Initiative...
Philo 21
Verrick 18
Norbac and Evil guy talking 17
Crossbow men 16
Lorien 12
Geenaa 9
Defrel 7
Refleev 5
Philo quickly jumps out into the room and looks up seeing that part of the roof of the room has collapsed. There is a balcony within the room at 2nd floor, and the paladin can see four crossbow men spread out around and behind cover. Two of them are finishing reloading, while two others have bows aimed down into the crowd… (Philo could throw a dagger or jump in front of some of the slaves)
Verrick tumbles into the room, judging the best area to throw his stones and throws them perfectly between the crossbow men…
Fortitude saves for the crossbow men (DC15); 1st one 19, 2nd one 18, 3rd one natural 20! 4th one 11; I will give you a 50/50 to get it close enough to the Evil Talker (as you don't know where he is) higher misses; 37% hits him; His saving throw 19. Only one misses it!
…while one of the crossbow men screams and grabs his ears and the others are somewhat hurt they seem to be able to shrug most of the effects off.
Norbac grows to large size and starts moving into the room as…
The voice yells "Fools! Now you will all die!" When a tall gaunt man, floating in the air about 20ft off the ground near a hole in the roof appears and says "Grath oth fast!" and a mist seems to form in his hands, and then a blast of cold, snow, sheet and ice slams into the space where most of the people are and Philo and Verrick! Philo moves to protect a group of the kids…
NOTE that if you want, and Philo does NOT take his saving throw then I will allow him to cover some of the people… I will wait for you to decide before I roll damage…Verrick has a change to identify it as the bad guy casts his spell…OR if you want to think of something else (I was assuming you would have initiative on him if you want to try something funky)
Conditions…
Refleev has 46HP (out of 61)
Philo has 43 (out of 56)
Lorien has 36 (out of 50)
Geenaa has 59 (out of 80)
Norbac has 32HP (out of 56)
Verrick has 20HP (out of 28)
4 crossbow men (one defended)
One tall gaunt wizard-looking guy, floating in the air
Defrel has 29HP (out of 46)