Desperate situations require desperate measures, or so I’ve been told. And the decapitated body of Cody, sprawled across the floor, showed just how much peril we were in.
There had been a few raids by demons and for some reason many had appeared at the hall of Serendipitous Resurrection. We managed to clear the attack, and many of us dispersed. A marc or so later frantic calls came for help. A titanic demon was loose in the hall. Those who could hurried back and attacked the creature. At last it was brought down. Cody said he’d heard the sound of cracking stonework from the direction of the kitchens. More creatures appeared and after they were dealt with we went to see what was happening. In a room below the kitchen was a hole in one of the walls, and the sound of creatures scrabbling their way toward us. Another massive demon appeared and once again we were fighting for our lives.
We decided, after catching our breath, to use the corpse of the demon titan to block up the hole. That would at least buy us some time. While we laboured, the sound of demons once more drifted out of the hole.
I recalled an event my own guild hosted at the Building if Glass which became the target of a sustained attack by innumerable zombies. During the defence I’d started knocking the top off bottles of wine, stuffing a rag into the neck and setting it alight before throwing it at the approaching horde. As I though of them, my ‘Dundee Cocktails’ Now, looking around the room in the SR hall, I saw casks of spirit and thought maybe we could try the same tactic on a larger scale. Tip spirit into the hole, and light it up with fire or lightning.
I wasn’t planning to burn down the hall – but when a light was shone into the hole we saw only a seething mass of demons heading for us, so there seemed little else but to attempt the plan.
As Bebhinn had warned, there was some damage to the room and occupants when the fire blew back at us. The wall is damaged but can hopefully be repaired fairly easily. But we did, in the moment, wipe out the foul demons trying to force yet another entrance into the lands we labour to defend.