Ool didn’t react to Izzy’s comment about them being funny, Neo had a simple soft smile on his face which wasn’t uncommon for him when he didn’t look neutral.

Marrion moved easily as she picked up Izzy up, her super strength enough to handle it. She then dropped Izzy off at a strategic location.

Before Marrion moved her legs with the stealth and purpose of a predator, Izzy created the perfect opportunity for her walking out in front of the guards acting like she was very inebriated.

The two guards looked at her confused,

“MIss you aren’t supposed to be here.” Guard #1 started to say, he looked like a young man in his armor, hair not showing probably clean and conservative.

Meanwhile the Guard next to him looked like an older man with a bit of a beard,

“pfftt, when you’re in this work as long as I am, you’ll learn when Lady V brings you a blessing from above.” He snickered looking at Izzy.

“Course we can help a pretty lady like you out. Why don’t I show you back to the barracks so you can rest?” He leaned forward a bit with a sleazy grin,

“But sir I thi-” the younger guard spoke up clearly looking like he was objecting to the whole idea and just as the older guard turned to look annoyed at him and speak up, suddenly the older guard found himself getting dragged back by, and choked/sufficated to death by silk as he tried to let out a muffled scream due to Marrion who had moved in like a stealthy predator with a purpose, gaining the [Surprise] boon dealing damage to him directly before the guard stopped moving and his body was dragged over to a bush.

Meanwhile the younger guard got hit twice as he made a pained sound, first his inner elbow hit making him unable to strike her with his spear, then just beneath the collar bone as he made a pained face, the impacts making him jolt in place before he was jabbed on his pressure point just as he was about to react to Marrion, a look of terror on his face briefly before he was paralyzed by Izzy, as she struck the pressure points, quickly, unpredictably and precise, he slumped over, not moving, as she also benefited from [Surprise] bypassing his armor.

That gave both Marrion and Izzy an opportunity to get back to the hole where the rope would go up soon before the other guards had a chance to circle around.

Assuming the other two men came along (narrator note:I’m assuming they did after the guards were taken care of, Since Neo was literally on the move in his post)

He’d pause just by the wall of the building that needed to be scaled, and he turned his head to Miyu, he had been rather quiet up until that point,

“A thief who doesn’t like to climb ropes so he won’t?” Neo chuckled,

“That’s a nice joke, I’ll have to keep it in my repertoire." It seemed that he was deliberately not indulging Miyu’s statement about not being willing to climb.

He then turned his head to Aren, “It’s not a problem my friend, you would be far from the first.” He continued to give him the same sort of slight smile from before.

“I am sure they were both very impressive from what I heard.”

Neo then promptly began to scale the wall, it was apparent that he knew based on the sounds he heard that the two guards had been dealt with. That and the other’s dialogue.

By this point Ool had brought up what looked like a rope to the building’s rock wall, While Neo began to scale the wall like he was sighted and pretty solid at it.

Using Climbing E, Acrobatics E, Athletics E, Special movement Balance, Special movement wall crawling, Fast F, Feature: Blindsight, Special movement: Quiet, Special movement: untrackable, Energized E - Grade E (0 post cooldown, energized)

He hurried up the wall before he got to the top and tied the rope to a metal flag pole which was placed into a hole in the ground, letting down the rope for the others, crouching nearby the edge to make sure they got up, as he gestured for them to come up the rope.

Neo Actions:

1 & 2 Climb Wall

Using ability: Who needs sight with arms and legs like these?
Using Climbing E, Acrobatics E, Athletics E, Special movement Balance, Special movement wall crawling, Fast F, Feature: Blindsight, Special movement: Quiet, Special movement: untrackable, Energized E - Grade E (0 post cooldown, energized)

Ool actions: (3 total) Flying F and bring rope which had been placed elsewhere ahead of time for easy access., now perching on stone above near Neo.

Combat round summary; Both guards nearest group incapacitated.

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Miyu let out a sigh before pinching the bridge of his nose at Aren's realization.

