Don't let your emotions for Skree get in the way of the bigger picture, guys.
Emotions ARE the bigger picture, the only way to defeat Feringus is to get someone/something else to do it for us or to convince her that the oculoids are mentally valuable...
Skree is but a part of this.
Feringus and Gentleman need to be stopped, now.
Gentleman can take us and Feringus can destroy us with a single word, and is probably immune to any harm we might intend to inflict upon her...
Kill Skree. Don't make him suffer any longer.
Skipping the whole euthanasia debate, Skree may be the only giant oculoid we can reason with, and the giant oculoids may be the only ones that demonstrate enough complex though to convince Feringus.
Rebuttals for Pacifism:
Japa (dodge /wear Skree out) - This will take up far too much valuable time. It will be too late.
We do not have any data on the oculoid physiology, but nor does gentleman, and a terrestrial organism would be hard pressed to maintain a body that size on the energy reserves it had in its former size. Running away should be a viable means of evading and tiring an oculoid out...
iceball3 (shout FACADE as loud as possible) - This is a doubtful course of action, at best. It relies on far too much chance and guesswork than I'm comfortable with. Maybe if there was some precedence for FACADE working from any source other than the organ, or of AG being able to properly shout it, then I might be behind this, if only to counteract the herpaderp bullcrap we pulled with the music box.
Music box worked, it can't be very loud, now skree is making more noise. I would advocate retiring to the organ though, you are right about the precedent.
rarborman (put paper hat on Skree) - Fantastic, he'll look super stylish as he violently murders us.
The emotional attachment to the hat is obvious, and may return much of its former mentality. I would argue that there are limited opportunities and that itsemotional receptiveness is limited at the current moment.
dragnar (use eyedol / hide on dock) - Use eyedol how, exactly? Hide on dock where, exactly? Again, hiding would take way too much time. If it was even possible to do in the first place
Most probably by presenting it, although I am not certain that the current oculoids involve themselves too much with the relevant symbolism.
RAM (throw music box) - What does this achieve? The damage has already been done; destroying the music box isn't going to make it stop storming. We would need to play FACADE on the organ to do that.
It serves as a distraction, and the objective is not to destroy it by throwing it into the ground, but to remove it from our person by skidding it across the ground. Hopefully it will continue to play and serve as a much greater irritant than a withdrawing robot.
Also, remember: even if we manage to calm Skree down slightly, it'll just be turning the knob down from Insanely Murderous Rage to just plain old Murderous Rage.
The objective is to render it to a similar state to the one that died, except with less dissection...
Any effort to reverse the process (something we know absolutely nothing about, by the way, and will have to figure out from scratch) and Feringus and Gentlemen will have already achieved their goals.
We know that music has an influence upon their emotional state. We know that FACADE acts similarly to a sedative and that the music box acts similarly to a stimulant. We are lacking input from an unknown period of time and Feringus may have completed her efforts and already left the planet. Skree is a valid responsibility and one that we have means of dealing with, not to mention the capacity to greatly aid with any other issues should we find a favourable resolution.
Skree can and will outmanouvre us and has far more endurance than we do. Running or outlasting Skree is simply not an option.
I have yet to see evidence of giant occuloid endurance and we have seen that Gentleman was capable of escaping...
Our only possible advantage at the moment is Stovebrand.
We possess considerable advantages in terms of information and considering that we are at a disadvantage in range, power, and number of effective weapons and angles of attack, I would say that stovebrand is an advantage only as a distraction. Damage is far more likely to be inflicted by an unexpected unarmed attack.
Let's use it.
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