"Well, cheers." Alice takes the vial with a smile and clinks it against Jeb's and Ellena's before gulping it down. She then starts moving over the rocky walls, her fingers clinging like a gecko's, her movements sure and steady if somewhat slow.
Looking through the crack Corynne whispers to her companions. "I'm going to center the silence spell in the middle of the brig. Anything that happens inside the first 40 feet of the room will be completely silenced so make sure you step into the room before firing. I'm willing to bet when most of them go deaf for a moment, we'll have the element of surprise for opening the door and moving in. After that, it's a shooting gallery. As soon as I finish, we go on a count of three. And even when you fire at the one's in the back, as long as you're in the silence no one will hear your guns"
Taking the scroll in hand she focuses on a point 20 feet into the room and activates the spell, turning the doorknob as the silence washes over guard and prisoner alike.
"3....2...1....go!" she says pushing the door open with her foot and stepping back to let the gunners past her.
Aiming and raising her gun, Miselle aimed for one of the guards outside the zone of silence. Corynne was right, it seemed like those who could raise the alarm should be the first targets.
It was odd, feeling the kick of the huge gun, feeling the pressure wave as the bullet erupted, but unable to hear the monstrous roar.
Downing her own potion, Ellena follows them up the cliff face.
Following suit with Miselle, Az waits until the countdown is over before stepping into the room and leveling his musket at the one of the other two soldiers not targeted by the machinesmith. Like her, he finds the sensation of the gun's kick, the flash of the gunpowder, and the acrid puff of smoke, but not the accompanying crack of the shot, more than a little strange.
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Brig
Your surprise attack starts out well, as two of the guards drop on your initial salvo. The remaining eight are quick to react, though, drawing longswords and shouting orders to each other. At least, that's what you assume they're trying to do, as the silence effect covering the majority of the prison makes communication ... difficult. Your foes will undoubtably figure out what's going on, but for the moment, the advantage remains with you.
Almost all the prisoners are obvious noncombatants, so their immediate reaction is (predictably) to jump, cower, or otherwise try to make themselves nontargets. The one exception is the Danoran soldier, who begins trying to get your attention. Despite a nasty injury that's left him blind in one eye, he seems eager to fight. Without a weapon, he'll likely be of little help, but his shouts and gesticulations do draw away one of the guards.
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Lighthouse
You're level with the second story of the lighthouse when you spot a face looking in your direction. There's a pseudodragon keeping watch, and its exceptional senses have spotted you. Immediately, it shouts a warning to its master - who appears to be some sort of spellcaster.
Miselle nodded to the others to aim at the guard still outside the silence field, and instead aimed at the guard closest to the Danor officer. She didn't have a spare weapon for the man to use, but if she aimed right, the guard wouldn't need his in a moment...
Trying to catch the man's eye, she tried to sign to him that she would shoot the guard, and he was to grab the weapon.
...instead she most likely warned him of the killer attack chickens. Well, hopefully he'd get the idea anyway. She pulled the trigger again.
Az spends a moment reloading his rifle, thinking to himself that he really needs to spend more time practicing that simple act so he can do it faster.
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Panicking at the sight of the little lizard, Ellena kicks at the glass in a wild attempt to break it.
Slipping past her companions to protect Miselle from the approaching opponent and force anyone attempting to strike the shooters to face her, Corynne brings her mace up in a vicious uppercut swing to strike the closest guard.
Diving inside the window, uncaring of the sharp glass fragments, Alice draws her rapier as she hurries to the enemy.
"Make a noise" she growls "and I'll skewer you. Shut your mouth and you'll survive."
Brig
Miselle's shot goes wildly astray but fortunately missed the Danoran. As Azaghal reloads, Corynne's bashes the closest enemy in the face, dropping him. While two of the remaining enemies keep watch on the prisoners to make sure they don't join in, the rest move to attack the closest target - Corynne. One lands a solid strike with his longsword , but the ghost-talker is able to avoid the other attacks for the moment. As the Danoran and his opponent exchange blows (neither connecting), your foes begin to shout for reinforcements. Only one is in a position to be heard right now, so you're probably safe for a few more moments. Of course, it's only a matter of time before this attracts unwanted attention.
Lighthouse
Muttering to herself soundless, Miselle reloaded the gun using her belt, and re-aimed at the guard who was actually able to shout a warning. She didn't dare fire into combat with a gun that this large and untested - it was possible she'd get them both.
Calling upon her limited riot training, Corynne holds her position, doing her best to ignore the wound as she strikes the attacker directly in front of her, ready to strike any that try to get past her to Miselle and Azaghâl.
