I mean, we set off at full speed towards the exit using all our horsepower while exhausting all our options to suppress the guard's advance to ensure we get away clean. Fools we are not. I suppose we could have just made it there and escaped in one post. Powergamed escaping the entirety of the royal guards as hard as we could. But that expectation wasn't clear.

Instead you seal the exit one post later even though we logically would have been there soon.

Forgive my saying, but this seems a bit like railroading. This whole situation really, though I gave you the benefit of the doubt up to this point.

(If you're wondering how I figured it out, calling us all fools OOC right before your post kinda gave it away. I'd be a bit more subtle.)