As you move into the alley way, the first thing that strikes you is the smell unless you miss your guess the alley way has a particular use for at least some of the locals. You try to not think too much about what is under foot as you move down the alley.

Ahead the familiar turns around the corner ahead of you, for a moment it looks like it glances in your direction and then its gone from sight.

Dei followed quickly. Where did the cat go?

You see the Familiar climbing a wall and enters a two story building standing at the end of the alley way.

Dei ran to the wall and tried her best to climb.

(OOC: Athletics Check - Deiluci Scarmiglione rolled 7 using 1d20)

It's a very undignified scramble, that involves a lot of cursing and slipping but you eventually manage to haul yourself up the wall and tumble over the sill and into the dimly lit room.

"I have ya now, wizard!" Dei shouted as she scanned the room.

Only Silence answers you, the room appears to have been a bedroom at one time.

A very Dilapidated bed sits against one wall, filling the wall with a faint smell of mildew, the paint on the walls is scratched and peeling. The door that appears to lead out to a hallway is hanging on its hinges.

Dei took a moment to listen for movement.

(OOC: Perception check - Deiluci Scarmiglione rolled 16 using 1d20+3)

After pausing your movement and listening intently for a few moments, you can make out some faint banging sound as if someone was dropping items from a height to the floor comes echoing in from the hallway, it seems as if it's coming from a lower level of the building.
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Dei headed out into the hallway and towards the source of the sound.

You head out into the hallway, and spot the stairs that lead to the lower level. You quickly descend and can now hear a voice.

"How could you lead her hear?" the voice says "Now we will have to move on and start again.. I can only take the best items, not this one.. Tell me if you spot her"

As the voice trails off and the banging resumes you spot the cat familiar poke its head out a door.

Dei charged towards the door.

The familiar gives an yowl of alarm as you charge forward into the doorway, inside a figure wearing dirty robes suddenly spins to face towards you, his eyes widen in his dirty face and his mouth drops in surprise "Who.. what are you?" his hand darts towards pocket as he speaks.

(OOC:Init Roll - Deiluci Scarmiglione rolled 7 using 1d20+3. If that somehow wins, hold person)

Despite his surprise the wizard reacts quicker than you speaking a a quick incantation and spreads his hands "Back Demon! I won't be taken by you or anyone else" a jet of fire leaps from his hands towards you.

[[OOC: Dex save DC 12 5 dmg on a save, 10 on a fail]]

(OOC: Dex Save - Deiluci Scarmiglione rolled 19 using 1d20+4)

"Ack! Ya just might be the rudest thief I ever tracked down," Dei said as she cast her spell.

(OOC: Hold Person, DC 14)

The wizard eyes widen as you chant your spell and cast it, his body suddenly locks up and his eyes stare at you imploringly.

[[OOC: Nat 1 on save]]

Dei went over and slapped the manacles on the wizard's arms and legs, before heading to the window and casting mage hand to collect up the stuff he'd been dropping.

You quickly manage to gather up the various items he had stolen, and even get a bag to hold them all, by the time you are done the wizard is standing resignedly in the corner "It's all over.." he mutters to himself, as the cat familiar rubs against his legs and glares at you.

"I'm not gonna be cruel, despite ya being ruder than a bandit at a tea party," Dei said as she was going through the items looking for the necklace and any other bits the agency was looking for. "I'm just gonna take what I'm lookin' for and turn ya in for the theft. Yer familiar can then hide the rest for when yer released."

"I..wait what?" the wizard looked confused as you find the necklace and a few other items that match the descriptions of items that the agency was looking for. "Why would you do that?" he asked.

"I know how hard life can be and ya ain't hurt anyone ya stole from," Dei said, before bundling the rest of the items up for the familiar.

"You don't look like someone who would so forgiving" the man said gesturing towards Dei horns "I guess you aren't actually a demon sent for my soul then" he said with a sigh he awkwardly picked up the cat familiar and whispered some instructions to it.

"Are we good?" Dei aske, ready to take the thief to a watch station to get this over with.

The wizard puts the cat down and it picks up the wrapped bag and vanishes out the door with a flirt of its tail.

He then turns and sighs "Yes, Grick will be fine till I can get to him again" he said "Maybe I'll be lucky and just get away with a fine"