Losing His Touch

The Acolytes in Sexy Tights break into the Devil's Maw prison to rescue Heliod the sun god and owe their success to the sacrifice of SBG3.

## Major Plot Points

#### Car Trouble

* The Acolytes continued their journey on the Path of Good Intentions. They spotted a man wearing a metallic crow mask and spiky leather straps. He was attempting to fix a wrecked war machine. The road was covered in fiendish blood and fire.
* Clows Kufas attempted to capture some of the blood in a glass vial, but the liquid melted the glass. Muchomucho M Amor tried bonding with the man as he would one of his crow friends. The man used Muchomucho's bandana to clean some wounds.
* SBG3 realized the man was a construct made out of both organic and synthetic parts. He and Dewey Thundersnatch healed and repaired what they could, which stabilized him.
* While SBG3 was examining him, "Crow Daddy" activated a distress beacon. When SBG3 connected him to the Avernus network, he fell under the control of Gregggg. The tinkerer was able to disconnect him.
* Crow Daddy's distress signal alerted Mad Maggie's crew. They drove up in their own war machines. SBG3 recognized Mad Maggie as an expert tinkerer from Avernus who builds weapons and lethal vehicles. She thanked the Acolytes for repairing Jeff after he got left behind in a battle against Dead Amy's forces.

#### Asmodeus

* Mad Maggie drove the Acolytes to Asmodeus' campsite believing the King of Hell would find them entertaining at the very least.
* While waiting to be seen, SBG3 went into the tavern tent and watched a fiend with a mouth stitched shut use two demon arms as marionettes. After he asked for payment, SBG3 was saddened because he thought he was making a new friend. But he party did learn the main currency of Hell is soul coins. Muchomucho checked out a guard tent where soldiers were smoking out of a squid-shaped hookah. They talked about hoping the elephant they captured was useful. Muchomucho called Testiculese via a sending stone and was assured Tuskeroo was safe.
* Mad Maggie then escorted them to the royal tent. Asmodeus professed to being a big fan of Muchomucho's and asked for his autograph. Dewey and SBG3 were quick to interfere so the wizard didn't blindly sign the contract written in invisible ink.
* Asmodeus would go between common and infernal so Dewey cast tongues on Clows so he could understand and translate. When Dewey spoke to Asmodeus about his past, he replied in infernal. Being able to understand his answer, Clows lost a significant amount of faith in Lunasa to the point his shell started reverting back to its natural state. He felt compelled to spread his new knowledge but resisted by understanding what it would mean by spreading it. Clows agreed to guard a box for Asmodeus in exchange for removing the compulsion to share Asmodeus' forbidden information.
* The King of Hell shared that his spies learned Heliod, the Therosi sun god, came to Avernus to figure out a diplomatic solution with Dead Amy. Instead of securing Setessa's liberation, he found himself locked in the Devil's Maw prison. Dead Amy was set to execute him by eating him in a matter of hours.
* When the party asked if Asmodeus could provide intel on the prison, his said his information was no longer relevant as Dead Amy's twinkerer redesigned it. SBG3 recognized the twinkerer as an old business rival of his who believed constructs had no souls and were meant to serve organic beings.
* In exchange for preventing Dead Amy from attaining the power of a sun god, Asmodeus promised to provide a boon to the Acolytes and gave them 15 soul coins. The party accepted.

#### The Devil's Maw

* Mad Maggie drove the party to the Devil's Maw. Dikarus Bottombane suggested a few ways to break into a prison based on his previous incarceration experience. They could pretend to be guards and/or prisoners. They could sneak in with a delivery. Or they could dig a tunnel with a spoon. Dewey flew around the prison and saw Frios, the white dragon aligned with Dead Amy on the roof.
* After seeing their new mail imp friend, they convinced him to let them help deliver the prison's mail. They tried their best to make it look like an Avernus mail truck. After the mail imp accosted the guards, they were granted entry.
* The Acolytes successfully convinced the guards in the loading bay to quit their jobs and become mail workers instead. Clows opened a package to Dead Amy from Gregggg. It was a rod. When it was fully unwrapped and he touched it with his bare hands, Clows died. Dead Amy and Asmodeus began fighting over his soul. Clows urged Asmodeus to save him as he still held his box and now would return his rod. The marionette demon hands appeared and got into a slap fight with Dead Amy's hand. This let Asmodeus deliver Clows' soul back to his body. He wrapped the wand back up and stored it in his shell.
* Dewey and Clows then put on their uniforms. Dikarus Bottombane and Muchomucho became invisible while SBG3 hid in a box held by Dewey.
* They left the loading area and entered the main processing hall. A construct welcomed them and let them go inside the conference room to deliver the package. The construct heads of each prison department were meeting in the staff room. SBG3 jumped out and was able to hack into their shared controls to overtake them. His tinkering allowed them to have their first original thoughts.
* The department heads coaxed the Twinkerer into staff room where he was immediately ambushed by the Acolytes. He told our heroes he joined Dead Amy because she was no longer satisfied with being the unholy trinity of undead, demon, and devil. She wanted to add the power of gods and constructs. The twinkerer started making her mechanical parts. After spewing anti-construct sentiments, SBG3 built an animated coin for the Twinkerer. When he was weakened by Dewey's turn undead, SBG3 captured his soul in the animated coin to hopefully teach him a lesson in construct sentience. Clows grabbed Twinkerer's mech suit.
* Having complete control of the prison, SBG3 freed the inmates and construct staff. He discovered Heliod and Archon Daenyra were being tortured. The two found the champions of Theros after being released from their bondage. Heliod was just a head attached to mechanical spider legs. Not knowing she needed to consume all of him for his power, Dead Amy ate his body and let the Twinkerer experiment with Heliod's head.
* SBG3 then realized Dead Amy was visiting the prisoner held in isolation who was only known by their prisoner number. Twinkerer revealed that the prisoner was Queen Penelope, aka Queen Nekros, after some questioning. He said she was kept here after the Acolytes killed her because she couldn't be trusted not to try to escape or form another rebellion in the Underworld. SBG3 locked Dead Amy in there so they could make their escape.

#### An Ethereal Escape

* Dead Amy broke free right as the Acolytes almost made it to the prison's exit. SBG3 distracted Dead Amy as Dewey sent the party and Heliod and Daenyra into the ethereal realm. Dead Amy's javelin impaled SBG3 into the ground. His continued taunts kept her attention so she burned him with her fire breath. She told SBG3, "You did have a soul." When she touched him and corrupted his body into a soul coin.
* The Overlord of Avernus used her true sight to find the Acolytes in the ethereal plane. A shadowy energy enveloped her face and she was thrown out of the realm between realms. A shadowy figure then urged our heroes to follow it.