[What's that?]

[A machine that lets you look at things too small for the eye to see.]

[How does it do that?]

[As in what's it like to use one or as in what are the mechanics?]

[Um, both.]

{image of a microscope}[You look in the tube and you see a circular view of what's on the base. We don't really know how exactly it works besides having to do with glass and light.]

[Huh. Looks very ruins-artifact-y.]

[There's a lot of abandoned and destroyed towns closer to the sinkhole than anybody lives anymore and they have weird stuff in them. That's why we were on our hike, we wanted to go find stuff and bring it home.]

[The sinkhole? What's that?]

[There was a really big earthquake and the ground opened up to the hellscape and that's when all the klaonso got out. And other demons, way more of them than earthquakes ever spat out before. And everybody had to run away from the sinkhole and figure out cohabiting real quick.]

[It was a long time ago. It's the biggest disaster ever to happen but it was really long ago, centuries and centuries.]

[Less that, and more--your world is really hazardous, and we feel like if we could just find the right investitures we could fix it, or at least some of it, but there's still so much we don't know. We had no idea that there's apparently a hellscape directly underneath your flat world or that earthquakes release them or--anything like that.]

[Oh. Well, there's a hellscape directly under our flat world and earthquakes will spit out a handful of demons but the sinkhole spits out as many as feel like emerging, basically.]

[Okay, first question: are there any demons that are people.]

[No. I don't think so, anyway? There might be demons who were people that just happened to find eating souls the only motivating thing in the world.]

[Then is there any reason that you know of that a mage with sufficiently ridiculous firepower couldn't invade hell and make it cease to be a problem.]

[...Hell's probably infinite too?]

[Well, even if clearing the whole thing out isn't doable, it might be possible to wipe out the ones close enough to the sinkhole to be an immediate problem and then repair the ground somehow.]

[Klaonso travel really fast and there's already a lot of them on the surface, but I guess that would help.]

[Is there some pre-existing way to kill those? We were figuring that would be a separate magic problem.]

[Klaonso? No, nobody knows how to kill them.]

[Okay, so we'll have to figure that out too.]

[That'd be really nice.]