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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3546355" data-attributes="member: 3448">They proceeded to the dungeon, and Alistair used the helm to project his image into the Bladelord’s cell.  The ratman raged, almost frothing at the mouth, and slammed against the chains that bound him but to no avail.“You will die a thousand deaths!  We will rip you to pieces and feed on the corpses of you and your kin!”“I think not.  You have already failed.  It must sting to not even know how we found you.”“You found me, but your death will still come!”“Not from your kind.  Not when one of your allies decided they would rather have you eliminated, to keep all the gains for themselves.  The information from the priestess of Borsh’tro was most useful.”“Rargh!” growled the Skaven, fury overwhelming its ability to speak.  “The torments of your death will be nothing to how she will suffer.  She thought she was so clever, coming here with entourage, living in shell.  Sell me out, will she?  I will get free one day.  If not, she will be hunted down by others.”Alistair probed further, but was able to get no additional information.He shook his head dejectedly as he rejoined his friends.  “I guess we won’t be getting anything from him.  Too bad--I was hopeful.  But that was pretty much a bust.”Kit’s brow furrowed in thought.  “Maybe not completely.  We know that she has an entourage.  And what does ‘living in shell’ mean?”“Good point.  That’s a pretty common way to describe a demon that has possessed a body.”“Then we can find her based on the evil aura, your grace,” said Dame Brionna.  “If she has an entourage, she is almost certainly staying within the Inner City.  That’s a small enough area that we can sweep it with detect evil--we can make that look like a routine pre-coronation check.  There will be other evil people, but a demon should show up as a bright spot of iniquity.”“And then, since we know the threat is extra-planar, we can send in priests to use holy word to neutralize the threat safely,” added Alistair.  “Remind the searchers that she may be in a second story, or a basement.  They will need to search up and down as well as sweeping side to side.”They quickly dispatched paladins and a few priests for the search.  Within a few hours, word returned of an intense knot of evil in one of the finest inns in all of Canberry.  Dame Brionna quickly prepared a strike force:  several priests to cast holy word, reinforced by one hundred church knights as back-up if the demon were able to resist.  The group of church knights began with all of the remaining knights who wore black armbands, just in case.  But the precaution was not necessary:  the priests entered the inn and let loose the powerful magic of the holy words, and then they swept unopposed through the building.  In the entourage from the Cities of the Gates was a beautiful woman whose jewelry matched the description given by Reverend Canon Toddle.  She had collapsed at the first of the holy words, and no amount of effort could revive her.  Dame Brionna checked the last pre-coronation threat besides the Master Unbidden off her list, and Alistair prepared a letter to Princess Mirabelle informing her of what had happened and suggesting that she might wish to investigate the noble whose “companion” the possessed woman had been.</blockquote>

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