The White-Haired Empress was a minor demon, conjured up and chained (via a geas) by a somewhat neurotic witch, dead now for some three hundred years. The demon's sole purpose was to be responsible for killing cockroaches in one certain room of an ancient tenement, which was located in the Gadrobi District of Darujhistan, Genabackis. This room - which essentially imprisoned the, by now, slightly unhinged White-Haired Empress (who would only appear during the night), was currently inhabited by Fat Saborgan, a large man with huge feet (which proved to be ideal for stomping any number of cockroaches), and was situated immediately above the room of Widow Lebbil, who reacted to all the nightly racket from above (which kept her from sleeping), by enraged, repeated pounding and more pounding on th