Midian frowns.
"From what you described, they're being set upon by even more of the mechanicals around here. If they don't succeed in shutting them down, they'll be wandering around here when we try to make our way back to where we stashed the water shard.
"I understand they might prove a distraction for ... whatever that thing is in the heart of the city ship, but given how few people there are on here that aren't dead or enslaved to that thing, are we really going to feed a group of free men and women either fall to mechanical monstrosities or join the tentacle army?
"I rather think we could use all the help we can get. And so could they, from the sound of it. If we help them with their problem, we can always go our separate ways without revealing our own goals, but I'd rather know there are at least a few others on here who haven't yet succumbed."
"From what you described, they're being set upon by even more of the mechanicals around here. If they don't succeed in shutting them down, they'll be wandering around here when we try to make our way back to where we stashed the water shard.
"I understand they might prove a distraction for ... whatever that thing is in the heart of the city ship, but given how few people there are on here that aren't dead or enslaved to that thing, are we really going to feed a group of free men and women either fall to mechanical monstrosities or join the tentacle army?
"I rather think we could use all the help we can get. And so could they, from the sound of it. If we help them with their problem, we can always go our separate ways without revealing our own goals, but I'd rather know there are at least a few others on here who haven't yet succumbed."