Dokren waits a moment for any of the people's lives he saved to say anything to him. He shakes his head in disbelief, quickly moves back to the chest, and takes another pouch full of gold, before slipping out and mumbling something as he climbs down the rope and disappears.
Sure enough, about two minutes after the guards are dispatched and everyone's freed, another enforcer comes down ambling. He continues on, turning around a corner, and spots the legs of someone resting in the half-open brig door.
With a flurry of activity, many things happen.
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Krovax shoves open the door to the meeting room, and Marcus charges forward, pushing the enforcer into the brig.
The man is violently shoved into the room, taking damage. Marcus then attempts to overrun him.
The man takes more damage from Marcus's shove, and falls to the ground on the far side of the brig door.
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Vera casts a spell on the prone enforcer.
Who falls quiet, boggled by the brutal assault, he is unable to say or do anything.
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The man is down, so her plan to use the whip is unneeded. Instead she twists her city's curse into him.
The enforcer tries to resist the effect of Magda's misfortune hex.
He looks like he's very bad off.
Shi attacks the man, not wanting to kill him but hoping some actual damage will gelp to knock him out quicker.
Kali waits with the others in the brig, waiting to pounce. Once the man gets pushed in, she unleashes a powerful blow with it and tries to bring the man down.
With a thud, the enforcer slams into the back wall of the brig and crumples to the ground.
He is unconscious.
"Shi, make sure nobody else is coming down, watch the door. Strip him of his equipment, and help me and Krovax get into our armor."
Shi moves out into the hall, to watch for anyone coming and give an early warning if she sees anyone.
Magda hurries to help the walls, starting with Krovax since he is without his.
Kali moves quietly forward with Shi.
After Marcus has removed his studded leather, and as he's starting to get his full plate on, the sounds of people approaching from the stairs can be heard. Not quietly, and if sounds as if there are a few folks.
From around the corner comes the friendly enforcer, followed by two hopeful hopeful thugs that Shi saw earlier. The two hopeful thugs have longbows out.
The enforcer moves up, and says, "George, where are you? Where's Selim, where's Lawrence?" The enforcer has a worried look on his face. "Don't screw around!" he whispers, loudly.
"City please help us do the right and the good by kicking the s*+! out of these not so right and good" Magda casts bless on her companions.
As Magda calls forth some magics, Vera steps into the next room uses a bit of her own. Shi disappears from sight!
As Shi sees her hands and such disappear she gives Vera a smile and a nod, though no one can see it. She slinks across the hall so she can get behind anyone and block the hall from any easy retreat.
The three guards, two thugs and one enforcer, continue down the narrow hall until they get to the larger part of the hall. The enforcer moves to the door and sees the same feet sticking out of the door, he turns to the two thugs and says, loudly "Selim is down, the prisoners -!" but gets cut off when two things happen.
First, Marcus explodes out of the door, shoving it open and staggering the enforcer.
This slams the enforcer into the door, and Marcus attempts to kick him while he's off-balance.
This damages the enforcer, and drops him prone. As soon as he falls, Kaliyah throws the door open near Krovax, who immediately tries to grab the prone enforcer in front of him.
The prone enforcer finds himself grappled, the with Krovax holding him tightly.
While the others launch a surprise strike, Vera attempts to use her magics to put one of the enemies into a daze.
Magda steps into view and requests the cities aid again.
Sapmaster Kali waits for the word to hit him and if given will hit him over the head with the sap. Gently, since he was nice to us.
Shi tries to spook the guy she is standing next to as she whispers a threat at him hoping it will demoralize the man.
"You should just surrender so you don't get hurt!"
Maybe the whispering is more creepy than intimidating though...
She then quickly tries to circle around the man so he doesn't know where she is and to block the hallway to stop anyone from fleeing.
Krovax grabs the man and forces him down to the ground, pinning him underneath him as he presses his hand firmly over his mouth. ”Surrender now and keep your mouth shut and you just might live through this.”
The two thugs drop their bows and draw their longswords, attacking Marcus and yelling, "bossman, the prisoners!"
One of the thugs gets a lucky shot on Marcus with his longsword, laying into him and cutting deep into Marcus' thigh.
The enforcer on the ground looks mad at Krovax, but says nothing, after struggling to break free for a moment.
With one subdued, Marcus takes out his morningstar and swings at the one that managed to hit him.
Marcus damages the thug badly.
Not for the first time, one of the party feels the pull of prophecy on their soul. Magda hears a whisper, audible to only her, saying, "the rabbit prince."
As the man squirms, Krovax puts a hand on the back of his head and slams it into the floor, trying to knock him out. He was going to try and spare this man, but it didn’t mean he wouldn’t feel pain...
