Gardens and the Graves

[Lady Shatterstone]

*Oribella nods solmenly. She takes a deep breath and spreads her hand out over the well. Oribella casts Remove Curse and stands quietly to see what danger may be instore.*

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*As Oribella's spell washes over the imp, he seems to ripple and then swell before your eyes. With a short scream, he grows from a little imp barely the size of a cat, to a muscular brute with bat wings, horns, a pointed tail, and red skin, fully as large as any two men put together. He's now cramped up in the fetal position beneath the grate, tail wrapped around his body and wings clamped tight to his back.*

"What? What? How... you broke the curse!" he says with astonishment, sounding relieved. "Get me out of here!"

 

[Lady Shatterstone]

*Oribella looks to Grouse, Gus, and Tuk with a look that simply says "oops!". A creature of that size was not what she was expecting.*

"ummm.... what do we do with him now?" Oribella asks tenatively.

 

[Ashy]

Grouse, recalling what Gus' true seeing revealed earlier, seems nonplussed. He speaks to the fiend - "Who and what are ya? Who cursed ya and who sent ya here?"

 

[Steve Gorak]

Tuk having kept quiet for a while mutters to the other fey:
My binding spell is going to end soon. I have the power to cast one that will last a full day. Shall I do so?

He still keeps ready to strike the demon with his thunderlance.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Grouse, recalling what Gus' true seeing revealed earlier, seems nonplussed. He speaks to the fiend - "Who and what are ya? Who cursed ya and who sent ya here?"

"My name... is Xylonos, and I am a devil. I was... disobedient to those above me, I gave away slaves that were not mine to give to curry favor with another. Those above me cursed me and banished me here..." he says slowly, as if just remembering himself.

 

[Ashy]

Tuk having kept quiet for a while mutters to the other fey:
My binding spell is going to end soon. I have the power to cast one that will last a full day. Shall I do so?

He still keeps ready to strike the demon with his thunderlance.

Grouse nods, and then whispers so that the others can hear, but the devil (hopefully) cannot. "Can we tell if'n he speaks th' truth?"

 

[Ashy]

"My name... is Xylonos, and I am a devil. I was... disobedient to those above me, I gave away slaves that were not mine to give to curry favor with another. Those above me cursed me and banished me here..." he says slowly, as if just remembering himself.

"And just what did those above ya want ya to do here, Xylonos?"

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"They wished for me to grant the wishes... so that they could corrput them," he whispers.

 

[Ashy]

"They wished for me to grant the wishes... so that they could corrput them," he whispers.

"And am I to assume that ye'd want nothing to do with that sort of activity?", Grouse asks. One can hear the doubt, laced with sarcasm, in his craggy voice.