Nia is thinking (and will say to Dax and Gegren) “unless you can think of another way out, I think we have these options: 1. Fight them at the entrance as they come in. It’s a bottleneck and their numbers won’t mean as much. For the record, I don’t like this option. 2. Lure them deep into this temple and attempt to get past them and escape. I think one or more of us who can magically transport themselves could lure them into a place where they can be bypassed and then we run for the entrance. We already have all the seeds, so there doesn’t appear to be a reason to stay. Nia can find a decent hiding place, while the decoys lure these guys in. Once they’ve committed (like, have crossed the chasm) the decoys can make a run for it and we can collectively try to deal with whatever force remains on the surface. If there aren’t many, we can overcome them or I can make them forget they saw us. What do folks think? Because this is going to get serious very soon. On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM bss via Emerald Flame < emerald-flame@lists.incorporeal.org> wrote:
On Sunday, November 23, 2025 12:14 AM bss via Emerald Flame wrote:
Chaos and panic dominate the group's reaction to the shattering stone and threat. Overlapping screams and yells to retreat back up top as they quickly flee (as quickly as they can while being blinded, anyway). If you were to follow them, you would see them hurriedly returning up the hole in the mud room, making no attempt to stop you or to hide their immediate fear.
That said, you don't get the sense the whole company up top is packing up or anything, so you might have just bought yourselves some time, but you haven't accomplished a full retreat or anything like that.
You do have a couple minutes still to device a strategy, esp. as Dax goes and comes back for the two orbs.
Addendum: if you stick around for those couple minutes, Dax gets the sense that you are being scryed upon, and you should all make difficulty 4 Intellect defenses. -- bss (Brian S. Stephan) | https://bss.zone/ | GPG: 0x80895FCB_______________________________________________ Emerald Flame mailing list -- emerald-flame@lists.incorporeal.org To unsubscribe send an email to emerald-flame-leave@lists.incorporeal.org