Security made its stand protecting the library, and all the girls who could get to it in time - for lack of anything particularly better to protect, once they realized Keltham wasn't on the premises; might as well try to save Cheliax the cost of a few Raise Dead spells that Keltham would probably insist upon.

Asmodia was in her bedroom and got swarmed by shadows, after which some summoned monster or another gnawed off all of her legs below her mid-thighs; after Asmodia's body got retrieved, it was dumped in one corner of the library, for use in later Resurrection or Raise Dead + Regenerate.  A dead Security wizard's body has been dropped beside her.

Ione is unconscious, and would ordinarily have been evacced, but, library oracle; if she's got to be in some library that's not a triage center, it might as well be this library?  Ione's body is occupying the largest, best-padded chair in the library, arranged with some detectable amount of respect, hands folded in her lap like a noblewoman.  Things could have gone much worse without that brief warning to put up buffs and ready items; and if Nidal had been able to lock down communications before they could call for reinforcements, or get assassins past the wards without triggering them, it would have been much much worse.

The other girls are - reading, some of them; Paxti is talking too fast to somebody who's tolerating that; one of them is examining a spiky dagger with a gem-studded hilt, not in the manner of somebody who expects to keep it, but somebody who wants to take a good look at it before Security takes it away.

Security made its stand protecting the library, and all the girls who could get to it in time - for lack of anything particularly better to protect, once they realized Keltham wasn't on the premises; might as well try to save Cheliax the cost of a few Raise Dead spells that Keltham would probably insist upon.  The surviving rooms are full of response team, but they could clear out one of the two rooms of the library without much trouble; this does imply going through the library first.

Asmodia was in her bedroom and got swarmed by shadows, after which some summoned monster or another gnawed off all of her legs below her mid-thighs; after Asmodia's body got retrieved, it was dumped in one corner of the library, for use in later Resurrection or Raise Dead + Regenerate.  A dead Security wizard's body has been dropped beside her.

Ione is unconscious, and would ordinarily have been evacced, but, library oracle; if she's got to be in some library that's not a triage center, it might as well be this library?  Ione's body is occupying the largest, best-padded chair in the library, arranged with some detectable amount of respect, hands folded in her lap like a noblewoman.  Things could have gone much worse without that brief warning to put up buffs and ready items; and if Nidal had been able to lock down communications before they could call for reinforcements, or get assassins past the wards without triggering them, it would have been much much worse.

The other girls are - reading, some of them; Paxti is talking too fast to somebody who's tolerating that; one of them is examining a spiky dagger with a gem-studded hilt, not in the manner of somebody who expects to keep it, but somebody who wants to take a good look at it before Security takes it away.

Security made its stand protecting the library, and all the girls who could get to it in time - for lack of anything particularly better to protect, once they realized Keltham wasn't on the premises; might as well try to save Cheliax the cost of a few Raise Dead spells that Keltham would probably insist upon.  The surviving rooms are full of response team, but they could clear out one of the two rooms of the library without much trouble; this does imply going through the library first.

Asmodia was in her bedroom and got swarmed by shadows, after which some summoned monster or another gnawed off all of her legs below her mid-thighs; after Asmodia's body got retrieved, it was dumped in one corner of the library, for use in later Resurrection or Raise Dead + Regenerate.  A dead Security wizard's body has been dropped beside her.

Ione is unconscious, and would ordinarily have been evacced, but, library oracle; if she's got to be in some library that's not a triage center, it might as well be this library?  Ione's body is occupying the largest, best-padded chair in the library, arranged with some detectable amount of respect, hands folded in her lap like a noblewoman.  Things could have gone much worse without that brief warning to put up buffs and ready items.  If Nidal had been able to lock down communications before they could call for reinforcements, or get assassins past the wards without triggering them, it could have been much much worse.

The other girls are - reading, some of them; Paxti is talking too fast to somebody who's tolerating that; one of them is examining a spiky dagger with a gem-studded hilt, not in the manner of somebody who expects to keep it, but somebody who wants to take a good look at it before Security takes it away.