The Purple Peach was a haunted inn in the hamlet of Peachton, located about 60 miles southwest of
The Overcroft. It is currently a charred ruin.
Despite Peachton being a Halfling community, the inn was human-sized. An unknown demon occupied the inn's hearth and had been collecting unwary Halflings as they came in for a drink or to inquire after relatives for more than 17 years, refusing to allow them to leave. After being informed of its malevolent character by some locals following a dog chase,
The Ladies' Hiking Club went to investigate. When
Vega Spritzer kicked the door open, the lot of them were whisked inside.
The demon was capable of possessing the Halflings within, and had been doing so for some time out of an apparent desperation for entertainment. After playing a number of sick 'games' that resulted in the deaths of several of its hostages aimed at compelling the ladies to consent to staying on as permanent guests, the Hiking Club discovered the demon's location in the hearth. The demon sent all its guests to the overnight rooms and telekinetically rearranged all the furniture to prevent their access to the hearth as a result.
One of
Cherry Merrybottom's first manifestations of serious arcane power was to obliterate those obstacles with a fireball, resulting in a conflagration that ultimately destroyed the inn. Vega was able to extinguish the flame in the hearth, which caused the doors to reopen and enabled the Club to evacuate the remaining hostages. A barmaid displaced by the demon was unfortunately killed in the blaze, as the adventurers were unaware that she had only been removed to an adjacent room.
After the last living hostage was evacuated, an IOU drifted on the breeze and was recovered by Cherry. Vega concluded based on her interpretation of the abjuration magicks in the walls that the inn must have been constructed as a prison for
the demon, and he had now been set free.
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