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The Oracle’s impassioned speech was all well and good, but the fact was that the summoned minions were all dead tired from their outing, and so it’d be mostly down to the bosses to carry the day. That left it eight vs five (maybe six) and that was being generous when it came to the capability of the defenders. 

Fortunately, while Kleine wasn’t going to be pulling much weight in the actual fight, her handy Monitoring ability meant they could keep track of the intruders as they stumbled into the traps Schnupfen had set up. Naturally the Oracle took credit for the traps being there in the first place, but it did congratulate the specter on the specific placement of the traps.

For all his fright at the news of intruders, he certainly was running away with the game when it came to killcounts so far.

All too soon, however, they were functionally out of traps that could be bumbled into, and were going to have to intervene. 

Zogi’s plan on how to do this was. Well. Interesting?

The Oracle would have not have gone with this if they’d taken the time to properly plan. It was frankly absurd, but now was hardly the time for critique. Now was the time to improvise, and the Oracle promptly yes and-ed the goblin with gusto

“Kleine, we must assist this distraction! Send in the backup dancers!“ The Oracle insisted, hoping that the illusionist could do work that was that complicated. As it did this, it rolled its dice behind the corner, and prayed “oh fate, grant this foolishness your favor, and give him a refugee in his audacity!”

The little diamonds clinked quietly on the floor, and rolled a glorious 42 of empowerment. 

Then as soon as they’d come to a stop, they started moving again. 

One bounced up and down against the floor, producing a thudding drum beat. Another two rubbed together to squeak like a violin. Four more were thrummed in the air to produce the heavy notes of a base, while the final shimmied in the air or clacked against the wall to make the sounds of a tambourine. With their powers combined, a jaunty tune was played by the many hands of an unseen [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9_3k_9NCDw]Lonely Puppeteer[/url].

As the music played, the Oracle phased its head through the ceiling, arched it over the wall and then brought just its eye out above the goblin, before using a highly spread version of its eye beam to put a spotlight on the dancer. Should he come under threat however, the Oracle was entirely ready to tighten the beam and give any would-be stage crashers a nasty singeing.