Before you fight your way to the control room area, you received a report from the rear. They have successfully reformed and are weathering the assault while slowly retreating back. A portion can be redeployed to aid you.
Call them for aid? Yes/No. Honor system, make your choice before reading further.


As you enter the area, the shrieking noise has made it practically impossible to contact anyone by vox. Poptom must have used some emergency one use machine to make that message for reinforcements.

The entire area has seen better days. What isn’t in disrepair or blown up by your earlier bombing campaign has been reshaped by the salamanders who seems to have carved new tunnels. Right at the center seems to be a pile of crippled salamanders who appears to be the cause of all the shrieking.

And just before it to the side with their backs to a cliff side is the advance party. Poptom seems to be alive and does not seem to have taken any damage and is on top of a rather large pile of dead salamanders. Several small piles litter their lines as the advance party fends off the on rush of salamanders.

You see Poptom wield a spear similar to the one he handed you earlier but modified. It has to be since you see a salamander struck in the head simply has it explode in lightning.  You are sure yours does not have that.

The Salamanders are mostly attacking the advance party but your own is also under concentrated assault.

Orders Magos?