Hi all, my Age of Worms campaign involves a tie-in of Expedition to the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk (and Return of the Eight by the way). My players are finished with Castle GH now, and are currently exploring Tilagos Island.

The wizard in the group expressed some interest in Maure Castle as he wonders if the Octych (not sure I spell it correctly) discovered in the recesses of Castle GH might be used to open a portal down there. He wonders because:
- they found the name of one of the Maure in the log of one of Zagyg's libraries,
- and because the rogue of the band, a Seeker, discovered that one Eli Tomorast, another Seeker, has developed an interested in Maure Castle...

Do you know if there is a mention of this Octych in the different official levels of Maure Castle ?

Thks for the help.

I've put the answer to your question below, hidden by spoiler tags...

I've put the answer to your question below, hidden by spoiler tags...

** spoiler omitted **

Any speculation about the destinations / encounters involved ?

Are you aware of hints given by a Greyhawk mogol (Kuntz, Mona...) ?

Anyway, thks again Callum.

Rob Kuntz has also commented on the octychs to a limited degree in threads here at Paizo as well as on the Pied Piper boards but he hasn't revealed further mysteries that I recall.

Allan.

A really cool way of using the Octychs in the campaign could be if say Kyuss manageges to win and the Age of Worms actually comes to pass. Either as a continuation of the AP or as a new campaign altogether the PC's need to hunt down all the Octychs in order to finally defeat Kyuss for good.

The campaign would involve finding the Octychs, traveling to strange places and deadly dungeons. They would be constantly at odds with various factions competing for the Octychs themselves for lots of diffrent reasons some good and some bad.

That would be wicked cool.

Rob's response over on the PPP boards:

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The original version of this now-differently-named phenomena will be treated in an upcoming rleases from the Original Campaign; and I was thinking about those tie-ins just recently when organizing the "CATALOG". This will account for its beginning history, at least, not-with-standing variants of such as now exist.

From the original design intent, yes these were designed to be "jumping of pads" for future adventures, but it goes without saying that I included some more interesting alternatives since then, and as detailed in the unpublished notes for a related article I began crafting back in 2005: I. The Eight-Pointed Star [10m words]; which derives from over 25 listings of proposed articles and adventures seeded with GH lore I was combining in my Red Book file. Others in this vein I paste hereafter. Whether all of these can be done in context with all the name changes needed is a matter for future thought.

-- VI. Greyhawk's Spell Archetypes Based on the Suloise Ancient Texts [10m words]; XVI. The Suel Magi, Including the Ritual for the Invoked Devastation [12m words]; XII. The Yeomanry's Expeditions into the Sea of Dust [10m words]; XVII. Baklunish Ancient Magic, Formulas and the Colorless Fire [12m words]; XXI. The Lost Passage (adventure) [20m words]. ... --RJK
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Threads @ http://piedpiperpublishing.yuku.com/topic/2636 for reference.

Allan.

** spoiler omitted **

Allan.

Saperlipopette! (French very polite/acceptable curse)

If its problematic, you could always remove the second octych: there's nothing in that adventure of the following ones that require it to be present.

Allan.

Hello Grodog,

As for the first part of your post above:

Many VIP already appeared in this extended adventure path, not to mention those to come later in the adventure.

As for the suggestions for what is beyond the eight-pointed star:

Good adventuring on your side!

Good adventuring on your side!

Allan.

One group that might have a propriatory interest in the Octychs also would be the Scarlet Brotherhood, who'd probably see them as the ne plus ultra of Sueloise artifacts -- they were only the last creations of the Suel Power Mages, after all :)

One group that might have a propriatory interest in the Octychs also would be the Scarlet Brotherhood, who'd probably see them as the ne plus ultra of Sueloise artifacts -- they were only the last creations of the Suel Power Mages, after all :)

How did you tie in return of the 8 with age of worms?

How did you tie in return of the 8 with age of worms?

Spoiler:

doesnt return have the players rescuing Tenser, and isnt he already around and mentoring various wizards in AoW?

a) if running Rot8 mostly-as-written:

b) if running AoW mostly-as-written:

Enjoy!
Allan.

Actually I chose to start Age of Worms before the events of Rot8 (before Tenser is back, that is).

Hence very easy and useful to run this in the middle of the campaign.

Cheers