So, in my previous custom campaign, which was a HUGE success, I hinted at a possible big time spellcaster known as the Crimson Rose. She became an immortal, went missing for over a thousand years.
The campaign that I have planned reveals that she has actually been creating her own plane of existance through massive ammounts of Greater Create Demiplane and permanency. The thing is, the years haven't been too kind to her, and she went slightly overboard, somewhat resembling the ideals of the Speakers of the Depths.
She, however, isn't content with her own plane. She wishes to become the god of chaos and creation itself.
The proteans themselves are torn about whom to follow at this point, as the creation and destruction of a new god would completely follow their own views and standpoints, let alone the new ideals of how to bring about chaos which brings about evolution, change, and the birth of further chaos that the Crimson Rose has brought about.
Now, with those ideas, here are some questions that I am pondering on.
How do I bring the party to meet with the Crimson Rose?
I plan on determining "chaotic events" that may happen around the party usually about once every 3 days or so by rolling 100. Need to come up with some interesting ideas for that, but make it generic things such as "Harassed by spiritual entities" or "Goblins running amok" to allow myself freedom to work with what the party was currently doing on their own accord.
What would be a graceful method of making the party get noticed by the Speakers of the Depths?
Overall, the campaign is going to be VERY open ended except near the beginning and as it gets closer towards the end, usually having the chaotic events to create tasks for the party to ensew on, or attempt to abandon which may cause long term effects.
"You spot a bunch of orcs on mounts riding off in the distance towards the east." 'eh, ignore them...' party gets to the next town "yes, I was wondering if you happen to pass by (insert generic town name here) if you could deliver this letter to my son..." later heads that way, town burnt down to cinders, finds out it was from an orc raid.
I don't DM much, but I'll give my thoughts / suggestions.
1) - How do they meet the Crimson Rose:
Perhaps the meeting is through the "chaotic events" of yours. It could be brief, maybe just a dimensional blip where they appear in her plane getting only a minutes glimpse as she does her thing, then get blipped back.
Maybe at times she's bringing certain things from the material realm into her realm (needs or wants them for some reason) and the party happens to be in the area of being pulled in.
2) - Suggestions on possible chaotic events (vague / generic):
[Note: Not sure if chaotic enough]
- Stampede of domestic animals. (horses, dogs, cats, etc.)
- Punched by a drunkard.
- Arrested for looking suspicious.
- Harassed by a magical trickster (illusionist, pixie, leprechaun, whatevs...)
- Everyone in the inn they're staying at, get's deathly ill at night.
- Hunted by a druid.
- Gets the romantic notice of a noble that doesn't take no for an answer.
- Everything not owned by the PCs instantly breaks (for X amount of time).
- They're followed by a goat of substantial power (perhaps a polymorphed sorcerer).
- Immediately surrounded by begging (pickpocketing) children upon entering a village.
- Teleported somewhere (plane of Crimson Rose perhaps, as mentioned above).
- The trees in the woods end up being treants.
- The storage chests in their inn rooms turn out to be mimics.
- Numerous items fall from the sky (perhaps the belongings of a traveling mercenary group that thinks they stole the items... "What? Are you going to tell me our stuff fell from the sky into your hands?!"
3) - Had to look up the speaker of the depths and proteans, but it seems their thing is also chaos. So, I would think that they (the party) would be noticed by such a being if they were constantly around abnormal chaos or the cause of said chaos or they're stopping the chaos and ticking the being off. Either way, something focused on chaos could do such a thing on a whim, as I feel that fits chaos well.
Hope something out of this gives some useful ideas.