Vanessa seems to have this well in hand

The scene has your complete attention. You think to yourself as to what a useful power instant, unquestioning hypnosis would be and wonder what other tricks Vanessa has up her sleeve.

You don't have to wait long to find out, because Vanessa makes another gesture with her fingers and spits out a few unintelligible arcane words, and the braided bandit's clothes explode outwards in all directions in a cloud of tiny snippets of material, before coalescing again into different shapes. The haze of material reconstitutes itself as a series of bands, floating in the air around the bandit, before suddenly constricting, wrapping themselves tightly around the now-naked bandit. The bonds wrap all around her, tying her arms behind her back, binding her legs together, one pushes itself into her mouth like a gag, and several more rope zig-zag across her torso. Within barely an instant Vanessa reformed the bandit's own clothes into a bondage, squeezing around her breasts, and leaving her hairy bush exposed as well.

The bandit is understandably surprised, and begins wriggling in abject humiliation, attempting to cry out but being unable to more than makes muffled noises. Her cheeks puff up, flushed red, and the embarrassment is visible in her eyes.

"What the hell!!" The third bandit - the long-haired leader - yells in the background, as she's watching her two naked compatriots. She turns to Vanessa, anxiously swiping her sword through the air, "Uh, ah, stay back!"

Vanessa giggles, and speaks another arcane word. The leader's sword is wrenched from her grip by an unseen **** and floats in the air. The sorceress speaks another few words of magical power and you watch as the sword twirls around its axis for a few seconds. When it stops, it has a sheen to it, the relatively blunt weapon having sharpened to the point of surpassing any scalpel.

"Hold still" Vanessa says.

She then whistles a series of tones, after which the blade whizzes through the air for a couple seconds to fast it's barely visible, before stopping abruptly and hang still in the air. The bandit looks around, wide-eyed. You hear soft sounds, creaks like tearing clothes. Then the bandit's armor, then her clothes, and finally her underwear all fall apart in rapid succession, fluttering to the ground in hundreds of little shreds and leaving the bandit standing stark naked in the middle of the room, offering an unimpeded view of her supple breasts and bushy crotch. The surprise and humiliation seem to leave her paralyzed for a second, incapable of doing more than letting out a soft gasp.

Vanessa looks pensive, and looks to you, before looking back at the bandit leader and cocking her head.

"Do you think her hair looks better than mine?"