I am slow, and must apologize.  I'm definitely enjoying the thread, and very sad to see you're not content at the moment, PhantomPistoleer.  I think Garrett's refreshing and amusing... I don't actually laugh out loud at much that I read online, but "I'm fockin OWNING" cracked me up, right here at my laptop in the Dunkin Donuts across from school, and would have cost me a trip to the Immediate Care Physicians' if the chai that came out my nose would have been any hotter.<br/><br/>I wish I could do more in the thread, but be damned if this thread isn't a challenge for me... I'm really grasping at straws with this combat, since I'm having a bitch of a time visualizing it, imagining striking distance, ranges, etc.  Maybe I should have stuck with "Fire BAAAAD" smash-over-the-head combat style rather than trying to be into precision.  I'm still open to suggestions.  When I post again (soon, I hope) I'm going to give a slew of rolls to GT via PM in the hopes that, should I lag the combat, he can either 'run-and-shoot' or 'run-and-hide' me as necessary.<br/><br/>I don't know how suicidal it would be to try to lure a couple of them into the burnt-out bakery-- I know wargs can scent for Ithi, but she'd at least have a chance to use surprise.  I also thought that maybe she could shake them and then bolt for the tower, but they're locking the gate-- is it scalable? Locking?  Would Garrett's wand of dispel help with the defenses further?  I'm kind of hoping for a new angle here that my character, far cooler than me, would comprehend, but that might give the other players a shot at getting more comprehensively involved.  Of course, if we all get captured, that's a whole new ballgame, but fuck if I have any ideas!  ;)