Well she does want to get students sharing information with each other more broadly, so.

"The run's harder than we were told they tend to be." She... Was very busy keeping her team alive, but hopefully Chengsu had the ability to like, analyze more. And, actually - "If we let you listen in to our debrief, will you let us know how yours goes? Things were chaotic, and I'm not sure we saw everything."

Hm. Not like they want Shanghai to die, seems worthwhile to get a leg up.

"Fair trade. Agreed."

Then time to debrief - about what they encountered, first.

Chengsu did indeed have more space to keep track of everything they encountered. Which was a lot. Her first-pass analysis of the pattern is 'the course wanted us to to be simultaneously looking over our own shoulders and also covering for anyone next to us who had to blink'.

There were attacks coming from all sides - from what she's heard, that kind of pressure often leads students to drop their defense of non-allies, though anyone who actually did that here in a panic probably would have died. There weren't a few clear enemies - they were surrounded by a whirlwind.

That's... a lot for the first day of practice.

Yeah. It is. (And it's going to be incredibly tough for most teams - even multiple alliances entering in groups.)

Their strategy might need a bit of work, with this information.

Yeah. (They're currently entering with another alliance they have a loose agreement with - but that might not be enough to hold them together here...)

Split up for the first run?

Going into this with too few people might be worse.

Too much to hope it scales, right.

They could go with other Londoner-led alliances? That should help keep them together - though it'd lose some of the networking benefits they currently have.

Not getting maimed first day of practice is arguably more important.

Yeah, it is.

Then they should go explain the change of plans.

Alright.

And after, they'll see what the course is really like for themselves.

Just as insane as they were told! Though being prepared helps a lot, and they notice elements that Shanghai doesn't seem to have - probably because they were all very busy not dying. Luckily, this includes some ways to shoot things before getting attacked by them.

Great, she loves being able to do that. It'd be nice if, y'know, the things also died of getting shot before they made it to the attacking part, but one step at a time.

It's in some ways impressive that even their group has barely sufficient firepower for this. 

Maybe they should see the Higgenses would want to join their runs.

Could work... And those two are steady.

And relevantly, have approximately as much firepower apiece as Bea and Liesel's whole group.

It wouldn't matter as much if they weren't reliable allies, but - yeah. They're high-value as people to do runs with.