Wizardry 8 - Trying to leave Trynton but bizarrely strong fairies are in the way

I just beat the rat breeders and started making my way out of the village when I ran into a random group of fairies that are absolutely fucking annihilating my team. Their blind and web spells hit my entire team with near 100% accuracy and they're attacking for 20 to 40 points of damage with a single attack on average - sometimes using an AOE that kills several of my party members in a single hit. I tried hiding behind a group of nearby Champion Trynnies, but the fairies ignore them and nuke my party (and the Trynnies keep getting blinded and trying to retreat). It doesn't matter if I use Bless and Sleep spells on them because my party is always blinded and/or webbed so I can't even hit them before they kill somebody. I have Madras in my party, so if one of my blinded units hits a Trynnie he leaves and attacks me.

I defeated dozens of fairies on my way to the breeders, but suddenly this one group is wrecking me. Does this game have enemy scaling as broken as Oblivion or something? Why are they so strong?