jess

Yeah, I think the logic is that they interpret you approaching on the upper floor as trying to sneak up on them, but it doesn't feel great that the way to avoid combat there is to intentionally walk into an ambush. Demolishing boss fights on Tactician is fun though, I had a couple really funny ones in Act 3 where I cast like one leveled spell at most and still managed to win while remaining basically unscathed.

The first playthrough I killed him deliberately because I was "Good" (despite all the random murders), the second time I saw a displacer beast and went "oh fuck!" and killed it forgetting that it's his pet so. He was hostile lmao

Jackie and I wandered into the top floor fight and I think we would have had it if we'd prioritized the displacer beast a little higher, but we ended up reloading, went in from the bottom, and accidentally talked our way through it instead