"You can call me Jazz if you like," Nyx responds easily, looking at the man up and down, evaluating how best to handle the situation. "So, are you going anywhere in particular, or just returning home after a fine time at the tavern?"
"Men! Cover the back of the building!" Rori orders the men to head to the back. As the men turn down the alley, he casts haste on his companions.
Jiduun strikes the monster once more before she is hit by some strange streams of every type of energy except the one she is resistant to which not only cause considerable amount of pain but also cause her to vomit, and seize up.
not a crit vs touch 17 though, 6 cold dmg
2 fire
4 acid nauseated
7 force stunned
4 sonic
Jidhuun is left in plain view, standing just outside the doorway, her boarding pike clattering to the ground as the rakshasa stuns her.
The guardsmen follow the "sergeant" Rori's instructions and circle around back, while Rori hastens himself, Jidhuun, and Rex who is also nearby.
As the guards come into Nyx and her escorts view the man looks warily at the guards, "Uh oh. Trouble o' some kind." He turns away to move north. "Think it best we leave here Jazz."
Nyx frowns at the sight, keeping her face full of concern. "Personally, I'm more willing to lend a hand helping those people in need. I'd feel extremely guilty if I walked in the other direction and someone got hurt because of it. Besides, I'm more of a person that enjoys a spot of trouble more often than not".
"Do as you wish, but that ain't my fight." The man hurries off to the north, still stumbling slightly in drunkenness.
Seeing Jidhuun stumbling backwards out of the doorway, Rex steps up behind her and fires his crossbow at the rakshasa.
The creatures tough skin absorbs the bolt though.
The rakshasa turns and breaks out the window at the back, and climbs through the opening where the guardsmen are waiting. She begins fleeing westward .
There attacks are ineffective.
Jidhuun continues to be stunned...
As the creature climbs out the window, you recognize it as a marai. Known to be spellcasters among rakshasa, marai are usually subservient to greater rakshasa in a cabal.
Rori calls out for the guards to give chase. The two in front charge the marai, but as expected their blades are ineffective. Rori heads east to try and cut her off, looking for an opening wide enough to move into the back street where the rakshasa is.
Rex, still in disguise, pops his spring-mounted crossbow out of a large sleeve and fires three special, aligned bolts at the Rakshasa.
He smiles as one of the bolts hits the Rakshasa in the neck with an unsettling smack.
Rex's shots drop the creature into unconscious.
Two of the guards run forward towards the rakshasa while the other two start looking down the narrow side alleys. One turns to Nyx. "You'll have to go somewhere else ma'am, this area is being closed off till further notice." He adds, perhaps hoping to scare her off, "There may be more of these demons about, but don't worry, we'll take care of them."
"Oh yes, of course" Nyx responds swiftly, rather happy that the task was completed in a satisfactory manner. "Oh, and thank you very much for saving me from that...creature" she responds sweetly, playing up her role as innocent civilian.
As Rex slips away, his disguise changes, from that of a young barmaid to an older, more raggedly-dressed servant woman. Her illusory left sleeve is tattered by imaginary claws, while faint red lines of phantom blood appear on her shoulder; her face is covered with both mud and bruises.
"Help!" the woman calls out. "There's some sort of... tiger... monster..." and sees the corpse and points, "Oh, just like that one! Do you know how to kill it? I can lead you there, quickly, before it gets away and attacks some other poor soul." and she points down an alley in the opposite direction of where the other guards had left to search.
The guardsmen, around the back side, and unable to see Rex change his disguise, seem unaware of the change.
"Another one? By the gods. Sarge, should I go get more help?" he asks of Rori and looking back in the direction of the south gate, though it is out of sight from his position.
Another one of the guards looks through the broken window in the back of the home. "We've got a corpse in here."
Rori calls out in his best sergeant voice. "Ignore the body for now, let's go see about this other creature."
Then whispering under the message spell, "What's the plan? You just want the guards away from here for now? The men will likely talk once they are back at the gate, unless we remove them too."
He and the guards head off in the direction pointed by Rex.
"It's a body, it won't move," Rex insists. "But if we'e not quick, the other one might get away, and it'll take as many swords as you have right now."