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Vivien jubilantly throws her hands up in the air.. "Yay! We're not dead! Hold on while I do an arcane ritual. It's not actually necessary, but it is fun!"
Vivien begins drawing lines in the dirt before doing a little dance in the circle. A wave of blue healing energy now emanates from this circle.
Vivien: Set up a Healing Field in tile E6.

Every action costs energy, regardless of whether it's an ability or not, as explained in the OP. I presume just punching things costs less energy.

Well, at least the crows aren't coming back.

Let's finish off the scarecrow.

That makes sense. Of course the scarecrow hates crows.

There's a very good chance that if we do not kill all of the crows now, the scarecrow is just going to cast Solemn Duty again. So lots double down on the crows. I'll fire another Magic Missile at Crow E, and one at Crow F. You guys should try and keep the crows from casting Murder again and kill the rest of them. Then we can finish off the scarecrow, if it doesn't just decide that its business here is done and leaves.

OK, update hit. Time for more strategy.

The Scarecrow seems to be charging up some sort of ability. It did not act during Combat Segment 2, for unknown reasons. Based on the name of the skill (Solemn Duty), I'm guessing it's some sort of attack. Elvish Miner, Benjamin should try and soak up the attack! He still has the modifiers to Strength and Defense that Bulk Up gives him, so you should be fine, but it might be a good idea to use Bulk Up again anyways, just so that you can no sell the attack if need be.

Besides that, I'm going to try and finish off the crow that spent its time "observing the situation". Seeing as how Keith did 1 damage during Combat Segment C and 2 damage during Combat Segment D, I think that there is some degree of variance in how much damage attacks do, so it might be a good idea for one of you to try and finish off the crow with me. Try not to both attack Crow A at the same time, though; divide your attacks amongst the Scarecrow and Crows B, C, and D, as judging by how Crow D was finished off after taking 6 damage, 2 attacks will probably be enough to finish off the crow that took 3 damage.

Keith, maybe not make so many attacks next time? I feel like you did less damage then Benjamin did with Behemoth Blast because you attacked so many times. It's also possible that Solemn Duty is a counter-type skill, in which case the scarecrow is probably going to do quite a bit of damage to all of us after you attacked it so many times.

Emily, try and do something. A good suggestion would be to try and gather resources. You could also maybe make a basic attack. I assume you can punch or kick someone even if you don't have a dedicated ability? That's logical, at the very least.

Suggestion to Elvish Miner: you could specify that Benjamin is the one that Emily takes cover behind and protect her. Maybe even use Bulk-up, although I recommend that you use Behemoth Blast.

King Zultan, Keith could fire that revolver of his at one of the enemies we're facing, or kick them.

Both of these things sort of go without saying, of course, but I'd prefer that we coordinate a little rather than not at all.

Yeah, that's what I'd recommend.

I decided to get fancy with my post. Also, despite being a good damage dealer we should keep emily out of combat as much as we can. reason being that having to use calm and rampage a lot will wear through my energy.

Yeah, I was somewhat curious about what exactly we were supposed to do with Emily... It's true that Emily will use up a lot of energy, but what will she do in the meantime? Just... sit around? And we don't have any other damage dealers... Will the defense and support characters just have to do all of the offense?