[center][h1]Imp Activity, Second Floor[/h1][/center]

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The imps that inhabited the second floor of this busted, broken down shell of a building had had a bad time of it as of late. There was something here, they knew. Some larger demon that they had [i]felt[/i] stomping down the hallways. They had thought to hide and wait it out until the thing had gone, but from that terrible crash earlier it was clear the thing was trying to tear the building down. They had rushed into the hall, each independently thinking to run and leave the others to their fate. Maybe if they could get downstairs they could round up the weak idiots that lived down there and use them as cannon fodder to find out what it was, but they were stopped by the appearance of the wall of ice and this led them to sheer panic. 

They screamed, flailed at it with their limbs and knives. The ones in back that had enough sense to pelt the thing with fireballs did so, but most of them simply lashed out at the ones in their way. These ones turned around and set at the ones attacking with with knife and tooth and soon the hallway was a small civil war, screeches of pain, fear, and anger barely audible through the ice wall. It seemed as though the imp problem in the hallway might take care of itself, until one voice ripped through the din.

"GNAK!" It said. "GNAK GNAK!" An imp felt itself pulled off another and thrown hard into the wall. Another felt a hand lash across its face, the claws leaving deep gouges. A few more knocks, a few more kicks, maybe a bite or two, and the infighting was settled by one imp. He was not much different than any other imp, maybe slightly bigger if you cared to look, but this one had a hat. This one had found a really cool hat, leopard print with an old musty peacock feather sticking out the side, and he had defended this treasure against all comers. This afforded him a level of respect in the imp world, and it was enough to stop them from killing one anther. 

This imp stepped up to the ice wall, the rest parting to let him see lest they earn his ire, and they watched him think with awe. There were humans there, he saw through the ice. "Gnak, gnak gnak gnak." He gestured to two of the imps behind him, gesturing down the hallway. They instantly ran off to get what he commanded. If they wanted to get away from the monster they would have to deal with the humans, and to deal with the humans they would have to do away with this wall.

"Gnak gnak" he heard behind him as the imps he'd sent out returned, herding the hallways ghosts before them using the fireballs gripped in their hands. He turned, conjuring his own demonic fire in his palm. 

There was a trick you could do with ghosts.