"Thanks," Aria licked Kass's cheek and the edge of her ear in kind, after sheathing her weapons, "Once a foe's marked me and has their guard up, it tends to be another story...unless I have the likes of you to to divide their attention."<br/><br/>Saturnia answered Kass's voiced thoughts with, "It didn't sound to me as if he knew for a fact this demoness were connected with the theft - but rather just that she had a reputation for thefts like it in years past. I believe he thought to call and bind her, and force her to submit to an interrogation to that end. If he'd already started asking questions from the room where he was doing the casting, we'd have heard it from here I think. And the way of planar binding is, if she'd broken out of it, it would likely have been so immediately or not at all, forestalling any such thing."<br/><br/>"In any case, given another day I might prepare a spell to ask seven questions of the corpse - and could by Sending relay anything I glean to you if you're then in Siwa or elsewhere - or perhaps this same day seek out another cleric who has the spell ready."<br/><br/>Aria helped Kass give samesaid corpse a lookover; it seemed to carry nothing of interest beyond its six swords (rather elaborately macabre in design, with sawsoothed edges, but not even especially effective looking despite that) and some jewelry. "Nonmagical," Aria indicated the gear, "Once in Tymora's Quarter I paid for use of the wands and staves to overlay my sight with certain perpetual effects, such as to see invisible things, and magical auras. Makes looting so much faster-"<br/><br/>Two new, lyrical yet dangerously coy sounding voices echoed from the same direction Faebion and Karsysa had come. Four new individuals winked into being suddenly, mostly visible beyond the beaded curtain. The nearer two were craven-looking, bipedal but inhuman looking creatures, with blackish-red flesh, and grotesque elongated limbs and claws,. They hissed in masculine voices, yet were dressed in maudlin parodies of the feminine: fishnet stocking, ill-fitting corsets stuffed or padded with something to give the appearance of breasts beneath, and sallow bat-goblin faces plastered with much rouge and kohl.<br/><br/>The pair behind them, the two genuinely female speakers, were by contrast too beautiful and poised to not arouse suspicion in the most skeptical of souls, with bodies corsetted by savory and quite genuine female curves, their legs girded with thigh high leather boots and far higher leather skirts. The left of the pair held a staff. Their faces were unkind, though, and their bat-wings marked them to Kass's wide-ranging knowledge as succubi, and the other two babau demons.<br/><br/>"Where by Graz'zt's gonads<em>are</em>we?" staff-clutching succubus hissed in Abyssal to one empty-handed, wrinkling her nose as if the rosy ambiance of the den's magical light. and its sweet and softly spicy scents, were most unwelcome.<br/><br/>"Wherever it was the crystal scrying-sphere showed the mistress whisked to just now, obviously," answered the other.<br/><br/>The babau before her looked over its shoulder, with an overly lipsticked grin. "Last time Kars whips us for peepin', aye..."<br/><br/>The other chuckled, "We's<em>bodyguarding</em>, like we always told her,<em>bodyguarding</em>."<br/><br/>The first babau nodded, "Emphasis on<em>body</em>."<br/><br/><br/><br/>You don't need to search to loot bodies.<br/>marilith has 6 longswords (not even masterwork) and 1000 gp of nonmagical jewelry<br/><br/>Aria init 26<br/>demons' init 15, tiebreaker roll (if needed) 21<br/>Saturnia init 11<br/><br/>B = babaus (http://images.wikia.com/forgottenrealms/images/3/37/Babua.jpg)<br/>S = succubi (http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii310/hrist09/wowa37m4VwE5262.jpg)<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><br/>  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P <br/>1         . .     . .<br/>2         . .     . . <br/>3         . .     . .<br/>4         . .     . .         . .<br/>5         . . . . . .         . . <br/>6         . . . . . .         . .<br/>7 . . . . . . A Sa. . . . . . B S<br/>8 . . . . . . K . . . . . . . B S  <br/>9         . . . . . .         . .<br/>10        . . . . . .         . . <br/>11            . .<br/>12            . .<br/>13            . . <br/>          (to street)</span>