Magda steps up to look into the hall. Seeing one stab her wall, she tries her city's magic once again.
If Magda's magics stick, Vera tries dazing the farther away enemy. Otherwise she'll try the same target as Magda.
As Vera's magic begins to face Shi quickly moves around to the side of the one man who moved to flank Marcus, clear that no one was running and struck at him hoping to do enough damage he would be easy to knock out after.
Kali sighs and looks at the man who hasn't surrendered completely. She still holds her sap ready to strike again and asks "Look, what's your name?"
"Andrew? Look Andrew, please don't resist, I promise we won't kill you. You were the nice one. We're just going to knock you out. Okay?"
If Andrew doesn't agree or affirm he's surrendering, she will switch off the sap, otherwise if he agrees she will thwack him with the sap again.
Shi's target drops unconscious, Kaliyah's target drops unconscious, and is freed from Krovax's grip. Only one thug remains at the moment.
The thug is dazed by Vera and is suffering misfortune as well. The dazed thug stands there quietly, fearful.
Another thug rushes around the corner, spots Shi, and tries to attack with his longsword.
But misses. There is the distinct sound of noise on the deck above this level.
Thwak!
With a crash, Devargo Barvasi emerges from around the corner, snarling, and slams past one of his thugs, "out of the way!" through the partially open door, and into the nearby room. His echoing voice can be heard, "you're all " With this pronouncement, even the thugs blanche, seemingly afraid of disobeying the crimelord.
Hearing Devargo and seeing him sprint into the room just to her west, Shi looks to not be at the very front of the fight. She strikes out at the closest enemy before she tries to tumble to the other side of Marcus, trying to avoid leaving herself open for an attack, but her slight panic seems to get the best of her as she misses horribly and likely opens herself up to an attack.
Magda maintains her misfortune, repeating comforting words about the city. She dashes over to the open spot so she can see, drawing out her wand of healing as she does so.
From where she is, there seems to be only one option. Continue to daze and confuse!
Kali drops her sap, draws her bow, nocks an arrow and lets it fly towards the red thug in the hall.
Krovax tries to attack the thug nearest to him, hoping to get in position to create a defensive barrier against potential attacks from Barvasi and the others.
With one attack, Krovax knocks the thug in front of him unconscious and steps forward onto the form, glowering at the next thug.
Grimacing, said thug takes a swing at Krovax, and misses.
Another thug runs into the same room as Barvasi, and swings open the door for him. The crime lord glowers menacingly at the party, his waveblades dripping poison, his speed - supernaturally fast. He twitches with anticipation.
Another enforcer rounds the corner, and tries to swing at Krovax around the corner, but misses.
Marcus moves behind Krovax, giving him a moment to step to the side before violently slams into the man next to him to carry him out of the way, throwing him onto the ground between the doors. He shoves past and ends in front of Devargo. His frown glowers down at the man. One would not walk out of here alive.
Marcus pushes red slightly, and knocks into him, shoving him down and damaging him.
Snarling, Devargo Barvasi begins an assault on Marcus from what appears to be a drug lab.
Barvasi skillfully slices into the space between the pieces of Marcus' armor with the first strike, but is unable to do more than a glancing blow. He glowers at the man.
Krovax activates one of his blessings, and steps towards the thug in red, blocking the narrow hallway leading from the stairs up to the upper deck.
Shi steps up next to Krovax and tries to knock out the one man still on the floor.
Rushing past the guy Krovax gutted and the one Marcus flatten, Magda tries to twist her city's magic in the big bad boss bastard.
As Magda charges forth, Vera follows, positioning herself to send a fan of bright colors into the array of enemies!
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The thug slices effectively at Magda, who is hurt in the foot.
Barvasi however, fees the curse of the city rising up against him and glares at Magda, ”what did you do, witch!” he cries, the swagger gone from his voice.
Somehow, despite the city hating him, Devargo Barvasi is completely unaffected by the color spray. His thug falls unconscious, though, and his enforcer is obviously blinded.
Kali advances up a few feet and takes aim at Devargo at the far end of the hallway. She shouts "MARCUS, DUCK!" and lets loose two arrows aimed at Devargo's upper chest area.
Barvasi is hit by the first arrow, as it embeds in his side. The second plinks off of his armor.
The enforcer in front of Krovas tries to knock him out.
The enforcer misses. The other enforcer in the room with Barvasi tries to swing at Marcus around the corner.
But that enforcer also misses. The thugs that are nearby try to throw tanglefoot bags at different targets.
Another enforcer comes down and into the drug lab with Barvasi, standing adjacent to him.