Recent use of aug lore groups has been to prevent a player from stacking stamina. Since adroitness aug has no stamina there is no need.
Steps 1-3 can be done in any order, but (at least at present) the 1st that you fight is the one that gives up at 20%, the 2nd and 3rd make you fight to their death, with the 3rd one calling for assistance of whoever is near by. This could be a bug, because I had fought Xataka first (and he gave up at 20%) but when I went to fight Krolix 2nd and cleared a few mobs around him one of the guards said that Commander Gartik talked to the outsiders when I had not even found him yet.