"I hate how that was entirely untintentional, cause I would've had a better reason to smack you for that unfortunately unintended pun."

Looking up the wall, Miyu hummed to himself as he contemplated his choices. It was either to get backpacked by the brat next to him, or get hoisted up by the waist with a bored expression by the others.

Both seemed underwhelming to him - as picky as it was.

But the second he watched Neo scale the wall with ease and manage to bring a rope unfurling down towards them, Miyu smirked as an idea came to him.

"You can scale up the wall yourself, kid." Miyu tapped his foot onto the ground three times before a small manhole sized blur of space stirred below Miyu's feet. "I'll see you up there in thirty seconds. Be sure to catch me from up there. Toodles."

Miyu saluted with two fingers before taking a step forward and dropping into the blurred space of his pocket dimension on the ground and disappeared without a further comment.

With Neo already up there himself, and Aren already informed, it wouldn't take long for Marrion and Izzy to group up with them at a moment's notice. But Miyu had other ideas for joining back up with the rest of the motley crew.

The pocket dimension's opening remained as Miyu was inside. A whole thirty seconds passed just like Miyu announced to Aren before the opening stirred slightly as if answering to its user's command.

Soon after, a silhouette of a small body shot out upwards like an arrow, scaling past the wall in flight before their fast approach to the end of the rope and their trajectory to Neo's current location reached to a slow decline as Miyu, with arms crossed and expressions lax - with a piece of jerky protruding from his mouth - rested mid-air briefly as he looked to the others that had already been up there with an expectant gaze.

"Well? You gonna grab me or what?" He said simply without fear of the idea of gravity yet to take a hold of him. His voice slightly muffled as he had snacked on his rations while he was inside his pocket dimension.

Miyu's Actions:
1. Skill: Pocket Dimension E. > storing himself inside his personal subspace.
2. Ability: Spacial Artillery E. Components: Magic E, Magic Augmenter: Range F, Pocket Dimension E. > shooting himself upwards to reach the very top of the rope.

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Marrion made a mental note to return to this place later if possible. There's a few unconscious guards ready to be harvested. For now though, she followed along with others and climbed the rope like a normal person. She noticed that having four arms didn't necessarily mean she was any better than other person at regular rope climbing. Interesting.

Another thief choose to blast himself up for no reason. Marrion wasn't sure if she's supposed to help catch him midair or just watch him go splat on the ground... She choose the later. If he go splat then she could harvest his brain for her meal. If there's any. The others wouldn't stop her for taking some of him, right? Hopefully not.

Action:
1) Climb rope
2) Wait for squashed Miyu

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Aren breathed out a sigh of relief when Neo dismissed his mistake with a soft smile of understanding. This was not the first time his fat mouth had almost gotten him in trouble... or rather, it was possibly the first time the victim of his careless words had been so understanding. A shiver ran up his spine as he recalled a particularly heinous offense...

He shook his head and was about to start climbing when he noticed the midget drop into some magical space. He blinked once, twice, three times, then shook his head and reached for the rope. This day just keeps getting weirder, he mused as he began climbing the wall.

Aren settled into a comfortable rhythm quickly; he was no stranger to a night climb. Just as he was about to reach the top, though, he heard a whoosh behind him. He looked back and up at Miyu, raising an eyebrow in mild surprise as he reached the apex of his trajectory and floated there for a second. "Oh, for f-" was all Aren had time to utter as gravity began to take hold of the shorty.

Aren's left hand darted outward and grabbed Miyu by his collar, his teeth clenching as the rope dug into his other palm. He tensed his legs as he braced for the sudden extra weight, his breathing slightly ragged from the exertion. "You know," he started, "it's a good thing you're not a big, fat guy, or this would be reeeeaaaally difficult." He swung Miyu side-to-side a few times to build momentum, then grunted as he tossed him like a sack of potatoes onto the top with Neo. He quickly scaled the last few feet to the top, where he knelt for a few moments to catch his breath.

