Tower of Voices: Second Run Voting Thread

I think trying to reason with this guy is the best path. I suspect what’s behind his is the path to The Deep, and whatever is blocking it off to prevent Goma and Isalia’s return. That’s the only thing (at least that we know about) that Izzy would want to keep us away from. Especially with the risk of lethal force. Take, try to talk him into letting us through. We have enough firepower that we could probably kill Izzy if we wanted to. But we don’t! We’re looking for a path to a peaceful solution. Dreg has been a terrible influence on Izzy, and we want to bring Goma and Isalia back to convince Izzy to stop all of this. The whole reason he’s blocked off their ability to return was because part of him knew they could talk him down from all of this. But he didn’t kill them because he cares about them and doesn’t want to hurt them. He’s also avoided having sex with any of the goblins because he sees them as family. These aren’t the actions of someone who wants to run a sex cult, they’re the actions of an insecure young man who’s being taken advantage of by perverts like Dreg and Malia. If Izzy feels stifled on this floor, like he wants to meet new people outside of his family, we’re happy to take him along with us and give him new opportunities. But the best way to do that is to let his moms talk to him.

If talking him down doesn’t work, I’m not sure I agree with sneaking past him with Cloak. He might have heard about it, as I think Take has shown it off before in front of the cultists. If he’s prepared for it it could lead to a severe injury for Take. But given how the votes are looking, if we have to I think using wLurker’s plan to have the Bull approach could be used to cover up Take’s approach. Have him approach and say something like “they’ve gone after Lord Windgrace, should we follow and strike from behind?” or something while Take sneaks up.

 

Well, Take could try sneaking past the cultist alone and trying to free Isalia and Goma, but we would probably have to get past him on the way back again.

 

Newest Chapter: Vadel did show up in the previous tower run, but only for one chapter and was never really interacted with further than the first meeting with them.

 

Take could certainly use a seamstress extraordinaire at the rate we have been going through clothing. If not having quite as many fighters as the last run holds she might even get her own shop on each floor to wait for the group, and maybe find a place where she can comfortably settle after we reach the final floor.

 

I think it’d be worth it to go back, apologize, and try again. Agree with Huginn on offering a spot as a noncombatant tailor if she wants it, like Martin. But outside of that one misstep I think we can persuade her by talking about how this cult isn’t good for the elves and isn’t good for Izzy. But if we get through, presumably we can get Goma and Isalia and deescalate this whole situation. Goma especially will be very handy in neutralizing cultists without hurting them thanks to Puppet. This whole situation was whipped up by Dreg to block the path to the next floor, with some help from Malia to get back at Yulia and her allies.

 

I agree with talking. Only thing I would want to have is some sort of way to remove the dangerous crossbow from the talks. At the very least Mal should be somewhere safe and ready to heal someone if they get shot.