Meeting the wanderer

[Iron Dragoon]

Divination on the sailors and the defenses

[Anastasia]

The report from Ule is simple, "Below," he begins with, "As we thought. They are not greatly defended, the sahuagin have numbers and location. Little else."

[Iron Dragoon]

Is Jarem there?

[Anastasia]

Sure, if you want him there.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Jarem, with their numbers, what do you suggest? Strike force or en mass? What do we know of their weaknesses?"

[Anastasia]

"Well, the have the advantage of being in their home element." He considers, "So we overwhelm them so it doesn't matter. We have the magic to do it unless these are unusually powerful sahuagin. You have enough wizards who can give water breathing that getting sufficient forces down there isn't too hard. From there, superior magic decimates them and forces a surrender."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hm... Do we know where the sailors are being kept, exactly? If so, we can send an advance guard in, isolate them with walls of force and... Open some magma flows? Boil the waters around them until they surrender?"

[Anastasia]

"That works but slowly," Jarem remarks, "It also creates a steady flow of new formed rock. Still, it'll work well enough here," Drumming his fingers on the table, "Assuming there's magma flows nearby."

[Iron Dragoon]

"We'll keep it as a second option then. Lightning?"

[Anastasia]

"Diffuses in water," Jarem says, "Becomes an indiscriminate attack on anyone nearby," he remarks, "Viable but you'd want to be out of the water or be warded against lightning."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Lightning wards are viable for us. Still, if we vanguard but move in force, the casualties should be low enough..."

[Anastasia]

"It should work, if nothing goes too badly wrong," Jarem agrees.

[Iron Dragoon]

"That means something will go wrong. I want pre-designated casualty collection points, and each team needs an independent method of escape. Tactical Teleportation, Expeditious Retreat, you know the options. Field commanders will call for it. Find out who can use those most reliably, and often; they'll be our reinforcements since they can move around the fastest."

[Anastasia]

"Alright," Jarem says, "Will you participate at all?"

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods.

"Of course I will. This is a mission given to me by Shaundakul. How could I not see it done myself. I plan to get to the sailors and get them out. After they're away, speaking of we need to find a place to teleport them to, well... We'll see how things go and if I need to personally... subdue whoever is left."