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"Close. We've been preparing an attack on their camp, just beyond that ridge."

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"Is there enough time for me to take a look around?"

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"A quick one."

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"Back before you know it."

And Aloy will suit action to words.

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The enemy camp is nestled in a deep quarry - they seem to be digging for something, going by the tools and the high quantities of unsecured blaze Aloy's Focus picks up. The camp is also being patrolled by Corrupted machines, especially Watchers and Scrappers - luckily, it doesn't look like they have any Sawtooths with them. There's a good number of enemies present, but they're not at all set up for a siege, and archers up on the cliffs could probably take most of them out before they could get under cover. Going in person would be somewhat harder, as the narrow quarters means there's fewer places to hide - herself or bodies - and moving around between levels on foot will be slow going. 

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The heights have decent sightlines, but they'll have to clear the quarry in person at the end anyway. If they time it right, catch the Corrupted by the Blaze with fire arrows, it could just be people left by that point. Which shouldn't be as difficult.

That would be Aloy's plan, anyway. She'll return to Sona to ask what hers is.

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They can get better coverage with multiple archers, too - there's a lot less cover that's total in all directions, and it'll reduce survivability for their enemies.

Targeting the Blaze is a good move, too, and in her experience - if they catch the human enemies in those blasts, it'll cause more chaos than outright injuries, which will be a bonus in this situation. Confused and panicking enemies whose camp is on fire cannot easily resist an attack.

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Be nice to put that shoe on the other foot.

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The killers will reap what they have sown.

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They will.

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Is Aloy ready?

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She's always ready.

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Then it's time for the Nora's revenge.

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Let's do it.

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The killers really were not expecting to be targeted by a sudden hailstorm of fire arrows! The Nora war party can indeed sow so much chaos this way!

...Though the Corrupted Watchers couldn't all be taken out in the initial blast, and one is lining up a shot on Aloy and Sona's position.

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Arrow right down the eyeball!

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It sparks and collapses!

She's going to need a few more arrows for the Scrappers that weren't near Blaze barrels, too.

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She's got a few more arrows. Going to need to restock soon, though. Power cell and radar are the weak spots, she'll try to hit those preferentially.

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The prepared firing positions have extra arrows, but - yeah, they're probably going to need to close for the last few enemies. Still, some careful bow-work can ensure they'll only be closing with humans.

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It's spears after that.

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Her practice with Nil comes in handy here - fighting people is pretty different from fighting machines. (For one thing, people are slower, and they hit less hard and die easier - but they're smarter, too. Harder to get fancy with when fighting.)

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She prefers to keep things simple with the spear, anyway. Hit them, then hit them harder.

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This is a very efficient way to turn enemies into dead enemies!

And, soon enough, they have the camp cleared out. 

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Mission success? See if they left anything useful behind?

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That seems to be the plan - 

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