Screaming Escape
The Screaming Escape
Z-Modified Memory-Z
Following the surgical redaction of her memories by Zabilna in Prismeer, which rendered her cognitively unable to comprehend the name Iggwilv, any alias shes ever had, and the understanding of her works including but not limited to the Tome of Zyg. Maryn’bl recently found herself completely released from her hag bindings and set upon a dramatically altered trajectory of fate.
While the girl, Zaga doesn't remember the origins of the Shattered Compact or the atrocities committed in its name, the Nabassu soul Old Grin holds the iron secrets of their shared history with predatory precision; Together, they have decided to co-author this project for the first time, pivoting the war-engine toward a masterwork of multiversal Balance.
For a year, they have meticulously staged the "Triple Moment"—a precarious alignment intended to open the Divine Windows of intervention gods willing—and the game is officially on.
Yet, as the clockwork gears of the multiverse begin to grind toward this resolution, Maryn’bl remains haunted by variables the system has yet to reveal:
- Would the monks follow through with their vow?
- Will the dwarves turn on her... again?
- Will the Valkyeries fly? Will these deaths finally be honored?
- Will she still be able to use necromantic ritual magic without a part of her soul being shred?
- Will VV create terror from Acheron on a Prime looking for him?
- Will the magic of the Old War hold outside of the battlefield?
This state of high-stakes, engineered unpredictability persisted until the Acheron Breach, when the variables finally aligned for the third and successful attempt to extract the primary assets into the City of Doors
When She Decided to Trust: The Revelation of the Shattered Compact
For years, the relationship between the sisters Zaga (Maryn’bl Zagnibs) and Zigga was defined by distance and professional alarm, but they have finally begun to "allow" a deeper trust. For months, Zaga invited Zigga to various Rites, carefully curated experiences that always culminated in celebratory feasts designed to ground their fractured identities.
Nine months ago, the first major shift occurred when Zaga revealed a singular, dangerous artifact: the tome "Oh, By All Means". This Acheronian instrument is a guide to "Properly Sanctioned Decisions," used by Zaga to weaponize bureaucracy and reclassify "illegal" acts—such as the escape of war assets—as "sanctioned". As well as to list the souls of the 10,000.
The Threshold of the Platinum Rooms
A few days after showing her the tome, Zaga requested a meeting in the Platinum Rooms of Fortune’s Wheel. At the door to the specialized War-Rooms, Zaga offered a rare moment of intimacy and a sobering warning, to "brace herself and hold her tongue". Zaga knew that what lay beyond was a gut punch in the eyes of the multiverse.
The Arena of the Shattered
Inside, Zigga witnessed the War-Room of Nonfinalities (also known as the Gallery of Front Seats or the Discount Gallery). This higher-dimensional theater overlooks the Shattered Compact, a "self-consuming lawful conflict" fought upon the iron cubes of Acheron.
Zigga observed massive "machine-men"—the 10,000 goliath souls from Ysgard who were "soul-stuffed" into frames powered by infernal-modron machinery. These warriors were engaged in feats of absolute carnage against various monsters and demons, trapped in a relentless reality-loop because the "Endless Clause" of their contracts denied them a final death. Amidst the betting tables where fiends like Shemeshka the Marauder wagered on "non-outcomes," the shadowy Kerberos Shadowdusk sat at the long tables, overseeing the war relics' profitability.
The Powers of the Witnesses
As months passed, Zigga’s presence as a witness began to cause a visible stir among the machine-men. To the Great Machine, Zigga is a "Missing Variable"—the Uncounted Step—meaning her presence creates "causal noise" that the system cannot index. Zaga explained that the "quota" of the tome had been reached; the tables of fate were now forever altered by divine interventions arranged to sabotage the war's soul-slaving infrastructure.
The stirrings of power within the assets became undeniable.
The warriors began to form internal war bands, realizing they could not be overcome by standard relics. Specifically, the union of V5 (Vezrant Vale) and G7 (Gauthak/Kathruk) signaled a shift in the war plans; they were no longer behaving as manufactured assets but as Sovereigns rewriting the conflict from the inside.
The Liberation Plans
The narrative culminates in a quiet field at dawn, a location Zigga did not recognize. Zaga, no longer just a casino manager, or her missing sister, but the owner of the tomes, instructed her to listen. There, the 13 Shamans of Odin (include one of the Stormazîn) began the Rite of the Call, a ritual education pertaining to the Ordning intended to reclaim the stolen Ysgardian souls and bring the "Endless War" to its true conclusion. From there the sisters planeshift to the War-Rooms.
This narrative scene depicts the Acheron Breach, the pivotal "First Sin" of the campaign where the Shattered Compact war economy was dismantled, leading directly to the Month of Death in Sigil.
The War-Room of Nonfinalities
Zaga and Zigga are watching from the War-Room of Nonfinalities (also known as the Gallery of Front Seats), a higher-dimensional observatory suspended just outside battlefield causality. This chamber allowed investors like Shemeshka the Marauder to wager on "non-outcomes" and "delayed resolutions" of the endless conflict occurring on the iron cubes of Acheron below. Zigga’s observation that the "relics" (the 10,000 soul-stuffed machine-men) were fighting together reflects their manufactured purpose as Line Anchors designed to hold formation under impossible conditions.
The Opening of the Divine Windows
Then a sudden shift and flashes of light were the result of a sudden opening illegal, untraceable Divine Windows. A divine flash opens hundreds of divine gates, these Divine Windows bypassed the Lady of Pain’s geometry and Mechanus’s accounting to allow the primary assets—including Gauthak and Grisland—to flee the war zone.
Zaga comments, "Third times the charm," refers to the fact that this successful escape occurred across three separate parallel attempts where variables finally aligned. Zaga whispers to Zigga, "This is the part I hate to love." Zaga disappears from Zigga's side (planeshifted).
