Nok Nok mulls the offer for a moment, but eventually shakes his head as well. Not because he didn't want a devil butler, but his fear of getting brained by Misha and Jubi leads him on the path of the straight and narrow. "Sorry bud, but back to the pits for you."

Jill declines the devil's offer and condemns it to death.

"A free babysitter?"

((Her answer is no))

DREAM 4: DESOLATION

You wander a vast, barren landscape of utter devastation. Black sludge rises rapidly out of the ground, enveloping your feet and gripping you tightly, overwhelming you with a horrible sense of loss. “Don’t let the sludge consume you!” says Mad Maggie’s disembodied voice. “You must push through her defenses. She must look!”

Each of you is restrained by the black sludge. On your turn, each of you must use your action to try to get free of the sludge, doing so with a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. A character who gets free of the sludge rises up into the air and quickly shakes off the sense of horrible loss. For the rest of this dream, those who are freed can do nothing except use the Help action on each of its turns to assist another character still trapped in the sludge. Those of you who fail the initial check to escape the sludge must repeat the check at the start of each of your turns. With each failed check after the first, you take 17 psychic damage as the sense of horrible loss intensifies. If one of you is reduced to 0 hit points by this psychic damage, your dream-self becomes completely submerged in the sludge and is lost.

9

Misha: 19

Athletics(DC 15): 14.

Amy Athletics: 17
Cory Acrobatics: 8

Persephone, having rather enjoyed her day fighting on Misha’s home world, wanted to learn all she could about war, so she ended up spending today at War Command, earning more glory.

Acrobatics: 21

Seph: You earn 10 Glory.

Back in the dream:

Each of you is restrained by the black sludge. On your turn, each of you must use your action to try to get free of the sludge, doing so with a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. A character who gets free of the sludge rises up into the air and quickly shakes off the sense of horrible loss. For the rest of this dream, those who are freed can do nothing except use the Help action on each of its turns to assist another character still trapped in the sludge. Those of you who fail the initial check to escape the sludge must repeat the check at the start of each of your turns. With each failed check after the first, you take 17 psychic damage as the sense of horrible loss intensifies. If one of you is reduced to 0 hit points by this psychic damage, your dream-self becomes completely submerged in the sludge and is lost.

Misha ripped herself free from the sludge. "Oh no.." she breathed, seeing Corrin struggle. She looked over to Amelia. "I weel help her! Help Jeel!" She turned to the tiefling. "Preencess! Misha weel help you! I come!" She willed herself, scrambling over to Corrin, and grabbed her. "Ready?! Now!!" and she helped pull Corrin out.

Those who fail now take 17 damage per try in you're still in the sludge.

Jill reached up to Amelia, hoping that she could escape with the woman's assistance.

Athletics: 25

She escapes and as she sees Misha reaching towards Corrin, she sees Yoska struggling all alone down there. "Nok Nok, help him. Somehow." She said, hoping that this dream world had altered physics where a tiny goblin could lift a man that made regular adults look child-sized in comparison.

Corrin started to panic when she sees that her wiggling just wasn’t enough for her to escape the holds of the sludge. Her little hands reach out to Misha...

Acrobatics: 24

Corrin clings onto Misha for dear life, whispering thank you’s over and over. After successfully getting Jill out of the sludge, Amelia rushes to Corrin’s side, soothing the young tiefling girl.

”Mama, Yoska needs help too...” Corrin sniffles.

Amelia looks back down at the sludge and heads to Yoska’s rescue! (If possible) “Come on, big guy, let’s get you outta there!”

(Just waiting on Nok and Yoska)

Nok Nok moves to help Yoska, offering his hand to help Yoska free. "Let's go! By Mephistopheles mangy man parts....Quit playing in the muck!"

Athletics(DC 15): 7.

Yoska tries to grab onto Nok Nok's hand, but he can't... quite... reach. "Too... Short.... Can't...." If Nok Nok or another keeps trying, then so would the druid one last time. Though now he bordered on the edge of unconsciousness.

Athletics(DC 15):20.

DREAM 5: REVELATION

Yoska's dream self gets enveloped by the sludge, much to the shock of the others, and falls unconscious in the real world, overcome by enormous amounts of the feeling of loss.

Back in the dream, Lulu rests on a black cushion at the center of an inky void. She is unconscious and alone, a beam of brilliant white light shining down upon her. Next to Lulu, a large gleaming brass spyglass rests atop an ornately carved tripod. Lulu awakens and looks peacefully around her. Seeing the spyglass, she approaches it, pressing one eye against the eyepiece. Lulu then steps back suddenly, eyes wide, mouth open, her face alight with excitement. She cries out, “The sword, the sword! I know where it is!”

AVERNUS

As the dream ends, everyone except Yoska wakes up in the ritual space. While Misha runs over to see if Yoska is ok, Lulu can barely contain her joy at rediscovering what she believes is the location of a place caled the Bleeding Citadel. "I found it! I know where it is!" She is so excited she doesn't even notice Yoska is unconscious. You all can take a short rest.

Mad Maggie, experiencing the agonies of such pure suffering, oozes in contentment. "Such wonderful information. Oh, so wonderful. Come with me. You will need help in the next stage of your journey. Such delicious memories.." she trails off, walking to the junkyard. "Chukka! Clonk!" she cries. "Bring in the the vehicles!"

With a loud roar, two Infernal vehicles are presented to you all. A motorcycle, and a larger vehicle. They are called the Devil's Ride, and a Tormentor.

Mad Maggie hands you three Soul Coins. "These are Soul Coins. Created by Mammon and his greater devils on Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells, in a vast chamber where the captured souls of evil mortals are bound into the coins. These coins are then distributed throughout the Nine Hells to be used for goods and services, infernal deals, dark bargains, and bribes. Among other things, they are used to power these vehicles. To hold a soul coin is to feel the soul bound within it — overcome with rage or fraught with despair. A soul coin has 3 charges. Putting a soul coin into the fuel slot of an infernal vehicle will power it for a full day. Use them wisely!"

Mad Maggie actually tears up in a fond farewell.

"Oh!" she says, finally. "And be careful as you drive around. There are plenty of other Warlords like myself who would love nothing more than to destroy you all with their own infernal vehicles."

Allynna returns from War Command while the others are in their dream, staying quietly to the side and back of the group as they wake and receive the vehicles.

Those of you who were "absent" yesterday (allynna and Gorf) receive 10 Glory.

Meep returns slightly after Allynna, slightly tired as she watches the other curiously. She eyes the vehicles (that are WAY bigger than herself) cautiously, slightly intimidated by them.