Alanaes' sweep trips the man with no problem, droping him to the ground.
"Help! Help!" he yells.
"Thanks!" Darian yells over the crowd. Turning his attention back to the man trying to escape, Darian claps Geoff on the shoulder. "I'll take door guard in case he gets past you."
You find it easy to move towards the door, as many patrons, now able to see and hearing (and seeing) some fighting in the farther parts of the room start pushing out of the doors. You ability to move in crowds allows you to remain at your appointed post, but your ability to strike at someone in the crowd is dubious at best.
Geoff jumps off the stage and moves to the man attempting to flee. He smacks him in the head with the flat of his sword.
"Not so fast! Give up now and you might live."
Geoff heads for the man that he is pretty sure is the one indicated by Darian.
"Help! I'm being robbed!" he yells to the bouncer who is just behind him.
"You there! Stop!" the bouncer yells at Geoff, heading towards him.
Then the man pushes his way farther along the crowd, edging away from Geoff.
"Nice try pal." Darain says stepping forward to intercept the escaping man.
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Terra jumps when the Bouncer yells at her. "Wha- I-I didn't kno-Eep!"Terra squeaks as she recoils back from the bouncer as he grabs at her.
Terra blushes as Alanaes arrives to her rescue. T-Thanks..." She mutters, enthralled for a moment as she watches Alanaes gracefully drop the bouncer to the floor.
... Oh yeah, 'that' guy. grr... Getting me in trouble. Stupid no magic rule... Terra dodges through the crowd and unleashes a color spray to try to stun or knock out the guy (and the bouncer affronting Darien) Ha, take that jerk...
Acrobatics
If the target moves out of her color spray range, then she will simply attempt to acid dart him again.
Round 4, cont.
Terra chases after the fleeing man, and gets close enough to cast Color Spray.
Two more bouncers pour into the room from a door near the bar (I17), while two more and the owner come in at the opposite end of the room (X19).
The bouncer (4) next to Alanaes gets to his feet (if he can), and tries to deal with Alanaes.
The bouncer (5) near Geoff, seeing him attack a patron, steps up, pulls his club, and attacks.
Bouncer 3 attacks the thug 1.
The bouncer starts for the doors, yelling, "There are more theives up front by the doors!"
The remaining thug also breaks for the front doors.
Alanaes, seeing the bouncer try to get up from the floor, takes the opportunity to keep him down. Unfortunately, his trip attempt is unsuccessful. Alanaes deftly adjusts his stance be like the river. As the bouncer makes his attack, Alanaes uses the man's momentum against him and promptly drops him back to the ground. This time, now that he's been attacked, Alanaes follows up with a kick . His kick is followed by two more kicks in swift succession, aimed to knock the man unconscious, not kill him.
"Perhaps you should just lie there and recover for a little while. We are trying to help!"
Alanaes just shrugs and looks towards Terra to make sure she is okay. Then his sights set on Geoff, as he deals with another bouncer.
You fool! He is one of the thieves!" Geoff shouts at the bouncer. "If you hit me again, I'll let him escape and cut the hand that holds that club off!"
acrobatics (for crowd)
Your hunting for history in the Library turns up the fact that there was a dwarf city/stronghold called Kodor, or maybe the mountains were called Kodar (it isn't too clear).
But it was in the mountains of northern Varisia that it was located.
Some years ago, they were attacked by a (supposedly) winter witch from Irrisen, and after holding out for a while, the city/stronghold fell.
She and her frozen undead supposedly rule there now.
Terra stares in silence as everyone falls except her true target. [/b]"Uhhh... Sorry..."[/b] Grr... Damn it. He's going to get it now...
And then Darien knocks him out.
...Thats not what I meant, but I guess that works (Sigh)Man I'm useless...
Terra does what she can to prevent the people she knocked out from being trampled on.
Int
Meanwhile, they have seen you attacking with weapons (although Darian might catch some slack for his choice of a stool), casting spells, or curb-stomping one of their employees.
It is very possible that they have the wrong idea about you.
Round 5, cont,
The new bouncers start moving in with deliberate steps, pulling out their shortswords, and looking like business. The other bouncers slow down to allow the reinforcements to to catch up.
The final thug bolts out the doors, avoiding Darian's side of the entrance.
Alanaes sees the thug that Geoff was after leave through the door and immediately lowers his arms. "Well, dang, they got away." He then looks at the nearest bouncer and wisely keeps his mouth shut.
Terra turns to the others and tugs at Darian's shirt . "I-I think we should leave. Like now... I think these Idi- er... bouncers think we might be the bad guys..." Terra says, blushing when she almost lets an insult slip out.
But she made it after everyone was blinded by magic, so they don't know what she looks like.
Just that it was a female, and might have used a spell... sound like anyone they might see now?
Great, these clowns probably think 'I'm' the ringleder of this cluster...
Worriedly, Terra starts to tug at Darian's shirt more urgently, trying to get his attention over all the confusion and noise. "D-Darian, we really need to leave!"
Fuming, Geoff slams his sword back into its sheath.
