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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frostrune" data-source="post: 2855881" data-attributes="member: 12272">Timrin smiles sympathetically, "Sorry.  It was unfair of me to put you on the spot like that.  We just have to buy as much time as we can and hope it's enough.""Analyzing our five immediate options really narrows it down to two.  We are not ready for a full scale assault on Chronos' army, we do not have sufficient firepower to take out his armada, and we have no means to locate Chronos himself.  That really leaves options 2 and 3: Seize the device temporarily, use it as best we can, and get out OR seize the island and try and hold it as best we can.  Of the remaining two choices, I favor temporarily seizing the device and perhaps destroying it when we are done.  The airships make trying to establish any kind of stronghold just too difficult.""The few guards currently posted around it should be easily overcome.  Assuming some alarm is raised in the process we will still have some precious moments before the land-bound army can mobilize against us.  The airships will pose the most immediate and dangerous threat.  How do we neutralize their ability to attack us at range?", he asks rhetorically, "Block their ability to target.""If they cannot see us things become a bit more sketchy for them, if they cannot even see the small island or the device, it will throw them off even more.""Is there not some spell or weather condition that can obscure a large area?  A huge fog bank or cloud perhaps?  A special enlarged type of wall spell?  There has to be something.""This is only a guess, but I think our enemy will be loathe to lob large area attacks at us for fear of harming the machine.  This will cause them to hesistate and dicker.  Unable to target us individually they will surround us and eventually send ground troops in to clean us out.  Hopefully this will have bought us enough time to do what we need.  We teleport back out when things get too hot, maybe leaving a few nasty surprises behind.""What do you think?  Can we do it?"</blockquote>

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