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Afternoon Alturiak 10: Strange Days indeed
In the aftermath of the battle, the company rushed to the south gate where there was a small party of well-uniformed Tieflings offering surrender. The company offered them an audience in a non-burning building. The Tiefling 'Generalissimo' offered two different sets of terms: one on paper, rolled up in a scroll, and another with his speech. They were oddly disparate not only in their content, but also in their intent.

On the one hand, he overtly offered the company, and the Shaarmid Liberation Army, control of the city in exchange for safe conduct out of the Shaar... On the note, he just asked the party to teleport him to Inaarlith.

Kethiel and Variska laid into him and did their 'talk or I'll kill you' routine. It was quite routine to the Tiefling, so he just talked. Still, Variska acted very unpleasantly. Like their usual routine, they made it difficult for the captive to believe that they would be allowed to live. Given the company's non-compromise method of negotiation, the Tiefling decided to turn invisible and run away like a little girl.

Variska did a real good job of killing 'em dead. Calie had Speak With Dead, on a scroll, and the next day in the mind. The company failed, however, to learn anything except that the Teifling 'general' had been conspiring with Ransar Pristoleph to ensure he could take power after the demons were ejected. In total, little progress. Alas.

Alturiak 11
The company stewed on the new Shaarmid. It wasn't the greatest place, and any reconstrucion efforts would need to take into account the political climate among the tribes–a political climate that was clouded by the machinations of Sibiliante. They worked out a plan for him to 'have an accident.' Meanwhile, the company did another post-mortem interview on the Tiefling general. Again, they weren't able to get much out of him.

The plan was discussed in an ultra-secure location that no one could overlook, and the company ensured their friend Jesús wasn't privy to the affair.

Highsun Alturiak 12: The Manu Weasel Dance
The company had a nice plan worked out, until the tribes made an unsusual show of organization and pieced together a victory parade in which Lia would ride at the head. Still, their plan unraveled nicely.

Jesús watched from behind a stone wall a tiefling conjured just as she'd appeared from otherwhere. He took flight and watched the party of Tieflings kill his companion Lia and Sibilanté. As the tide turned against them, with the chieftains of the Shaar (some of the best warriors in the region) pulled out the stops to repulse their attackers, the Tieflings dissapeared back to otherwhere, taking the limp, bleeding corpses of Lia and Sibilanté with them.