More Heads Than We Know What to do With

As night falls, we make the final preparations for our attack on Jamila's compound. Ailyll summons a hurricane and some lightning and enlarges four elephants to serve as our mounts. We sneak around back to check things out while the elephants stand out front waiting to charge. Harald detects some well-hidden folk lurking in a corner - a very muscular and well-oiled man, a veiled lady with pretty eyes, and an ape lying on it's back waving its hands and feet around. The pretty lady is casting a spell, and we aren't taking any chances, so Ailyll blasts her with a bolt of lightning. This pisses the guy off a lot, but luckily she makes her save and is merely reduced to -10. We talk, and discover that this is not Jamila but rather some thieves trying to sneak in and steal her golden apples. The woman is named Sit the Beautiful, and the ape is a polymorphed cleric who can cast two spells at once using both his hands and feet. They seem somewhat disinclined to join us in an all-out attack, but offer to exchange a raise dead spell for one of the apples should we come across them.

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