Whenever the mercenaries protectors are gathered for their next assignment, 82-B will suggest they stop and have a short meeting to discuss strategy and information gathered.
Shara, after noticing that 82-B is trying to gather the group to talk about strategy, follows 82-B
Yes, strategy is important
Morning set out as the protector about to leave for their rescue mission. They stopped to discuss their ultimate, uncontested, yet most magnificently elegant strategy.┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Hope "You'd like to discuss about.. something? Sure."
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It occurs to Mona that it is far later than she initially thought. Days were much longer back where she was from, and her circadian rhythm was all messed up.
Mona heads back to the Inn
After meeting to head out for the next mission, but BEFORE actually leaving the town, Mona will mention to Advisor Hope that... "If we are expecting to encounter MATI, then it may be optimal to summon the ones in the general in advance using her magic; either to negotiate or at the least challenge them to fight on our own terms in an area prepared in advance with places to hide from death explosions. Based on my research into weird statues, it would be bad to deal with them at the same time as the MATI for a number of reasons, such as MATI death explosion being more dangerous to us than the statues, Bow MATI forcing some of us to move in a way that could enrage the statues just to get in striking range and Shield MATI forcing us to move involuntarily with the gravity pull."
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Hope "The matis are bloodlusted soldier that has no other reason to exist other than to fight, you can try to reason with them but don't tell me
i didn't warn you when you're going to be attacked later in the battlefield. To eliminate them safely. We need to hold our ground until all
those creature finally disperse and vanished from the area entirely. We need to defend against their attack until they are finally
disappear from the battle, they won't explode this way."
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