>>5180581>>5180666>>5180692>>5180783Normally, you might consider killing this human, leaving them as silent as the graves around you… Or perhaps even using them to feed Irinnile’s gnawing, ever-present hunger for debauchery and human life…
But no. If ‘holy ground’ weakens your abilities, it will also impede your demonic cadre. You must get, as they say on the surface, while the getting is good.
“Come on,” you say, popping open the scroll case.
Brezzog steps back, growling in disapproval. The human’s footsteps grow nearer.
‘Ugh, baaaAAAaabe! We don’t have time for this!’
You agree, and rather than force the issue, you scoop the shrunken fiend up like an actual small dog. Brezzog squirms and thrashes, but only until you hiss a threat to bind him to some unpleasant object and to leave him thus imprisoned in boredom and weakness for a century or two. Then, you turn to the wraith.
“Can you fly?” you ask it.
“Yes,” it replies in a breathy, too-close wheeze that sends an involuntary chill through you.
“Then come,” you say.
You unfold your wings and, with a running start, you take off. The misty whorls of the sheet-like ghost break up into more immaterial mist, a swirling and uncanny cloud trailing your flight-path like the smoke behind a fire-arrow. You hear a gasp, and then cries of alarm from below as the human catches sight of your silhouette:
“Demon! DEMON! G-get the Paladins! Someone! PALADINS! DEMON!”
You cringe at being thus discovered, but… Well, it is what it is. He is crying “demon”, not “Reptilian Infiltrator”, and so your true nature and purpose remain obfuscated.
‘What’s the plan, Lispy?’ Irinnile asks urgently. ‘I, uh, think I see some dawn creepin’ up over that horizon. I can’t keep us in the air too good when it gets bright out.’
For that matter, you feel as if you could do with some rest. Your night has proven successful, in the end, but it was a hard-fought victory.
Where do you hunker down with your hellish entourage?
>Goblintown, with Zi>The Pretty Kitty—though the demons will need to be watched carefully>Lord Bianchi’s manor—you needed to check in on him, anyway>The Incubus’ base of operations—the greater demon can take these lesser ones off of your hands>Agent Felman’s home—you wish to get an update on the investigation, anyway>Write-in 