I’m not sure this “turns it into a decent story,” CMTKOM , but I couldn’t resist going here. Hope you don’t mind…

Wow…You guys make a GREAT team. (but I think we all knew that already)

I’m STILL laughing. (Hopefully you think that’s an appropriate response.)

Wow, that was horrid, simply horrid…the situation, the visuals, the inner conflict, the horrible fate, the drudgery. All horrid. Really nasty. Well done.
LoA

Maybe I’m out of my mind, but I’d like to see this continue…

You crack me up. That was a good read. Thanks.

Hey! I’ll have you know that I am an archaeologist and I’m not creepy, old, or a man!

With that disclaimer, nicely done.

Aha, Batak, but you haven’t read the “elritch tome,” since you clearly have more sense than to go looking for it: the members of your profession who seek it out are all, sadly (for The Demon), creepy, old and male!
(Similarly, not all wizards are crazy, just the ones The Demon has to bugger.)
Poor Demon. But, as the lamp on The Flintstones used to say, it’s a living.

I can’t look.