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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3485811" data-attributes="member: 3448">The following night, we heard chanting on the far side of a hill that neighbored our camp site.  We went to investigate and saw a human man holding a small boy of perhaps five years on a makeshift altar.  He dedicated the boy to Tarama of the Quenching Flames, one of the Six, who he described as mistress of all she surveys.  At that point, he noticed us and asked whether we wished to join in the ceremony.  Spring said that we did not, lying that we served Gnnnst.  While he kept the foul priest’s attention, Sergeant-Chaplain Stumm closed and then bashed the priest with his mace.  At that, we all joined the attack, and I summoned a lemure and some infernal rats to aid the battle.  The heathen priest was quickly hacked to pieces, and my lemure chewed on his corpse before returning to the Hells.  Thanks be to Paranswarm for granting us victory.   We took the boy with us, although he caused some further consternation within the Brigade.  The Sergeant-Chaplain and the faithful among us sought to lead him into the Blessed Darkness, but some of the other members of the group were resolutely opposed to his salvation.  In other times, we might have been forced to defend the Faith against those spreaders of chaos, but under the circumstances, we dared not fight amongst ourselves.  The Sergeant-Chaplain reassured me that the manifest truth of Paranswarm would surely bring the boy, called Quickstep, into the Darkness.  We also located a magic ring on the priest’s corpse.  There was some dispute over that as well, but Sergeant Cilorean finally claimed it by right of his rank, and then gave it to Spring to use, who in turn gave it to Buzz. On the sixth day, we briefly encountered a quasit.  I think that it sought to become Twang’s familiar, but the kobold knew that consorting with demons, even least demons such as quasits, could damn his soul.  So he sent it away from his presence.  [Actually, Konrad was completely deceived here.  Twang bound the quasit, named Snaggletooth, into service, but then ordered it telepathically to remain invisible at all times so the rest of them would not realize it was there.  The group was completely unaware of this.] After dealing with the quasit, there were no further matters of import until the morning of the eleventh day of our travels.  Another group of black eums, this time a squad of five, approached us.  They warned us not to interfere with the maneuvers ahead, where troops have been brought in to strengthen the line.  They also told us that there had been at least two dozen probing attacks launched across the Shadowline.  We thanked them and continued on. As we continued our travels, we saw for ourselves that there are demons active in Caldefor.  A small form flew high above us, circling and watching, during the night following the twelfth day of our travels.  Quickstep clearly recognized it, and while he was reticent, repeated questioning finally produced results and we were able to confirm that it was a chasme, one of the foul fly demons.  I would not mind the chance to try my devils against a demon, but the chasme simply watched, and the Sergeant ordered that we not take any steps to draw its ire.  After some time of circling, it flew off.</blockquote>

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