Damon introduces everybody they will do the finding proof mission with, and Adaly shakes their hands. Adaly slightly chuckles on one of the paladins name, he is called Jack the Wizard, but is a paladin not a wizard.
She goes to the king “We don’t have to do this, your majesty…” but the king just shakes his head “You would like that, wouldn’t you? You might have some of my most loyal advisors wrapped around your little devilish hand, but I know better”
Adaly rolls her eyes and just cast her spell, making the four of them invisible. It is a weird sensation, to not see or sense her friend, but she knows that it is for a good cause. They start making their way to the manor.
Adaly refreshes her invisibility spell once during the travels. They part ways with the bigger group about an hour away from the mansion and they still walk another half an hour before anything happens.
Suddenly a thick mist starts rising up around them “Amara, are you still there? Your heartbeat disappeared…” Damon says “Yeah still here” Amara replies, before the conversation is cut short because of screams from the guards in front of them “Get the king out of here” Adaly yells towards Damon before rushing towards the scream.
“Do you think Damon can keep the king safe?” Amara asks while rushing with Adaly towards the yells “Let’s hope so, but I don’t give a fuck. Let’s get these guards out.”
The mist is so thick that Adaly can barely see anything until she is directly in front of a mist fiend. Amara and Adaly attack, but the mist fiend teleports away. “This direction” Amara says but Adaly hesitates before following, looking at the paladin who was just getting attacked, he asks her “What should we do?” Adaly swallows, sees he is hurt “Follow me. They teleport around, so keep close to me should be the safest.” The paladin nods and follows her.
While rushing towards the fiend, Adaly can see a few other paladins and guards, all hurt and trying to rush away. Amara, Adaly and the paladin surround one of the fiends, before its allies starts surrounding them. “We need to get the fuck out” Adaly whispers to Amara “We need proof” Amara just says and they combine their attacks on the one fiend, who goes down.
“Retreat” Adaly yells, while Amara starts removing the head of the fiend so that they have some proof. Adaly casts thaumaturgy and in infernal yells “Stand down” but the fiends don’t seem to react so Adaly and the paladin start running, while Amara follows a bit later.
One of the fiends teleports in front of them, attacking the paladin, its claws piercing his body, the paladin going limb “No JACK” Adaly yells, remembering his name from the earlier introductions.
Rage starts to fill Adaly, that motherfucking king sending these men and women to their certain death, just because he is too fucking stubborn to admit some adventurers know better what is going on in his kingdom than him. Adaly stops and looks at the fiend, in infernal she screams “Know your superior, stand down!”
The fiends seem to stop, and Amara drags Adaly by her arm away. She wanted to take the corpse of Jack with her but also knows she is too weak, and the fiends might change their minds so they just run, out of the mist.
As soon as they clear the mist Adaly can see the other 5 people who traveled with them, so it is just the one they lost. Just the one who followed Adaly’s advice. She feels a guilt, blaming herself for Jack’s death, but she quickly shifts her anger towards the king. His foolishness got them here.
Amara and Adaly walk towards the king and Damon “I hope you are happy…” she spits towards the king while shifting her attention to Damon and looks at him sadly “We lost Jack… I’m sorry we couldn’t do more for him”
Damon swallows and nods “We all knew the risks, I appreciate you trying.” Damon lays a hand on Adaly’s shoulder for consolidation.
They travel back to the palace, where Amara dumps the head of the mist fiend on the table. They discuss how to deal with the threat, the king finally asking for their help. Adaly feels frustration becoming higher, of course now they want their help.
“Sorry your majesty, but our agenda’s are a bit packed, let me check if there is any date we can help you” Adaly says and grabs her notebook. The king looks insulted “What could be more important than a devil taking up residence in the manor of one of the most important noblemen in the kingdom? And even worse convincing the children of the nobility to become warlocks?”
Adaly rolls her eyes “Well, the devil herself is not here right now, and our focus is on a devil who still very much is on the prime material. Therefor he is a bigger problem. Also we have bigger fish too fry, this might be the biggest problem in your kingdom, but not for the world. However I see in our agenda we would be available in a bit less than two weeks. The 35th.” Damon nods in approval. Amara jumps in “Will there be some sort of compensation for our efforts? If we are successful we helped you get rid of a big bad evil gal, I would expect some appreciation.”
“Fine” The king begrudgingly agrees.
The meeting ends, but Adaly still walks up to Damon “I… I know you cannot this question yet, but if there is a funeral for Jack… I would like to attend, could you contact Jeremy once you have a date?” Damon nods and thanks her once more before Adaly and Amara meet up with Jeremy and Livia and find a tavern, in a bit shadier part of town, to have dinner.
Stories of my brain 