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 Should you need to retreat from a bad fight, your options are limited. Common ways to escape include:
-*Swapping places with a [[summon]] or other type of [[ally]]
+*Swapping places with a [[summon]] or another type of [[ally]]
-*Prevent the monster from moving: [[Throwing net]], [[BVC]], [[wand of roots]]
+*Prevent the monster from moving: [[Throwing net]], [[Grave Claw]], [[BVC]], [[wand of roots]]
-*Translocating yourself away: [[Translocation]]s, [[scroll of teleport]], [[scroll of blinking]]
+*Translocating yourself away: [[Translocation]]s magic, [[scroll of teleport]], [[scroll of blinking]]
 *Sending the monster away: [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]], [[Dispersal]] ([[Dispersal|spell]] and [[dispersal (brand)|darts]]), [[scroll of butterflies]], [[scroll of fear]], [[phial of floods]] / [[Gell's gravitambourine]]
 ==History==

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 **Cannot move: [[Constrict]]ed, caught in a [[web]]/[[net]]
 **Cannot attack: [[Fear|Fleeing]]
-**Cannot see you: you are [[invisible]] to the attacker or the attacker is [[blind]]ed
+*If an enemy cannot see you - that is, you are [[invisible]] to the attacker or the attacker is [[blind]]ed, you avoid attacks of oppotunity.
 *If you swap places with an [[ally]], so that the ally blocks the monster's movement, you avoid that attack of opportunity. However, if the ally is killed during the turn when you switched, and another monster could step into its place and make an attack of opportunity, it may do so.
 *[[Zin]]'s Sanctuary prevents all attacks. This protection is retroactive - if you were previously outside the area and moved inside, the Sanctuary still protects you.
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 *Swapping places with a [[summon]] or other type of [[ally]]
 *Prevent the monster from moving: [[Throwing net]], [[BVC]], [[wand of roots]]
-*Translocating yourself away: [[Blink]], [[Passage of Golubria]], [[scroll of teleport]], [[scroll of blinking]]
+*Translocating yourself away: [[Translocation]]s, [[scroll of teleport]], [[scroll of blinking]]
-*Sending the monster away: [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]], [[Dispersal]] ([[Dispersal|spell]] and [[dispersal (brand)|darts]]), [[scroll of butterflies]], [[scroll of fear]], [[phial of floods]]
+*Sending the monster away: [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]], [[Dispersal]] ([[Dispersal|spell]] and [[dispersal (brand)|darts]]), [[scroll of butterflies]], [[scroll of fear]], [[phial of floods]] / [[Gell's gravitambourine]]
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 **Cannot attack: [[Fear|Fleeing]]
 **Cannot see you: you are [[invisible]] to the attacker or the attacker is [[blind]]ed
-*If you swap places with an [[ally]], so that the ally blocks the monster's movement, you avoid an attack of opportunity.
+*If you swap places with an [[ally]], so that the ally blocks the monster's movement, you avoid that attack of opportunity. However, if the ally is killed during the turn when you switched, and another monster could step into its place and make an attack of opportunity, it may do so.
 *[[Zin]]'s Sanctuary prevents all attacks. This protection is retroactive - if you were previously outside the area and moved inside, the Sanctuary still protects you.
 *You become immune to attacks of opportunity while performing [[Wu Jian|martial attacks]], [[rampaging]], or Serpent's Lash.

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 ==Strategy==
-Watch out! When retreating, a 100% speed enemy with AOO gets more attacks than an [[adder]] would without AOO. Always try to reposition (say, to a [[stair dancing|upstairs]]) ''before'' you get adjacent to them.
+Watch out! When retreating, a 100% speed enemy with AOO gets more attacks than an [[adder]] would without AOO. Always try to reposition (say, to a [[stair dancing|upstairs]]) ''before'' you get adjacent to them. Once you're adjacent to a melee enemy, you should only move if you have a good reason to.
 Should you need to retreat from a bad fight, your options are limited. Common ways to escape include:
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 *Prevent the monster from moving: [[Throwing net]], [[BVC]], [[wand of roots]]
 *Translocating yourself away: [[Blink]], [[Passage of Golubria]], [[scroll of teleport]], [[scroll of blinking]]
-*Sending the monster away: [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]], [[Dispersal]] ([[Dispersal|spell]] and [[dispersal (brand)|darts]]), [[scroll of butterflies]], [[phial of floods]]
+*Sending the monster away: [[Iskenderun's Mystic Blast]], [[Dispersal]] ([[Dispersal|spell]] and [[dispersal (brand)|darts]]), [[scroll of butterflies]], [[scroll of fear]], [[phial of floods]]
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 Whenever you move away from an enemy's melee attack range, and the monster would pursue, it has a 33% chance to trigger an attack of opportunity. This allows it to move and attack simultaneously. They can only occur if a monster would choose to pursue. Enemies with [[reaching]] attacks can make attacks of opportunity from 2 tiles away.
-The combined time spent for both actions is a single monster turn, but with a 50% chance for it to lose an extra 10% of a turn. If a monster attacks slower than it moves, or moves slower than the attacks, it takes time equal to the slower of the two actions.
+The time spent to do both actions is a single monster turn, but with a 50% chance for it to lose an extra 10% of a turn. If a monster attacks slower than it moves, or moves slower than the attacks, it takes time equal to the slower of the two actions.
 Note that [[random energy]] does not apply whenever an attack of opportunity happens. However, if a monster would be eligible for an attack, but doesn't actually get one, random energy will apply.

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 ==Useful Info==
-Whenever you move away from an enemy's melee attack range, and the monster would pursue, it has a 33% chance to trigger an attack of opportunity. This allows it to move and attack simultaneously. They can only occur if a monster would choose to pursue. Enemies with [[reaching]] attacks can make attacks of opportunity from 2 tiles away. Even if you are faster than the opponent, attacks of opportunity can still be made.
+Whenever you move away from an enemy's melee attack range, and the monster would pursue, it has a 33% chance to trigger an attack of opportunity. This allows it to move and attack simultaneously. They can only occur if a monster would choose to pursue. Enemies with [[reaching]] attacks can make attacks of opportunity from 2 tiles away.
-The time spent for this combined move is a single monster turn, but with a 50% chance for it to lose an extra 10% of a turn. If a monster attacks slower than it moves, or moves slower than the attacks, it takes time equal to the slower of the two actions.
+The combined time spent for both actions is a single monster turn, but with a 50% chance for it to lose an extra 10% of a turn. If a monster attacks slower than it moves, or moves slower than the attacks, it takes time equal to the slower of the two actions.
 Note that [[random energy]] does not apply whenever an attack of opportunity happens. However, if a monster would be eligible for an attack, but doesn't actually get one, random energy will apply.

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 The time spent for this combined move is a single monster turn, but with a 50% chance for it to lose an extra 10% of a turn. If a monster attacks slower than it moves, or moves slower than the attacks, it takes time equal to the slower of the two actions.
-Note that [[random energy]] does not apply whenever an attack of opportunity actually happens. If a monster would be eligible for an attack, but doesn't actually get one, random energy will apply.
+Note that [[random energy]] does not apply whenever an attack of opportunity happens. However, if a monster would be eligible for an attack, but doesn't actually get one, random energy will apply.
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