ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

As a necromancer, I was taken into the Dream of Vulnerability with my minions.
They completely cornered me and there's no way to move through them or move them.

One would think that the mouse wouldn't have the necromancer aura, so the minions would die off, but they didn't.
And there was nothing for them to fight.
I was able to use abilities and wait out the cooldowns, to verify that time was passing.

To make matters even worse, the game saved automatically in this state, so this character is permanently locked up.

There's a workaround for this.

Hit m, and assign "attack" to a button, then spam that at them.

It takes forever, but you can eventually kill your buddies and break free.

Apparently my minions are far too armored - any other suggestions on how to get around this rather annoying state? If only one could dig here

hit yourself with attack