Nicoali attempts to follow Silvio through the hanging laundry only to get hopelessly tangled in the drying clothes.
Silvio rushes ahead nimbly, moving through the clotheslines without difficulty.
Staryth, meanwhile, winds up quite entangled. Moments later, Nicolai ends up in the same fate. Their combined weights snap the clothesline, and the two men lose their balance, tumbling down into the street; lucky for them a cartload of hay breaks their fall, and they come otu of it only moderately hurt.
Krojun attempts to clamber up the wall, but his hand slips at the last moment; the brick is quite rough, but it is still much of a challenge to climb.
Ahead, Trinia sees Silvio closing in on her. He sees her fumble to draw something from her belt as she runs: a wand of some sort.
Trinia gracefully leaps through a gap between two chimneys, landing on an higher roof across the street, giving herself a fast shortcut.
Party is up.
Krojun: You see a climb you believe to be almost trivial to you; a chimney you could clamber up to reach a flat roof above. With a simple act of balance (Acrobatics) afterwards, you could also balance atop a plank connecting two rooves and take a shortcut.
Silvio: A narrow gap between two buildings offers a risky but rewarding shortcut (Escape Artist), while further ahead, an uneven roof would provide a trivial shortcut to you if you can maintain your footing. (Acrobatics.)
Sera: The remaining clotheslines still provide a first obstacle, as does the climb Krojun couldn't quite make.
"Ow..." he looks at his companion, "Are you okay, Fulko?"
Seeing Krojun have difficulty with the wall, Sera tries the more dexterous route, hoping her enhanced speed will aid her enough not to take a tumble like the others.
Alas as she is about to make her way onto the clothes lines, she trips over the window ledge and tumbles arse over teakettle to the ground below.
Groaning in pain, yet thankful Abadar did not reward her foolishness with a broken neck, Sera pulls herself to her feet and tries to resume the chase with Staryth and Nicolai.
Nicolai forms up behind Staryth, and slightly to his left, as the armored Paladin begins to make his way through the crowded streets. Nicolai keeps glancing up, trying to keep an eye on the chase happening above their heads.
Silvio plows forward, trying to catch the girl.
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If he closes the gap, Silvio will call out to Trinia. "Trinia, Stop! You're good, but you won't escape me."
Silvio overestimates the width separating the two buildings, and ends up moving far slower through the gap than he expected to. Trinia looks back as he shouts, but doesn't seem very affected by his threat; no doubt seeing him fumble his attempt at that obstacle had some part in it. She moves ahead, forgoing any risks, feeling that her pursuer are far enough behind.
This time, Krojun is very successful; with thunderous strength, he hoists himself up the chimney and barrels across the narrow plank as though it were the simplest thing in the world, making great progress towards catching up to Trinia.
Nicolai, Staryth and Sera are still down in the street, fumbling admidst the crowd.
Krojun catches sight of an easy-to-miss ledge further ahead, which would allow him to avoid a very long detour across the street. Reaching that point would allow him to cover much ground in very little time.
Ahead of Silvio, a wide gap between two buildings that would save him a detour, but which seems like a rather risky leap, which he guesses is about a fifty-fifty shot at success. A second narrow gap, further ahead, offers an easier challenge; it is slightly wider than the one he fumbled moments ago.
Sera tries to watch the pursuit while the others "plow the road" for them, and keeps those on the ground up to date on the progress of the rooftop chase.
"pardon me, excuse me..." Staryth tries to keep up through the crowd.
Humbled by his previous failure, Silvio tries what he thinks is the easier challenge.
Silvio easily clears the obstacle, gaining some ground on Trinia.
Ahead of him, Trinia is starting to feel the pressure from her pursuers, and decides to take a risk on a particularly daring leap.
She clears it with impressive ease, putting a little more distance and points the wand at Silvio.
Dazzling light shines forth from the wand, and for a short moment, Silvio sees stars and fluttering pseudodragons, losing track of his own thought processes.
Down in the streets, Staryth, Nicolai and Sera push their way through the crowd, many of whom are looking up at the chase in surprise and confusion.
Krojun sees the leap Trinia just took; while the lithe and agile woman made it look easy, it seems rather unlikely that he would make the jump.
Nicolai will pause a moment in the street and cast Glitterdust in front of Trinia, hoping to catch her in it's burst.
Staryth keeps pushing forward, trying to keep up with the action above
"Pardon me... excuse me...coming through."
Silvio suddenly comes to a halt, standing starry-eyed.
Panicked as she notices the large Shoanti gaining on her, Trinia makes for a narrow passage, hoping to leave him in the dust. However, in her fright, she overestimates her abilities, and ends up hitting her shoulder hard against the wall, stopping her in her tracks.
Scrambling for her wand and wincing at her fresh scrape, she aims at Krojun, hoping to slow him down.
However, Krojun shrugs the spell off, continuing on undaunted and coming ever closer to her.
Down in the street, Staryth, Sera, and Nicolai notice two hellknights forcing their own way through the crowd and, moments later, a third, mounted on a hippogriff, approaching in the distance.
Silvio, having recovered from his daze, notes two potential shortcuts in his way. One involves relatively simple acrobatics, while the other one looks like a tight but moderately feasibly squeeze.
Krojun, coming closer to Trinia, notes a narrow passage that, while simple for a more svelte and agile lad like his fellow chaser, looks somewhat of a tough squeeze for a broad shouldered man like himself. The gap between two rooves, just ahead, however, looks like an easy jump to him.
Silvio presses on, using his acrobatic ability to speed toward Trinia.
Seeing the girl fall, he decides it's another good opportunity to get the girl to stop. "See, running is just going to get you hurt!"
"Hellknights. This is not good." He mutters
Trinia stumbles as the spell takes effect, panicking and screeching to a halt.
"Ah! My eyes!"y
Trinia tries to move forward, but she stumbles, giving Krojun an easy time catching up to her.
"No! You don't understand! I didn't do it! I didn't kill the king! You have the wrongg woman!"
Trinia struggles, trying to get free from Krojun's grasp, but the Shoanti is vastly stronger than her.
"You're the ones that work with Marshall Kroft, aren't you? Please, I beg of you, don't turn me in. I'm innocent, I swear! I never did anything to the king other than paint his portrait!"
Trinia stops struggling, resigned to her fate.
Spotting the troop of Hellknights making their way through the crowd Nicolai begins to angle towards them. Stopping in front them Nicolai feigns relief "Captain, thank the Gods you're here. The young girl everyone's been searching for, the blonde one, I thought I saw her take off down that alley over there, all sneaky like. If you hurry you might be able to catch her before she slips away." Nicolai then points to a side street away from where the others are.
"Stay calm, everyone. All will be well" He says trying to calm even as he pushes through
He isn't deaf to Nicoli's...distracting the hellknights, but figures the best thing to do is keep moving and hope Shelyn doesn't mind his focus on the girl.
Silvio catches up with the hulking Shoanti, then bows. "You've heard of us, then?" says the one-armed man, still catching his breath. "Silvio Errico, at your service. As my friend Krojun says, we are not here to hurt you or to turn you in. Rather, we are here to keep you safe as we investigate. And the first step to achieving that is to get scarse. So, will you hand over that wand and come willingly with us?" He looks about for his companions and notices the Hellknights nearby. "I suggest you decide quickly!" he says, nodding his head toward the Hellknights.