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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5534187" data-attributes="member: 11751">The devil returns Alric's grin, showing a mouth full of sharp teeth and a sickly green tongue.  His viper-like beard snaps and writhes according to its own volition."Nay, I do not expect, nor do I search, to break  my contract my dim little friend.  As the Elven mage in your party can likely confirm, there is no escape from the type of arrangement I have entered in to until its conditions are completed.  As I said, I am bound to the letter of the arrangement, but that does not mean I have no room to maneuver.  We creatures of Baator are quite proficient in these dealings."The devil squats down on his haunches and strokes his revolting beard, causing  the snake-like tendrils caress his clawed hands in turn.  "The Ragesians' arrangement with me is to prevent you from leaving the Innenotdar Fire Forest alive, and to retrieve the case of stolen intelligence you possess.  Now while I could murder you all and wrench it from your rigormortis grasp, it would involve much risk.  On the other hand, were the Fire Forest to no longer be on fire, then I would not have to prevent you from leaving it.  The entity that rules here has approached me with an offer: silence the song of the wicked, twisted fey who live here.  That will release it and in turn end the fire."The devil's voice becomes smooth, almost musical as he muses on his final points:  "I have seen the fey village, it is just down the river.  They are, and remember that this is a denizen of Hell saying this, horrible beings, driven to violent madness by the pain of the forest’s burning.  I will pledge to help you fight to silence them, and I will let you go peacefully once the entity is free and the forest has burned itself out.  In return, you give me the case that my current masters desire."</blockquote>

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