Frankly, I was prepared for Assassin to die when I threw him into a 1v7 battle, and I was okay with that, if only because it would allow us to accept permadeath into the RP. And I was considering still doing it anyway.

But in the end, I got literally zero milage out of him. He didn't even get the chance to fight back before Lancer wiped the floor with him. Dying like that would be just too pathetic, so I'm Command Sealing him out. And hey, this way Victoria can be legitimately introduced into Tia's plot, since she'll actually sit still for five minutes.