What?!? Hah! That's a new one..
We-hell.. What are our odds of fighting them off now? How much ammo/how many weapons have we got? And do we have any clue as to why they want our cleaner?
Err, well. Off the top of my head (because I can't access the supply screen while this is flashing up at me), I remember we have 4 rifle bullets, about 10, 12 shotgun bullets, more than 80 handgun bullets... We have a high-powered rifle (3? close combat, 4 assault), a double-barreled shotgun (5 close combat, 5 assault), a double-barreled bolt-action rifle (4 close combat, can't remember what assault it had but the same as a bolt-action rifle), and a scoped handgun (3 close combat, 3 assault). I'm not sure which stat they use in a scenario like this...
We also have one baseball bat (3 close combat, 2 assault), one pair of brass knuckles (2 closet combat, 3 assault), and one sledgehammer (4 close combat, 2 assault).
(See, this is why everybody always goes for the police station - with a full armory of ammo and guns, you would have a much better chance of taking a group like this on.)
We are all well-rested, our relationship is maxed, and yeah, it's perfectly possible to survive with just one member of the group. So even if everybody dies except one person, that one person has an all right chance of making it to the chopper.
On the other hand, it's a mob of armed men. So.
Also, if we fight them and DON'T kill them all (which I will tell you is most probably next to impossible at this point - killing them all, I mean), they're just going to come back for more. Though they might not come back again before the chopper arrives.
A few people will get injured, at the very, very least. It's not too improbable that at least one person will die. It's not impossible that everybody will die (though it's probably not very likely? I'm not sure).
Though, do you really want to sacrifice Artabanes? Who'll be in charge of cleaning up the shit with him gone?!
(I have a feeling that this would be a much quicker conversation if Lindblum was the one they were asking for... too bad there's no bartering with these guys in this game...)
Also, Azira, as far as I know, there is no reason why the mob wants Artabanes.
mob full of fudge-packers
And I'm not sure I want to know.