Putting it in a spoiler tag.  If you have Notify e-mailing, you won't want to read this.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">The mind reading attempt would open Kira up to the floodgates.  The creatures are benevolent and docile, but strongly predisposed to learning EVERYTHING, so they'd want to probe through her mind as soon as contact was made.  It wouldn't be immediately clear that they weren't evil, but if it was stuck out peacefully, contact would be established.  Otherwise, the PCs could just destroy them, and they'd be helpless to stop the PCs while trapped in the circle.<br/><br/>Each of the maids contained a fraction of the power of the demon, making Mr. Shisenu powerful enough to control all the maids himself as well as being the real cause of his newfound vitality.  Each destroyed maid would send that power straight back to Shisenu, so if they were all destroyed, the demon would break free of him and would be an incredibly difficult battle.  It would be possible to incapacitate the maids without outright destroying them, such as by shattering every limb but leaving the head and chest intact.<br/></div></div><br/>I didn't have too much planned beyond that.  My games don't last long enough to make it worthwhile to try to have any real plot.