Sigil to appear in 4E adventure module "E2 - Kingdom of the Ghouls"

What's the LSE, please? And sorry about the delay, I haven't had computer access a few days (and don't have my notes with me now). On tuesday or wednesday I'll give you the full details, but suffice it to say that there are no jar-dropping changes to Sigil or the way it works (i.e. can only enter thru portals... in fact, the author goes out of the way to spell out that a NPC Angel who appears got in the city by using a portal, not teleportation. Likewise with some NPC Maruts who pop up to harrass the heros... they have a base in Sigil. Teleportation WITHIN the city is fine, but not in or out.) A Sea Nymph Plaza is mentioned in the (I think) Hive, by Coriander Road and Firegut Lane. Any of those place names sound familiar to you? I could swear they are on one of those Sigil maps somewhere...

Ah, yes, I forgot! Anyway, here (in unpolished form) is the "dark" on Kingdom of the Ghouls. Please note that there are some "spoilers" here, so if you plan on playing the adventure, be forewarned. Kingdom of the Ghouls picks up right after the adventure Death's Reach, in which something ominous was stolen from the Shadowfell and taken into Sigil, there to be shipped piece by piece to the White Kingdom of Doresain the Ghoul King and then to Orcus for his own nefarious use. Naturally, it's the PCs' job to try to stop them. Depending on whether the Pcs played the previous adventure, there are several "hooks" to get them into the city, and a couple different entrance points depending on what portal they used (at least one leads right into a fight!) Once there, they visit sites in the Lady's Ward, the Market Ward, and the Hive Ward, searching for clues. As you might imagine with Doresain's involvement, ghouls are causing trouble in the city and are responsible for the kidnapping of numerous people - including the five that the Sigil Advisory Council wants found. (Warning: spoilers ahead!) If the Pcs try to use divination rituals to find out what's going on, they get a nasty surprise: Orcus has already cast a counter-ritual that teleports a group of hired Maruts to the location of the heros and disrupts their divination! (In this case, it 'ports in a group of Maruts already in Sigil - they have a base there.) The Maruts call themselves "Balance Keepers", but really they're just mercenaries. One Marut leaves thru a portal to a base in the Astral Sea to get reinforcements, but they won't arrive for eight hours, giving the Pcs another chance to use divination (Orcus's ritual can't send the Maruts in the Astral Sea to Sigil - they have to get there on their own.) Another source on info is Vocar the Disobedient, who is hiding out from Vecna's agents in the city. (Pcs briefly visit Sea Nymph Plaza in the Hive Ward, but he's not on his usual bench. Something ELSE is, however...!) Eventually tracking down Vocar, they might get info about where the captives have been taken (and learn that Vocar loves sugar cubes...) In the Market Ward, they can find the hidden Slaver Stockade down an old well (does Sigil HAVE wells?) Those prisoners scheduled to be sacrificed are held in individual demiplanes accessed by pouring blood on the glass panels in the floor (Why demiplanes - wouldn't good old locks and chains get the job done easier? And doesn't this violate the rules, unless the glass panes count as portals? Oh, well...) The Stockade is run by a Neogi Great Old One named Blarux, and he spills the beans about what he knows if the PCs capture him alive. Other prisioners are found in a warehouse, along with crates of what looks like odd black stone but is actually the hacked-up body of an ancient Primordial named Timesus! It seems Orcus located him in Death's Reach where the Gods put him long ago, and Orcus has decided to make him his servant, after turning him undead of course. This is all part of Orcus's plot to kill the Raven Queen and take her place. Since Timesus is massive, he had to be cut into managable pieces and shipped thru Sigil to Orcus. (Only some of Timesus is present in Sigil as pieces at any one time, and he's in stasis out cold, so the Lady's got no cause to deem him a threat.) The whole operation is being run by Elder Arantham inside a temple of Sehannine in the Lady's Ward - seems a Raavasta (aka Arcanoloth) named Ilyanma helped boot out the high priestess and took her place - disguised, of course - and gradually the ghouls turned everyone there into more ghouls, so that now the site is actually the Embassy of Ghouls. Of course our heros have to clear it out. Also, Doresain is using some living ghouls in this adventure - berks that are still alive but hunger for flesh just the same. (They look more like normal people, which is why Doresain uses 'em... they can go places normal ghouls can't.) Oh, and they have the aid of some Doomguard mercenaries (nothing special about their stats, and they're Unaligned.) Actually, I kind of goofed - the heros go here first, THEN to the Slaver Stockade, because the Stockade has the portal to the White Kindom, while the Shadowfell portal they bring the pieces of Timesus in thru is in the Embassy of Ghouls. My bad... Anyway, at the Stockade they have a chance to go thru the portal and find their way to Doresain's palace after some harrowing encounters, and if they beat him they learn they are too late - Timesus is on his way (some crates left behind, but no matter - Orcus has enough to re-form the deadly Primordial.) Their only hope is to use a Chaos Ship to catch up... but will they succeed (my guess is: no. Expect to fight both Orcus and Timesus in the next adventure!!!) Oh, and Sigil population is given as 50,000 in a sidebar, but I think that's just a misprint for 250,000. I'm sure I left out some stuff somewhere, but that's pretty much it. Oh, and you may have a beef with the fact that a monster named Xamshil is allowed to redirect a portal to the Feywild into one for the Shadowfell (he does the same thing to a pool of holy water - which presumably wasn't a portal before!)