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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 5451416" data-attributes="member: 2">[MENTION=151]WizarDru[/MENTION], here's what i'll be handing out to the PCs tonight:Notes from the Handbook to the Imperial Gardens:When the young Emperor Pelsidion laid eyes upon the Five Fold Field of the Tormenghast, he fell in love with it. The Tormenghast people, far less so. It was decided that this perfect vista, so exemplary in its preserved state, should be added to the gardens, that the Emperor might gaze upon it at his whim. The Tormen War was brief and unfortunate. Those not killed for daring to resist the emperor's decree found themselves indoctrinated as slaves or concubines. And so it came to pass that great magics were wielded so that choicest section of the Five Fold Field should be transported and transformed, its beauty conveniently viewed at the Emperor's merest whim. It was, to everyone's great embarrassment, soon discovered why, in fact, the land looked so beautiful. The Tormenghast considered the Five Fold Field their holy site of burial, wherein they had tended to its appearance for hundreds of years. Within three days of installing the Five Fold Field as floating gardens above the city, worm-ridden spirits would randomly arise to rip the flesh off of a guard or rend the soul of a wizard. It was generally decided that the Five Fold Field was best seen from behind magical protection, with only provisions for the imperial barges to pass freely through the waterfall installation. This was not explained to the Emperor until the sixth boat-guiding eunuch was slain, though truthfully the Emperor paid little attention to the screams of the first five. In a classic example of Imperial ingenuity, the Emperor then turned leisurely boat rides through the floating garden into a bloodsport used to punish noble traitors, respected subordinates and for his own amusement. The practice has fallen out of favor in recent generations, but the Five Fold Field is still tended and the phrase "pulling the barge" remains a synonym for "being executed for treason."The monster? Sons of Kyuss that rip themselves out of the ground. Ought to be fun!</blockquote>

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