Blood in the Streets

The stairways led them down into the sewers. From there Arthur could discover that there was a trail to (as far as they could reckon) every district of Ael’Tas. Making a mental note of using this to clean up Ael’Tas later, they followed the trails to the Noble district, where they should meet up with Hubert and Bella.

When they arrived at the hideout a demonic creature tore through the group, but they managed to vanquish it. (Let’s not go in deeper of the details, no one wants to hear how Meicoril and Arthur were paralysed before they even managed to enter, Lyuna went into the room for a peek only to bolt on seeing the demonic spider, and Tara entered to fetch the medicine and was surprised when the demon spider fell from the roof between them and her friends and rather than being a nice friendly cute demonspider tore her almost from limb to limb.) After slaying the demon, Tara took too much risk in investigating the room and ended up being convinced she was a Goddess of Theatre and Starless Nights, Muse to the King in Yellow.

Coming up they found out they were at the Willowstream estate, with Vildar Willowstream arrested. According to the guards, he had a strange spider tattoo on him. It was clear now that sir Willowstream had been under Drow control (and has access to the Queen, implications to be investigated later.) However a fire in the craftsman district had forced Hubert and Bella to get away. The group quickly went there and came upon a horrific scene.

The district was ablaze with demons inflicting wanton cruelty and death on the frightened  populace. The group couldn’t but attempt to stem the tide, and fought off a first wave of the horrific creatures, but not before they executed a child in front of them.

They had managed to recover a crown and scythe from the demons before they were banished or killed though, and after clearing some of the most direct fires they went in pursuit: further battle was heard ahead.