>>5159710>"Soul Coin, I would like to make one more"“I am neither the coins’ maker, nor their taker,” Death says. “I have no need for the seven souls which you and your demon have gathered.”
“Then how can I make more?” you ask.
“There are ways known to those in the world of the mortals,” Death says, “though it is a rare skill there. The making of such tokens is better known to those beyond this plateau, who dwell in deeper and hotter places.”
“Hotstuff,” irinnile interrupts urgently, wincing as Death now looks at her but still braving his wrath, “you CAN’T go deeper. IF you drop down inta’ the lower Hells… I mean, even brushin’ up against this place, just on th’ outskirts… it’s puttin’ you at risk. You’re alive, just sleepin’, but if any demon snatched you up…”
“I’d end up here ahead of schedule?” you ask bitterly.
Irinnile looks down at the ground, scratching at the ground with one of her hoof-like feet.
“We can still figure it out,” she says. “But… Chika’s gone, and that soul coin… I mean, that’s one way you can get outta’ this place, if you don’t use it on some rando.”
“She was—IS—a Reptilian Infiltrator,” you assert, “not ‘some rando’.”
“’S only one Infiltrator I care about,” Irinnile says solemnly. “Come on, babe, let’s get outta’ this shithole.”
You hesitate, considering your options. Perhaps you could assert the Divine Favour to extract Death’s aid, or to extract yourself from the deeper layers of this Hellish realm, if you delved deeper? Or perhaps the ‘seven souls’ you and Irinnile have consumed, which are now within you, could be traded or transformed into coins down below, and one could be used to buy your freedom from this place just as one can be used to purchase Chika’s liberation?
But then, maybe Irinnile is right, too. Are you being too reckless? Too human in your sentimentality, even? And what does it mean for your future, and the future of your mission, to take such risks and expend such precious resources here, when the Yosefs yet live, the Incubus yet has your allies in its clutches, and your obligations to Dark Gods and demons alike go unfulfilled?
What do you do?
>Leave this place, and wake>Ask Death something else [what?]>Ask Irinnile something else [what?]>Use the Divine Favour [to what end?]>Demand that Irinnile guide you deeper into this realm, to where you can find Chika>Get directions from Death to the demon who may mint coins from mortal souls, and seek it out>Write-in 