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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 5604289" data-attributes="member: 509">Where is this from? I did something similar in my old PS game (and I suspect I yoinked it from somewhere):A crazy old crone hung around at the PCs’ regular inn in Sigil. She sold information on the planes to passersby—good, sometimes life-saving info—but the information was vague and rambling and needed to be deciphered to be useful. She had been in Sigil as long as anybody remembered. She was paranoid and apparently delusional, always ranting about them and her; vague figures who stood in the way of her true self. She kept pets—mostly rats, cats and insects and, one time, a baby wyvern—who she would refer to as her subjects, her admirers, or as custodians of her power. There were many stories surrounding her: that she used to be a demon lord or a mighty witch who went bonkers, but it was still generally assumed she was just another barmy, just one who’d been there a while. Long after the PCs first met the crazy lady, the PCs had to take the LoP temporarily out of commission* so they could sneak a dormant power through Sigil (as a part of a big honkin’ quest to take down the usurper of the dormant power’s domain). The LoP was placed out of sync with Sigil for one hour and the place went nuts; portals would randomly open and close and suddenly every berk with a connection to divine powers seemed to double in levels. And the crazy lady was suddenly revealed to be an ancient demon goddess who’d snuck into Sigil in mortal form eons ago. Her plan was to go godly as soon as the opportunity to take over Sigil presented itself but that moment never came. She slowly went crazy—her mortal form degraded over the thousands of years, but she could never die or it would release her power. Her religion was long forgotten and she was but a faint whisper of what she once was, but she was still a force to be reckoned with: she was gigantic, rampaging around the city in her terrible but awesome form. She knew she didn’t have the power to control Sigil, but she could break the cage that had held her. The PCs felt responsible and decided that one PC would split from the party and finish the mission while the other three stayed behind and deal with the goddess situation. They could not defeat the goddess, but they were able to delay her long enough for LoP to return and throw her out. Then she mazed the PCs. * The solution IIRC was an ancient hymn, composed on a prime material world to stop an ancient evil power. It could only be sung once, for the multiverse would adapt. Sadly, the hymn could not be sung in time to save the world (that was now an apocalyptic wasteland), because the ancient evil forbade sound.And that’s why I love Planescape. YMMV.</blockquote>

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