Part 2: The Mosaic Mimir - Turn of Fortune's Wheel

Part 2: The Mosaic Mimir. Chapter 4-Into the Outlands While Shemeshka investigates the characters' origins and the strange magic affecting the adventurers, the party travels to the Outlands in search of a fugitive modron. Their trail leads to a mysterious castle with the ability to traverse the plane. The magical fortress has recently been occupied by Fiends, which prove to be an impediment to investigating the site, learning more about the missing modron, and exploring the Outlands beyond. The walking castle Iedcaru endlessly explores the Outlands Arrival in the Outlands When the characters emerge from the portal, read the following: You find yourself standing amid ruins of weathered black marble. The last recognizable remnant of these ruins, a solitary stone archway, provides a frame for the portal you just passed through. Glittering, deep-blue sand spreads before you in all directions. Great impact divots mark the passage of something enormous. The trail leads toward a sudden transition in the terrain, where a forest of magenta trees climbs craggy hills that look like wizened faces. Much farther in the distance, an impossibly tall stone spire stretches from the horizon into the clouds. The portal from Sigil opens into a nameless ruin in the Outlands that is roughly halfway between the Spire and the gate-town of Torch. The portal, which leads back to Sigil, can be reopened with a piece of lapis lazuli etched with an eye. The surreal nature of the surrounding desert, forest, and hills, as well as the rapid transition between the terrains, is natural for the Outlands. Creatures can follow the tracks toward the forest. A character who succeeds on a 12 Wisdom (Survival) check knows the tracks weren't made by an animal, but rather by a large magical device or machine. A character who succeeds on a 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check recognizes the stone spire in the distance as the Spire that marks the center of the Outlands and atop which floats Sigil. Characters who fo...