Library, Exploration, Merchant, Distant Plane
Sensate Quayrus is one of the minds behind the Oculus Vamos, assisting the thief/inventor Strane in its design and construction. Now the head librarian of the Sensate Codex, he seeks to collect experiences in a manner akin to the Society of Sensation, and his urban location in Dis makes his library competitively extensive and valuable, without the baggage of factions.
The Mammon Machine is one of Sensate Quayrus’ creations: a massive, steam powered, wrought-iron device similar in appearance to the Hindu god Ganesha, its ‘trunk’ fastened over the head for memory extraction.
He seeks Hedonias the Dreamer, a traveling merchant and the commoditizer/ proprietor of exquisitely unique and rare experiences, though she is unwilling to sell her wares to Sensates. Find a way to persuade her to donate or sell these experiences to Quayrus, by trade or by force…
The Sensate thing isn’t terribly original, I know, but it came up organically during character/adventure creation, and my players don’t have ANY familiarity with Planescape, so I thought the tensions between a lazy, hedonistic sensate and an aggressively capitalist sensate might be interesting down the road.