"Excellent! You're hired! To think that I finally found someone to accompany me! Twenty-seven crusaders before you said no, not one of them saw the undeniable appeal of my offer!"

Okay, great, awesome, onward to the big house. 

If word has started getting around in demonic circles about the big scary starfish, it hasn't reached these guys yet. Opening combat with a Charge+Slam is still an excellent way to achieve a surprise round for the rest of the party on the grounds of ???flying eyeball starfish???

There aren't all that many demons on the outside of the building, once they finish off the first batch, but some alarming noises are coming from within.

The entrance that the demons had pried open is still ajar, if too large to fit Lusilla's true form. 

With any luck, the attackers already inside won't be expecting to be hit from behind. 

Lusilla was struck dumb by what she saw as they burst into a large banquet hall. 

The musicians made sense. The extremely fancy walls and curtains and other such decorations made sense. The table covered with an absurd amount of food made sense. 

The people...not wearing clothing??? Did not make sense. Why. What was going on here. 

...She rallied fairly quickly. Already there were corpses on the floor, one of them as inexplicably scantily clad as several of the (so far) survivors. The demons were not going to wait for her to figure out what had been going on before they arrived. 

Hey how does that cluster of demons over there feel about Create Pit. 

ack

LUSILLA WAS RIGHT, THE REAL FRIENDSHIP WAS THE SPELLS WE CAST ALONG THE WAY. 

Most of the partygoers, nobles and entertainers both, are just screaming and trying to run away from the nearest demon. 

But not all of them. 

Oh awesome. You know what Lusilla is going to do, she is going to use her still-absurd-even-in-human-form strength to wrassle some demons into Nenio's pit. She can just fly out, it's not even a thing. 

You're aware that Create Pit has a relatively short duration at low levels, right? 

FINE then when it ENDS she will simply turn into her other shape and FALL ON TOP OF the demons in question. 

What the fuck this is so unexpected and annoying???

What the fuck. That is so unexpected and delightful. 

Unfortunately, even though Lusilla is, objectively, pinning several demons to the floor, they don't have the condition Pinned; the ones with greater freedom of movement, towards the outside, are perfectly capable of stabbing or gouging or whatever at her soft fleshy anterior. ...Which does count as soft, texturally, even though her damage resistance is doing a lot of amelioration in terms of how horrible the situation is for her personally. 

Meanwhile Seelah is taking the extremely reasonable and obvious route of Just Stab Them. Like, don't get her wrong, it's great that Lusilla is sitting on a bunch of demons that haven't gotten stabbed enough yet and that that other guy over there can apparently do the thing where positive channeling only heals friendlies and not also the demons, but stabbing is very much a basic part of this complete crusade. 

Camellia couldn't agree more. 

(Shh, just ignore the fact that she is objectively much squishier than Seelah and it would be much more efficient for her to just curse the bastards. If nobody knows that then nobody can stop her from shedding all this beautiful blood.)

If Woljif mostly hangs back, out of range of the demons' claws, and cantrips at them, will anyone object? No? Good. 

Once the rest of the demons are mostly dead Lusilla gets off of the ones she's holding down so that other people can help murder them. 

Much obliged. 

And then all the demons are dead, and Lusilla turns back into her human shape, glances between the very pretty helpful guy and the servant who guided the party to this place, and walks up to the former. 

"Are you Count Arendae?" 

He raises an eyebrow at her. "Indeed. I suppose I must tha--"

She holds up a hand to stop him. 

"What's with the naked people?"

"--What, the dancers?" 

"Is that what's going on? Why would dancers wear that little clothing? Nobody took off their clothes for the village dances back in Rivertree." 

Uh. 

What. 

Is she just messing with him??? ...Good show if she is. 

"I assure you, there's a world of difference between village dances and this." 

"Well, that makes sense, lots of things are different from anything I knew before I got kidnapped by demons. What is the difference, though?"