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Mildly inconvenient, but good to know. Wait-- "How do you know that?" Detect Secret Doors, maybe? Does that work through walls?

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She raises one delicate eyebrow.

"Luzai, I opened some of those doors with a key."

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"Oh." 

 

 

"So you have regular access to the library?" 

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Why is that Luzai's takeaway here - no, actually that makes perfect sense as Luzai's takeaway here. She sighs slightly, but without particular frustration.

"Yes, I have access to the library."

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"Awesome. I, uh, don't want to pry if prying would be awkward, but I am curious about the...situation." 

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"Perhaps once we're no longer in a potential combat situation."

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"Extremely fair. Pity the probable Abrikandilus aren't a bit more split up..." 

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"We need something to draw their attention that they won't think is a serious threat. Even if they don't split up, they'll at least be coming through the doorway one at a time into an ambush."

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"Maybe I should have brought my dress. Oh well...I can still pretend to be frightened pretty well." 

 

 

"Also I'm pretty, and Abrikandilus hate that. On the other hand this is not a unique qualification I have here." 

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She smirks.

"Perhaps we should have brought his lordship along; I expect the count could have done an excellent job as bait. As things stand it should probably be Seelah or I, since whoever it is will have to be prepared to deal with a demon trying to attack them."

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"I'm all for the plan that has me be the one attacked, but I'm not sure I can pull off pretty hard enough to distract from the fact that I'm a paladin."

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"Yeah I do expect to be able to pull off scared better than you, not to mention that you are visibly wearing plate armor. --I hate to volunteer someone else, but Camellia you might be the sweet spot between being able to handle yourself in melee and being less than maximally overt about that--"

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(Villibor does not feel the need to participate in this conversation. It is a social interaction, and, also, he is objectively the least pretty person here.)

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"I'll take a peek to see what I can, then, and try to draw them out - one at a time if I can manage it, staggered if I can't."

Once the others are ready, she opens the door. What she sees inside causes her face to turn white with terror, and if Luzai hadn't spent the last few days getting to see what Camellia was usually like in a combat situation the act might even have convinced her. Once she turns her face away from the doorway, however, the panic vanishes, and she takes the time to hiss out a few words before focusing on selling her panicked flight.

"I only see two."

Behind her comes a staccato beat of heavy footfalls.

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Luzai wishes that Grease were a cantrip and she could just keep casting it all day. Also, you know, she'd like to meet a unicorn. 

She gets lucky with her crossbow. One of the Abrikandilus sprouts a feathered bolt from its eye socket. This would probably just kill a normal person but it does not kill the Abrikandilu. 

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Despite the pain it doesn't even so much as stumble, though the loss of depth perception might prove a slightly more significant issue with its plans to charge Camellia. Despite her preparations Seelah's first blow goes awry, but she catches it across the back as it tries to run past her. Unfortunately for her plans to set off in pursuit of it, the second Abrikandilu doesn't fail to miss the sounds of fighting and makes to join it's comrade-

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Which is why Seelah slams the door it its face, and the demon - unable to stop in time - impacts with a loud thud. The hardwood of the door is tough enough to not break immediately under the blow, and the hinges only rattle instead of popping off. It's unlikely to prove an enduring barrier even with Seelah holding it shut, but it at least lets her turn this into a four on one without getting injured herself.

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It's not that she's incapable of or unwilling to stab the demon to death herself, but the help makes it a much less painful affair than the last time she tried it. Her rapier blade flashes as she dances out of reach of the creature's claws, each hit drawing a little more of its foul blood, and she can't help but lick her lips after eliciting a particularly pained yell.

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Huh. Well, that's a preference not unfamiliar to someone who got her sex education from the kinds of erotic books that get printed in Geb. As long as Camellia is only taking it out on demons and demon cultists it doesn't seem likely to cause any problems. 

Her next crossbow bolt hits the demon at a bad angle, skittering off its toughened hide. She doesn't waste time cursing as she loads the next one, but like, she's definitely thinking it. 

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Wenduag's arrows are having a bit more luck. Luzai might not be a bad shot, but she's clearly having to make some compromises to her aim to avoid hitting Camellia with a stray bolt and the extra force her longbow lets her put into her arrows counts for more against enemies as resistant to injury as demons. She's sure there's some trick to the problem of injuring them properly, but she can't cluster her shots tightly enough for her most promising guess yet and it's far from certain it'll work.

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And Camellia, who has none of those issues and a spirit enhanced blade, will finish it off. A little carelessness with the final blow sees her take a solid blow across the chest, but her armor takes the worst of it and it's hardly enough to put her down.

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It's good timing too, since it's right about then that the poor door gives up the ghost and stops being an effective barrier. Seelah steps back and draws her sword, but there's still no sign of the third evil presence she sensed and she can't concentrate enough to look for it in the middle of a fight.

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Luzai is not even a little bit sorry about the door. It seems pretty straightforwardly the Abrikandilu's fault, here; Horgus Gwerm isn't paying them enough to be that precious about the architecture while self-defense is in the offing. 

Crossbow bolt to the meat of the shoulder. Thunk. 

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The second Abrikandilu fight goes even better than the first one; despite the other girl's talent, Seelah is simply a better melee combatant than Camellia is, and the heavier armor counts for a lot. Unfortunately for Seelah, her armor and shield prove much less effective a defense against a Babau's sneak attack and she goes down before she can finish off the Abrikandilu.

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Well, fuck. 

Luzai wavers, then crossbows the Abrikandilu again. She wants to engage in melee with a Babau even less than she wants to engage in melee with an Abrikandilu, but the Abrikandilu is already hurt and if they can finish it off then they can fight the Babau by itself, which is a significant advantage. 

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