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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3392230" data-attributes="member: 3448">Well satisfied with her new hire, Lady Sepulva returned to her chambers in the inn to await her drowan visitor.  Glurp quickly cleared some of the furniture out of her room while they waited for the drow to arrive.  At precisely 3 bells past nightfall, a quiet rapping sounded at the door.  Clarence opened the door, and the cloaked figure in the hallway stepped in just far enough to allow the door to close before prostrating himself before Lady Sepulva.  The figure remained perfectly silent and still, waiting to be acknowledged.Lady Sepulva finally deigned to respond, her voice equal parts imperious and uninterested.  “You may rise.  Are you fluent in the common tongue?”The figure smoothly climbed to his feet, but kept his head bowed and his eyes averted.  “I speak some … Surface.  Not… not lots,” he replied pausing as he searched for words in his answer.“Destak tells me that you are looking for a household to join, one that will take you away from Nikarphous for a time.”“Yes,” replied the drow, in the same halting, broken speech.  “Sister now mother.  Sister cleaning house.  Many males be dead, soon I.”“I may be interested in taking you in here.  What do you have to contribute to my household?”“I am of the fourteenth circle of power as a wizard.  I am a researcher of the planes.  And I can bind demons to your service, or elementals, if you prefer.”“I might.  If I take you in, how long would you say?”“If you take me in as a refugee, until it is safe to return.  If you take me in as a member of your house, I will renounce my house and serve yours.  It is the way of a renegade male.  But I understand that you may not wish to pollute your house.”Lady Sepulva thought about that.  Handling this correctly to ensure that she got the most out of him without undue risk would require care.  “What are you called?”“I have always been called Brillial, but my house name was lost when my sister declared my life forfeit for having been born too soon.”Lady Sepulva sat in silence for a minute.  Brillial waited quietly for her judgment, sure that his life hung in the balance.  Finally, she nodded curtly.  “Very well.  I will take you into my household as a refugee.  If you serve well and impress me with your abilities, I may invite you to join my house at some point.  But for now, you will be a refugee servant.”“Thank you, Mistress,” replied Brillial prostrating himself again.“Can you give a demonstration of your abilities?  What sorts of things can you summon?”The drow sorcerer twisted a ring on one of his fingers.  Moments later, a large figure appeared.  One of its arms was grotesquely larger than the other, and held a huge mattock.  “This is the most powerful daemon I can bind, Mistress.”She nodded.  “It will do.”  At a gesture, the drow sorcerer dismissed the daemon he had summoned.  Lady Sepulva’s suite included a master bedroom, a bath, a counting room, and three servant’s rooms.  She gestured at the smallest of the servant’s rooms.  “You may stay here for now.”</blockquote>

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