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Like the other planar pathways, and unlike Sigil's portals, the Infinite Staircase leads only to specific places on the planes. A curious prerequisite to a Stair connection is that a place must be unusually creative, imaginative, or beautiful. Nobody really knows why this is so, or even whether the Staircase only seeks places like this, or whether it's changed normal locations merely by virtue of being connected to them. In any case it's likely to be something to do with Selune, the mysterious power of the night who dwells in the Gates of the Moon, the foundation of the Staircase on Ysgard. Find out more, here...
Any basher who likes a good climb can be found going up or down the stairs; and many perils lurk waiting for them. The Infinite Staircase is a fairlyheavily-travelled (by humanoids and the sort) pathway compared with others, and chances of encountering another basher are pretty high. Here's a few you could meet...
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The Oceanus touches Elysium, the Beastlands, Arborea, and has little-known tributaries on Ysgard and the Outlands too. Some cutters reckon you can reach Oceanus from the Silver Sea surrounding Mount Celestia, but I've never found that current myself. And for some unknown reason, Oceanus seems to bypass Bytopia completely. I've shrugged my shoulders many a time at that one; legend has it the Bytopian powers want to make a cutter work to get to their plane, and having a river leading to their doorstep somehow takes all the hard work out of it... Find out more, here...
A trip down the Great River can be an opportunity to make new allies and explore new lands, but just because you're in a plane of Good you shouldn't assume every basher you meet has your best interests at heart...
Mount Olympus A giant mountain, shrouded in infinite mists both above and below, Mount Olympus is dimensionally tall. Its forested slopes are large enough to sweep across several planes, its extensive caverns and tunnels burrow into several more, and its iceswept lofty peaks burst through into yet others. As a cutter might expect, colour pools on the lower regions tend to lead to the Lower Planes, and the higher a basher climbs up the mountain, the more likely she is to find a portal to an Upper Plane. Pools leading to the Prime can be found at any height, however... Find out more, here...
Climbing the Mount is rarely a lonely task, and all manner of bashers, foul and fair can be met. Here's a few suggestions...
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"When you ply the Styx like I do, a blood expects to get a mouthful of the fetid water every now and again. Even us kytons are affected by the memory-wiping properties of the fetid water, and let me tell you I've forgotten my past life more times than I care to remember. Or than I can remember!..." Find out more, here...
Lucky bashers won't meet anything on the Styx, or in the putrid marshes surrounding the vile river, because it'll invariably be foul-tempered and nasty. If you're not so fortunate, however, the following beasts might be hungry enough to molest you...
Yggdrasil Yggdrasil goes by many names; almost as many as she has branches in fact. The World Ash, the Tree of Wisdom or Knowledge, the Grand Old Tree, the Infinite Ash; the list goes on. Given that Yggdrasil's really a great big tree, where does that leave us? Well, for starters, it's such a large tree that it crosses a host of planar borders. Whether the branches, leaves and roots draw sustenance from any or all of these planes is a matter left to Yggdrasil herself to worry about, I think, but the fact remains you can climb up or down the tree, along the roots, trunk and branches, and find shimmering colour pools to any plane the Ash touches. Find out more, here...
The following may also be encountered, if a cutter is lucky (or unlucky, depending on how she sees it, perhaps)...
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