For now this is just an interest check out of a whim of mine. This and next week will be quite busy for me, so I won't know how serious I can be about this until then.
Most of the multiverse is now in harmony.
An harmony maintained by a web of Elder Brains and their Mind Flayers attendants. Nobody knows when it started, but one day the Mind Flayers started following a mysterious identity, Thoon. They started using new creations and manifesting new abilities. This allowed them to slowly infiltrate and corrupt what everybody else thought the mind flayers could never reach. Over the next decades, they first subdued cities, then countries, then continents, then worlds. Some realized what was happenning and tried to fight the approaching shadow, but were swiftly and efficiently crushed by the Mind Flayer mutant slave armies, as well as their new Thoon constructs. The gods themselves fell one by one as their believers were enthralled by Thoon and worship mostly ceased altogether.
Now the local Elder Brain is watching you, making sure you walk the path of Thoon. It let's you do as you please as long as you either amuse or slave for it. The more amusing are selected as the next meal for the mind flayers. However failing to be amusing or useful for something else means being subject to horrific experiments that make having your brain eaten look like a much better alternative.
There is no more large scale conflict, a waste of perfectly fine brains. There's no more need for hard labour as that is supplied by magic items that are commonplace everywhere, supplied by hordes of enslaved casters that wither away their souls at the orders of the Elder brains. Those that suspect they release subliminal messages to keep the masses in check quickly disappear. Also rumors of countless slaves being worked to death outside the cities because they're still cheaper than magic items are clearly rumors as well. Their brains taste horrible though. Thoon constructs are everywhere, doing countless tasks.
Many say things are better than before actually. No need to worry about religion or politics , disease or famine, Thoon will even extend your life if you prove specially amusing. If you're really lucky you may even be blessed to become a new mind flayer! Or be used as the raw material for a Thoon Construct. What better way to serve Thoon?
But there are some that still resist. The infernals of the lower planes have for the first time called a truce on their eternal Blood War to face the new enemy. Masters of corruption themselves, the mind flayers found their infiltration attempts against the infernals fruitless.
Alas the lower planes are losing. The slave legions and construct armies of Thoon are numerous and disciplined, while the damn demon hordes are still too disorganized despite the best effort of the Yugoloth and Devil commanders to get them in order.
Asmodeus, the Princes of the Abyss, and the General of the Crawling City have however designed a plan to turn the situation around. Revolution! The only hope for salvation is that mutant slaves of the mind flayers must be made to rebel against their masters. That means an elite team striking at the key Elder Brain that oversee their mutation process to ensure their fanatic loyalty, then fanning the fires of revolt.
Said elite team cannot contain any of the big infernal names,. Thoon has mind flayers have eyes, ears and tentacles everywhere around them, so if any of them tried to make a direct move, it would be quickly countered. So instead you were gathered. Powerful outsiders that for one reason or another are relatively unknown, ensuring the mind flayers won't be expecting you. Perhaps you spent the last centuries on the Blood War and thus nobody outside the lower planes heard of you. Perhaps you were sealed and are now released. Either way, you have the element of surprise. Each of you is as powerful as an army on your own right, so even if you're few, when you're unleashed you'll be a veritable crusade that'll leave a path of blood through the Thoon dominion.
Crunch basics:
~level 20
Players are Infernal monster classes of their choice.
-Kill
all the elder brains, mind flayers and their that took over most of reality!
-Make the gith rebellion happen!
