Cyrille herself has mixed feelings about the situation, she's certainly proud of her invention such a strong enchantment, but she'd rather be the researcher than the specimen.

In the inn Ouro and Cyrille stages a performance, and the Nekomancer sees them and their audience as excellent candidates for some of her trademark chaos and mayhem.

First, she uses some of her cursed invisibility spheres to make strategic parts of the audience clothes completely transparent, singling out the cutest persons. Then she starts using Suggestion on Ouro, influencing her to sex up the performance, while making Ouro's skirt equally invisible.

Cyrille quickly notices that something is wrong, and looks for the culprit, but the Nekomancer does not want anyone interfering with her fun. She puts an invisible forcefield gag in Cyrille's mouth to stop her communicating with Ouro, as the latter is now completely focused on sexy stuff and wants to have a completely different performance with Cyrille. But as Cyrille still tries to find help, The Necomancer ties her with equally invisible bonds, dropping her to the floor.

But Cyrille still has a trump card up her (tied) sleeve. She calls in her Little Helper homunculus, and it finds the hidden Nekomancer. At this point the cuprit decides to skip the scene, but ends with a final taunt: a note nailed to the exit door: "Only a Cat can end the Curse".

So, Cyrille is safely bound at this point, and Ouro only has playing with Cyrille on her mind, but much later Ouro finally manages to collect her mind and realise what the note meant. Fortunately, Ouro has both the "Alter Self" and the "Remove Curse" spells, so she can take on the appearance of a catgirl and then remove the curses one by one. Unfortunately for Cyrille, Ouro has a very limited numer of spells per day, and she started with the audience first, saving Cyrille for last. But Ouro really liked playing with Cyrille, so not all was bad.

While ske and her friend Ouro thought they had figured out a way to beat the magic, they still had to wait a day for Ouro's powers to recharge.

Plenty of time for Cyrille to ponder the possibilities of this fascinating enchantment, while Ouro gets ready to distract her.

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…

"Hello Illyana. It's alright. I'm testing the security of my portable pillory prototype. It's great! I totally can't escape."

"Why are you here, naked, doing that?"

"Well, I couldn't get dressed with this thing on, but I didn't want to miss pub night, so I'm continuing the trials here. Go ahead and try to free me. I don't think you can, even with magic."

The Animated Rope seems both willful and persistent and the Internalized Clockwork Cat's Purr Emulator turns out to be surprisingly pleasurable.

Nothing to do but head to Candlekeep, where skilled arcanists could try to get a handle on this newly created artifact.

The Artificer's trusty Steel Defender provided transportation, while Ouro the Bard added festivity to the procession. Cyrille herself had mixed feelings about her success.