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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2087695" data-attributes="member: 463">Example from our campaign:At the climax of the original 'mortal' campaign, the now-quasi-deity PCs Thrin & the elf wizardess Darra faced off against 2 of Graz'zt's Chaos Champions (I think it was Raistlin the Archmage of Dragonlance fame & some quasi-deity Cleric woman, Ralkinsa Darkflame was her name I think) on the Plane of Concordant Opposition in a duel hosted by the Norns, a battle for the Orb of Albinus.  The Orb was a powerful artifact that enabled the user to summon _anyone_ in the multiverse.  Victorious, they forced Graz'zt (scared they'd use it on him - this was before Prince Graz'zt became King of Demons, he was quite beatable) to sue for peace and forged a non-aggression treaty ratified by the Norns (you don't want to break those).  This saved northern Ea from Graz'zt's demon armies.Then they  (using the Caves of Ningauble) travelled to south Ea (incidentally also into their future), activated the summoning field and summoned Kolltirion, the evil Arch-Lich whose Red Wizards had conquered the Old Imarran Empire a century before.  They planned to assassinate him - what they didn't realise was that _he_ could now summon anyone too, and promptly summoned his goddess, Hel!  Darra summoned her own goddess Isis, who wasn't too pleased to find herself facing off against a very annoyed Hel!  They then collapsed the summoning field so they could escape this mess, not realising that to maintain its power the Orb would absorb & destroy the soul of one of the summoners within it.  I remember rolling a d6 - 1-2 Thrin (summoned Kolltirion), 3-4 Darra (summoned Isis) and 5-6 Kolltirion (summoned Hel).  Rolled a 5.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The PCs escaped, Kolltirion was dead, throwing his evil empire into chaos and eventually leading to its defeat in the Albine-Thrinian invasion 17 years later.  Furthermore the two new godlings had just won themselves the lifelong hatred of Hel - and Hel lives a _very_ long time...</blockquote>

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