"O-Okay!" the girls all stammered, almost in unison; their faces had changed humors shortly after Aria had gasped about being mind-controlled; it was evident the three acolyte priestesses thought this was very strange, out-of-character, or inappropriate on the part of 'Rana', and they seemed to believe Kass's statement that this was an imposter.<br/><br/>The girl behind the bed dropped her palm front across the pillows and slid sideways through the curtains; she moved about on the balcony, looking left, right, down, and even up, and exclaimed, "I see no one for miles!"<br/><br/>The girl with the tray also dropped that on the bed, and dashed back through the office, and under the arcade into the courtyard near the fountain. "I don't see anyone!" she exclaimed. "Well, not Rana!" She had the presence of mind to notice the male priest dictating to the kneeling female acolyte, and say to them, "There's an imposter posing as Rana! She's trying to mind control people and just teleported somewhere or something! The two the real Rana called for have uncovered something!"<br/><br/>The man, his face handsome and blonde-maned in a similar look to Faebion's actually  (he was clearly not Mulhorandi, but perhaps from northwestern Faerun and of northman viking lineage like Aria), looked shocked and exlcaimed to his kneeling dictatee, "Let's go find the real one...or the fake one!" He sprang up to go dash down one of the other halls leading away from the courtyard, with the girl shadowing him closely.<br/><br/>The girl who'd been serving the imposter and still knelt on the bed, hopped down, and still naked ran out a few steps behind the other, looking around.<br/><br/><br/><br/>lol, that's *very* clever, using the girls are scouts! I didn't even think of that (but it's so clever I wish I could say I had placed the girls in this scenario for that very reason)<br/><br/>Yes, you can delay to move after the girls but before Aria's and Rana's next turn. (What do you mean by 'holding action'? 'readied action'?)<br/><br/>Generally speaking, b/c I do group initiative for enemies (with only 1 in this case anyway), the 'friendlies' (PCs and any NPCs ready to do what they tell them, like the girls here) can use delay actions to arbitrarily reorder their turns every round. Aria could go before Kass one round and after her the next and then reverse back, and so on. (Of course, the enemies can do the same thing b/c they are also together.) In PBP games with 3+ players this is a massie speedup of the pace of the campaign, since people only need to wait for the DM to post each round, rather then their particular order in the turn. (And when their order matters tactically, they can try to coordinate and post to say they do X after their buddy does Y.)