"You insufferable oafs! Your stupidity has allowed one of them to escape. At least the leader is still here!" Geoff points to the woman on the stage.
"Maybe, if you aren't complete incompetents, you might get some information from her."
"Nu uh." Darian says to Terra. "If we leave then they'll think the real bad guys were just victims. You go. Get Alanaes, and meet up with Rogar. Geoff and I'll cover your exit and give ourselves up. We can sort this out after the bad guys wake up. Someone had to have seen it that wasn't us."
"No, I cannot do that Darian. I knocked this poor fellow out here after he tried to grab Terra and attack me..." Alanaes points to the bouncer on the floor. "I think perhaps I ought to turn myself in."
He then turns toward the bouncer nearby who have pulled out their weapons. "We can explain everything. We uncovered a plot to steal from the patrons of this bar." He says this indicating the woman who was involved. "Unfortunately, our methods of apprehending them for you proved to be rather unwise, and for that we are sorry."
Running a hand across his face Darian sighs. "Great. Alright then. Wish Rogar was here. Damn."
Squaring off against the advancing bouncers he gently pushes Terra behind him. "Guys, form up on me. Terra, slip outside, call for the guard."
"Wonder how many of them we'll have to hurt before they'll start listening. he bellows.
"But-I... Okay..." Terra mutters sadly.
Terra runs out and looks for a guard and explains what happened.
It is suspected that some underground ruins are Thassilonian, while others are Dwarf-made (and some are natural), although the city doesn't use much of the underground.
The city proper was founded during the Chelaxian expantion, about the same time as Korvosa, Magnimar, and Riddleport.
Terra rushes out with the crowd, looking for the guard.
After a while, she does find two men who have a look of being guardsmen, although they don't look very interested in most of what is going around them.
Still, it is the first 'guardsmen' that she has seen in the city (odd, that their seems to be a lack of guardsmen around).
"I'm in charge here," says the shorter, one handed man who was giving the speech at the beginning of the event. "Care to explain yourself, and why your man is stomping o' of mine? Or is he one o' the others?"
The guards surround Alanaes, looking like they want to chop him into small pieces, but they hold their attacks waiting for the word.
Other guards start to gather in the unconscious people.
"He was laying his hands on my friend and when I stopped him, he attacked me. I was only defending myself. And you'll see he's not really hurt that bad, just unconscious. I had no intention of causing him lasting harm."
Alanaes stands where he is, not making any sudden moves. He mentally prepares himself to fight back against the bouncers with swords, should it come to that.
"Hey, yeah, that's a good idea. Let's not talk things out. It's not like your boys care that we did their job for them and saved you from being robbed blind. Looks like what they really want is to start stabbing at my friend here. So we can do that. I'm sure your patrons are bound to forget about the giant screaming bloodbath we turn this into. I'm sure word won't spread."
Darian sets his stool on the ground, sits on it and retrieves the short-chained flail hanging on his hip.
"So go ahead boys. Start swinging. This is a gambling house after all. The spectators can bet on how many of us die in the next thirty seconds. I'm sure that'll be a lot more fun than talking."
"What my friend here is trying to say, is that if you attack us, we will not go quietly. I will defend myself. But it doesn't have to come to that."
"Uhh Sirs..." Terra tries to hail the two 'guards'. When they notice her, she loses her resolve a bit. "uhh... T-There's t-troube... Uhm, over h-here... at the t-tavern..." Terra trails off.
"So how about we lower the steel, Boss?" Darian says to the one-handed man. "We can always get to the killing each other later if the whole "civilized people" thing doesn't work out."
"But Darian, I thought the 'civilized people' thing was the second choice." Geoff says as he places his hand on the hilt of his sword and then graces the others with an innocent smile.
"Trouble, eh?" one says. "Always a problem, eh?" He elbows his partner.
"Don't know 'bout that," the other comments. "Clegg, he's got a bit o' a feud with Saul, ya know. I'd not want to get involved if its somethin' like that, ya know."
"Oh, true dat, eh? Don't wanna get on the bad side of Clegg, eh?"
'Yah, best we wait an' see if we's needed, ya know. Safer too, ya know."
"And Saul's got ta look to his own protection too, eh? he should be able to handle this himself, if he wants to keep running that hall, eh?"
The two men then lean against the wall, watching in the direction of the Golden Goblin.
"I was for talking, at first," the one-handed man comments to Darian. "And you should notice that my men aren't swinging their steel right now. I ask about the other man," (indicating Alanaes), "because he was the only one of you swinging at my men."
"Your man was accosting a ninety pound girl who was doing her best to keep you from being robbed. Unless that's what you pay him for, I'd say you might want to wake him up and fire him."
"My man was not beating down your ninty-pound girl who went on to drop a fair number of patrons with magic. And this after the whole situation started with a girl using magic. You're right, I should fire him for not doing his duty and beating her down, and instead just 'accosting' her."
Just then the imp in the cage spits out another tirade. The one-handed man cocks his ears to this for a second.
"In fact, it would be just like what you did, beating down a girl who wasn't holding a weapon, wouldn't it?"