Adventure Hook Junction

A group of tsochari (from Lords of Madness) discover a portal to Sigil and become determined to infiltrate and conquer it. The first few adventures involve them worming their way into Sigil's high society and making things difficult before the PCs manage to unmask them (with the aid of possibly sinister and self-interested "allies" - or maybe just celestials with their own agenda that doesn't correspond with the PCs' - if they aren't able to figure things out on their own). The PCs gain some new allies from the incident, both helpful and unhelpful, and they feel like they've accomplished something major.

Then things shift. As soon as they're aware of their existence, the capable and experienced cutters of Sigil come up with effective means of rooting them out, and soon the tsochari are consigned to the Hive Ward, where only the absence of effective law enforcement keeps them alive. Their only hosts are the poor and destitute. A group of psurlons, who have lived securely in the Clerk's Ward for generations, approach them and offer them sanctuary in the name of their common patron, Mak Thuum Ngatha. There are nilshai, too, and their high priest is a garmorm. They teach them that as long as they don't rock the boat too much, don't threaten the authorities, they can accomplish whatever they want in Sigil. They can use the city's portals to invade other worlds, for example. What they really want right now, though, is revenge on the PCs who caused their fall. With their new allies, they just might get it.

Another idea: the cult of Mak Thuum Ngatha is growing in Sigil as once Aoskar's more benign cult did, but the Lady of Pain isn't doing anything about it. A dabus has even converted to the faith, sacrificing Fell to his new master in a symbolic show of devotion, and still she does not act. The PCs must figure out what triggered her intervention the last time, and hope it works again.

Since I´m curently inwolved with Night Hags project: "Of Darkest Gray", here is one adventure hook involving Hags and Gray waste:

Short Adventure:
Pet Lost, Revard to Finder: Night hag is lost her favorite pet, and she is looking for help in form of PC. She is presenting herself under disguise as old sweet granny, and she fails to mentin that her "pet" is mean tempered nightmare who run away in the first place becaouse hag mistreated her.

The Iron(ic) Giant: A wizard's spell goes awry, trapping the wizard's soul in the body of an iron golem he had. Unused to the new body, the wizard crushes "himself" and is trapped unless he can resurect the body and find someone to reverse the spell. Unfortunately, the golem can't talk, so all anyone sees is a clumsy renegade golem carrying around the body of a wizard, causing more and more devistation as his frustration grows.

I personally like that idea (and the way it is presented). Reminds me somehow of the Sensory Stone Episode in PS:T. Getting trapped in a Sensory Stone is a good way of taking out an absent PC for a session or two or to fill up time in between two sessions. Also, somehow link it to the main campaign.

A lost love: An inventive though not very powerful wizard from some nonsignificant prime world gained acces to a portal to Sigil after the Tempest of Doors. His apprentice and lover has recently vanished. He suspects her family - who wants to give the fair lady to some wealthy (and completely non-magical - since magic does not have a good stand on this world) noble. The wizard consequentially wants to retrieve his apprentice from the estate of her family, and hires the PC due to their reputation in the ward near his portal. A simple deed - if there had not been something else slipped through the wizard's portal.

(hopefully this clishee-ridden story compensates for my imprudent posting )

I like this thread. I'm gonna drop another one. Come on people, produce!

Too Many Teeth!; Short Adventure

A member of the party is given a tooth by a member of the Ring Givers. The reasons for this are up to the DM. Unfortunately, every morning when the PC wakes up, there are more teeth. Everywhere. They're in his shoes, they're in his soup, they're in his scabbard or spellbook. How do you get rid of the blasted things? Where are they comming from? Who does the original tooth belong to? And why do they need so many teeth?

Love this thread

Smitten

The PCs rescue a young and attractive member of the opposite sex from some dastardly fate, and she/he falls for one of the PCs. His/her affections are genuine, but there's a hitch. The rescuee is a noble (or elf /aasimar /very rich /already married /immortal exemplar /whatever), and the family does NOT approve of "Tombrobbers, Planewalkers, Mercinaries and Adventurers". There may or may not be another suiter or arranged marrige back home. If the PC is good (twist: true love of an evily-alligned race) and cares for the person in question, some of the family may side with the PC. This is even worse, if one considers how virulent fueds between close relatives can get on occasion.

Thanks for the Memories; Long Adventure

A wizardess in Sigil has discovered a new, better way to create sensory stones. The sensations are realer, deeper, and more amazing than ever. Not only that, but the stones she sells are not bound to a specific location and may be carried wherever the buyer desires. The downside? To store a memory, the memory is completely wiped from the mind of the donor, along with a large portion of the rest of their memory. The Sensates are up in arms about the blatant disruption of so many experiences and want the wizardess's shop shut down. A second group of Sensates just want the wizardess shut down for good. And a third group only only wants the details of the process

I refuse to allow this thread to stop. Onward!

