“I find abjuration fundamentally uninteresting,” Nenio reminds her. “Now, this Dominate Person that can work through a Magic Circle Against Evil? That is fascinating. Unless the explanation for the puzzle is simply that the spellcaster was not evil.”

I only had the one.

“Well. Maybe the knight-commander has a scroll too. I only had the one.”

“Point two is near the antimagic cells in Vigil. I assume that’s why the knight-commander picked that one.”

Oh, of course. “Right. Teleport, then.”

Fort Lorrin - Vigil now - is not that different from how she remembers it. She's sure farther out the city has sprawled beyond its walls, but here, in the city center within the innermost walls, nobody has seen fit to change the street layout in nine hundred years. She can see the keep and the great cathedral Iomedae ordered built for Her own church - she knows the way to the nigh-inescapable prison cells Arazni built -

She doesn't know if seeing it again like this would bring back memories under other circumstances. Coming back with Marit, shortly after Iomedae decided to reach into her head and dredge up a memory deliberately -

The easiest way not to show that the city is affecting her is just to leave the body to Catherine. It'll stop her from walking by habit somewhere that she shouldn't know the location of, too.

Catherine is not entirely sure what happened, back there - She remembers all of it that happened to her, but she didn't get a vision. She has feelings about some of that - but that can wait. Right now she's in command. It looks like everyone's here, with Daeran and the Hellknights being eyed warily by Lastwall's soldiers. "Second team, stand down. Vynsiel, Cansellarion and third team will escort second team and the knight-commander. The rest of first team wait here." Unless there's somewhere better for them to wait? she asks Cansellarion.

We have conference rooms for mission debriefs. With your permission, I'll ask someone to lead your people there?

"Belay that last. The rest of first team will be escorted to a conference room"

Second team enter the antimagic cells one at a time and verify that they were not dominated.

Vynsiel knocks off the mind blank on his second dispel. He takes a longer look at the dominate.

"...I'm not getting that off, sir."

Yeah she's not surprised. She could do it, if she had half a dozen tries. She does not have that many dispels prepared and even if she did would not volunteer this capability in the middle of Lastwall's fortress.

"Cansellarion? Do you have anyone who can do a dispel at - would seventh circle do it?"

"If they got lucky?"

"Gods. This might be an endeavor - Put him in the cell, for now, in case he wakes up - "

He does so. "We can pull a high-level cleric for it - it would take a lot of spell slots, though, if a fifth-circle can't do it at all. Might be better to see if Morgethai has a disjunction."

"I think I'm not comfortable making that call right now. Let's revive him if there's a way to do that that works in the antimagic field. Otherwise we'll just wait."

"What a clever cell design!" says Nenio delighted. "Maybe protective magic isn't boring and useless at all. Did you do it?" she asks Cansellarion.

"Ah, no. Arazni did."

Daeran is standing stock still glaring at all the Iomedaeans who are glaring back at him because he's Evil. 

Yeah, it's not surprising he's having a hard time. She gives him a look that she hopes is reassuring.

The Knight-Commander stirs, and then stops stirring because he's conscious enough to realize he shouldn't convey that he is, and then tries a Silent Dimension Door.

Well that doesn't work. Obviously.

"Knight-Commander, you're safe, you're in an antimagic field because we couldn't get the dominate off." she says after a bit, like she's been saying every fifteen minutes. She's been advised not to expect to notice when the Knight-Commander wakes.

He is in the middle of piecing together what immediately preceded unconsciousness. This is hard when barely conscious, but ...fits. And he is in fact in an antimagic field.

"Did they get anyone else?"