Devaguea hadn't used too many spells, only a trio of his more useable ones anyway, so they entirely could go in tonight. But the plans had already been spread about tomorrow, so instead he took in a couple people explicitly to take out the oozes tonight, with orders to avoid getting caught before anything else. So Serena and Korima went in with him and sniped the oozes to death, the women using the flying carpet to stay out of reach, and move around, and him using another fly spell.<br/><br/>Once the oozes were dead, the group retreated to the camp site, and spent the night there, before moving down to camp the last few hours of the day away in the ooze room. Nordri's first assignment was figuring out how to open the passage out of the keep, and everyone else was ordered to prepare to assault the keep. They used several candles to track time, each candle good for an hour, and the outside groups had been told to get into position an hour after sundown. Once it was an hour after sundown, Devaguea squashed the guttering remains of the candle, and nodded to the others. "Lets do this. And people, two rules. First rule, everyone goes home. If it is a choice between you and some poor shmuck, kill him. And rule two, which is only in effect after rule one, if they look important, make an attempt to take them alive, unless they are a caster. The people here would like a nice, visceral, messy reminder about the inevitability of justice."<br/><br/>Considering they were moving into actual hostile territory, the dragon set the marching order as thus: Nordri and Serena at the front, Akiros right behind them, Devaguea in his kobold form keeping the pacifist healer Anke unviolated, and Kesten bringing up the rear. Orders (while still following the rules) was to kill everyone hostile they ran into but avoid chasing them if they actually fled, and beeline for the baron's room. The sooner he was dead or captured, the better.