Empowered Magic Broom

The satyr Ouro wanted to create a magical flute, and needed an enchanted piece of wood as raw material. The witch Hernia, a Hag monster who had been bested by Ouro, Cyrille (and their companions) was now trying to eke out a living as a non-evil witch, and was visited regularly by Ouro. This witch was now willing to provide Ouro with the required piece of enchanted wood.

But when Ouro and Cyrille visited, this wood needed one more enchantment; it needed to be soaked in a magical spring high up in the mountain, and the witch was unable to travel there herself.

Hernia had recently come into the possession of a magical broom, picked up by a traveling trader at a place where there had been some unspecified commotion, the nature of which the trader refused to specify.

The problem was that neither the trader nor Hernia were able to make the broom fly. However, as Hernia knew that Cyrille was an expert on magical items, if she was able to start the broom, then Hernia was willing to let them borrow it.

Well, Cyrille figured that the weird holes in the broom handle seemed to fit someone’s neck, wrists and ankles like a restraint, and Ouro noticed that at the end of the handle was a cat-girl insignia, the sign of the fabled Nekomancer. And the girls knew that only a cat-girl could control the cursed items the Nekomancer left behind.

So, once Ouro used the Alter Self spell to turn into a cat-girl, and Cyrille stuck herself into the cursed restraints, then the magical broom started flying. Now it was only a matter of finding the enchanted spring…