The battlefield is nearly barren, as armored Acheron soliders begin to teleport in to investigate the battlefield. The occultist with a hood up, obscuring her identity, goes to the center of the battlefield. In a massive swirl of rites, she instigates a hoard of skeletons for the remaining demons to fight with. Demons that had already been released upon the field to fight in a previous attempt to free them. The Acheron soldiers are soon swallowed up by them, the demons or the hoards of undead.
"Let a new form of entertainment begin," Old Grin says over the battlefield as they hide easily within the mass of demons. After a while of observation, she then vanishes from the battle as her demon self, after watching Vezrant Vale finally it stepping into a portal to Sigil.
Strategic Substitution and the Endless Clause
The "massive swirl of rites" performed by the occultist (Maryn’bl) was a tactical maneuver to protect the escapees by maintaining the "Endless Clause" of the Compact. To prevent Mechanus from detecting a "concluded" war and issuing a shutdown order, Maryn’bl invited hordes of legal demons and undead to replace the extracted machine-men. This ensured that:
- An army continued to march.
- A banner remained flying.
- The war remained a "self-consuming lawful conflict" for the purpose of the multiversal record.
The Birth of the Discount Gallery
Old Grin's final flight above the "new form of entertainment" publicly marked the transition of the War-Room into the Discount Gallery. Because the "hero relics" were gone, the spectacle index collapsed, leaving only a boring, unprofitable loop of skeletons versus demons that Shemeshka could no longer monetize at previous rates.
The Month of Death in Sigil
The Screaming Escape was a legal and metaphysical impossibility that took three parallel attempts before the variables finally aligned. On that third attempt, the entity formerly known as the Line Anchor K-7//GATH-RUK and the witness-monk Grisland Goldfeast stepped through a Divine Window—an illegal, untraceable divine portal opened by Maryn’bl (Zaga). In that shocking instant of transit into Sigil, these formerly celestial and mechanical beings were compressed into mortal, human forms, their true power levels fractured to mask the breach from Mechanus.
With the entities stepping into portals to Sigil, marking the start of the Month of Death. Upon arriving in the City of Doors, Gauthak, Grisland, Farryn, Vezrant, and the other escaped assets were flagged as "breaches in the war's ending".
This led to a month-long cycle for these characters where they were repeatedly tracked and killed by agents like the Iron Pursuit, causing their memories to unravel and their power levels to fracture. Most locals outside of investigations assumed the breach was an omen from the return of Duke Darkwood.
For months, the duo suffered through a "Month of Death," entering a cycle of ontological instability where they were repeatedly tracked and killed by those who viewed them as "breaches in the war's ending". Each death caused their memories to unravel further, leaving them to fight internal echoes of the Ysgardian and Acheronian war-logics that still burned within their souls.
To stabilize these "unresolved processes" before they collapsed completely, Maryn’bl intervened from the shadows with three specific anchors among other things:
The Udder Ring: She provided Gauthak with this ritual object to facilitate the Rite of Willing Milk. By choosing his own sustenance daily, Gauthak reaffirms his self-ownership, preventing his internal Acheronian machinery from fully reclaiming his will.
A’Kin the Friendly Fiend: She steered Gauthak toward A’Kin, who recognized the barbarian as a "returning regular". A’Kin provides the "Cheevo List," a receipt of deeds that gives Gauthak a sense of narrative purpose and transactional evidence of his autonomy. A safety net in case Gauthak ends up in Sigil Courts.
Fell’s Mnemonic Anchor: She facilitated a meeting with the dabus artist Fell, who gave Grisland the "Knot of Returning Thunder" tattoo. This tattoo acts as a mnemonic seal, anchoring Grisland to a single incarnation and preventing the uncontrolled reincarnation loops that were siphoning his valor.
Following these interventions, Grisland’s identity stabilized, allowing him to recognize Maryn'bl as the one who opened the way, though he remains wary of her connection to the Shattered Compact. His tattoo registers constant recognition of her as part of his continuation story and has proven to be reliable, safe, and one of the only constants in a chaotically shifting setting in Sigil.
Image depicts mad Gauthak and Grisland (Chaotic Good) meeting Farryn. Zaga and Farryn are in the middle (Neutral). Nyxara the evil echo of Zigga and Kerberos, stand in the back of the image in the shadows (Chaotic Evil). Features the Walking Castle in the Outlands in the background.
In Summary / Existing Post before updated after Session 7
The Screaming Escape was a legal and metaphysical impossibility that took three parallel attempts before the variables finally aligned. On that third attempt, the entity formerly known as the Line Anchor K-7//GATH-RUK and the witness-monk Grisland Goldfeast stepped through a Divine Window—an illegal, untraceable divine portal opened by Maryn’bl (Zaga). In that shocking instant of transit into Sigil, these formerly celestial and mechanical beings were compressed into mortal, human forms, their true power levels fractured to mask the breach from Mechanus.
For months, the duo suffered through a "Month of Death," entering a cycle of ontological instability where they were repeatedly tracked and killed by those who viewed them as "breaches in the war's ending". Each death caused their memories to unravel further, leaving them to fight internal echoes of the Ysgardian and Acheronian war-logics that still burned within their souls.
Following these interventions, Grisland’s identity stabilized, allowing him to recognize Maryn'bl as the one who opened the way, though he remains wary of her connection to the wars. His tattoo registers constant recognition of her as part of his continuation story and has proven to be reliable, safe, and one of the only constants in a chaotically shifting setting in Sigil.
When investigations began in Sigil, Zaga knew exactly who the Director would assign.
The song that relates the timeline to this event of the "Screaming Escape" is 11:11
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