Lead the way.

Irabeth and Avenia's place has a succubus that has taken up residence.

Does Ember get it?

No. 

"Doesn't usually work, on demons that strong."

And then the succubus smiles at them. It's the most reassuring smile in the world. "You look exhausted. Come in, please, I've made all of your favorite things/" She couldn't possibly be lying; no one that beautiful could lie.

Oh, Bella's seen prettier. She doesn't dare touch the demon's mind but she can probably bolster everybody else a bit? Especially Seelah since she is the Swording Person.

She is the Swording Person, which is probably why the demon's trying to make friends with her specifically! It blows her a kiss; her eyes go glassy. 

(Anevia shoots it. This doesn't really seem to have any effect at all.)

Magic sword? Come on?

Glow!

Seelah turns to attack Bella.

Well, Seelah's conveniently a human. She doesn't want her to wake up with an awful headache, though, will the synaesthesia trick do?

It makes her miss at least the first time.

(The succubus has demon friends! The succubus's friends are now helping it rip into them! Ember gets one of them to go to sleep, but not the other.)

Bella will for lack of any better ideas try swinging the sword at the demons, in case that encourages it to help her.

The sword is happy to glow and dazzle the demons and be mildly easier to wield and more dangerous than a normal sword. It does not do the holy smite thing again. The succubus gets frustrated in trying to enchant Bella and tries to rip her guts out instead. 

Bella's boots work, so she has a halfway reasonable chance to get away from the swipe, though only halfway.

She would - not normally try directly contesting a demonic charm effect mid combat, that's the kind of thing you want to do with a patient who's tied up and has an advance directive and all that good stuff, but - she is not going to bust out the arcane spells and she does not want to die, so -

Okay, Seelah's mind. You're going to stop doing - that - look, that thing, that's not you - she takes off the synaesthesia too, almost without trying, it knocks loose when she's given the charm a hard enough shove.

- Seelah makes a surprised squack and then turns mid-swing-at-Bella to swing at the demon instead. Smites Evil, because there's no point dying with a smite you had all saved up for an even bigger problem. 

The demon succeeds at clawing Bella's intestines out. But then it dies. 

- healing potion?

Delicious delicious healing potion yum.

"Well, this sucks. You'd better have some good scrolls saved up," she tells Anevia. "...and the ability to use them, I can't read a scroll."

"I can read a scroll."

Bella is going to catch her breath for a minute while Anevia digs out scrolls from wherever.

"Cool move," says Seelah, patting her. "Sorry for trying to kill you."

No hard feelings. Uh, if we ever get fifteen quiet minutes I might want to have a look to make sure I didn't do anything stupid trying to do that as fast as I did.

"Sure thing, I'll try to remind you tonight, but I feel okay."