[ His gut wants to avoid the problem. Or maybe smash things? He wants to smash his problems.

Gorgug looks down when the question is posed to him, clearly not happy about it, not wanting to come to any conclusion when he feels so-- all over the place with the problem. But what is his impression? He's seen some conversations about it... ]

...I guess that, they're just trying to survive. Whoever left that banner could've been taunting us, or they could have been leaving a warning, seeing all those marks they left on it-- it was a countdown. Why be obvious if you're going to slip people inside in secret? Not everyone's on the same page about screwing us over.

[ so... ] So I think if-- we could get more intel on what the leader over there can do, or what the dangers are; if we can actually get someone on our side who knows something, we could take out the bigger problem, and maybe see if we can fix their city up so they don't have to go out and screw over people for resources. [ Which feels wrong somehow, and Gorgug looks at Fabian, something uncomfortable in his expression. ]

If they're going to be stuck in a prison, they might as well be stuck in a comfortable one.

[ Like them. ]