Like the Brother I Never Had; Long Adventure

A rash of similar bouts of insanity are being accounted all over Sigil. Someone suddenly forgets all knowledge of one of their siblings/offspring/uncles/etc. and begins to believe that they are some form of imposter or invader. It has been striking members of many races and walks of life, from the Lady's Ward to the Hive. The dark is, these forgotten relatives reallyare appearing out of nowhere, along with all the necessary evidence and mental manipulation on others to 'proove' that they've always been around. Who or what are the invaders and what is their plan? Is there a specific reason that the relative is the only one who can remember not having them around, or is it just a flaw in whatever the process is?

I'm all for the article idea. There have been some pretty good ideas here, and I'm sure I'll snatch a few for my own games. I'm going to go back and edit my previous posts for adventure length to start with. 100 shouldn't be hard for this lot to reach, especially since it's already at 23. Make that 24

Indigestion; Short Adventure

Whilst travelling inside an Elsewhale (I forget the 2ed name) from the River Oceanus to another body of water, something goes horribly wrong. The whale develops a severe intestinal disease and accidentally swallows the entire party. The PCs will have to deal with a slightly acidic environment and the fear of running out of breathable air while trying to escape the Elsewhale. As an extra turn of events, it is possible that internal parasites causing the illness may attack the PCs, or the whale may have unintentionally dived to incredible depths in its pain.

Short

A Hells of a Party

The PCs have gotten an invite to a rather exclusive party hosted in the Nine Hells. Unfortunately, it's probably doubtful that any have a clue why. So they must figure out why they got the invite in the first place, as well as what they're going to do with it. Being a party in Baator, neither choice may be a particularly healthy option...

Short, introduction adventure.

"Bring me a shrubbery": Merchant lord Ni, has acquired new toy: "gardener golem" and he want to put this machine to test, becaouse artifisher who created golem said that it can turn any plant into work of art. So our lord Ni has hired advenurers to bring him a special plant for his golem, and the plant is none other than Sigilian Razorvine.
Problems: Oh, the usual assortment of Sigilian thiefs, beggers , rats and Doomguard wanabees who stop people who want to mess with razorvine. NI !

Bound To Be Trouble; Long or Campaign
The heroes are approached by a desperate woman, looking for a means to lift a curse placed on her. Nothing of the usual sort works on the woman. Further adventure and research leads them to a startling discovery: the woman is actually a plane bound into human form! Who bound this plane? Why? Is it an entire layer of the Abyss cursed by an Abyssal Lord? The lost, tenth layer of Baator? How can the curse be lifted? Should the heroes lift it?

Yawning Memories of War Short
Garouman, a wolf that can take human form, lives deep within the most razorvine covered part of the Hive. One of the few berks to not only survive the Blood War, but still have his wits about him too. He wants the heroes to help him gather the arcane materials needed to create a sensory stone, that others might never want to be part of that great ceaseless evil.

The Shattering Long
Several corpses were found in the Lady’s Ward. Their heads are all bashed in, which wouldn’t be so bad…but a particular healer claims that she examined the bodies, the deadly blows came from inside the skulls.

This is actualy old idea for adveture allready posted by me in thread dedicated to Neth HPs, I guess it was aproppiate to post it here where it belongs.

Death of Demiplane Long to Very Long:
Some villan (prehaps doomguard or some entity feeding on death and dying) has casted "Antigenesis" spell or psionic power on Neth (the Living Demiplane), but spell has manifested in form of wasteing illness. Neth is slowly dying and PC must find cure, and if they save it they could get friend in living demiplane.

This thread shall LIVE!

I love the idea about Ra. Consider it yoinked for future use. . .

Educating the Ignorant Short or Medium Adventure
A Clueless Archmage of relatively high power, but with very little knowledge of the Dark of the planes has recently joined one of the PCs faction. The leaders of the faction decide that as great an ally as he is, he will only embarass the faction if he isn't shown the truth. The PC is assigned to be his 'Tour Guide' and to teach him as much as is possible about Sigil, the Inner and Outer Planes, and whatever else he's mistaken about.

Just imagine the PCs trying to balance correcting his errors with avoiding his wrath by angering him. And just wait untill he manages to insult a room full of Tanar'ri by calling them Devils or somesuch. May not be much of a threat to him, but the PCs will be in trouble. . .

