Cratol is not going down any alleyways. He is trying to parallel the horses so they can not come back to where we are without being seen or possibly attacked. He wants to make sure they are not trying to circle back and attack us from behind or cut us off from the cave.
Yes, and Fay isn't worried about Cratol running down an alley or a side street, he's worried about running past an alley that has people waiting in ambush to cut off their retreat or a side street that an enemy can run down to the same effect. This is MOUT and as you know, movement is very canalized. The enemy can use that against them.
Edited: Abnninja on 26th Apr, 2017 - 11:15pm
Cratol is heading back to the cave in a roundabout way. He knows there are alleways and other streets and he will look down them to make sure the horsemen are not coming back up to cut them off. Yes it is a long way around but he is a bit quiet with no armor and no torch.
People seem to have been turned around a bit.
The cavern entrance is to the southeast of the fort, near the outer perimeter wall.
From there:
-Lia, Cratol, Fay, and Targul stopped about 400' to the west of the cavern entrance. Cratol heading east would take him back to it.
-scouts were last seen about 500' southwest of the cavern. Their path probably puts them close to due south of it in a short while
The area is suburban, a lot of one and two story houses clustered together. The streets are relatively gridlike, but are forced to make allowances for the terrain, especially near the cavern exit, which is rocky enough that no one has built right by it.
That enough to answer peoples queries?
Edited: daishain on 27th Apr, 2017 - 12:18am