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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3037787" data-attributes="member: 3448">I figure the elves just don't need sewers because of the lack of significant urban populations.  I'm glad you're enjoying the sh.----“Do you know of anything strange in the sewers beneath Pottersflat?”“Yes’m.  That’s where one of those three places are.  The ones I mentioned before.  That’s the worst one.”“Right.  Do you know anything about what’s there?”“Not much.  There are some moving statues that guard it, and there’s a demon, but nobody’s seen it and lived to tell.  If you try to go in to the center of the area, you die.”“If nobody who’s seen it has lived, how do you know there’s a demon?” asked Dame Brionna sensibly.  The rogue seemed relieved that he had already decided to ignore Dame Brionna completely.“Have you seen anyone around there?  Any traffic?” asked Alistair.The rogue kept talking to Kit.  “About a dozen people, I’d say.  Hard to be sure, because we have to just count them as they’re coming and going.”“Humans?” asked Kit.  “Anything distinctive about them?”“They look like normal humans,” he said.  “Like common folk.  One of ‘em is terrible ugly, though.  Practically green skinned, and all those warts…”“Probably a hag,” said Alistair.“Oh, she’s definitely a hag.”“His grace meant that technically,” said Dame Brionna.“There are technical hags?  Well, I guess she’s a technical hag, then, she’s so ugly.”“We need to send strike teams,” said Alistair.  “Hit all three spots at once, so we don’t give them any warning.”“If they’ll be fighting demons, the Knights of Valor and other church knights should lead the attack,” commented Dame Brionna.  “And we should ask some of Her Grace’s Companions if they wish to go-- if they plan on suicide, they may as well take the danger of one last fight with the blessing of Glor’diadel instead of heresy in darkened chambers.”“Indeed.  We’ll also ask Lady Constance if the royal coven can provide magical support.  Master Farsensor, would your people be willing to provide some psionic support?”“We would be most happy to, for such a cause.  I will send my captain to the location where we know there is a psion-- he is a gray elf, not one of the Eldar, but he should be more than a match for any human psion-- and a high elf psion to each of the other two.”“You should be careful, Master Farsensor.  We believe that this may be a plot under the aegis of Drucilla, a Noldar of the Moriquendarim.  I would not expect her to be present, but if she is, her powers might be too much for your psions to handle.”“I find it hard to believe that there is Noldar involvement, at least directly.  I assensed the psion’s power, although imperfectly, and he was not strong enough.  But if the person we believe to be a human psionicist is actually a Noldar-- and should he actually be a Noldar, and not merely a Mordhel-- I will go to my captain’s aid.  He would be unlikely to be able to stand against a Noldar.”Kit arranged to have her people lead the strike teams into position.  They were not thrilled to be guiding Knights of Valor and militant priests, but they obeyed her command, and she assured them that she would not permit them to be seized or harmed.  The elves placed a glamour upon the Knights of Valor and the church troops to prevent them from giving away the attack too soon-- the Knights of Valor have many virtues, but subtlety and an ability to blend in with people who might enter the sewers of Canberry are not among them.All told, better than a hundred troops participated in the attacks.  With such a weight of numbers, and a carefully balanced force with no holes in its preparation, the outcome was preordained.  Nonetheless, the battles were bloody.  Not even the Knights of Valor could arrange proper cavalry charges in the sewers, and so the battle was fought at arms reach with swords, knives, and spells.  The demon-worshippers attempted to kill their prisoners when their defeat was clear.  One of the Knights of Valor struck a dagger from the hand of one of the demonists moments before he would have killed Sparkle, and one little boy tripped the thug trying to kill him, buying time for the Knights to rescue him.  But the other three children were dead by the time the battle was won.  Dame Brionna insisted that they be raised.The attack destroyed the physical forms of all three of the demons, although the arcana made the Knights of Valor pay a high price in blood first.  The hag managed to escape by diving into the water and swimming away.  Against the humans, the attack had better luck:  not one of the demonists escaped, and the gray elf captain took the psionicist alive for questioning.  The Knights of Valor also brought back three prisoners from the rank-and-file that they had battered unconscious once the enemy’s resistance had broken.</blockquote>

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