Umbra’zoth

Pact Details

 * https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mephistopheles
 * Encounter 1: Gift of the Tome
 * As you shut your eyes, you feel yourself falling backwards into darkness. You fall for seconds, days, hours. And really, you do not know whether you really are falling or simply suspended in some infinite sea of nothing.
 * And in the darkness, you swear you see small wisps of smoke appear. Fragments. They turn from white to colour, images that drift and swirl around you. You see yourself in a tavern with a group of strangers, storming a goblin hideout, leaving ash in your wake. You see yourself conquering bandits, prying a glistening glass staff from the hands of a wizard. You see a large green dragon shrieking, collapsing to the ground before you.
 * A gigantic crimson face appears before you. Handsome features. Jet black hair and resplendent horns. A face you recognize.
 * white eyes look down at you:
 * ”Very good, child. I have not forgotten our pact.”
 * ”I offer you knowledge. Seize it. Let nothing stand in your way.”
 * The darkness is no more. The face, gone. You find yourself standing in a cramped study, alight in a whirlwind of flame. All around you, piles of books, papers, objects - stacked everywhere on the ground and on desks and shelves. Above you, wooden beams in the ceiling crackle and cook in the inferno. On a pedestal and untouched by the flame, a dark leather-bound tome captivates your attention.
 * As you step towards it, a huge wooden beam crashes down from the ceiling, roaring as it is enveloped in fire, knocking the pedestal and book into the heart of the inferno.
 * The Fiend’s words echo in the air. What do you do?
 * >Must lift it up and get the book.
 * The pain becomes unbearable, consuming you as it envelops your hand, your arm, then races through your whole body, your heart beating in panic.
 * Grab the book and you wake up In a sweat.