Nenio launches into an overview of what is currently known about Dominate Person, with occasional speculative tangents on topics such as 'would it work on horn boy or would it take a Dominate Monster,' 'why does it stabilize at fourth-circle for some types of sorcerer and fifth-circle for others', and 'how can illusion magic decrease the likelihood of your target throwing off the Dominate?' The gist of her explanation is that there have been documented cases of the original caster reasserting control after dying and returning to life, but none that she knows of where the caster continued to control the target while dead (she goes on another tangent clarifying terminology with regards to undead).

Actually if she is willing to be interrupted with questions about the technicalities here and how they're relevant to making sure these people all make it home okay and are no longer enchanted this time tomorrow that's really helpful. (The succubus is super incredibly dead, right? None of the crusaders saw any more of 'em?)

The armed crusaders did not see any other succubi. (The succubus did occasionally permit other mortals into the house, and did not kill all of them; the ones she released again might be Suggested.)

Nenio's assessment is that the armed crusaders should be safe unless someone develops a novel technique for resurrecting outsiders from the dead and applies it to the succubus, and that the Suggested one will most likely be clear of its influence within half a day unless the succubus was unusually powerful, but that his behavior in the meantime may be unpredictable. ("Observing his behavior over the next several hours could be an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of demonic activity!")

In that case can Blai assign one of the crusaders to babysit the Suggested guy and another to go report in about the descriptions of who else might be wandering Kenabres Suggested? While their party tries to catch up with the looters? These folks are not in his command structure but, like, it seems like an appropriate next step to him.

The crusaders are okay with this. The Suggested guy wants to know if they're going to loot the bodies of the cultists that that lovely Nocticula cultist killed. (One of the crusaders makes a face, but doesn't correct him.)

Do they know the identities of any of these people? They shouldn't just leave their things lying around but they should make a good faith effort to get it to whoever it should rightly belong to.

Some of them are other people who were on one of the Dominated people's patrols; one of them is recognizably a local merchant; they don't personally know the others. 

Okay. Blai collects names and descriptions and gives each person's stuff to a separate partymember to carry so they don't mix it up and none of it to Woljif.

"This sword is cold iron, do you think it's okay if I use it until we get back?"

"I think that's fine, presuming you don't wind up in some exotic situation that puts it at elevated risk of being broken."

She nods and carefully rearranges the things she's carrying.

Daeran spends one more channel, this time taking care to include the recently-Dominated crusaders.

How many of those does he have? Dyra and Select Artigas have two, he figured that was a normal number!

And back the way they came they go, keeping an eye out for looters now that they are already on their way to a safe place to bring them.

The looters definitely don't seem to be anywhere on the most direct path back to tavern for a couple of people with a wagon. How hard does he want to look for them?

Not super hard. He is also keeping an ear out for activity, though.

There are definitely some sounds in that direction! ...They don't sound incredibly human!

Well, if they're demons he also wants to know about that. Detour.

Yep, definitely demons. These ones are a pair of abrikandilus, currently in the act of smashing up a seamstress's shop. (The seamstress and her husband are cowering in a corner, but the demons are ignoring them.)

"I'm running low on cold iron arrows, think it's worth using my last few on this?"

He'll be able to get more at the Defender's Heart, but for all he knows they're going to run into another really scary one.

"...hold onto them for the time being, use them if they go after the civilians," Blai says. He casts his Divine Favor, and then drops a Burst of Radiance on the demons.

One of them is blinded! It's going to keep tearing at this horrible fabric that apparently managed to break its eyes!

The other one managed to dodge the worst of the effect. It turns towards Blai's party, blinking the aftereffects from its eyes, and charges at Count Arendae.

Blai will get in its way and engage it like so: smash.

Augh! This is horrible!