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I feel like we've made a mistake somewhere.

Alright K. I'm pretty sure I'm faster than the elf by at least 10 ft. Keep the dwarf locked in a grapple. I'll do my signature enrage+charge to knock the elf down and help Zeiss finish him, then come barreling back your way to help. I'll take over if he hurt you bad, and Zeiss will help me if it gets ugly. It's a gamble, but we can't let that elf escape. We can't let them have any more warning than they already got.

Advoc will stay with Higaide.

Well, at least i'm not managing a civilian crew anymore.

Javan is sending Dragoon Waves to the party from wherever he is. Hopefully that'll mean you guys get extra 20s and he gets to keep the 1s... or was it the other way around?

Let's spare the dwarf, yeah? As I understand it, the intention was to neutralize opposition quickly and quietly. Since we've botched that, we can at least try to punch his lights out now that it's a three-on-one fight.

Sure. But if I learn he's working with the assassins, he's dead meat.

I get the feeling this exchange happened before, but in reverse.

Anyway, i picked Monk for my character for times just like this, where it'd be just as well for me to spare a foe as to kill them.

That being said, i'm still the only one who can deal nonlethal damage at full efficiency, if i'm not mistaken. And Dwarf man will be less than happy that we killed his buddy.

So then, i'm switching to nonlethal damage.

Well, as soon as you tell us K, Zeiss is going to roll deception and make it look like the Aluvian army is coming for them.

You sure that's a good idea? We should probably take cover while we still can.

Assuming your deception works Zeiss, they won't simply let you leave because you play the 'military raid' card. That just changes their thoughts on preparation and planning while they have you tied up in their base and using the Sho water-drip torture technique to get you to talk. We can't talk our way out of a situation in which we are found by hostile reinforcements at a private entrance with the people tasked to guard it bleeding on the ground near us. At that point, you can talk them down from hostile, but we would be coming with them. We don't want to go with them unless we have to, and right now we don't. We can still run away from this, and to do that we need to cover our retreat. I have one smokebomb, which will only delay them, but it's something.

We need to leave and try another. Of course all entrances are guarded, but right now the heat is on this one. Different entrance, and this time we need to try talking. Also, we stick close to each other.

Unfortunately, i'm pretty sure the whole area will be under heightened security for a while. For the same reason that'll make it talking our way through all that much harder than it already was.

Also, the Dwarf has seen our faces, so we either resort to cold-blooded murder to cover our tracks (spoiler: I'm not wiling to.) or try for stealth if we can take cover somewhere and sneak through while they're busy checking out the gory aftermath and tending to the still-living guard (might provide some info, if we play it right, actually).

Another option is to take the guard with us, tie him up somewhere and see what he knows.

Huh, it seems you misunderstand my intentions. I'm not planning to talk my way out of this, which would be impossible by that point anyway, even if we go to another entrance.

But you're welcome to run away if you prefer, I won't hold it against you.

Don't worry about whether the dwarf saw our faces. It's dark down here anyway. I guess we'll see what happens.

You bought us some time, Zeiss, but that's all we get. I hope you're not planning on pushing through here. Security won't suddenly be raining men down all of the access points just because they find their lookouts squashed at one of them. I would choose heightened security over hostile reinforcements in superior numbers any day.

Arch, can we get a guess at how long it would take to find/reach another viable point of entry?

Can I Intuit about going towards them?

No Intuits. As for other entrances or exits, the nearest exit is the one you're aiming for currently, you'd have to backtrack quite a ways to find another one and then loop back around topside to return. I'd say a bare minimum of 3 hours for the whole trip.

If you are certain you guys can reach and kill/disable an unknown number of running targets in less than 3 rounds without knowing what's ahead, that's one way to go about it. Otherwise, try to use the choke point you guys have to your advantage.

What Essoje said. It's very important not to get drawn out. The Mongols use to do that with their cavalry to devastating effect.

Lol, that was just perfect. Yeah, let's find another entrance, if only to delay the ultimate choice of whether to keep going or come back tomorrow.

That's hilarious and 'I told you bro. I told you about rushing'.

Edited my action. That's cold-blooded, I know, but I'm not taking any chance. If he recognized us, we're dead meat.

Yeah, that's not gonna sit well with my char at all.

Essoje wrote:That's hilarious and 'I told you bro. I told you about rushing'.

It keeps happening. :p