Forgot this one
57: Rod of Wonder Short or Long
A Xaositect adventurer returns from a trip to Pandemonium with a Rod of Wonder. He promptly puts it to use to spread a little chaos around Sigil. On it's own, this would simply be slightly annoying, however . . . The PCs come to find out (possibly from the Xaositect himself, he's the chatty type) that the Rod was found in one of the sealed caverns of Agathion. Things don't usually wind up down there unless there's a reason for it. Just how worried should the PCs be? Just what can that Rod do?

Tarantula Calls Very Long or Campaign
Deep within the green heart of the Beast Lands, Tarantula, the first of all eight-legged kind, pondered. She hated to do so, but the goddess of drow has taken many of her kin and tainted them with evil. Something must be done!
Tarantula asks the heroes in aiding her to free her children by traveling to the Demon Web Pits to steal Lolth's power over them using an epic spell she has crafted, which will grant Tarantula godhood over her children.
...But Raven has secretly been watching Tarantula for years and has sent word to Hugin and Munin, and they are whispering into the ears of Odin All-Father.
…And all the while the Anansi, King of All Stories wakes from a long, long slumber.

A Real Knower Man Short or Long
The heroes are sat in a run down bar when they over-hear a conversation between two canny berks, one man says,
"Perhaps the Lady represents mental pain...and she gets power from the Factions, people who say why?...But worshippers wouldn't offer this, worshippers never question..."
Then he was flayed! Guts and bones thrown off him and he slummed against the bar, blood spilling everywhere.
Since then every sods been after this man's notes, dairies, anything, anything that was his...because he must of know something, he must of been onto something, right?
The Lady doesn't just flay people, right?
Right? Right.

Militia Long
The heroes have one week to effectly train a town of commoners to prepare for a battle against an army.

I, Gysa Short
Gysa is a half-orc, he loves fire and fire loves him, it grants him powers.
But he is conflicted over his faith. He will ask the heroes what they think fire means, what it wants, then after a quick grunt he'll walk on...but what the heroes say holds weight on the young man.
Does he worship the renewing flame? Or does it wish to consume all? Is it the forge he respects? Or does fire have no will, it merely is? Or if the heroes are charismatic enough, perhaps fire isn't worth the worship?

Mirror, mirror: campain (Planescape/Forgoten Relams crossover inspired by Star Treck)

Rirlmani are unsetisfied with ballance of good and evil on speciffic prime worlds. So they have engaged in uniqe project with Nerra (denizens of demiplane of mirrors). Rilmani want of nerra to create mirror versions of those worlds where champions of good clearly outmach forces of evil, where (*psag* you guesed) good is evil.

So Nera create evil version of Toril where greatest heroes (Elminister, Drizzt, etc...) of world are insane, power hungry, EVIL TO THE CORE maniacs bent on world domination.

But Dark Toril soon suffers from ambitions of its "heroes" and start to break apart. Not wanting to suffer the fate of their world the "heroes" of Dark Toril turn they envious eyes to the rest of the muliverse, and slowly but surely hacth their plans against us...

Groundhog Day: short to very long (depending how players are inovative and how quick they figure what is going on.)

PC defeat some monsters in the forest then they go to sell the loot in typical village, done they buisness and go to sleep. When they wake up they found they are back in forest same monsters are attacking them, in the village peaople are also doing the same stuff as yesterday. The next day is the same, and the next... PC enter the time loop that repeats over and over again, exept PC retain their memories of past day.

Figure behind this problem is genial (if not litle crackpot) gnomish inventor who invented time gate, but the gate is jamed when he was testing it and he is stuck in it also... PC must find way to save gnome who only know how to shut machine down, simply smashing it will not work...

This adventure actualy was written by my friend Zharko (he was inspired by the that movie) who has great sense of humor and also is quite sadist in tormenting PC, so this adwenture was fun and frustrating at same time...
Anyways, this adventure is great oportunity for DMs to practice their tehnobable...

Phantoms of the Opera short to long

It has allways been rumored that Civic Festhall is haunted, but in recent days sightings of strange apparitions are increasing, especialy during opera preformace.
Of course, strange shimmering apparitions are atracting lot patrons and customers who want to see what is this all about, but some Sensate factotums are still woried about this strange happenings, so they hire PC to do some ghost hunting...

Except that "ghosts" are not ghosts, but beings of living sound that have been stranded in Sigil and they are searching for a way home - plane where sound have color, shape, and weight, and where song is act of creation and scream is used as weapon of destruction...

Election Daze (short one-nighter to medium story arc)

Every three years, a Ward votes for its representative on the Sigil Advisory Council. Many other lesser office elections, for judgeships, guild officers, public advocates, city watchmen, etc., are also held at or around this time.

