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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2727169" data-attributes="member: 1656">Well, the PCs know another flare is coming... eventually.Tuco didn't see how the last flare affected ghosts.Tuco thinks he can take the PCs... but maybe not if he attacks first.  He might still pull it off, but that wasted round will hurt.The PCs think they can take Tuco... if they can avoid combat until the flare occurs, without giving Tuco reason to leave the affected radius.Christian Bale knows he can hurt Tuco badly, but that there's a good chance his Ghost Debilitator won't overcome the Sanctuary.  But if he waits until the flare goes off, the PCs might see Tuco as less of an immediate threat, and he knows they hate him.  So it's in his interest to get combat initiated between Tuco and the PCs before the flare goes off, without attacking anyone himself first.  If he manages that, and times it right, he can help Tuco finish off the PCs just before the flare goes off.  Then the flare goes off, Tuco gets badly hurt, and Christian Bale polishes him off with the dragon essence and gets the grail.So Christian Bale's aim is to provoke someone - anyone - into attacking someone.  Even into attacking him.  If the PCs attack him, Tuco attacks the PCs.  If Tuco attacks him, the PCs attack Tuco.  He should be fast-talking, making promises, making threats, telling lies, anything to get someone to make the first move.  He needs to point out to the PCs that the Sanctuary doesn't make Tuco invulnerable, and that they outnumber him, and one of them might get a lucky shot in that gets past the protection and distracts him so Christian can use the Dragon Essence.  Or he needs to point out to Tuco that the PCs have just finished a hard fight, and together the two of them can take them despite the protection... all the while winking at the PCs where Tuco can't see.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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