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+I need some help brainstorming ideas for a planescape
+campaign.  The situation is convoluted, bear with me:
+
+Rennick is a man with an unusual ability: he can predict
+random events (quite limited).  This ability has made him a
+person of interest for many people with many different
+agendas - including Tymora, goddess of Luck.  The PCs are
+working for Tymora, and they have been tasked with finding
+and questioning Rennick.
+
+Another group that had an interest in Rennick is the Sign of
+One.  In my campaign, the Signers believe the universe is
+just a dream. As for *whose* dream, they believe in the
+"grandmaster theory."  A master painter will often sketch
+out a painting, and do a little work, then turn it over to
+his journeymen, who will finish the painting.  The
+journeymen will sometimes even delegate further, to their
+apprentices.  The master takes credit, but the painting is
+actually the work of many people.  The grandmaster theory is
+that the universe is just like the painting: the grandmaster
+has sketched out the rough outlines, but we're all
+contributing to varying degrees.
+
+The Sign of One employ a team of "seekers" whose job is to
+try to find the grandmaster and the masters.  The seekers
+are curious about Rennick: they theorize that he isn't
+predicting random events, so much as actually dreaming them
+up.  Is he a master?
+
+Yet another person who has an interest in Rennick was a
+murderous wizard name Crow, who is convinced that Rennick
+is an oracle.  Crow has the ability to steal peoples powers,
+and he thinks he can drain Rennick's life to acquire the
+powers of an oracle.  Rennick went into hiding to evade
+Crow.  Now the PCs have defeated Crow, so it's safe for
+Rennick to come out of hiding.  However, there's a catch.
+
+In order to hide from Crow, Rennick decided the safest place
+was a demiplane.  Demiplanes are great hiding places for two
+reasons: first, a divination spell asking "where's Rennick"
+will just tell you, "in a demiplane that doesn't have a
+name."  That's super not-helpful.  Second: to plane shift to
+a plane, you need a tuning fork.  Nobody has a tuning fork
+for a demiplane.  So: demiplanes are good hiding places, if
+your opponent is a powerful wizard.
+
+Rennick lives in the City of Sigil, which has portals to
+many planes and probably many demiplanes.  However, when
+Crow attacked, Rennick didn't have time to do a lot of
+research.  He had to flee to the one demiplane he knew about
+off the top of his head.
+
+You see, about two weeks before Crow's attack, the
+Signer-Seekers brough Rennick to the hall of speakers, where
+he was examined by factol Darius.  Darius concluded that
+despite Rennick's special ability, he's no master.  However,
+Darius confided in Rennick: morale is low among the seekers.
+They've been searching for masters for years, and have found
+nothing.  Darius asked Rennick to pretend, to put on a good
+show, in order to boost morale among the seekers.  Darius
+explained that this would involve submitting to a testing
+procedure, in which Rennick would be placed into a
+"visualization chamber" designed to test his ability to
+imagine things.  The visualization chamber is actually a
+demiplane that causes people's unconscious imaginations to
+manifest.  When Darius offered, Rennick was curious, but in
+the end he decided that he simply didn't have time.  Darius
+let him go.
+
+However, when Crow attacked and almost captured Rennick,
+Rennick escaped and fled to the Signers.  He took Darius up
+on her offer, on the condition that he be placed into the
+visualization chamber immediately.  He knew Crow would not
+be able to find him there.  He submitted to testing, but
+when the testing was over, he refused to leave the chamber.
+The signers tried to remove him, but luckily for Rennick,
+the manifestations of his imagination defended him.
+
+This strategy worked: Rennick managed to barricade himself
+in the chamber for several weeks, aided by the figments of
+his own imagination, and in the meantime, Crow failed to
+locate Rennick, and now Crow has been defeated.
+
+At some point, Rennick unintentionally imagined an army of
+himself fighting off an army of signers.  This was a huge
+mistake.  There are now hundreds of Rennick clones in the
+chamber.  They know everything that Rennick knows, including
+the fact that they are figments of the real Rennick's
+imagination.  They know that if they leave the chamber, they
+cease existing, and they know that if the real Rennick
+leaves, they cease existing.  They're protecting Rennick
+from being extricated from the chamber, which is what
+Rennick originally wanted.  But now that Crow's dead, the
+clones still aren't going to let him leave.
+
+The PCs know that Rennick is somewhere in the basement of
+the hall of speakers, and they know that they need to talk
+to factol Darius.
+
+OK, so here's what's missing from this picture:
+
+* What are the original figments that helped protect Rennick,
+in the beginning, before the clones manifested?
+
+* What figments of the PCs imaginations will manifest, now
+that they're in the chamber?
+
+* What kind of mini-adventure is going to take place inside
+the chamber?  I should note that the chamber is as big as
+it needs to be.
+
+
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