Malagard

The once imposing and majestic city of Malagard now slowly slumps into the dirt, incrementally collapsing with each passing day. Baalzebul used to build and rebuild it incessantly, but he has now given up trying to prevent its demise. Its drooping archways and crumbling bridges stand as monuments to despair, and dispirited devils shuffle forlornly through ever-expanding rivers of trash.

Even so, occasional frenzies of cleaning and repair strike the city's inhabitants. Such efforts are conducted in a neurotic fury, and woe betide a visitor who gets in the way. But just as quickly as the urge to repair strikes, it ebbs again, and Malagardians sink back into their normal fatalistic melancholy. The city's rivers of filth grow wider, its buildings deteriorate further, and the atmosphere of defeat becomes ever more oppressive.

Visitors to Malagard find its fatalism contagious. After spending 6 consecutive hours in the city, they too can fall prey to the sin of sloth. To embark on a journey to any destination more than 250 feet away from his present location, a character must first attempt a DC 25 Will save. Failure forces him to procrastinate vehemently, finding endless trivial reasons to fuss around without ever quite getting his feet out the door. Each affected character is entitled to an additional save once per hour, but even those who shake off their funk might find that previously enthusiastic comrades have suddenly succumbed. The sloth effect can be dispelled as if it were a spell cast by an 18th-level caster, although doing so does not prevent a creature from having to save again an hour later.