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Hah, I accidentally did this!

Party was following up on a report about a missing person. They slipped into a mansion, and I described numerous automaton guards patrolling the hallways and watching choke points. I also mentioned offhand that they could hear a machine upstairs somewhere, very slowly building to a crescendo.

I intended this to be a stealth mission, where they would suborn a few guards, get eyes on the target, and preposition themselves to enact a rescue. No, as soon as they "heard" the machine, they tried to talk past the first guards, and when that failed, blitzed their way through the whole mansion, under heavy fire, figuring out where to find the hostage based on what parts of the house had the most guards!

It was absolutely my fault for accidentally making it seem more urgent than I intended, but I found it hilarious, and they had a blast!

(Edit) It wasn't a machine noise, they were hearing a recorded message from another room, over a mechanical thrumming - I forget the details, but it was something about "(suspect) is your friend, you should trust (suspect)", over and over. I intended to mention that they could hear the hostage clearly resisting, but got distracted - so they decided the hostage was already succumbing to mind control.