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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jan" data-source="post: 5266381" data-attributes="member: 92915">Okay, I can add some background. Inspired by the adventureInspired by the adventure "For duty and Deity" Graz'zt betrayed Waukeen during the times of trouble and imprisoned her in his palace. Graz'zts plans are to replace Waukeen by one of his daughters, however to accomplish this he needs an information which he didn't manage to get out of Waukeen for the last century.My players now have different goals. Some of them want to free Waukeen and restore her divinity, some of them simply want to plunder Graz'zts treasuries and two of them want to steal Waukeens divine power (without each other or anybody else knowing of their plans).With the help of another group of NPC adventurers (who also secretly want to get their hands on Waukeens divinity, but for a noble reason) their plan is to summon Graz'zt, so he won't be in his palace, when they break in. Of course summoning Graz'zt is no easy task and this other group of adventures had to make a pact with Orcus to have a chance for the summoning to succeed. Orcus plans are to use the confusion when Graz'zt is away and make a daring raid, against Azzagrat while his opponent is bound elsewhere.To make things more complicated, there are even more parties involved:The players are strongly allied with two Dukes of hell and have various dealings with the devils. So the Baatezu know about the summoning, as well as the pact with Orcus. They are worried however, that if Orcus plan succeeds, Graz'zt will eventually fall and there will be considerably less forces bound in the the three way war between Graz'zt, Demogorgon and Orcus. These forces would join the bloodwar and break the fragile equilibrium. Playing a risky game they gave some of their informations to Demogorgon, in the hope that Demogorgon will attack Orcus, while the goat is in Azzagrat. They hope that Orcus and Graz'zt will survive, but so much weakened afterwards that they have to use all their forces (including their bloodwar troops!) to defend their layers against Demogorgon.Demogorgon is in conflict with himself. Aameul hates Graz'zt even more than Orcus, hence wants to take Azzagrat, while Hethradiah wants to take care of Orcus first which would probably be the wiser decision from a strategical point of view.Finally there is Athux one of Graz'zts sons who wants to overthrow his father during the confuson and some other minor parties involved.However Graz'zt maybe the most cunning demon knows about all (except Demogorgons involvment) of this.Indeed it was his plan to provoke the attack from Orcus this way and use the opportunity for an assault against Thanatos. A side benefit is, that the players will bring an artifact directly to his palace which he sought after for a long time (he hopes like two of the players to get access to Waukeens divinity with this artifact).In a suicidal attack forces of Graz'zts will attack the forbidden citadel and try to activate a "doomsday device" which lies there. If they suceed, this should inflict massive damage on Thanatos and result in Orcus fall in the aftermath.</blockquote>

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