Technicly, all actual citizens of Sigil in a particular Ward (2 each year, on opposite sides of the ring) vote. In reality few residents are officially citizens, and those that are often have somebody else cast their vote for them, especially if they are in a faction, guild, sect, temple, etc. In order to be a citizen, one must meet one of the following criteria:

a. Own Property.

b. Be an officer-level member (factotum or above) of a property-owning organization recognized by the city. This includes factions, guilds, temples of Powers of intermediate or greater rank, certain recognized sects, and so forth.

There are several Sub-adventures that can be set in the crazy, chaotic, cut-throat world of Sigilan street-level politics. [I invite anybody to come up with more along this theme.]

-Knights of the Pole (short)
Due to fears of corruption, certain polling places are hiring poll watchers to guard certain vote-counts in some districts. The PCs are hired to guard boxes of paper balots. Gee wiz, how exciting, they think, and their sarcasm lasts until one or more of the folowing show up:

-VERY drunk Xaositect fire-mage.

-Mob of angry craftmen armed with tools, whose guildmaster sold their votes for cash then turned 'em stag to lemontrees. "Sorry, guys but it's too late, they've been counted." is not what they want to hear.

-Flamboyant high priest with a hundred followers in tow, only a few of whom can legaly vote. This works really nice if they are a temple of some major dark god, or a priesthood the PCs have clashed with before. The PCs must hold themselves in check, but they may notice some voting irregularities by the priests.

-Group of professional housebreakers, either under the mistaken belief there'd be cash here, or carrying thier own box full of rigged votes.

-Barmy protester who missed the vote by about sixteen hours.

-Power to the Person (medium to long)
The upcoming elections are expected to be hotly contested. The PCs meet the candidate that they support, perhaps a current member of the Council, and she/he makes an impression. Their opponent is unsavory, but has jink, votes, and the support of well-placed individuals.

Ideas for opponent:

-Minder's Guild member (Sodkiller)
-Priest or Paladin of unwavering Law
-Money-grubbing Taker
-Yugoloth , perhaps in disguise, perhaps not

In the run-up to the big election are smaller judgeships and the like, and the unsavory opponent is rigging these to gain more power to win the big vote, perhaps even eliminating the candidates that oppose him. The PCs must either get proof of wrongdoing or find some other way of opposing the nefarious scemes of the opposition.

-The Center Does Not Hold (short to medium)
One major problem in Sigilan elections is The Hive. Who are the rightful citizens? Who actually owns property? The Xaositects are a faction, but are they an organization with officers? No definative census even exists for The Hive. Some districts are more stable than others, but how does the Hive Ward as a whole choose a representative to the council?

The answer was a bit of legal trickery that ended up tricking the tricksters. When the council was set up, it was ageed that if a district could organize its affairs enough to prove the Advisory Council's criteria for citizenship, those votes could be submitted. In those ares of the hive poulated by naught but gutter runners, street-pillows, and slum-shackers, the population would have to submit a voting plan and approve it by eight out of nine votes counted. The votes that district is entited to on the council is one-third of the 8/9 majority, to account for non-property owners. Now, many districts in the Hive are denied a vote because not enough berks can agree even when to have a vote about how to vote. In some districts, however, they have a lot of fun with it. They might hold a footrace, or a silly song contest, or a giant poker game, or a duel to the death between candidates.

Going out of Business Sale Short Adventure

A powerful wild mage living in the City of Brass has gotten it into his mind that somehow he will die in exactly 11 days. He has the time figured out down to the minute. Since he will be dead anyway, he's decided to have fun with it by making a contest of the whole thing. Anyone who can break into his abode before he dies is entitled to keep anything they can steal, and if anyone can kill him before the 11 days are up, they can have the tower. However, the dangers of wandering around the home of a wild mage on the plane of fire are many and ludicrous. Not to mention that if the mage does not actually die after 11 days, he may decide to recollect anything he lost. . .

Who's Hand is That, and Why is it On My Wrist? Short or Medium length

After a long night of drinking (or other suitable activity) the PC awakens with a splitting headache and a VERY troubling problem. Apparantly, while unconscious, an enterprising fleshcrafter scavenged their body for parts (this hook works best if the PC is of an interesting race). At least the good doctor was kind enough to replace what it took with suitable replacements, but are 2 left arms really suitable? Or a bugbear's feet? Or the liver of a lifetime alchoholic? One of the only clues the PC has to the whereabouts of their parts is a small amount of sensation from each one. But just how does a person go about retrieving stolen body parts? Will they even be willing to take back their heart from the elderly grandfather that it is keeping alive? Or their eyes from a formerly blind child? Decisions, decisions. . .