Adventure Hook Junction

Knowing the Unknowable. short to medium

A Guvner scholar studying the every swirling chaos of Limbo recently made a historic discovery. He found a book that explains how the apparent chaos of the plane is actually extremely complex applications of universal laws. The Fraternity of Order rejoices at this news and sends a team to retrieve the scholars research. Unfortunately, the Scholar has gone completely barmy. The Chaosmen don't believe a word of this screed and assume that the book is a powerful artifact of chaos. Both factions want the book (the Guvners to study it and the Chaosmen to spread chaos). Of course the Harmonium is concerned about what this item could do so it has to get involved.

The PC's could be members of any of the above factions, or they could be sent by other factions to retrieve, destroy or investigate the book. Members of the Bleak Cabal could seek out the Scholar to insure his new condition is treated (if they can work up the motivation that is).

Ah, I'd almost forgotten about this thread. I really like that one Squaff. It's always fun to fling your PCs into the gullet of something and see how they react.

Down the Drain Short Adventure

Another member of some group one or more of the PCs belong to has a problem. They recently purchased an item of great value which they planned to present to their beloved as a proposal of sorts, but the courrier that was to deliver it fell into an Ooze portal in the Hive and vanished. Now, the PCs must find the particular puddle the portal is located in, pass through, find the item and recover it from whatever has it now by any means necessary, and get back before the Daubus manage to brick the puddle over. Possible encounters include greedy and lethargic ooze mephits, sentient otyughs, a very confused and distressed lost merfolk bard, and a (hopefully peaceful) disagreement with the Dabus.

Oh such a perfect day! or Groundhog day part 2. medium to long.

The time loop is happening again and probbably becaouse their previous experience with time loops the PCs are unaffected. (see Groundhog day adventure seed).
This time to make things worse here are inevitables that guard time. And they say that they will obliterate loop and anyone and anything inside it unless the loop is fixed.
"Villan" behind the scenes is time traveling wizard that is using time gate to generate the loop around single event in his youth: last perfect day with his love before she dies in monster attack.

This time PC have time limit on their hands, but also they have different solutions on their hands. But they should hurry becaouse clock is ticking.

Astral/Ethereal Emisaries Long

New "village" have apeared on astral plane. Village is located on huge black sphere and it's inhabitants are intelingent "Astral Constructs" (psionic constructs created from astral or etherel matter), the new "race" want's to become the part of planar comunity and establish trade with rest of planes so they welcome anyone in their home. But some guests have more sinister motives: they want to learn secrets of this unusual "new" beings and make profit from it.

DARK: Black sphere is actualy psionic artefact wich encases living remains of powerfull psion who was in life especialy fond of Astral Constructs so before he "died" he decided do give his creations gift of life and sentience.

New Kuo-Toan Empire:campain

It is said that kuo-toa once had great prime empires. And great undead kuo-toan warlock has awoke from its ageless slumber.He did not like what happened to his race and he decided to recreate those days of glory.
Unfortunatly, (for primes that is) he found ancient terraforming satelite in the Mines of Mersilin (Site on Archeron where all destroyed objects from all over the mutiverse end). So backed with this thehnological wonder and powerfull magic, his elemental and prime allies (also this plan has intrigued Doomguards) he wants to rise ocean level and end the age of humans.
Why should this concearn PCs, well their world is targeted for this operation.

Here is 2 new hooks:

Queen Randsom: long or wery long
One of Formian city hives on Nemasus is invaded by baatezu. With scalpel presition their queen is captured and it is held hostage. And formians are forced to do fiends bidding. Queen advisors are searching for outside help in form of PCs. Unfortunatly time is running out becaouse old queen will soon lay egg from new queen will hatch, (and that is what baatezu are after, becaouse they want new subspecies of infernal formians for blood war), to make things worse baatezu are suported by modrons, who search any form of assistance to rid Mechanus of invders.

Soul smuglers: campain
There is new crime empire forming on prime. And they deal in afterlives. These crooks sell bliss of upper planes to rich and coruppt individuals who least deserve that revard. The catch is this: for evil soul to end in upper planes as petitioner, they must "steal" its place in afterlife from good soul in upper planes.
PC must infiltrate organisation (wich is spreading like weed) and must destroy it at any cost. For it is posible that their own places in afterlife could be "for sale".

To continue the theme of Election Daze...

The Sigilian Census

The Sigil Advisory Council has decided to take up a census of the residents of Sigil, supposedly to "better apportion out Council memberships," but really because a few groups have been complaining that they're unfairly represented and the Council's trying to shut them up.

But one barmy has suggested that the Council needs to account for the various dabus working around the city and adjust representation accordingly. Somehow, this idea has found traction among some groups, particularly those with a ax to grind who think they can pick up some extra power without picking up extra votes, and the Xaositects, who just think it's funny and a fine practical joke on the Council.

Likewise, other particularly odd definitions of residents are being mooted, with similar goals. Worse, the Council's being pressured to accept them, so the census's categories of residents are incredibly bizarre, and seem to change from day to day. And to top it all off, each of the factions is trying to slant the "count" in such a way that they gain as much power as possible.

