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>Try provoking Ella to release you.
“What’s the matter, too afraid to fight me?” - You say, hoping to maybe provoke Ella into getting her henchman to let you go.
“Not particularly, no.” - Replies Ella calmly.
Then a second later, Naph zips in and knocks the rapier from her hand, while almost simultaneously cutting both arms off the man holding you.
Suddenly free, if now covered in blood, you rush forward, grab your tire iron off the ground, and take several wild swings at Ella. However, she is more adept at combat than she looks, and dodges them all.
Suddenly something kicks you hard from behind, sending you sprawling.
You turn around, and realize that the now armless bodyguard is attempting to fight you with just his feet. You recognize from his thick armor and hazard stripe markings that he is one of the elite Thorakara Grenadiers, seen as worthy of fighting alongside the Iron Warriors themselves.
Naph suddenly appears again and smashes the armless Grenadier into Ella, then traps them both with her glop gun.
A particular hapless Thorakara conscript is the last enemy on platform, but as she turns to flee, Naph grabs her in a vicious wedgie and launches her out of one of the window slits high above.
This ends up being a signal of sorts, as moments later, a nearby section of wall implodes onto itself, and Dren’s Venom enters the arena.
The recently arrived Thorakara and House Kijeck troops scatter as Dren does a quick loop of the arena, gunning down some enemies, running over others, and knocking aside many more with the force of the Venom’s anti-grav generators.
You use the distraction to grab your laspistol and blast the chains holding the prisoners.
Dren pulls up just as you free Paula (the last one, but only because she was the furthest away)
“Everyone come aboard, but if you do so you will owe me a favor.” - Calls out Dren.
Paula naturally protests, at which point Dren raises the number of favors for Paula to get in the Venom to three, and then eight, and then twenty-three.
Jones and Hurk get in quickly as the argument unfolds, but you aren’t so keen on owing Dren favors either.
But the Thorakara and House Kijeck troops have started to recover their senses and are now laying down covering fire from all directions. The pillars and the Venom shield you from most of it, and many others are probably not shooting just because no one ordered them to, but with the amount of firepower aimed in your general direction, something is bound to hit sooner or later.
>Get in the Venom.
>Convince Paula to get in the Venom, then get in yourself.
>Try to get Naph to give you a lift out instead.
>Try to flee on foot.
