Faustian Pact Starting at 6th level, you gain the attention of a harvester devil or greater infernal entity and are offered an opportunity to make a pact with it. Such pacts always have strings attached, and it is common for the devil providing the pact to send other minions after a mortal signatory once their usefulness is at an end. The wiser Hell domain clerics wait before swearing a faustian pact until they have had time to prepare. Sometimes they wait several levels and arrange to have leverage with the devil offering the pact. Normally such pacts provide the signatory with a series of up to nine benefits as they perform a series of evil acts to qualify for the benefits, agreed upon beforehand, and failure or (in some cases) hesitation to perform the evil acts results in the mortal forfeiting their immortal soul, which the devil must then acquire by killing the signatory. Each benefit is usually equivalent to a spell of gradually increased level, so the first benefit is similar to the effect of a 1st level spell, the second benefit package resembles a 2nd level spell effect, and so on, all way up to a wish. It is rare for pacts to include all nine possible outcomes, and sometimes the devil provides a lump sum of gold in lieu of a magical effect or ensures the strictly worded services of another mortal or devilish slave. Some devils require a series of sinful acts to be performed to unlock each of the progression of benefits packaged together as part of the pact, each act is progressively more degenerate than the last. The mortal signatory is required to negotiate with the devil offering the pact, and make a total of three contested skill checks. The margin by which these checks exceed the devils roll is added together and divided by 5, this result is the number of benefits the devil agrees to provide. It is possible though difficult to contest or even nullify such a pact after it is signed in an infernal court presided over by a pit fiend judge. This fact is seldom glossed over or kept secret, and some devil worshippers believe that they will be able to swear a pact, and successfully litigate a way out of the pact. The devils encourage this greed, knowing that it makes mortals who believe it intensely short sighted and prone to stupid acts of hubris.