Usually, fights are the result of someone outside the carnival going after someone inside of it. Recently, that's mostly been the fae, which are too powerful for any one of us to handle on our own.

If you come into conflict with them, your priorities are to gather up anyone at risk and get them out of there.

For anything else it's going to be situational, so neutralize the threat and either escape or wait for backup as necessary.

[There, it's a real answer.]