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Actions:
1-2: Climb | Grade F

[Fast] F [Acrobatics] F [Climbing] F [Stealth] F
0 post cooldown
Climb quietly. Pretty straightforward.

3: Catch | Grade E

[Strength] E [Acrobatics] F [Climbing] F
1 post cooldown
Catch the runt and yeet him.

E - 0/1

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Pings: @Arisu

The younger guard slumped where he stood, frozen in place by the precise taps of her needle. Izzy leaned back, admiring her handiwork for a moment before flashing a bright grin.

"There now. Tha's much better. Ye looked far too tense, love." She reached up and blew an exaggerated kiss toward the paralyzed guard. "Try not tae miss me too much."

Her fingers waggled cheerfully in farewell. Then reality returned.
The rest of the patrol would eventually circle around. And unlike her latest admirer, they might not be nearly as accommodating.

"Right. Time tae bugger off." With a quick pivot she broke into a jog toward the wall, boots crunching against the stone path as she hurried back toward the rendezvous.

She arrived just in time to see Neo already perched above, Marrion making her way up the rope, Miyu launching himself into the air like some sort of deranged projectile, and Aren beginning his climb.

Izzy stopped for half a second and blinked. Then took another swig from her canteen.

"Aye, ah'm not even gonna ask."

Hooking both hands around the rope, she began climbing. It only took a few pulls before she found herself directly beneath Aren.
A fact she noticed immediately. Her eyes drifted upward.
A grin spread slowly across her face.

"Y'know, boyo..."

She called up the wall.

"Fer a lad tha's always runnin' around rooftops, ye've got a remarkably fine arse." She nodded thoughtfully.
"Must be all th' climbin'." She pulled herself a little higher, the curl of the corners of her lips still evident.

"Very inspirational, really." Completely unbothered by the situation, Izzy continued scaling the rope while trying—and failing—to suppress a laugh.

Miraculously Miyu’s stunt to avoid having to commit to physical exertion didn’t end up killing him as he catapulted himself in his pocket dimension and then opened the other side near the top of where the band of thieves needed to enter.

Neo who had reached inside the hole in the wall, now looked over in the direction where Miyu spoke, his expression shifting from a smile to a curious one.

As a result unfortunately Marrion did not get squished Miyu to nom on. But she was able to scale the rope to near where Neo was when all was said and done. Aren was able to catch him with the time window provided and get Miyu to next to where Neo was though it likely all felt a bit rough.

Neo continued to listen to what everyone had to say while Ool flew with flying F into the stone tiled hallway which they now had access, to, to take a look around ahead presumably without Neo even having to tell the owl beast too.

Neo looked focused at this point, not reacting much to some of the banter going on other then a slight smile that pursed his lips before he went to get a move on, once everyone was up the rope, he’d move in and pull the rope up, presumably so they didn’t gain any more unnecessary suspicion from the outside if more guards came around for any reason.

Neo then gestured for the others to follow him assuming they were all ready too. “We will head down this hallway this way..” he’d speak softly, gesturing the way, it was lit with some small arcane torches that didn’t seem to burn out, illuminating the dark stone hallway, which was wide enough for about four of the group members to stand shoulder to shoulder.

“And watch your step.” He’d of course also gesture to the piece of the wall which jutted up that they’d need to step over to actually get into the hallway.

“We’ll be making our first left shortly.” Presuming they all followed Neo they’d find themselves just before a left turn in the hallway at a point, which if they looked they’d see that it soon led down about five stone steps to a slightly lower part of the facility, however there was what looked like yet another east empire guard who currently had his back turned speaking to another guard idly about both about 40 ft down the hall, they had spears and sort of just looked like they were idling.

When Neo got to just before the turn, Ool landed on his shoulder and put his beak near his ear and said something to him.

He then turned to the rest of the group, not saying a word, he simply made a hand gesture pointing to around the corner and then holding two fingers up, to indicate that there were two hostiles down there, not wanting to risk being heard.

Neo Actions:
Retrieve rock
walk down hall presumably after group joins to follow.
After Ool shares info, confirm to rest of group before first left turn.