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In my current campaign, The Creation Schema, the group is trying to locate 6 pieces of a magical puzzle that is referred to as the Creation Schema. What they know is this is used somehow in the creation of the Warforged. Many groups want it and are in diurect competition for it. Key players include the Emerald Claw, Steel Nation (Lord of Blades), Cannith West and South and a very rich and niave dwarf known as Kim Elderich.
Along with the intrigue and adventures is the pure unknown. No one except for a handful know what the Schema can do once assembled. When last it was assembled, House Cannith tore it apart and scattered the six pieces into six very remote and often guarded regions on and off the continent of Khorvaire.
The group has gotten away from dealing with it as they have decided to narrow the players down by hunting them down and "removing" them instead. Fine but not the story was doing.
By using The Chaos Effect I will show the group what the Schema can and WILL do if assembled.
Through a magical thing called a Chaos Storm (origins with the story I was doing with you and the others) a planar hoping Hag and 1/2 fiend Dolgaunt are about to jump from Eberron to Sharavaash then to Eberron X. Alternate reality time.
The schema is a POWERFUL sentient artifact that can possess ANY construct at will and can attempt control over any Living Construct within certain rules. In Eberron X the artifact (Xulo) attached itself to an Adamantine Golem and devestated the world with Steel Nation aiding him.
The PCs will see how important it is to locate and destroy the schema BEFORE it is assembled again.
This gets them back on the game and gives them new reason for doing it. Adds a bit of "Hurry it up or die!" type of feeling also.
When they visit Eberron X's Sharn- 90% of the city is destroyed. The top layers remain and they are floating in their original positions 100s of feet over head.
Thoughts?
Along with the intrigue and adventures is the pure unknown. No one except for a handful know what the Schema can do once assembled. When last it was assembled, House Cannith tore it apart and scattered the six pieces into six very remote and often guarded regions on and off the continent of Khorvaire.
The group has gotten away from dealing with it as they have decided to narrow the players down by hunting them down and "removing" them instead. Fine but not the story was doing.
By using The Chaos Effect I will show the group what the Schema can and WILL do if assembled.
Through a magical thing called a Chaos Storm (origins with the story I was doing with you and the others) a planar hoping Hag and 1/2 fiend Dolgaunt are about to jump from Eberron to Sharavaash then to Eberron X. Alternate reality time.
The schema is a POWERFUL sentient artifact that can possess ANY construct at will and can attempt control over any Living Construct within certain rules. In Eberron X the artifact (Xulo) attached itself to an Adamantine Golem and devestated the world with Steel Nation aiding him.
The PCs will see how important it is to locate and destroy the schema BEFORE it is assembled again.
This gets them back on the game and gives them new reason for doing it. Adds a bit of "Hurry it up or die!" type of feeling also.
When they visit Eberron X's Sharn- 90% of the city is destroyed. The top layers remain and they are floating in their original positions 100s of feet over head.
Thoughts?
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