The very same! That'll catch a few of them, but it's not exactly like they mind walking on the bodies of their fellow demons to get to where the real fun is happening.

Hhhhh well the tavern door now also has a Web in front of it. Archers please start taking potshots at these assholes. 

Then they're all trapped in close quarters when the lead one triggers a sonic blast from a glyph of warding, and they don't manage to escape before it's followed up with a holy smite.

It was rather predictable that they'd try this at some point; demons are not well known for their impulse control.

Nice. Okay, who's the current biggest threat still standing--

Probably the Brimorak on the roof over there, who's been having Dretches throw stinking clouds at the defenders and then detonating them.

Wow that's not great!!! Unfortunately a Brimorak is a terrible target for any of her flammable spells. Crossbow. 

It's also a pretty terrible target for arrows and bolts, so the archers fighting it are not exactly having a good time.

Resist Energy: Fire.

Sometimes it's a pain how much she has to do herself, but it's nice to be appreciated after.

Luzai appreciates Camellia SO MUCH right now. 

Oh good.

Ordinarily a Brimorak supported by Dretches is more than a combatant of her experience can handle, but she's immune to poison, all but immune to its fire, and her frost blade also goes straight through its damage resistance. It's no more dangerous than a moderately capable swordsman, and unfortunately for it she's better than that. The armor also helps, admittedly, both against the blows and because the Brimorak wastes a few tries trying to use heat metal on it and her rapier.

While Camellia deals with the more demonic attempts to commit arson and murder their archers, some of the cultists seem to have decided that since the frontal attack isn't getting anywhere they should try burning down the tavern directly. It's a sturdy enough construction to make that a bit of a struggle, but it's still made of wood - if it goes up, the building will collapse and take a lot of people with it. Among the arriving pyromaniacs is Chaleb, though he doesn't seem to be in a commanding role.

Luzai pulls the hood on her cloak down farther over her face. 

It's still possible he'll recognize someone else who was at the library and cause problems about it, but what if, instead, he gets crossbowed. 

Wenduag will assist here. She's not quite good enough to reliably hit and burst the containers while they're holding them, but hopefully their payload sometimes exploding on them when they go to throw it will get them to think twice. She'd really like for them to not succeed, not least because she's standing on the building they're trying to light on fire.

The building does eventually catch despite their efforts, but an Aqueous orb both douses it and scatters the arsonists before moving into the demonic forces in the main press of bodies. Enough cultist and demonic reserves show up to replace them for one last push, but leaderless as they are the timing is off by enough that they miss their moment due to the defender lines reforming with the last of their reserves, and the battle ends in an anticlimax as enough of their remaining forces elect to preserve their lives over maximizing casualties to force the rest of them to fall back as well. Both sides' archers continue to trade fire from their fortified positions, but the demonic breakthrough has decisively failed to materialize.

As soon as Luzai's spells are no longer needed she is going to run around looking for people who are almost-but-not-quite dead and yelling for someone with healing left when she finds them. 

They're pretty much entirely out of the stuff, even for people who don't run on negative energy, but you can't run down stabilize and there are a fair few people who know mundane first aid. She can slot right into the triage teams and get to work saving those who can still be saved.

This is the first time ever that Luzai has resented being a wizard instead of a witch. Stabilize is so extremely good. 

(...She must've used to have a familiar. Witches don't have a bonded object option. She should ask Mom about that at some point.) 

Yeah she will absolutely do triage until there isn't any triage left to do, or someone comes up with something more useful for her specifically to help with.

There's not much else they need a wizard that's out of spells for. Not everyone that they manage to get to alive stays that way, since demonic poisons and diseases can get really nasty if you don't have the magic, but some of them mysteriously get better right around when Luzai gets her hands on them and they've got a pretty good success rate at the rest. Not all the demons and cultists are dead either, but the people fixing that belong to another more heavily armed and armored team.

There's a lot of corpses around, but - less so by the standards of someone from Geb, and at least here most of them will probably be able to avoid getting grabbed by a necromancer.

Luzai is capable of putting two and two together, the fourth time someone manages to fight off the poison right when she finds them. 

Tears prickle at her eyes, but they're good tears. 

Thanks, Mom. 

She's covered in blood and sweat and dirt, by the time everyone is either dead, stable, or stable-ish but still poisoned and/or sick, but it's nothing a few Prestidigitations won't be able to take care of. 

(Presumably Villibor is not the only person going around tapping anyone who's poisoned and/or sick with Resistance, but he can do that.)

(He's not, but getting on that means that one of the clerics who was doing it can switch over to guidance.)

Eventually, even the exchange of missiles peters out as the cultists who had been supplying them fade into the night. People don't stop being alert for danger, but the shattered gates have been blocked with temporary barricades and guard duty largely left to those not seriously injured as everyone else tries to get enough sleep to not be useless the next day. Without the tents in the yard the sleeping situation is even more dire than before, but tight quarters largely beats being dead.

Luzai and Villibor no longer have a private room, but honestly, that's fine. 

If Anevia is busy Luzai will find some other way to make herself useful for a while. If Anevia is not busy Luzai would like to talk to her. 

Anevia would definitely like to be asleep right now but there's no way Beth is stopping in the current situation so she's mostly just trying to hang in there. She can talk to Luzai, but if it's the kind of thing that needs Anevia's brainpower and isn't urgent it's probably better to wait.

If Anevia doesn't have a lot of brain then Luzai will just say that she has more intel that she didn't waste time with earlier because it was less immediately, urgently relevant, and she can share it whenever Anevia does have brain and thinks it makes sense to deal with it. 

And then Luzai is going to go find Daeran and flop on him.