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    Charmed by Daciana's spell, the man obediently starts listing out the occupants of the second floor. The Baron is on the other side of the building, in the middle room, and there are at least 3 other high ranking members of the cult. As the man mentions names, Selinda holds up fingers, #4, #6 and #7. Its a pity that #2 and #5 are out on quests, but they are still going to be able to cripple the organization, along with as many flunkies as they choose to take out downstairs.
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    Daciana gives a secret look to Linteshar as she distracts the man, asking the succubus to kill him silently. Once that is done, she whispers to the others. "I suggest we head out the window, fly to the other side, get a visual of the inside of the Baron's room and teleport inside. Like you said, if we can take out the Baron first, the rest will fall much easier."

    If they are in agreement, Daciana enacts the plan with them in order to do a quick surprise attack on the Baron.

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    Linteshar was already coming up slowly behind him, and with one quick slice, she slits the man's throat, sending him to a quick and quiet death. Selinda agrees with Daciana's analysis (and the way Selinda is approving of Daciana's actions fills her with a sense of pride), and the 3 women silently fly around to the far side of the building, finding the middle window that the man identified as belonging to the Baron. Looking inside, its a little hard to see, shadows and such. There is a man in there, there might even be another, its hard to say. Theres no reason to think its not the Baron, the man was well and truly charmed, so he might be having a visitor.
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    Daciana asks Linteshar. "What can you see with your darkvision?" At the same time, Daciana does a quick sweep with a detect magic.

    If she can see the Baron or at least identify who is standing where, Daciana begins a silent countdown. At the end of it, Linteshar is to teleport them all inside, Selinda and Daciana immediately cast their most powerful enchantments to charm, hold or otherwise incapacitate any targets present.

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    With her darkvision, Linteshar identifies three occupants, the Baron and two others. The countdown goes off without a hitch, and all three of them arrive in the room. Selinda knows how resistant priests can sometimes be to enchantment spells and so she targets one of the other occupants, while Linteshar moves to engage the priest hand to hand.
    (Does Daciana target the other occupant or the main priest?)
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    Daciana does not want to take any risks, she needs those others to not interfere. Immediately, she whispers a mass hold person (DC 31, CL 16). Mainly, she wants to ensure the other occupant cannot do anything, not even make a sound. If she can also enchant the priest, that would be even better. If, for some reason, the occupant targetted by Selinda does not fall under her spell, he gets to try and resist the hold as well.
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    Daciana and Selinda's spells go off, Daciana sees a blissful look come over the face of the person targeted by Selinda, and moments later, both him and the other person go completely rigid as Daciana's spells hit them both. The priest shrugs off the effect of the spell, but something he cant shrug off is being sliced and diced by Linteshar's blade. He pulls out a mace and starts to retaliate.

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    That already was a very powerful spell, so Daciana quickly needs to change her plans...

    (If Daciana can't tell whether the Baron is outright immune to enchantments or if she can tell he is immune)
    With attacking not being an option, Daciana quickly imbues Linteshar with Greater Heroism as well as a quickened displacement.

    (If Daciana can tell the Baron is not immune to enchantments and knows he resisted her spell)
    Daciana turns herself invisible (quickening invisibility) and moves to place an Irresistable Dance (or rather, on accident, her new version of said spell) on the priest.

    Melee touch attack (against the flatfooted priest) (1d20+5)[15]
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    Daciana is not sure how the Baron resisted her spell, but she knows priests are usually among the hardest to charm, having a double resistance to that sort of spell. The flash of blade and mace is not something she wants to get involved with, but her spells on Linteshar have a double effect, increasing the efficiency of her attacks and turning her into an impossible hit defensively. The priest gets sliced four more times, he is clearly out of his league, and Selinda slits the throat of the first person.

    Daciana hears the sound of at least one or two people coming to the aid of the priest.

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    Daciana readies a spell she has never used before, Sabrina's Puppet Army. The moment the door is opened, she unleashes it on whoever will stand on there, ordering them to close the door, stand with their backs against it and try to touch anyone who comes into their arms' reach (thus propagating the spell, in turn making the new victims increase the tight mob around the door).

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    Its a powerful spell and the moment the door opens, Daciana unleashes it, taking control of the person who enters. By the looks of his equipment and body, Daciana would guess warrior, possibly with wizard talents thrown in to make a proper gish opponent. Willpower tended to less forceful than those of the priests, and thus her spell was able to take him down.
    Meanwhile, Selinda slits the throat of the second person held by Daciana's spell and Linteshar is having her way with the priest, Daciana's combined buffs making her nearly unstoppable. From what Daciana hears, there is no one else coming (yet), and the one man is firmly under her control.

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    Daciana makes the warrior close to door and guard it on the outside in order to reduce the noise as well as to maybe have unsuspecting victims touch the guy standing in the way.

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    With Daciana holding the door as a choke point, Linteshar changes the grip on her sword just a bit and proceeds to use it broadside on the priest, knocking him cold. She steps back for a moment, letting Selinda step in to heal his wounds. She then embraces the man and begins to apply her energy drain kiss. Lost in ecstasy, the priest does not resist (having regained consciousness as a result of Selinda's healing) and moments later is a 0th level commoner, never able to regain levels again. A sting of Linteshar's tail and he is blissfully asleep, dreaming of the glorious succubus.

    When he wakes up, he will find his own personal power completely gone, and his stupid temple obliterated. What do you intend to do with that one?
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    "Right now, scouting and blocking the way, possibly spread the puppet army if anyone comes. If no one comes, well, nothing, just dispose of him so we can quietly off as many people as possible." Daciana concentrates to tap into the warrior's senses for a moment, trying to gauge if an alarm was raised or anyone is coming. If the coast seems clear, she orders him inside the room to have him killed.

