The Divinity Leech (GAP)

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Not every berk's smart enough to give the dead gods their proper respect, or at least to keep from angering their guardian. A basher named Ghyris Vast (Pl/♂ human/F10/ Bleak Cabal/CN) is taking his life into his own hands by creating something he calls the Divinity Leech.
Ghyris has built a compound of buildings on the corpse of a forgotten power (which has no gravity). Peery that there are others who would want to steal his invention, he's surrounded himself with reave mercenaries and allied himself with a pair of rakshasas, Il-temid (Pl/♂ rakshasa/HD 7/LE) and Khosun (Pl/♂ rakshasa/HD 7/LE). Certain folks say that it was actually the rakshasas who created the Divinity Leech, but that they were too afraid to test it, so they gave it to barmy Ghyris to try. Most cutters lanned to the dark of these things - including, of course, Ghyris himself — would deny such chant.
The Divinity Leech is a huge semimagical machine that supposedly draws the life energy from a dead god. This energy (again, supposedly) can be used for such varied purposes as raising the dead, creating and powering magical items, and even (so Ghyris claims) creating portals. How much of this is actually true is suspect — Ghyris tends to rant when it comes to the machine.
In any event, Ghyris believes it all to be true — and his allies claim to as well (although it could all be an elaborate peel). The compound is finished, so all that needs to happen now is for the Divinity Leech to be completed.
Chant has it that every group, from the Guvners to the Signers to the baatezu, would be willing to pay some hefty jink for somebody to sneak in and find out the true dark of the Divinity Leech and whether or not it really works. Most people fear that the compound may be attacked at any moment by the fury of the Guardian of the Dead Gods. (Others claim that the fact that it hasn't attacked yet indicates that the Leech doesn't work.)
==The Compound==
GHYRIS'S CASH. This hut is the home of the mad inventor. Amid the clutter of tools, machine parts and books, a body'll find the journals of Ghyris himself, revealing the dark on the whole operation, and the plans for the Divinity Leech (although there have been extensive modifications on the design, some detailed in the journals, some only hinted at).
RAKSIIASA CASI . The pair of rakshasa lives in this building. The interior is finely appointed with expensive furnishings. There's even magically running water for bathing (a rare luxury on the Astral Plane). The rakshasas1 only real duty is to maintain a presence here, so that knights of the post and such keep their distance. Ri A\ i
BARRACKS. These horrid bashers are stationed here to protect the place. A foul lot, they grow less and less content with guard duty, and spoil for a fight. Some of them talk of starting a fight with a nearby githyanki settlement just to have something to do. Obviously, Ghyris would be aghast at this idea, if he knew about it. There are 30 reaves here in all. Ten of them patrol the compound at all times. They are armed with polearms, swords, and shields. For further information, see the PLANESCAPE MONSTROUS COMPENDIUM Appendix II.
THE DIVINITY LEECH. This is what all the ruckus is about. The machine measures approximately 20 feet by 25 feet, and it's over 15 feet high. The Divinity Leech is composed of wires, glass tubing, a large brass centrifuge, steam-powered pumps, and a number of curious gauges, dials, levers, and panels of buttons. A huge coal furnace that is connected to the machine provides power, but while the machine remains unfinished, the furnace is not used. Most of the time, spare parts and tools of all imaginable types are scattered about the floor (and since there's no gravity, throughout the "air" as well). Ghyris is usually found here as well, consumed by his work. Though originally a warrior, this twisted genius now rarely carries a weapon, favoring a tool or slide rule. He's had a few wizards and alchemists help him over the years (or so it's said), but he's finishing the device on his own now.
The power storage devices are essentially batteries in which to store leeched energy drained by the machine. If successful, these constructs will be able to store the energy drained by the Divinity Leech for one year.