Well, that's pretty simple. Basically, we just have to convince them that we're dead ants.

[ john rattles something around in the palm of one hand that's almost definitely bits of bone. he can hear something coming too, and a fight will be easier if he doesn't have to try and deal with them directly. his miniaturised necromancy has diminishing returns on things that are larger, but skeleton constructs still hit plenty hard at this scale. ]

We're about to have company, so, uh—... use your imagination, yeah?

[ it's bug guts. what he means is they're going to need bug guts for this. ]