"...how large of a mercenary company?"

"Not entirely sure. It's enough to have a significant presence across Chult, and somewhat in Midguard. I don't think she can field the entire thing at once, but I wouldn't be surprised if she could pull at least a hundred to here."

"Trying to guarantee she'll want to team up is definitely looking like the better option here."

She nods. "We might still win, I expect we have more experienced fighters - but it's a better conflict to avoid."

"They could be toddlers armed with sticks, and I still wouldn't want to deal with 100 of them."

"You'd be surprised how ridiculous high levels make you at clearing out groups."

"True, true. I'm just stuck with dealing with people one at a time.

Wanna head to Ras Nsi?"

"We'll have to find him. A proper hunt," Decima says.

"Presumably he's looking for other cubes, so he'd likely go to where he thinks he could get more cubes. ...which is probably us, honestly. Though that's not that helpful for finding him." 

"And letting him come to us puts us at a disadvantage, even with our numbers."

"Yeah, and then we'd have to deal with finding where he thinks we'll be, and ending up there-- and it'd be a whole thing."

"Could always make our position obvious," Decima says with a laugh.

"If we could find a good place to face Ras, that might actually be a good idea."

"Except for the attention it'll draw from everyone else."

"...yeah, that's actually a good point.

Might make sense to just, like, look for him."

"If I knew some more details about what type of magic he'll have I can do sweeps, but my range isn't ideal for covering a city..."

"If we can find it, going to high ground and looking for him could work. Might give away our position a bit though."

"And 'high ground' doesn't help my senses, plus I'm sure there's some ways of moving about undetected."

"It'd help visual senses, but I take your point. Would Ras be likely to have ways of moving about undetected?"

"Yup. Invisibility's not too hard, for one, and this city probably doesn't have intact sewers but there's bound to be stretches that are navigable if you're willing to get wet."

"And I'm assuming anti-invisibility is a bit of a pain? ...and wouldn't work on people in the sewers anyway. Drat."

"It's higher level - Juerai can cast it on himself but not on all of us - and not unbreakable. But, yeah. We might be able to ask the locals for directions?"

"It sounds like the best option we have."

"Fortunately I'm good at talking to people..."

"That's a plus. So, let's go find some locals."