Okay bad bad incoming death bad! Human shields don't work if they fall over!<br/><br/>Okay, tactics. If there was any way she was making this out alive - and there seemed a very good chance that her long streak of doing that might abruptly come to a remarkably bloody end - it would be through clever thinking, some luck, and possibly unexpected infliction of intense violence.<br/><br/>Her guards were incapacitated or possessed, and one of the fighters was preparing to engage. He was the obvious tactical priority - he looked about to enter a rage. The elf was fooling around with Fossil and not flashing, and the others were occupied on the boat, so at least there shouldn't be much in the way of outside interference. There wasn't any obvious cover available, and taking this guy in single combat didn't seem like the best way to leave her internal organs on the appropriate side of her skin.<br/><br/>And so, lacking cover, Mezmoria made her own.<br/><br/>The elf was easy enough to dislodge from Miss Nettles - it took little more than a well-placed kick to the stomach - and Nettles herself wasn't in much of a position to fight back. She lobbed her at the beserker.<br/><br/>There, a distraction! She took the chance to run city-wards, hollering for guards, guards! - at this moment, a tactical retreat seemed in order.