Cronos' Eyelashes.

[dave_o]

Big thanks to Soel for being the only poster in my thread asking help for an upcoming Planescape campaign, and his awesome idea for a first adventure -- retrieving eyelashes from Cronos. I took that delicious idea and twisted it like the rat bastard I am into something like this: Cronos, finally filled to the brim with the agony of defeat, uses his status as a power to give himself sight beyond sight. Unfortunately, that meant all sorts of non-Euclidian, Cthulhu-esque nonsense and he promptly tore out his own eyeballs before committing suicide. His palace on the first layer of Carceri is now a ruined and terrifying place, with his corpse decomposing within.

I've decided there are six eyelashes, and the PCs current employer, an affluent Godsman, wants all of them in order to grant himself sight beyond sight. Bad news of that aside, it's a job. I've got the first one all squared away, on the first layer of Carceri, but there are five more, one on each remaining layer.

So, gimmie some ideas for each eyelash and an interesting use it could be fufilling, and the like. Thanks in advance!

 

[Psychotic Jim]

This is a good idea. On The Bone-Box Rattler http://planescape.deviceforthesoul.com/bbrattler/index.php I posted an idea a while go asking what would happen if a Moigno (living, physical manifestations of mathematical equations from Planes of Law) used power from the Far Realm to "cheat" and get a value for Pi. The moigno could assume power over the multiverse by mastering the power of such an important number. Perhaps a particularly powerful and deviant moigno, perhaps aligned with the Guvner splinter group the Mathmaticians, desires to use one of Cronos' eyebrows to achieve the unthinkable and finally calculate the value for Pi. The event may spread further Far Realms influence into Mechanus. What would order do if it went insane? This could provide competition for the PCs in fetching the eyebrows.

Another thing an eyebrow might do by eliminating linearity is to eliminate time, freezing everything to a perfectly still form of timelessness. Perhaps some deviant guvners want to freeze all of eternity and, in doing so, stop all entropy and chaos.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It goes without saying that the PCs' patron is not the only person who knows this. Among those who have sought them for their power, there's almost certainly a cult of Cronos that is hunting down those who have defiled their god's body and it's hardly out of the question that they'd have left a fake eyelash as the only one left in Carceri, but it's a very nasty trap meant to let the cult find them, bypass their defenses, and gut them like the rotten heretics they are.

 

[Soel]

Very cool stuff, Dave o! Lots of opportunities for travel between the orbs, and layers, and lots of uniqueness therein.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

The PC's attain the master eyelash, one that grants the ability to strip the world of the veneer of perception and see things as they truly are - the face of the creator, so to speak. Of course, the curious heroes just can't resist the pull of using it themselves. Just one quick peek behind the curtain of reality.

They see a group of oddly dressed people, sitting around a table rolling irregularly-shaped dice. "I'm attacking the darkness," one of them snickers.

Shuddering to himself, the leader of the mighty heroes lowers the eyelash into his torch. "We must never speak of this again," he says to his companions.

 

[dave_o]

The PC's attain the master eyelash, one that grants the ability to strip the world of the veneer of perception and see things as they truly are - the face of the creator, so to speak. Of course, the curious heroes just can't resist the pull of using it themselves. Just one quick peek behind the curtain of reality.

They see a group of oddly dressed people, sitting around a table rolling irregularly-shaped dice. "I'm attacking the darkness," one of them snickers.

Shuddering to himself, the leader of the mighty heroes lowers the eyelash into his torch. "We must never speak of this again," he says to his companions.

Hahahaha, long time no talk, Max -- catch me on AIM sometime.

This is a good idea. On The Bone-Box Rattler http://planescape.deviceforthesoul....ttler/index.php I posted an idea a while go asking what would happen if a Moigno (living, physical manifestations of mathematical equations from Planes of Law) used power from the Far Realm to "cheat" and get a value for Pi. The moigno could assume power over the multiverse by mastering the power of such an important number. Perhaps a particularly powerful and deviant moigno, perhaps aligned with the Guvner splinter group the Mathmaticians, desires to use one of Cronos' eyebrows to achieve the unthinkable and finally calculate the value for Pi. The event may spread further Far Realms influence into Mechanus. What would order do if it went insane? This could provide competition for the PCs in fetching the eyebrows.

Another thing an eyebrow might do by eliminating linearity is to eliminate time, freezing everything to a perfectly still form of timelessness. Perhaps some deviant guvners want to freeze all of eternity and, in doing so, stop all entropy and chaos.

Most excellent idea, with time supposedly being linear and all. Know anywhere I could find a 3.5e conversion of Moignos? If not, I can whip one up myself -- one of the PCs is already being hunted by the Fraternity of Order, anyway, for snatching a body and cheating death, shuting the rightful soul elsewhere. Muhahaha.

It goes without saying that the PCs' patron is not the only person who knows this. Among those who have sought them for their power, there's almost certainly a cult of Cronos that is hunting down those who have defiled their god's body and it's hardly out of the question that they'd have left a fake eyelash as the only one left in Carceri, but it's a very nasty trap meant to let the cult find them, bypass their defenses, and gut them like the rotten heretics they are.

I loves me some evil cultists. This'll be great, having Guvners going for it, Cronos cultists going for it, the PCs going for it. However, I want to keep the information regarding Cronos' death rather limited, so I think I'll keep it at three main groups going for the strands. Jaochim is going for them with the PCs in tow due to a prophecy his friend Soel (named after the poster who initally helped me out), a blind, almost vegetative dwarven prophet gave.

 

[Psychotic Jim]

A quick and dirty moigno conversion:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2114099#post2114099

 

[Soel]

A suggestion for ya, Dave. Cronos' corpse might not be decaying per se. What happens to a timeless being when they die? In fact, it might be changing in other ways...