"See, now we're getting somewhere. Your name is Jessit?"
Idly talk to guy, go collect the crystal people. They're in a goop grenade, from what I understand? Use their immobility to disassemble them systematically and store their parts.
The man just keeps muttering about being confused, cycling back over the same comments of "is this real life?" and similar.
You try to behead a crystal man to make the collecting easier but his head just grows back and the goop around him partially shrinks as it is sucked into his body to replenish his mass.
That and the severed head bites at you.
Establish the secondary portal outside the town we were looking for the mayor in, send Avalanche team to guard it.
Then get back to the mayor's residence now that that's taken care of along with a team of sods and probably Han as well. See if the mayor is available to receive a speech on the direness of the situation and a need for a speedy evacuation. Deploy speech (prepared, or Charlescast if that's available)!
Secondary portal established, order to guard it sent out. Now we just need to see if it is followed.
The mayor's residence is a large home, not ostentatious but quite spacious, and surrounded by a high wall with a rather ornate metal gate. There's an intercom you can speak through, but when you use it a house keeper or some kind of servant is the one that answers. You suppose you could just kick down the gate and go grab the mayor, but thats not the most....diplomatic approach possible. Could use the speech on the servant, get him to go get his boss. Or maybe just broadcast it super loud so he has no choice but to listen.
Hmm.