"I don't think our hero will need much help, but I have plenty of channels if it somehow becomes relevant.  You are the monk with the lightning who gave Deskari himself a hard time earlier, aren't you?"

Count Arendae's guard is awkwardly standing at the ready in case anything threatens him.

"'The monk with the lightning'," she says dryly, not moving from her seated meditation pose. "That is one way to put it, I suppose. For now, the only threats in the area are a few monstrous insects lurking in the dark. Perhaps you would like to take this moment of relative calm to introduce yourselves."

"If you have another way you prefer to be known you had better make it known quickly, the bards are probably already putting together something in praise of your dismemberment of Deskari."

"I am Count Daeran Arendae, count of blah, blah, responsible for something, something.  I would prefer to be performing my duties to the city by nobly guarding my estate from the demons and providing critical morale support, but the demon attack cut off my path back to my mansion and Terendelev was quite insistent."

He flashes a smile, as if sharing a joke.

"And this is, uh, Dale."

Dale is actually another guard's name, but he would prefer not to be apart of this conversation with whatever blasphemy or Lèse majesté the Count will throw around, so he'll just sort of nod.

"I'm Seelah, Paladin of Iomedae.  I'm at the Worldwound for the same reason as most crusaders, this is were people needed help the most."

Two people who may matter, and one who does not. "I am Darth Occlus."

"Darth... is that a title, you say it kind of like a title?"

Seelah, meanwhile is squinting and focusing... she flinches a tiny bit.  Well, lots of people make mistakes, maybe Darth is here to make up for them?

A lesson in not looking if you are not prepared for what you might see, perhaps.

"Indeed it is. It means that I am a Dark Lord of the Sith."

"From Seelah's flinch I would suppose you aren't from some charmingly foreign place were 'darkness' has pleasant and kind associations?"

"I am hardly local, but you are otherwise correct."

"I think everyone has guessed you aren't local from the little mix up of trying to use lightning on the demons.  Not that it wasn't very impressive lightning!  The mortal cultist you caught in the mix was cooked very thoroughly, I could smell his lightning roasted flesh from across the square!"

He continues with his light flirty tone even as he jokes about electrocution.

She hadn't known not to use lightning against demons... but she isn't a veteran like Darth Occlus apparently is.  Also she'd rather they didn't joke about someone's death, cultist or not.

"I've not encountered one of these 'demons' before, so that result was slightly vexing. The lightning is one of my favored solutions."

He's actually curious now.  He keeps up the playful flirty presentation though.

"An experienced adventurer like yourself hasn't run into any demon summonings before?  Not even just the temporary version with a spell?"

"I am from farther away than you expect."

"Well now you've gotten me really curious, but don't spoil the mystery all at once.  So what brings you to travel so far to the Worldwound?  Looking to save your immortal soul with some demon slaying?  Or looking for an acceptable target to show the fell might of the Sith on?"

Speaking of which, an emaciated, almost skeletal, red-skinned demon is trying to creep around the chasm to spy on them.  It is some distance away and the others haven't noticed yet.

Don't be shy. Come and say hello. She insists.

And then as soon as it's yanked over, Occlus will cut its head off.

Tucking her saber away and settling back down, she responds to the Count's question. "One might call it a research expedition."

"Any exciting discoveries to share yet?"

"That demon was not immune to decapitation."

He laughs at that.  "I haven't heard of that immunity!  Although if you sword works via very intense fire I think you'll need to find a different solution for Brimoraks, and maybe a few other demon species!  I don't think I've seen a sword quite like that before so I couldn't say for sure."

"That is not exactly how it works, but I will bear the information in mind. If you have other such interesting information about various demons, I would like to hear it."