Story so far
What happened
Mruno decided Susie’s story did not survive close inspection and cast Dispel Magic. The child’s shape peeled away into a small horned demon, and the tavern became a battlefield. A necrotic shockwave blinded and terrified much of the party, dropped Mruno, and sent everyone scrambling. Grenak raged because he had wasted good life advice on a demon. Valen finally drove the creature’s head into the bar and ended the fight.
With Susie dead, Ashenvale’s people stumbled back into the streets as though waking from a shared nightmare. The innkeepers learned their adopted daughter had been the thing imprisoning the town. The party accepted free food and drinks for life instead of twenty gold, while Mruno negotiated permanent performance rights and quietly changed the pants he had soiled during the battle. Then came fresh indignity: his old band, the Silken Sonics, had replaced him with Dark Bronson.