He's singing his way through a summon spell—

 He's shooting arrows at Minagho twice as fast as usual—

He casts a Bless on the party, though it's probably redundant, and their wounds start to heal up—

The vrocks let out a hideous screech, and every one of them shrugs it off like they aren't there—

"What are you doing? Why won't you just die already?"

Lilitus can't exactly scream with their face, considering the lack of eyes, but her voice is shaking.

It is said of Arazni's Prayer that it was strong enough to not just hinder but hurt. He pushes the strange power through the expended spell, praying -

Whatever it's doing isn't injury, exactly, but it's definitely doing something it normally wouldn't — the more humanoid demons in the room are pale and trembling—

She hisses. "Cone of Cold!"

(It's a little nippy, he wouldn't want to tank a lot of those, but most of it washes over him.)

She drops a Fireball experimentally, and it hits with the force it would hit an unprotected human.

He completes his spell. The lyrakien azata tags a vrock with Lesser Confusion, and it goes after a brimorak ferociously.

Minagho is still standing, but the demons around her are dropping like flies. Between Blai's Prayer and the energy flowing through the party, the demons are barely able to land a scratch on them. Minagho herself looks like she has a few moments to live, if that, though at any moment she might teleport away—

It would really be better if instead of doing that she were DEAD. Can he hit her with a Qualm, slow her down enough for a few more arrows/spells/etcetera to bring her down -

You would really think that being in charge of the Kenabres occupation would mean that she got to skip out on the step where she gets beaten to death by cocky adventurers — if these stupid mortals are actually going to get their stupid barrier up maybe she can fuck off to some village outside the Worldwound to rule as a goddess, none of her superiors will be able to follow her, except that also sounds kind of miserable—

Staunton Vhane runs through the doorway, slamming Thall into the wall in his rush to get past. He makes his best attempt at getting between Blai and Seelah and Woljif's weapons and Minagho's body.

"Minagho! Behind me!"

........can he do the Qualm TWICE.

Maybe? It — feels like it's doing something—

Staunton Vhane spits at his feet. "You think I'm stupid? You think I'm running in to save Minagho because I've convinced myself it's the right thing to do?"

Oh! Ruling a mortal village like a god-queen would be so much more fun if Staunton were there!

"Your own convictions were not my guess." No chance of getting around Staunton to bash Minagho's bones to smithereens here?

He's certainly trying his best to prevent it!

"Is that what you want to think? That I'm just Minagho's puppet?"

(She's got one hand on his back, and she's reciting the verbal component to a spell in Abyssal.)

He is actually in a great position to stop her, but he's still a wizard, even with the Wardstone's power there's only so much he and the azata can do to disrupt her casting—

"Looks that way." He misses his domain ability with the ranged-mace-use option, it'd come very much in handy right now. ...He did prep Communal Protection from Evil. He can probably bap Staunton with that especially if he feints with the mace first -

Sometimes there's a flicker of something when someone gets another chance to shrug off a mind-affecting spell, even if they fail. Not always. It's not a sure thing, if you don't see it.

There's no sign of anything like that in Staunton's face.

"Dimension Door."

And the two of them are gone.

Fuck.

Can they at least mop up the rest of the demons?