Tales From The Glass-guarded World

We have a new player, and a new player character! We're going to flash back to his past, so you can get an idea of who he is and how he came to be frozen in a stasis chamber in the underground wizard complex. 

The party is eager to wrap up their trip to Sigil and return to the Prime Material Plane, where they hope they can find all the pieces of that powerful magic wand. The next level down is Divination...unless something distracts them before they reach that floor. Be sure to look us up on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TFTGGW, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/talesfromtheglassguardedworld, and at our website, https://www.tftggw.com/ .

We're still in Sigil this week as the party attempts to find someone named Trunfeld who may have important information. With the assistance of Norm Od the Modron, the party navigates the city streets, gets some tattoos, and visits a bar run by an ogre. Good times!

The adventurers have passed through a portal to an alien world seeking a fragment of a magical wand. This world is built on the inside of a giant torus, and teeming with strange creatures from across the multiverse.  That's right, listeners, we're in Sigil, the city at the center of the planes! Sigil was created for the 2nd Edition AD&D Planescape campaign setting, and was the setting for the classic CRPG "Planescape: Torment". It's weird and twisted and more than a little disconcerting.  If you haven't played Planescape: Torment, you really should! Beamdog has an "enhanced" edition available on Steam, GOG, Android, and iOS. You can also find the classic 2nd Edition Planescape books on dmsguild.com and drivethrurpg.com. 

Our heroes continue their mission to destroy a gate to Avernus, the top level of Hell. They'll have to fight their way past some unsuspecting Demons, and even then they won't have what they're really looking for: a fragment of a powerful magic wand. They have to go through a portal for that, and they don't know where that portal leads!  Listen for a musical clue at the end, though...

The remaining party members reunite to fulfill the promise Tara and Paxton made to Kremex the devil. Can they defeat the demons guarding the gate to Avernus and then destroy the gate? Will Paxton remember how to say "Kremex"?

There are more weird trolls to kill this week: Big trolls, little trolls, trolls under bridges, trolls with silly hair, and trolls that hurt your feelings. Next week we're back to the main story!

What have Aethelflaed and Eppalima been up to? They've been helping the garden gnomes with their troll problem.  This probably isn't our most interesting adventure, but it gets the job done. 

Aster, Gasten, Mama Sass, Ansna, and Gerlos have decided to take down Nondle the Nimble before he can use the dangerous Soul Sucker to take over Arrival. Now they're headed into a meeting with Nondle and a bunch of cowering nobles. Can they defeat Nondle and his gang of thugs? 

Let's follow Aster Fortuna as he pursues Nondle the Nimble back into World 83! Nondle has a dangerous magical weapon--the Soul Sucker Mark I--and he has something unpleasant planned. Can Aster stop him? 

Why are we having a discussion episode here? If you've listened to episode 59, you should already have an idea. You definitely shouldn't listen to this if you haven't heard episode 59!

Aster, Tara, and Paxton have made a deal with a devil, and if they can get Paxton to understand it, they should be able to carry it out, right? Then they can get that portal key and go find the wand fragment. Hopefully there won't be any big surprises in store. 

The adventurers from world 83 have begun to explore the Conjuration level, and have encountered a friendly devil named Yapka. Yapka offered to take them to his boss, Kremex, saying they might be able to help with a demon problem. Of course, the party knows nothing about demons or devils, so they happily agreed.  Having met Kremex, they might regret this.  Aster is still kind of freaked out. 

It's been a cakewalk so far, but now it starts to get weirder and more dangerous. We're starting to bring in some classic D&D lore, too.  Enjoy your favorite characters while you can, because some of them won't be around forever...

The heroes nearly wrap up their exploration of the Abjuration level--and even though they've found two wand fragments, they still haven't actually recovered them yet. Things are going to start getting really weird after this! The next few episodes are doozies. 

The party rushes to deal with Tara's incapacitation so that they can return to exploring the Abjuration floor.

After being thoroughly creeped out by a disembodied voice and an irritating maze, the party ventures out into the open sections of the Abjuration floor. It doesn't go well!

The party continues to explore the Abjuration level of the wizard research complex, and Aster begins to freak out a little bit. 

In which the DM forgets an important monster immunity but clobbers the party anyway. They finally make their way down to the second level down: Abjuration.

The party continues exploring the Administration floor, smashes through a puzzle when searching a bedroom, reads a dead man's journal, and reads through other peoples' mail. It's invasion of privacy all around! Hopefully no one will mind.