It was my intention to provide a moral dilemma. Who's wrong and who's right isn't always a case of black and white. Right now I'm having some of the NPCs deliberately trying to make the team think that they have no right to be there. I figured a back-and-forth where the team tries to deal with their own viewpoints versus opposing viewpoints, where they're not sure if what they're doing is necessary or unwarranted, where they explore and encounter with a bit of fighting, would be more interesting than penetrating the evil scientist's layer bulldozing everything in their way. If you all want more stereotypical missions from me, please ask, or volunteer to play antagonist first rather than whining later.
As well as losing there faunus pieces they're also losing a substantial bit of there aura strength which is why all the patients Gren put out were so easy to combat.
None of the faunus in the Shelter had undergone the treatment yet. They still had all of 'there faunus pieces'. Gren was able to put out the faunus so easily because he's an enormous walking tank in full armor with tons of combat experience while the patients are unarmored, unarmed, and smaller than him. Coral explained her understanding of how the treatment works.
I forgot about the animals there for a second but they were only ever to be normal animals that happen to have high aura levels and therefore semblances.
If you three just want to kill things, I'll have the guards release some of the animals with stronger semblances and there will be brawl. Pop can be the evil scientist rather than the questionable doctor, some more doctors can be given concussions and some more faunus can be strangled.