We lost more agile men than the lot of you mewling pups in those dark days. Lorgore was built like a wall made of three of ye and could still outrun an owlbear with a carnal fancy for his hide, and the banshees still tore his innards out his his gullet while he watched.

Nix Fixit could slip through a Festarian sewer grate and that damned gnome knew he didn’t have a chance of keeping pace. He gave himself so the rest of us could escape- they kept throwing themselves at the wall of flame bursting out of his hands until we thought they had stopped.

I remember the look on his face when he turned to me- almost peaceful. It was silent, then the hands burst up from the ground beneath him. All those hands- he didn’t even fight.

Adia disappeared into the shadows- damn that elf to the rotten hells, saving her own skin.

Just as we saw the sunlight break through the tunnel entrance, Delmarus lost his footing and snapped the bone in his ankle. I wanted to stop to help him but I knew it would just damn us both. The sunbeams danced on his holy symbol as those oily tentacles wrapped around his face.

Don’t talk to me of agility and leadership; ye’re just boys playing number games with a fantasy.

Now stop clutterin up my scrying stone.

Seriously though, maybe you have to rely more on these qualities coming from within the team. Emergent leadership rather than appointed.

To counterbalance an appointed leader, emergent leaders need doubly strong character, because of the appointed leader’s authority in the organisation.

Kelly.