{I've had some requests to move this along (group decision making dynamics are weird even in the more supple case of in-person groups), so I suggest that this is the plan that is ultimately formed:<br/><br/>1) The spices are dosed with the narcotics you've produced (using most of them)<br/>2) You take the mules, loaded with the spices with you and travel near to the temple. You know Poison Dusk patrol the area - eventually you'll have an encounter with them. If you do well,<span style="color: #FF0000">Linda can turn some poison dusk lizards into her zombies (and maybe have them take the mules in, or just add power to your attack)</span>. Apparently not possible due to the capabilities of 'small' zombies. If you do well Linda and Aethon get a nice meal, and the rest of you could use your potions to do so if you wished. Or maybe the tables will turn... If you do badly, then you can retreat, abandoning the mules, which might then be taken back and eaten.<br/>3) Hopefully that will weaken the temple enough that you can sneak in and attack area by area.<br/><br/>Of course you don't have to do it, but we do have to move on somehow}.