Were it not for the silence, the aggravated sounds of the restless dead around her would be heard responding to her wound.
Brig
Miselle's next shot is much better aimed and drops the shouting guard - which also gives the Danoran access to his weapons. Corynne lands a solid blow on the enemy that struck her, but it's not quite enough to lay him low.
Lighthouse
Alice's threat is cut off halfway when Jebediah activates the scroll. The wizard immediately realizes that his best move is to raise his hands in surrender. His familiar, on the other hand, lashes out at Alice with its tail stinger before withdrawing downstairs at a rapid pace.
The shallow cut of the pseudodragon's tail only lets a tiny drop of poison under Alice's skin, and the drowsiness is easily resisted. Her rapier lashes towards the tiny familiar with its sharp tip.
Az draws a bead on the next closest target to him, trying to keep it within the range of a deadlier shot and also aim at a target that is closest to leaving the silenced area.
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Brig
Azaghal's shot takes out the guard who Corynne had injured, reducing your immediate foes to three. One moves to the doorway and attacks Azaghal but misses the dwarf as he ducks behind the doorframe. The other two continue to harass Corynne, and one manages to land a grazing blow . Meanwhile, his foe dispatched, the Danoran picks up a sword and moves to assist, shouting for the other prisoners to revolt. "The Risuri pigs can't stop all of us!" From their looks, the two guards watching the prisoners are about to have a rough time.
Lighthouse
Alice lands a nasty gash on the pseudodragon's flank as it flees.
Reloading her rifle via the belt, Miselle aimed for anyone not currently in hand to hand, or the closest target if they'd all decided to try and fight. This would all be over soon. Hopefully having the prisoners all riled up wouldn't come back to haunt them...
As the magical silence covers a curse that would have made a docker blush, Alice hurries downstairs, hoping that magic and keeping her head down will be enough to shield her from the guard's view.
She lashes at the small dragon with her gauntleted hand, trying to grab the small creature by its tail.
Az takes a quick step away from his assailant, using the brief respite to reload his musket for another shot.
Feeling herself a little closer to death paradoxically seems to empower Corynne, as she falls back into a defensive fighting stance, her mace deflecting attacks while seeking out an opening in her next opponent, the one reaching for Az.
Climbing in after Alice and Jeb, Ellena draws Fabian while she runs down the stairs after the dragon.
Brig
Corynne wounds another guard but is having a difficult time of it. Flanked by enemies, she's hard-pressed to defend herself. Fortunately, the prisoners have begun to revolt and, and the two soldiers 'guarding' them are quickly tackled. The Danoran begins gleefully hacking away at one of them, shouting expletives. Suddenly, you realize that the fact that you can hear him means your silence spell has worn off. With the amount of noise everyone's making, more enemies will be arriving shortly.
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Lighthouse
The tiny dragon lashes out with its tail as Alice approaches, but with a deft dodge, she instead snatches it out of the air. Downstairs, the soldier guarding the gate controls turns around in surprise as the area becomes magically silent.
Cursed little slimy... Well, now it's done. Damage control, and by that I mean damaging the enemies.
Releasing the small beast from her grasp, Alice raises her arm in an upswing, drawing the razor-sharp edge over its tiny, draconic body.
Then, in a few long strides, she faces the guard, rapier lowered in a wide guard. Her blouse soiled, bloodlust in her eyes and a manic grin on her face, she collects her breath for the fight.
Realising that the enemy forces would be here soon, and that they'd need a distraction for as long as possible, Miselle fired a single round into the air. The massive gun barked with a devastating roar that made her ears hurt in the enclosed space, and she suspected anyone on the room had just had a terminal heart failure.
Now that she had everyone's attention, she shouted in Danoran, <"Everyone! Fall back and out of this place. We're going to fire the building, so as to cause a distraction. Move your hides if you do not wish to burn with it!"> She pointed to the exit they had created. Hopefully most of the Risur guards left couldn't speak it well enough to translate.
Seeing the shift in the sitiation, Corynne takes advantage of Miselle's distraction to take a careful step back, her eyes glowing as the spirits swirl around her, agitated by her wounds, the veil thinning around her in response. Extending her hand, the young constable gives evidence for her nickname "spooky" as a stream of shadowy forms rush toward the already injured guard, ghostly fingers tearing at his flesh, as noticeably bleeding wounds manifest across his body.
The remaining guards now finding themselves pinned between armed and unnerving opponents and an angry mob of prisoners.
"You can surrender or die here! And death will be no reprieve"
At Miselle's urging, Az immediately turns to the nearest pile of straw, tearing open one of his pouches of gunpowder and emptying it at the base of the straw and using the flint from his musket to try and quickly set it aflame.