Except we also don't know what's out there or what direction they'd come from, and if we're forced to confront them then at least we have an advantageous position to leverage conversation from if not an ambush.
Most things will give away a position if you shoot them, but a little concealment and cover can go a long way if you catch someone relatively flat footed. In a theoretical combat situation that may well never happen, I'd prefer being behind some rubble than caught out on the road. I do not, however, actually expect Powder will just funnel combats into the same three feet of space. I don't expect him to hand out progress either though, so if killing the drone does wind up calling people in I imagine they might be more of a recovery team if you stretch the definition of recovery. Being in a position to control the situation would be pretty beneficial. If there isn't any follow-up, well, there won't be any timer to worry about (that we're aware of, beyond the timer that is the lifespan of one of these druidpeople), so no harm done.
Lets see. PM says I can't be meme and corporate always says to use a compliment sandwitch when critiquing. So lets try that!
Those are some
creative assumptions that took an
innovative mind to come up with!
They just don't make any sense from the in-character or meta perspective.
In character if we think an armed response force would come at us for attacking it before we can make it inna woods that are a throwing distance away from the building, then attacking the spider should be the last thing on our mind since killing it would get us nothing but dead (since we'd be out maneuvered, out gunned, and if they instantly respond with force to a useless drone getting offed then they'll send more guys if we manage to kill those guys until we're dead). If in character we think a recovery force would be sent than we must be err...
creative since the spider drone has been critically damaged for months(weeks?) and nobody bothered to do anything about it. Why would they speed to recover something when they can't bother to repair it?
It doesn't make sense from a meta perspective since literally all the framing devices are built around actions taking time and he's probably not going to completely change the game rules after one round. Assuming the timer would go away when all the rules assume some kind of timer is
creative.
If hostile response comes we get nothing from staying around here instead of bolting. The risk of accidentally running in the direction of some theoretical fast response squad that responds instantly to the lowest drone getting destroyed is minimal. Theoretically the plot is going to move forward no matter what we do. We can assume that the timer will continue to be a thing so we should spend our time wisely and prepare for the future in some way rather than holing up for no real reason.
Being prepared for theoretical threats and cautious about moving forward are some handy traits to have
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