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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ash Mantle" data-source="post: 7811570" data-attributes="member: 11010">When I get the chance to DM this excellent adventure (hopefully not if I get the chance this time), when the PCs enter into Avernus I intend to have them arrive on a great plain with a huge iron-gate in the distance. They are not within Hell as yet, merely on the Welcome Mat of Hell. They would need to travel through that iron-gate, on which would be inscribed, in nine dead languages, the following transcription:'I am the way into the city of woe.I am the way to a forsaken people.I am the way into eternal sorrow.Sacred justice moved my architect.I was raised here by divine omnipotence, primordial love and ultimate intellectOnly those elements time cannot wear are beyond me,and beyond time I stand.Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.'As they travel through that great iron-gate, they'll feel a heaviness pulling at their feet and a seemingly great weight descending upon their body in a fleeting instant. This is the price of willingly entering the House of Tyranny. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Though Hell is a layer of order and conformity, distance within its Circles is subjective. Whenever the PCs blink, distances are warped and structures move closer.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Perhaps not applying as much since the adventure is limited to Avernus, but if PCs descend further down the Circles of Perdition I intend to have them feel an increasing pressure, as if traveling down a great ocean trench. Standing within Nessus, without the adequate protective magics, will be akin to standing at the bottom of the deepest ocean trench.</blockquote>

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