in the pipeline for Pathfinder. <3
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    And as a total aside to the Storyhour, here's a link to some fiction that I wrote for the Paizo Blog as a teaser prelude to the Agents of Edgewatch Adventure Path (which I wrote volume 6 of) that has a cameo by this storyhour's very own Nisha Starweather. Nisha (or rather an interation of the...
  9. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    You're certainly welcome! If I can find them I'd be open to it, but much of what I did at times wasn't strongly pinned down by written rules and a lot of stuff was purely narrative driven. Also it was my first campaign that I ever ran and numbers were not precisely my forte at that point in...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    That's one of the two things seen so far that connect to what Daru ib Shamiq said. :)
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Dregoth stepped forward, the cracked flesh of his draconic muzzle split to a predator’s smile, and as he descended the steps from his throne it became transparently obvious that his eyes were fixed on Daru’s box and not at all on the companions who had arrived carrying it. They were immaterial...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    The cavern was devoid of light and indeed devoid of life itself, save for the chosen children of the living god, the great one in whose service the heptad of guards served with their very lives, they who presently stood silent watch over the mock doorway cut into the solid rock before them...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Clinical rotations for the past two months. 4th year of pharmacy school. I have this month off, but of course accepted some freelance work. That said I -will- have an update this month, and it's already in progress. Apologies for the prolonged delay.
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    We played with 3e rules, and since I never actually played 2e, I never used any of the specific, thematic but IMO ultra fiddly rules that Planescape had regarding clerics and other things as you moved around the planes. As for how I handled Athas, you'll see soon enough. The players were like...
  15. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    “F*ck…” Clueless spat, staring down at Daru’s damnable box. The inhuman face carved into its surface stared back at him maliciously, lips and teeth stained red with slowly drying blood. They’d of course been responsible for delivering it to its victim, though of course the necromancer had...
  16. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Unlikely, as I have an unannounced Pathfinder project final draft due on Monday, and a pharmacotherapy exam on Tuesday. A week after that is not an unreasonable thought however. :)
  17. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Six sets of eyes blinked in unison, not at the appearance of the necromancer, Muroth Chalmar, but at his statement, and the implication that Tristol was one of Mystra’s Chosen. The aasimar turned around with a brief, embarrassed smile and waved off the blizzard of questions. “He’ll explain...
  18. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Not Jeremo, but the original "Jester" of which the Palace of the Jester is named. As for what the creature there was, you'll find out later on in the storyhour. To say what it is within the context of the campaign would be a reveal to a few things, both mentioned already and not. That being...
  19. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 18June2024)

    Thank you so much! blush I get such questions occasionally, but I try to avoid answering them because of the risk of someone then spoiling the story for everyone else. Given that I've been slowly working at this for over a decade, I want the eventual end to come on my own terms and my own pace...
  20. Shemeska

    D&D General Gore in D&D

    Yeah it's all about knowing the expectations of your players and their desire for/tolerance of that sort of content. I make sure that everyone at the table is aware of the themes and tone that they'll be facing prior to a game and adjust as necessary from there. Plus when I was running my...
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