[quote=@Crimson Raven]
I was thinking (Always a dangerous pastime, I know) that all the characters start getting overwhelmed by sheer numbers and end up back to back. Then everyone rallies (including the NPCs) and drives the mosters off. So, after the battle all the characters can get acquainted.
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so that means it would have to be a pretty big amount of enemies, like 13ish C class monsters each team, maybe more or less