Scene 1 · Hell Crater RuinsThe cratered ruin of hell, soul-rain still pouring down in the background and funneling toward Vivian's tunnels. The band debates how to get topside with no witch to open a door. S…Scene 2 · The Devil’s Stronghold BarThe half-ruined Devil's Stronghold Bar, now a smoke-stained husk. Shadow's bait works: the Nether Fixer, a weaselly surviving ledger-keeper who worked under The Broker, slinks out…Scene 3 · The Devil’s Stronghold BarThe deal is struck — and the price is laid bare. The Fixer wants everything Shadow looted from the vault, AND a favor-to-be-named-later (the classic infernal trap). Shadow, a maste…Scene 4 · Nether CanyonThe descent toward the soul-funnel. The band, led by the Fixer, fights down through Vivian's swelling ranks of fallen-soul soldiers across a stone bridge over a lava chasm, soul-ra…Scene 5 · Nether CanyonAt the soul-funnel — the mouth of the tunnels where all falling souls pour down — Vivian herself appears to confront the band. She gloats: she's been watching, she knows they're tr…Scene 6 · Nether CanyonTHE RIP OPENS. The Fixer forges a violent, screaming one-way tear in reality, powered by the soul-funnel. The band has to do the impossible: ride the cannon-blast BACKWARD — surf t…Scene 7 · County Fair MidwayERUPTION ONTO EARTH. The band blasts up out of the ground at the county fair mid-harvest, surfing the soul-stream backward, and lands hard right at Retribution's feet — beside the…
