Sarge and Mejest agree to go with the Inquisitor to assault the Dreen house.
Deciding they need some back up Sarge & Mejest manage to track down Landric the Hero and Hulda from Sarge's Roughnecks and convince them to join them. Hulda agrees to do the job for 4 Silver Shillings due to the short notice and the vague info about who there working for and what is inside the house. But eventually everyone is on the same page and in the rainy alley outside the Insalubrious Tavern Landric draws the Black blade and raises it to the sky to proclaim the start of the quest to slay the Demon.
Mejest and Sarge round up Crow and meet the Inquisitor and his journeymen in an alley at the rear of the Dreen House shortly after midnight.
A thunder storm rolls into crossing.
Sarge introduces the extra muscle to The Inquisitor and the Randolpho says that they may wish to cover their faces whilst they carry out the New Gods work but that they are fairly distinctive so he leaves the choice to them. Hulda, Majest and Sarge decide not to.
The Roughnecks and The Inquisitors discuss tactics. It is agreed that the will get as far into the building as they can as quickly as they can. Randolpho wants to get to and deal with the Demon as directly as possible. Sarge and Mejest are more in favour of a sweep and clear approach, which becomes clear as they venture deeper into the building.
After it is mentioned by Sarge Randolpho says that there is no way to exercise the Demon from Candence's body with what they have so slaying her will return her soul to the cycle and the Demon to hell but the Demon will do whatever it can to stay in this realm. Nothing in the house can be trusted anything might be the machinations of the Demon.
To prevent anyone fleeing the building if the alarm raised the two journeymen members of the Inquisition circle round to the front of the building and watch the front entrance from rain drenched dark alleyway across the street from Dreen's house.
At the rear of the building the group start their assault.
Crow as Phineas distract the guards on the rear gate and Mejest and Sarge swiftly put them down. The rain and thunder covers the short brutal scuffle.
The group enter the read courtyard and bar the read gate to prevent anyone else easily entering the yard from outside the Dreen household.
Mejest comments that the stables and rear yard look rundown.
One of the rear doors is blocked so listening at the remain door Crow hears the sound of three people.
Crow enters through the door, into the Kitchen. He finds a fat cook chopping horse meat talking to a skinny wrinkled man with a clay pipe. There is also a strangely robotic young man who is washing the dishes, it is as if he isn't fully there perhaps his mind is broken in some way.
Crow distracts the cook and smoker and Sarge, Mejest and Hulda put down the three, whilst Landric escorts the inquisitor into the room.
The food in the kitchen smells bad and is off, Randolpho confirms to Majest that off food is often the sign of witchcraft or the presence of the Demon.
The Inquisitor is troubled by the young man. There are suggestions of charm magic.
From the kitchen the group move to the servants sleeping rooms where they find three bedraggled servants asleep in one of the rooms, the rooms are furnished with bunk beds and simple lock boxes but look run down. Sarge & Mejest move swiftly to silence the sleeping servants, Hulda finishes the last with a precise cross bow bolt before they can wake.
Crow as Phineas (and having some difficulty not talking about himself as Phineas) remains behind in the kitchen to raise the alarm if anyone else enters from the rear of the property or ventures into the kitchen. He is to make a lot of noise if the alarm is raised.
Randolpho is keen to go directly to the demon to deal with it. Sarge prefers a more through approach leaving no one behind them.
There are four possible routes to take, stairs up for the kitchen to the first floor, stars down from the corridor by the kitchen and two doors south, the most westerly one larger the eastly one smaller but both going south.