Intro: Koriand'r, Ihliel, Aella

[CyMage]

"Looks like it." Aella stepped through the door and headed back.

[Brian]

It doesn't take long to reach the pantry overhead, though the climb leaves everyone a bit winded when they enter the (scrupulously clean) empty room.  Torches gutter from their sconces along the wall in most places.

[Corwin]

Kory puts her torch back where she took it, thanking it.

[Brian]

Ther small voices from the corners of the room say, "Thanks for bringing it back!" and then nothing else.

The spiky guy is presumably standing in the doorway and watching you with his crystal ball thingies.

[Corwin]

Kory heads for the probable location of the spiky guy, waving the others to follow.

[Brian]

The spiky guys is standing around, shaking their crystal balls and peering into it expectantly.  He looks up, slightly disgruntled, and says, "That was faster than I expected.  May I see the bottle?"

[Corwin]

"But are you... you?" Kory asks him, holding onto the bottle. "I mean, how can you be sure?"

[Brian]

"A good question.  After I deal with you, I will have to question myself to make sure I haven't overstepped my authority.  This way, then."  Without waiting to see that anyone follows him, he turns around, and begins walking back the way that he originally led the demons.

[Corwin]

Kory shrugs, and follows.

[Trunkyboy]

Ihliel shuffles along, shuddering occasionly thinking of the consequences if he HAD drank a bottle and had 'spirits' inside him.

[CyMage]

Aella followed the others.  Her expertise wasn't much in need it seemed.

[Brian]

After a while, the demons are all led to the chamber of Tuck.  Though, currently, Tuck is absent, and another copy of that spiky guy is standing in front of the dias.

"Good," he says, eyeing the spiky one leading the party, and nodding.  "My monitoring attempts were successful?"

"Unfortunately, I was not able to record as planned.  However, they retrieved the bottle, so there's no need to notify their next of kin with a recording of their deaths."

"Good, I have done acceptably well, and will not be punished.  Now, you," the spiky-guy at the dias says, "have succeeded where others have failed.  How did you manage to pass the room of invisible guardians?"

[CyMage]

"Invisible guardians?  Do you mean the room with the mirrors?" Aella queried.

[Brian]

"No, they were in the first room," replies spiky-guy-at-the-dias.

[Corwin]

"We were polite?" Kory offers uncertainly.