Not sure if anyone's tried this or not - didn't really skim through the comments on Tani yet - but just got attacked by him for a moment.
Well, what I did was backed up a little and hit escape, hide and sneak. It seemed to work, so I'm gonna go do it again shortly when my 2 1/2 mins are up (i did my hastened escape aa's already to, to reduce reuse timer)
In other words, I did not have to run out the zone from Tani (thank God... Too far for a freakin Zone Line, damn it!), I just used Escape Hide and Sneak and it worked fine.

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