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All are playthings of Fate until they bond together |
If you chose to send Karti (or Tenn, if Karti is dead) to scout ahead, then the following story chapter is what takes place, Chapter 3: A Game of Wit.
P.S. From now on, I will assume a deathless run, meaning that while Tenn is the substitute for Karti if she is defeated in battle, or at least for this cutscene, I will continue to write Karti instead of Tenn. In the future, I will mention the substitute character at least once, but I will use the character that is intended to be present in the scene. Karti has snuck far ahead to spy on the enemy that is heading toward the border. When she sees the staff in one of the traveler's pouches, she draws her bow, but there is suddenly a hand on her shoulder and she screams. With no word from Karti in days, Gill begins to worry, but he attempts to hide his concern by faking contentedness. Taren demands that the group move faster now, as they have to get the staff back and they also need to find Karti. She says that the likelihood that Karti was captured or killed is higher every day they aren't at the border, and then she curses herself for agreeing to let her go. Tyken tells her that she wouldn't have known that Karti would be put at risk, but Simon laughs and says that, "a real leader addresses the worst case scenarios in their head before their mouth starts flapping." Ramona punches his shoulder and he stops talking, but Tyken is already irritated. He turns and tells Simon that the tidbit he just said would have been great advice days before, when Taren actually had to make a decision, and Simon snarks back that he thought that three teenagers were perfectly capable on their own of making intelligent military decisions. Gill hushes them quickly and pulls them to the ground, then pointing to the camp ahead that rests on a dirt path. Karti sits calmly on the ground in front of a fire, her bow and quiver lying next to her. Gill wonders why she hasn't run away, and Tyken becomes suspicious. Simon scoffs that she probably got tired of taking commands from idiots, and Taren leers at him. With no one else in the camp seeming to be awake, Ramona attempts to sneak up to her and pull her back, but Karti stands and turns around when Ramona gets half-way to her and fires an arrow into Ramona's shoulder. Ramona pulls the arrow out and Simon comes up behind Ramona and shoots Karti with Flux. Karti gets knocked backwards and slowly picks herself back up as the rest of the group emerges from the forest. Ramona starts to yell at her, but Tyken covers her mouth. He says that she seems to be under someone's control, her pupils are dilated and her breathing is very slow. He says that Karti would have killed Ramona if she wasn't resisting control, and that's why she got the arrow in her shoulder instead of her heart. Taren also notes that the men in the tents are still asleep, and if they can retrieve Karti without being noisy, they can try to help her snap out of her hypnosis. This map is very small, and the only enemy on the map is Karti, at first. The goal is to defeat her, but she is surrounded by enemy tents. If you get one unit too close to a tent, or you move one unit more than three spaces at a time, you run RNG that may or may not wake up the enemy. If you do so (getting close to a tent or moving more than three spaces) with two or more units, enemies are guaranteed to come out of the tent. Not only that, but if the men wake up and you defeat Karti before you defeat them, the unit who defeated Karti will be credited as rescuing her, and the level becomes an escape map. If the unit that rescued Karti is defeated, you lose the level. After saving Karti, the party retreats, uncertain if they can handle the sheer number of men in the camp. Simon analyzes her physical condition and claims that the control will wear off, though he also appears angry that he was told that mind control was a farce, considering he just watched it in action. He states whoever did this to Karti was only interested in baiting the group, because they didn't fully brainwash her. Taren questions how poor of a trap that was, and Tyken responds that the trap Simon speaks of may have been motivating them to follow the group with the staff at a faster pace.
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