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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 363804" data-attributes="member: 4720">Perhaps illusions of their loves (or, nastier, the trapped souls of their actual loves) could be there as a form of manipulation.&nbsp; Play up the control and obsession factors as was suggested earlier.&nbsp; Or give them a nice moral dillemma: The trapped soul of someone's love (or the appearance thereof) is being kept by a servant of the goddess as a slave (perhaps even the marilith).&nbsp; Do they keep their heads down and continue with the mission, or do they try to save said person and definitely bring attention to themselves?&nbsp; (Really sucks when they &quot;rescue&quot; Sir Bob's lady love, bringing the wrath of the place down around their ears, only to find out that she was just a very well-crafted illusion)As for avoiding detection in the first place, perhaps you could drop some info that some form of massive orgiastic rite of the Anomaly is coming up soon on some Prime Material world or other.&nbsp; If they sneak into her sanctum during those, uh, festivities, her attention (and that of her greater minions) will be focused largely on a different plane.&nbsp; That way, as long as they don't do anything overt (and perhaps disguise themselves to avoid casual detection) they should remain unnoticed.Perhaps they could discover while in Anomlay's palace that said rite of the goddess is actually taking place back on their own world.&nbsp; These really, really, sick people could be new villains, old villains with new friends, or whatever.&nbsp; And they could be threatening something back home which is important to the PCs.&nbsp; This could make them feel pressure to get home ASAP, but they are slowed in some capacity by the pregnant lady.Ever seen Devil's Advocate?&nbsp; The mobile wall sculpture near the end should give you some ideas, both for the decoration of the place, and challenges the PCs could overcome from the structure itself, without necessarily involving guards who could alert others to their presence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 363804, member: 4720"] Perhaps illusions of their loves (or, nastier, the trapped souls of their actual loves) could be there as a form of manipulation. Play up the control and obsession factors as was suggested earlier. Or give them a nice moral dillemma: The trapped soul of someone's love (or the appearance thereof) is being kept by a servant of the goddess as a slave (perhaps even the marilith). Do they keep their heads down and continue with the mission, or do they try to save said person and definitely bring attention to themselves? ([i]Really[/i] sucks when they "rescue" Sir Bob's lady love, bringing the wrath of the place down around their ears, only to find out that she was just a very well-crafted illusion) As for avoiding detection in the first place, perhaps you could drop some info that some form of massive orgiastic rite of the Anomaly is coming up soon on some Prime Material world or other. If they sneak into her sanctum during those, uh, festivities, her attention (and that of her greater minions) will be focused largely on a different plane. That way, as long as they don't do anything overt (and perhaps disguise themselves to avoid casual detection) they should remain unnoticed. Perhaps they could discover while in Anomlay's palace that said rite of the goddess is actually taking place back on their own world. These really, really, [i]sick[/i] people could be new villains, old villains with new friends, or whatever. And they could be threatening something back home which is important to the PCs. This could make them feel pressure to get home ASAP, but they are slowed in some capacity by the pregnant lady. Ever seen Devil's Advocate? The mobile wall sculpture near the end should give you some ideas, both for the decoration of the place, and challenges the PCs could overcome from the structure itself, without necessarily involving guards who could alert others to their presence. [/QUOTE]

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