>>5153230Eventually, the devil-dog flickers away, out of your line of sight again. You cat your eyes about, and find its glow diminished, and a larger shadow shape forming around its eyes in a corner closer to Zi. Now, the goblin-girl cannot help but take obvious notice. Fear seizes her, and she reaches for a hidden blade and begins to scamper away, but it is too little and too late: the hellhound’s maw of thorny teeth its proboscis-like tongue, its strange and almost horse-like mane of burning bristles have formed, and its predatory face is spread wide in a rictus grin that spells death for snack-sized humanoids.
‘Shit,’ Irinnile says, mildly peeved at worst by her non-chalant tone, ‘I don’t think we have time to flash the Incubus symbol at it before our gobbo gets got, babe.’
What do you do?
>Begin drawing the symbol with illusion magic, to display to the demon—Zi will PROBABLY fend it off long enough for you to complete your task>Run in, shift your shape, and reveal yourself as the ‘Liberator’ who freed the hellhound from the Tower>Tackle the hellhound, risking injury by magical means, to restrain the hound and to (if need be) capture it in your scroll-case>Write-in 