So I managed to sneak past the Masked group and came back after the Ethel fight to talk to them.
...Spoilers.....
Snuck up to the guy by the waterfall first then the dwarf to the left. The dwarf was clear headed and was going to leave for BG Elves Song Tavern but the rest of them were lost. Problem is if you talk to any of the lost ones it starts a fight and the only one you can free is going to die in that fight anyways. Kind of a strange way to end this section.
