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Currently trying to do this rescue without the gnomes and tieflings getting themselves killed.

I really can't understand the mentality of the morons who produce this sort of thing. Either the prisoners should stay in their cells until I give the all clear or they should just run for the boat. For them to launch themselves at the guards is just ridiculous.

First umpteen attempts last night:
Went down the oubliette, freed up the boat and then broke the wall in the gnomes cell - gnomes rush out and round to towards the tieflings cell. I get to the tiefling cell first and break the wall and the tieflings run out. Meanwhile the guards are coming through the gnomes cell and the gnomes rush back to fight them as do the tieflings.
I manage to jam a couple of my team in the wall and they stop the prisoners getting past but my people just get hammered by the guards.

Next I tried breaking into the tiefling cell first but that was about the same result.

Third time lucky. I tried doing both cells at the same time but that was worse than the previous two attempts.

I did a couple of variations on those three. Eventually gave up.

Just gave it another go tonight, this time from the other side.

Took out the guards and the scrying eyes then went in for the warder. Part way through the warder fight the gnomes and tieflings showed up in the turn order. I killed the warder easily enough then went back to the - now empty - cells. Somehow the prisoners got out of the cells through the locked door. I got a journal update notification and the two entries said Wulbren had made it back to the Last Light and that Wulbren had died trying to escape THROUGH Moonrise Towers.

Gave up at that point. EDIT: I just discovered that the levers in the warders office open the cell doors. While I was fighting the warder she went invisible while standing in front of the levers so I cast faerie fire and it was about this time that the prisoners appeared in the turn order. I doubt that faerie fire can throw levers but why would the warder open the cell doors?

If I try it tomorrow I'll maybe not take the keys from the dead guards.

Or should I clear out all of Moonrise Towers first and then come back for the prisoners?

I've not done the Mausoleum/Gauntlet/Nightsong yet and I lied my way into Moonrise. Any suggestions on the batting order would be welcome, especially the Ketheric and Nightsong part.

After You enter Towers You can get straight to the small closed doors on the right side of the hall. Stop here, close all the doors and wait for the Warden Eye, then kill it fast. This eye goes down to the prison so You have minus one already. Then go down and here You meet two guard ladies and a cultist on duty. You can leave them alive if You want, they are unimportant for the rescue mission if You do it right.
Next, go to the torture chamber opposite the guarding ladies, close the door and wait for the Warden Eye, kill it fast. Here it got tricky for me, as it appears there were two invisible investigators in the room. I've talked myself out and positioned my team for 2vs1 fight each. Be sure to kill them or out them fast, so they will not alarm anyone in the Towers.
Then You can go further. I checked how the prison looked and how many guards were there. Then I entered the Warden's Tower in the center. Remember to close the door before anything! You can talk with the Warden etc. I did, then I somehow missclicked or there was some bug, I don't remember, but one of my characters used the ladder to go up. This place was off-limits so the Warden also got on the upper floor to talk with my poor companion. Up there is the Eye, so this was my first target, and then I attacked the Warden after the talk. Other characters blocked her path to the ladder so she couldn't get to the levers; to be fair I did it by accident, never thought she would otherwise focus the levers. While fighting with her here You'll have to remember that there is a second Eye that can enter that tower through closed doors on the lower floor, so watch for it or prepare a companion to kill it quickly when it does so and I suggest You to kill that second Eye here when it enters.
After this You have all that tower for yourself, no one suspecting anything. Then from the upper floor go to the wooden balcony and from here You have a view of most of the prison and cells. Remember to stay hidden, thanks to this You will see all of the guard's line of sight. What is left are two guards and one Eye. Use the turn mode and firstly focus on the Eye! Wait until it is in shooting range, but not in the line of sight of the static guard at the end of the prison. I had two rogues here so they sneak attacked from here. After You kill the Eye, the patrolling guard will come to the place where it was destroyed and shout about murder... Just shoot or sneak attack her also!
Then You can get out of Warden's Tower and go to the last guard who unfortunately for him was too nearsighted and didn't realize what I did in front of his eyes. You can just kill the poor guy on the spot.

I remember on my 1st run I was so pissed off by the Warden acting all smug I just slaughtered her there and then. She got curb-stomped so hard that she couldn't even move to activate the levers, then I killed all the guards and the eye in the basement. Then looked around, found Wulbren's hammer and rest flowed naturally... never even encountered such difficulties.

On my 2nd run I did the opposite, killed everyone and saved the Warden for last. But yeah, there are few different approaches (other than taking the boat at the back of the cave) to this quest, but that also requires clearing the docks (at least there are tadpoles in that one barrel).

Got caught talking to prisoners, but not before getting word of the escape attempt.

So I went to the far end of the walkway where there's only one guard and my Astarion assassin used wyvern poison to eliminate him. Looted 'em and stashed the body in a crate.

Strung out the party along the walkway and went turn based to time enemy movements. Wyll had Hunger of Hadar ready to slow and block LOS if need be.

Floating eye came along. Assassinated with arrow of construct slaying.

Wandering guard came along. Poison ganked. Body stashed in pile of rags.

Next Floating eye. Eldritch blasted.

Warden? Got a good dose of poison with critical hits. Party is optimized for initiative wherever possible. Didn't get an action. Third floating eyes dispatched.

Heck I'm on a roll. Any solitary Absolutists are going to get picked off and body stashed. Don't think I can one-round-kill pairs with my balanced party though. Probably need Lae'zel for Shadowheart to get DPR high enough to try.

I lured the Warden upstairs and killed her there. I ambushed the floating cameras, and than assassinated guards by luring them near the edge and pushing them down. After that prisoners could escape undisturbed.

Never talk to the Warden. She will stay put in her room. Kill the patrolling guard and the two scrying eyes before they get to call for reinforcements (Thunderwave 1-shots them even on Tactician). Proceed to talk to Wulbren and give him any kind of blunt weapon (Quarterstaff will do), jump up the cliff in the back, run around and release the tieflings. They'll run to the boat and that's that. Nobody will be hostile afterward because they don't know you did it, even the Warden.