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    A scan of the warriors senses reveals that no one else is coming, or at least not to his knowledge. With that in mind, Daciana brings him back into the room and without another word, Linteshar applies a coup de grace to finish him off.
    Selinda opens the door back into the hallway, the group can go left or right.
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    The basic strategy is to go from door to door, quietly open them, charm the occupants if they are awake and kill them, then head to the next. If they come into the vicinity of stairs before they are done with the rooms, they head to the rooms they haven't been in first. The game repeats until the floor is cleared or until they are discovered.

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    The group turns to the right, and quickly comes across another door that leads into a room beside the room of the high priest. Opening it, they see a bed that was just recently slept in, likely the room of the gish.
    Backtracking to the left, there is another door with the same sort of set up. The group open it, as they do so, the occupant is alerted, waking up as they enter. The room is dark, but there is enough light to see the figure is female.

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    "Ssh," Daciana calms the woman with an added charm person II (DC 26). If Daciana isn't able to charm her, hopefully the others are. If the woman is charmed, the witch has her companions identify her.
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    Still a bit groggy from being unceremoniously awakened, the womans will is no match for Daciana's charm and she relaxes back down into the bed, with a smile on her face. Selinda and Linteshar enter the room as well, Selinda whispering, Katalla, the #6 and unless I am mistaken the gish was Erthon, the #7 Even whispering, the woman hears Selinda and bobs her head in agreement.
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    Daciana gently converges on the bed with Linteshar, not trying to distract her to have her killed, given her acute senses. Instead, she draws Katalla into a kiss, at the same time judging if she might have the potential to be a Nocticulan. Killing the whole hierarchy is one thing. To have one of the top members completely converted would add insult to injury and add a new valuable ally, kept in line by witches and priestesses as she slowly is shown a new way.

    Of course, if she does not have what makes for a good and successful Nocticulan, she just invites Linteshar along to give her a quiet, blissful death.

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    Concentrating on Katalla, Daciana cant really see Selinda, but if she did, she would see a smile of approval on the senior witch's face, Daciana proving to be a perfect Nocticulan. Katalla is joined on the bed by Linteshar and Selinda, who deepen the charm that Katalla is under. Converting her right now is not something they really have the time for so they'll just bring her along for the rest of the mission, who knows, seeing the #6 in tow with the women might cause some confusion in the enemy ranks.
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    "You are safe with us, sweet Katalla. We'll bring you to a better place, filled with pleasures these brutes denied you, where you can embrace your true talents and finally be who you really are." Daciana kisses Katalla again, with the temptation of a Nocticulan and the love of a Tishtinian. Sure, she could try to convert her to a Tishtinian, but given she is already evil, Nocticula is a better fit. In the end, the trinity is one, so the final result is the same in Daciana's eyes, even if most followers of the trinity might think otherwise. But who knows, maybe Katalla eventually embraces more than just one path, like Daciana is doing.

    With Katalla in tow (Daciana even holding hands with her to further add confusion for the enemy), they search the rest of the floor, before moving downwards.

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    The group explores all the way around the outside of the upper floor, finding nothing else but empty rooms. It becomes obvious however that there is a big space in the middle of the upper floor and since there is only one door in, it makes sense that it is the actual "temple", the worship hall of Oriton, and that supposition is confirmed by Katalla. She tells the group it is possible that Rynack, the 4th (and last high ranking player present in the temple) is inside, but she doesn't know for sure. The door does not appear locked or trapped in any way.
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    Daciana looks to Linteshar, buffing her with displacement and greater heroism. "Would you be so kind to teleport us inside?" Same procedure as with the Baron: hit him fast with a coordinated ambush, Daciana firing a hold person (DC 26).

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    Katalla stays Linteshar's attempt to teleport...the temple is warded against that, you'll have to just enter the old fashioned way
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    Then they enter the old-fashioned way, with the same plan as before.

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    The door opens and the group sees the temple room of Orithon, and just as they suspected, it is occupied. One man is standing, by the regalia he is wearing, one would assume him to be Rynack. Two men are kneeling in front of him, presumably supplicants or perhaps initiates of some sort, and three men are seated in pews, watching the ceremony.
    As the group enters, all the men turn to look at them, with Rynack saying...Katalla, what are you doing, what are you thinking, those are the enemy, have you gone stupid?
    This gives the initiative to the group, who does Daciana target and with what?
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    "All of this is unnecessary, but you sadly brought it upon yourself." The words are laced with a mass hold person (DC 28), targetting all men.

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    Rynack and one of the initiates manage to resist Daciana's spell but the other 4 go rigid, the men sitting continue to stay seated, and the initiate topples over. Selinda targets the other initiate with a charm spell that he cannot resist, but she leaves Rynack to Linteshar, who attacks him with her sword. Rynack only has a scepter in hand that he was using to perform the ceremony, he waves ineffectively like a cudgel in attempting to hold off her, its almost comical in its futility. After his first attempt he discards the "weapon" and appears to be casting, moving forward to touch Linteshar, likely with some sort of wound infliction spell. The tactic proves to be very unsound as it just leaves him wide open to be grappled by the succubus since he already touching her, and before he knows it, he is locked in a passionate kiss, all thoughts of resistance fleeing his mind. Unlike the head priest however, Linteshar doesn't stop at level 0 and moments later, the man goes rigid and then slack, a look of total bliss still on his dead face.
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    Daciana asks Katalla "Can you tell me who these men are?"

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