For those of you that don't know what I am talking about this adventure involves going into one of the Lady of Pain's Mazes and then escaping possibly allowing the prisoner to get out with them....
I know you could in theory chalk this up to the whim of the Lady but to me it just seems really out there to allow someone by use of a “normal” gate to simply walk in and possibly walk out with a mazed individually in tow...
PS this is the 2nd adventure of 9 in the Well of Worlds adventures TSR 2604. It's a collection of misc adventures in scope and range of levels. Some of them are really cool.
It was kind of funny to run that one. My PC's grabbed the fake Lightbringer thinking it was the real deal... LOL! They actually thought it was the right sword!!! Oh the Factol was livid!
Some people do find the Mazes. A Githyanki name D'jheknalar (sp?) sends adventurers into mazes and traces their paths through the Planes to find the exact location of the mazes in the Ethereal...
Talking about the mazes.
Her Serenity has many ways to get rid of berks who upset her, the two most common methods being mazing and flaying. Others would be more of a case-by-case basis, such as shoving people into gems or eradicating them and their entire clergy then letting their husk float in the astral.
Mazes... Mazes are presumed to be bits of Sigil that have been "spun off" by the Lady of Pain into the ethereal plane. The mazes themselves seem to sometimes be fit specifically for whatever is the intended occupant, but Xanxost has never seen any proof of that. That? Oh that is a bottle of Farastu that Xanxost bought from a Friendly Fiend. Xanxost is wondering if a Farastu covered in feathers will look like a very mean chicken.
All mazes that the Lady of Pain makes are said to have an exit. To some cutters, it might be easy to find, but Xanxost heard that it's incredibly difficult for the intended prisoner to discover. If you're the sort of person that thinks the portal key will be a tune you're supposed to hum, you can be sure that it's anything but that!
Like Xanxost's associate Primemover said, there is a Githyanki woman who tries to map Her Dread Majesty's mazes, namely by tricking sods into getting themself mazed and following them. Most cutters think that her time is numbered, but she hasn't been mazed yet...or has she?
She hasn't been flayed yet.
Being sent to a maze would likely be a very bad thing. One would find out what happened in due time, and then one would realize their likely fate...that being eternal inprisonment. Carceri is a big prison too, sometimes Xanxost wonders if the Lady of Pain didn't get her power from that place.
One always knows that there is a way out of the maze too, that would be almost as tormenting as knowing that you're stuck there forever, Xanxost thinks. After all, being imprisoned would be bad enough without the knowledge that the way out is right there...but you just can't find it.
In the maze, one could keep alive as long as one wished to, as food is delivered somehow...Xanxost wonders what a mazed Illithid, vampire, or liche would get. Also, the mazes seem to keep their intended recipient from aging, no one is sure about other berks just showing up.
Xanxost knows that Xanxost never wants to get mazed, that's a reason Xanxost doesn't visit the Cage often. Xanxost doesn't think that Her Serenity would get upset at anything Xanxost does, but that's what Xanxost thought about all those Bladelings too...and look what happened there.
Originally posted by Bonemage
Could the imprisioned really just starve themselves?
Good question, and it doesn't have an answer. I don't think that The Lady would allow for suicide in that way or any other way within the mazes. It seems like too easy of a way out when the point seems to be they stay locked up till and if they find the exit portal.
I could see someone doing that simply waking up the next morning still in the maze with not a mark on their body and in good health again.
Originally posted by Xanxost the Slaadi
That? Oh that is a bottle of Farastu that Xanxost bought from a Friendly Fiend. Xanxost is wondering if a Farastu covered in feathers will look like a very mean chicken.
Absolutely brilliant.
"How about a friendly fiend covered in farastu then covered in feathers? Would he look like a very mean chicken? Let's find out!"
*pause*
"I'm not friendly."
Of course, most people don't just up and kill themselves at the drop of a hat. Since mazes are known to have exits, I think someone in there might wait quite a while before the idea of suicide started seeming like a good option.