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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zerith" data-source="post: 5539889" data-attributes="member: 99953">[sblock=OoC] A Gnoll without a class level can whip Alden or Alexander at this point, and heir red shirts!? .. Crap…[/sblock]     Alexander would address Wet-Nose first “Our goal is the capture of the half-knife-ear, further there could be knife-ears in the area, if thou smell any we are to avoid them, we do not need to be ambushed to succeed this quest.” He addressed Wet-Nose before adding “also, if thou smell humans, tell me; the orders addressing not being seen are still standing.”Then he turned to Starfinder “We shall start the search by moving towards the mountain town he was last tracked to, we will need a seldom traveled path to avoid unwanted attention, also it would be preferable if the terrain around the path allowed thou and thy kin to readily vanish from sight if need be. I shall leave it to thou to choose the path and the pace. Finally, tell me when we near any settlements.” He spoke before addressing the Gnolls in general “We are to capture the aforementioned Half-Knife-Ear, so no killing it; ye, however, are free to wound it if need be, further ye are free to slaughter any hostile Knife-Ears we run into at need, but I should like to capture at least one if the circumstances allow it. Also, when and if we are brought into a battle I will feign madness and divert attention onto myself while ye flank to the sides. Finally, if we are meeting on our way ye are to all vanish wherever ye are able to.”  He finished before causing the party to head out.     From here Alexander would have Alden ride a dozen yards in front at the point, to use the mounted man to act as a visible shield for the Gnolls in case something came from in front; if it was other humans who came, namely commoners, Alden would be further instructed to steal their eyes, to make them look at himself for a short while as the Gnolls hid themselves. If a fork in the road, or some other impasse as to the path to be taken appeared Alden would be further instructed to do one of four things:[sblock=Alden’s orders]If there was nothing coming or in sight he would be told to simply wait for Alexander and the Gnolls to ketch up.If commoners appeared while he was at the impasse he would naturally, slowly, approach the commoners and make short conversation before ‘going on his way’ until he was out of sight of the commoners, and then double back a few moments later. Meanwhile Alexander would instruct the Gnolls to hide  If Alden saw a couple of Treylor troopers, or another group of foes they could readily beat, Alden would be instructed to abruptly turn tail and flee with all hast past were Alexander and the Gnolls would have been. Meanwhile Alexander would order the Gnolls to hid and then charge, preferably from both sides, as the enemy passed. At this point Alden would have a further order, turn about again and charge down their throats; at this point they would have been caught off guard by the prompt ambush and would “…not be able to adjust to the further shock of their pray turning about and charging them while they’re still realizing they had just ran headlong into an ambush.”     And finally, If Alden saw a force of Treylor troopers, or other foes, that was either risky to fight or simply so large that direct combat would mean death, Alden’s order would have been to, again, turn tail and run; the difference would be that Alden would also be ordered to scream, yell, or flail a free arm; if he was not seen he would be instructed to do a variant of this. He would be told to instead return more slowly so that he would not case the enemy force to become aware by causing a sudden gallop to sound, Alden would in this case also be instructed to wave his arm but would be definitively instructed to not yell or shout. In either case this would be cause to back off and make a wide birth.[/sblock]     Alexander himself would bring up the rear, but unlike Alden he would be close to the Gnolls who he would tell to travel in single file; optimizing their ability to hide between himself and Alden. If viewed from the front or behind.[Sblock=OoC]Alexander is not one to do things half arsed when he can do them overly complicated! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />[/Sblock]</blockquote>

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