Devaguea was well and truly DONE with this damned city by the time they finished bringing it to heel. The gargoyle had only avoided the group for a couple days before Sydon, Sena and Nordri had successfully hunted it down, finding it in an old lair in the sewers of the docks of Pitax.<br/><br/>Devaguea, however, was busy calming the two women that had not had someone else to calm them or had left, though only one stayed in the city longer than a couple days. Korima had left the nation, saying that she was done with this land and being raped by some bandit lord. Allison had returned to Enigma with Stroon, while Anke had practically glued herself to Devaguea. Allison had taken all the slave collars but one with her, the feline-taur's remaining firmly where it was, once she was identified as a lamia anti-paladin, making her exceedingly dangerous to release, despite Devaguea's thoughts on slavery. With the collar on, she was playful, devoted, supportive, and very eager to please him, not to mention even more beautiful than Sak'bas. When he turned off the charm monster in her collar though to meet the 'real' her, she was a vicious, cruel sadist, and would have been executed if she didn't immediately fall back under the collar's influence. Despite realizing it made him as bad as the Peacock Bandit king, he kept the collar on her, and started trying to convince her to give up on evil.<br/><br/>And for most of the time in Pitax, he had Nordri turning over the palace, room by room, while Devaguea dealt with bringing the city to heel and putting down the Peacock Bandit loyalists, especially the local thieves' guild. And after five weeks tearing apart the palace, Nordri had finally found the Peacock Bandit's last hiding spot, in the lord's former safe room. The entire palace had been turned over, looting everything of value before the palace would be demolished to pay for renovating the city. So he, Anke, Amvarean, and Nordri headed down to the secret door Nordri had found, ready to check behind it to see what was there.