Jakthion finally rouses himself as he sees the half-orc bear down on Catcher. He lunges forward, managing to pierce the thug's hide.
Seizing the opportunity to lay into the half-orc as he's being ganged up on, Balian wails some more.
The half orc charged down the stairs, as Catcher charged to meet him. She took a swing at him and missed, losing her weapon at the same time. He took a swing at her in turn, which she just barely dived out of the way of.
Balian, right behind her, took a swing himself, dealing a nasty blow that broke ribs. Do-Waya stuck a spear into the half orc's weapon arm, not hard enough to cause any real damage, but hard enough to cause him to drop his mace.
At the end of the first lot of actions, Jakthion stuck a rapier straight through his chest, and tried but failed to pull it out.
At the beginning of the second, Balian swung once more at the half orc; this time hitting him square in the face, causing an open wound. He collapses to the ground, unconscious.
As the fight ends, an incredulous sounding voice, probably from a girl, says, "Dad?!"
Balkan drops his sword and shield and immediately scoops the source of the voice up, his words choked out. His demeanor is completely changed from before, his usual calm replaced by gushing of emotion.
It's ok, I'm here. We're going to get you out of here and Lamm isn't going to hurt anyone else. I've been so worried about you.
She's safe. Gods be praised she's safe.
"Is everyone okay? Did anyone else take an injury?" Without really waiting for a response, Jarl moves to the half-orc and moves to provide life-saving first aid (if required), but he's not looking to revive the big fella.
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Catcher stands, not looking at the children. She walks to her sword and pick it up, then she go to Giggles and search him, removing his armor weapon and everything else he has.
After that she will ask anyone for a rope and bound the half-orc.
"Wake him, so we can ask questions, but..." she look at the children and says "Giggles is not living past today. He will pay for everything he has done to me and to the other children."
Marada turns her face away from the reunion before her, memories of her own lost family flooding back. Pushing away the past, she steels herself and help Catcher remove Giggle's possessions and secure his limbs.
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"There's more people here, dad - " she cuts short as the door next to the one the half orc came through bursts open, as two more people rush though - a particularly vile looking gnome and a tall, harried looking human. There's a quiet growl that sounds like it's from a particularly nasty dog too, and the kids' faces lose what little colour they'd regained after the last fight ended.
Balkan pulls out a spear and steps forward toward where he left his shield.
Listen to me very carefully. Get everyone outside and shut the door behind you. Stay together, and try to stay close, ok?
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Becca nods. "OK..." she replies shakily.
Jakthion tugs his rapier free from the half-orc, whipping it out to shake the blood from it.
As the door slams open, he aims and shoots the vile little gnome.
The gnome starts moving towards the stairs, and reaches the top of the stairs as Jakthion's bullet rips through his left knee, dropping him to the floor.
Catcher's blow clatters uselessly against the gnome's armour.
As the two men come out onto the landing and threaten the group, Jarl begins chanting in Varisian again, releasing a shimmer through the air, which washes over, and past, both targets to no effect.
Shouting a Shadde-Quah battle-cry, Do-waya closes the distance, hoping to block any more of Lamm's gang from rushing through the open doorway.
Balian will pick up his shield and strike at the nearest enemy.
Do-waya attempts to spear the human.
Once again Marada whispers words of power and her hand becomes blurry to the sight of others, with a flick the blur shoots through the air at the human adversary.
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And once again, Marada utters a string of curses that would make a sailor blush.
Whatever Marada tried to do fails, while Balian's spear strikes the gnome solidly; it doesn't penetrate his armour, but there's the definite creaking of bone as it hits.
The human quickly leaps out of the way of Do-Waya's spear, and points a wand at him. A stream of ice cold air blasts out at the nomad, but fails to connect.