Unfortunately for the PCs, they have been tasked with going door to door in one of the Wards, and complete the census. To ensure that the census-takers don't just make up some numbers, there are several teams working simultaneously in each Ward without being told who the other teams are, and all teams are supposed have representation from multiple power groups in the city.

The PCs have a few options here: they can actually try to count the seemingly uncountable; find the other teams and then attempt to bribe, cajole, and otherwise persuade them to come up with similar numbers; or simply throw up their hands in frustration. The teams also have to find a way to deal with their superiors back at the Factions while this goes on.

-- One group is pressuring the Council to count dead bodies as residents. (seemingly rationalized by the fact that there are undead who are residents, so counting the merely dead is not that much more difficult a hurdle, particularly as they're not up and moving around, plus the dead could become undead...)

-- Another group is campaigning against the Census in general, and is attacking any census-takers they come across.

-- One religion is claiming that their members should be exempted from the Census because the Council should accept the claims made by the priests as to number of worshippers, and failing that, should accept that their adherents on the Prime are "Sigil residents in spirit."

-- The Factions themselves are also members of this circus, as they are variously campaigning against the Census, campaigning for the Census, campaigning for and against the Census, and being generally pig-headed about the entire deal.

P.S. If this sounds Paranoia-esque, I'm glad. This is intentionally meant to be an adventure that drives the PCs up the wall, even before they consider trying to take a census of the Hive...

Ghost in the Shell short to medium:
Modrons in Sigil had strange "illnes": they start acting strange (they sing, dance, break stuff and things like that), then after some time they resume normal funkcions without any memories what happened before. Of course Guverners and Pentadrone located in Sigil want to investigate this strange phenomena, so they hire some more creative bloods (PC that is).

Who is behind this? Ghost of Xsaositet who for some reason can only posses modron bodies (but modron lawfull energies soon drives him out).
So PS have to figure first what is going on, then they thave got to figure how to lay this restless spirit (who can't stay focused for a 5 minutes) to its final reward on Limbo.

EDIT: This hook was inspired by Basilisk's dream. I hope it is okay with him.

Medium:

Lex the Artist made a portrait of one of the PC's. Lex died. Next thing the PC notes is that when someone talks TO the portrait, he hears it and can respond...no matter where he is! The PC was unaware of the portrait being made, but somehow s/he caught Lex's eye.

Of course, Lex left a lot of debts (a rich painter?) and his unclaimed portraits were sold off in an estate sale. If the PC blabs, several important people are going to want to analyze how this happens, attempting to capture the painting...and the subject! Plus there is a little matter of HOW the painting was made. Lex's old paints, diaries and other portraits suddenly jumped in value. Everyone is running down these things. Who has the most to gain? Certainly the PC who frequently has folks whispering in his ear at odd times...

Medium to Campaign
The party is hired to capture a young woman named Percy on her trip from Olympus to the the third layer of the Wastes. They are given a warnign that she is a powerful wizardress and the only way to restrain her from unleashing death and mayhem upon them is to quickly (within 1 round) bind her with a special rope provided by their employer.

The twist: Percy is Persephone, traveling from the domain of her mother, Demeter to that of her husband Hades. The rope is made of parts of the thread that binds Fenris, a trap that may now be weakened with the loss - providing a chance that Ragnarok may soon trigger.

There you go: We've reached 100. Think you can pull all of these together into something edited and formatted for a PDF release on Planewalker? What I was thinking of doing was for the release expanding upon the ideas presented with suggested information on items mentioned or short NPC blocks or small area maps. Things just to get the GM started when they decide to run with the idea.

The Gears of Chaos - A Long Adventure

The PCs meet Gegol Thr'rik, a Githyanki Xaosman who led an unsuccessful raid on Mechanus in an attempt to sabotage one of the massive gears of that plane and see what kind of chaos would be brought about as a result. Fortunately for the forces of Law, Gegol's band of mercenaries were quickly dispatched and the githyanki himself escaped only by slipping between the cogs and falling a great distance into a grotto of pendulums, gears, pullies and the like.

There, Gegol sat to rest for a spell, and in that time he noticed that a nearby pendulum was ticking in time with his heart - a series of gears turned and reversed in perfect rhythm with his breathing -  a complex set of pullies and weights seemed to match up with the blinking of his eyes. Gegol became convinced that he had discovered the purpose of Mechanus, and in that instant his eyes were opened to a greater truth.

Before he could make use of this knowledge, however, he was forced to escape the forces that had finally caught up with him, and rushed away. In the years since then, the 'yanki has regularly hired mercenaries under false pretenses in an effort to find the grotto again. Do the gears of Mechanus control us all? What are the philosophical ramifications of this? Has Gegol become a believer in the ultimate power of Law, or does he see an opportunity here to cause some real damage? Only your DM knows for sure!

We do have a new Adventure Junction thread here:

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If you want to get in on the action

The PDF of Adventure Hook Junction One can be found here:

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