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"A fourth is not a bad idea, you know..."

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He sighs. "You can come with. Color spray doesn't work on undead, so don't bother with it if we run into any."

Anton rolls up his maps and stands up. "You can explain your 'strategies' on the way."

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She starts talking as they make their way out the door. "I'm aware. How much food are you carrying? Be prepared to be stuck for a day, possibly two. Zombies need to run at things to be effective, they're more badly coordinated than slow as such. They can be disrupted by having something scattered on the floor to make sure they can't build up momentum, I favor marbles. I've heard some people use caltrops instead, but that's too expensive for me. My friend here can scatter a bag, enough to block a path, but it only carries a few at once. If either of you have familiars, they could help." The shadow blob floats out and whirs at them. 

Hearing about shambling beasts in the sewers spooked her a little in the vision, so she knows a little more about the undead threats down below now. "If we see a pack of ghouls, run. I have enough elf in me to avoid their touch, but if they touch one of you you should expect about one to one odds you'll be frozen to the spot and promptly killed. Zombies are fine if you have about ten feet of marbles between you and them, but if you don't and they have a straight line, again, one in two odds they land a solid blow. Maybe a bit better for you with Mage Armor, but don't rely on it. Remember you need to cut zombies to bring them down, stabbing and bashing are mostly useless. Skeletons aren't as easily avoided as zombies, but they don't hit as hard and they break more easily. Don't let them get in your face and claw you, but they might fall to a single Disrupt Undead if you're lucky. How are you for living things? I can usually catch them from about thirty feet out with no need for light, and Color Spray works well on most of what's down there. If you have spells with better reach, we can plan for that."

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The rest of the party listens to her fairly attentively as they travel across the city.

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"I've got enough for an extra day down there, two if I really stretch it. Good thinking with the marbles. I know a place that sells 'em."

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"I have sleep and cause fear prepared, both have much better range than color spray."

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"Julio has a bonded item and my familiar is... busy. I didn't know sorcerers could have familiars."

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"I don't know if it's a familiar, but it listens to me and helps me. Sleep and Cause Fear are good, be ready with the Sleep if we get a group. It's four goblins or rats, but only two dogs, yes? My Sprays are consistent and I have quite a few of them โ€” sorcerer, you know how it is โ€” but goblins have bows sometimes, and you all need a light so they'll see us coming. I can be eyes if we start taking arrows from the darkness. Oh, but do be careful about the Sleep, I don't think the ears are enough to keep me safe from it, never tried."

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Julio nods at most of what she says. "Sleep should be four dogs, unless they're a very big breed."

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Mika leads them to a dingy corner store. Anton and Julio pick up masks. Tencednil gets her marbles.

They find the entrance, exactly how Tencednil remembers it. A tunnel down an alley slopes downward. The end is visible; it opens up to a ledge near flowing water.

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Oh good, everything is going right. (Were the dogs that almost killed her in the vision big, then? They took enough to kill that she thought they would be two per Sleep... Oh well, no reason get knowledge should be perfect right now. Not a problem.) The otyugh handlers said things were only starting to go wrong a week from now or so, and without the vision she would have no reason to worry about them, so not worth bringing them up.

In she goes! "I can see without the light, so I should be farthest from it. I can try to give early notice when something wants to eat us, but no promises, some of the things in there are sneaky. You three can sort yourselves out with however many lights you have."

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Julio will cast light on a stick and give it to Mika.

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Anton takes them through the sewers, down the rusted ladder next to the waterfall, and into the long maze.

Around forty minutes later, the party reaches a familiar three-way intersection, and her shadow becomes alarmed. Tencednil remembers this.

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Oh good, they're here at the right time and her visions are at least coming from something with incredibly good predictive power. Knowing that these goblins would be here at this time seems unlikely to be by chance, which eliminates many of the options she was considering.

"Four goblins! I'm on the ones behind, the rest are over there!"

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The goblins were not expecting this! They're usually very sneaky! How did she know?

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Alas for them, she knew this was coming. And surprising people and giving people directions all make it easier for her to spring into action quickly! She gets off her Color Spray before the two behind her can start shooting, unlike her memories. (She pulls out her sickle as she goes, she just recently figured out the trick to doing that while moving.)

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The color spray sends one of the goblins to the ground! The other seems dazzled for a moment, before shaking it off.

That goblin fires their shortbow. An arrow slices across Tencednil's shoulder.

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Anton and Julio both fling acid splashes, at the goblins in front of them. Julio's misses, Anton's hits.

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Mika's sword pierces deep into a goblin. It collapses.

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A goblin fires at Mika, but the arrow fails to penetrate his armor.

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Her Color Spray reserves are deep enough to spend a second one here, probably. And she does want to show off a little. Have another Spray, oh rude goblin.

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The goblin who so rudely attacked her collapses!

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The last goblin glances around at its fallen comrades and runs away!

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Slitting goblin throats is hard. "Let it go, the survivor should warn off the others and they mostly don't have anything worth taking. Mika, a hand finishing these ones off, if you would?"

That cut actually hit at a nice angle for once! That much blood coming out means it should be dead. Mika will be faster on the other one, though.

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Mika finishes the other unconscious one off. "Good hit! Let's see... they've nothing good, just shoddy gear and a few pinch."

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