You’re not exactly keen on potentially creating another reoccurring rascal–lord knows one SALTY SUUTZ is more than enough–but the prospect of the terrified Toppel reducing your brain to mashed potatoes isn’t too choice either.

Rez, you bark, prompting your favorite fiend to pause ever-so-briefly from burying a very distressed-looking Sanguiphage in the floor, come get this mage’s scent!

Darting over with a befuddled look on her face, the devil shoots you a sidelong glance as she gives the sweating sorcerer a good whiff! “... Who told you I could track scents?”

No one, you shrug, you just kinda assu–never mind, doesn’t matter! You know better than to answer THAT one, especially with the sour look creeping onto Rezalith’s face! Now, you add, struggling to keep your footing as you feel the plane rock around you like the inside of a washing machine, she can go… but if she tries to skip out on your wage-

“YEPYEPYEPI’LLCONTACTYOUIFYOUDON’TIDIEBYE”

A sensation akin to being YANKED offstage by one of those novelty canes grips you as you feel reality spin and stretch all along the way! Thankfully the alien sensation only lasts for a moment… but as you peel yourself off of a completely different floor, you can’t shake a sense of impending dread when a cruel realization forms after a minute devoid of verbal abuse:

Rezzie’s GONE.

It takes you a moment to realize you aren’t in Toppel’s office any more… far from it! Cracking your jaw back into place, you find yourself alone in…

>A vast field of bitter-scented grass that comes up to your elbows…
>A cramped, flooded tunnel with a persistent moldy humidity that rankles your nostrils…
>Somewhere quiet… but when you dare to take a few steps, you stumble into a wall of what feels like the smooth, cold surface of a mirror…
>A chunk of rubble barely more than a few steps wide… and the lurching sensation in your stomach tells you it’s drifting through a vast, empty expanse…

Might be the only update tonight, Dark Dorks--brain's cooked from Day 1 of work today. Will hopefully have more gas in the tank tomorrow!