Sheerak looks towards Janis. Oh no, ......Miss......Janus, I appologize, but as long as I am your guest and not family, some sort of title is appropriate. It is demanded by Courtesy. If there is a title more to your liking, please inform me.
Looking to the entire groupI agree with your concerns, but look at it this way. How many people are enslaved per year in from this camp. 100? I'm sure it's more. How many are enslaved by this group throught the planes? How many are sold by all group throughout the planes? I want to save these slaves, but unless one of them is a special someone, we must look at the bigger picture. I do not advocate trying to challenge the entire enterprise of slaving, not yet at least, but we can do the most good if we undermine the opperation, the organization, and the industry. If these slaves, how may are there again?, all die, but we fataly cripple this camp and undermine comfidence in the slaving trade by killing all the buyers, how many hundreds and thousands across the planes will never know the coller and the lash? Let me know if there is a high value target here, otherwise, I think killing the buyers, killing everyone working at the camp, and getting as much information from them as possible before hand are our top priorities.
For this, Getting at least one of them to drink Sable's special brew is ideal. The higher rankign the better. This will keep him out of the fight, and we can question him later.
As for an attack plan once we're in. I have never fought these things before, and do nto knwo what an umber hulk is, but with out invisible or nearly invisible scouts, I'm sure we can take any number as long as we pick them off a few at a time. Assuming we plan to kill everyone and disrupt their opperations, our highest priority spots are the slave pens and the barracks, They don't want the slaves dead, so they ar eunlikely to force a fight there unless they are desparate, so the final fight will likely be there and we should be prepared to negotiate there or else be ready for them to use human sheilds, as I assume as slavers they are cowards. Our most dangerous spot is the warrens. Even with a map we could get lost, an ambush or traps are likely at every turn, and they look narrow, which may keep me from using my...size.
If we can get some of us in as buyers, we should proabbly assume at leatsone of the seller swill have true sight, so I might as well stay in natural form and Vir should proabbly stay in poendant form at first rather than relying on invisibility too heavily. We will need to guard the river here at the buyer's docks, so that the slavers don't escape witht eh salves by the river while we try to get through the warrens.
I see three plans.
One, we play nice, "buy" some slaves, and see how many buyers and sellers we can get to drink with us. The map makes the buyers area seem open, and if we are the only buyers there, then thats fien and simplifies things, if there are other buyers, thats even better. We then kill/incapacitate any enemies remaining in the pen and take the river to attack the baracks from the back. We can try to free the slaves on the way...maybe bring some extra weapons in case any want to fight with us...but we can free them after we kill the slavers, so that is not the priority. We strike the barracks from behind. Someone who can fly...btw, who here can't fly?....doubles back ont he river to watch the pen and stop, or at least take note of, any escape by the slavers.
Option 2, we go as buyers, fight everyone at the buyers area, and try to fight our way through the warrens taking this, the most direct path. She points to the mostly striaght path closest to the storage usits. This may be exactly where they would expect an attack and it looks easily defensable, but then again, if they are expecting an army, they might expect a river route, as no army could fit inn the warrens easily. Someone would have to stay at the buyers area to watch eveyrone's back and to guard against escape.
Option 3, we don't go as buys, and we sneak in as best we can from here She points to a tiny bit of river going off the map to the South. From here we sneak past into the baracks and try to take them unawares. Thosegood at sneaking, Vir and Sable at least, would be the first wave, with myself and anyone nto sneaky staying a the shore as a reserve, witha signal for the reserve group to come help.
Vir looks thoughtful but agreeable to all this, he perks up at the mention of sailing down the river.