After the Butcher falls, there is a flurry of activity on the street and on the wall.
Inside the warehouse, Tuck makes a quick survey of all the potions and vials. Mutt rushes into the warehouse to find Tuck. He gets districted by the food on the table. The big dog jumps up onto the table and begins scarfing down the mercenary's last meal.
Vincenzo rushes into the candle shop to pick up a shield. Tim drinks his healing potion.
Captain Camburn gets to his feet with Burchard's help. "I'm getting to old for this," he says while pulling out a potion and drinking it. Breva heals some of the captain's wounds.
The guards are starting to look tired, but the commander rallies them to keep fighting. Zenpher gets down off the table; he and Maena are discussing tactics.
Custodio exits the warehouse and heals Burchard.
"Tuck is looking over the various potions and other vials we found in the warehouse. They could be useful. Some of them have symbols on them, while others look like they could be vials of poison, or maybe acid. There are a lot."
"So, these bastards kept going into the warehouse to restock," Captain Camburn says. "No wonder they seemed tougher than normal. We must use every advantage we can. I have my fire cloak and energy ring against cold. but, I will need more healing. This was my only healing potion." he discards the used potion on the street. "We'll clean up later."
"So many auras," Ela feels overwhelmed as she concentrates on her spell. "This will take a while. If you can keep it away from me, I might be able to find something useful."
Above the fight, a quick shadow shoots across the sky, white horse with wings comes about after overshooting and starts a quick downward spiral.
Rockhorn can see that the foes, that were fighting the guards and
interesting heroes on the street below, have all fallen. He can see the strange beast clearly in the distance. It is a massive think with tentacles and a strange serpentine body. It reminds him of a hydra he once fought in the mountains with his fellow Rangers, although this creature seems quite different. And it seems to shoot fire... out of its tentacles.
The wild dwarf guides his dungeonbred pegasus down to the ground. The guards on the wall initially take aim at him, but the commander tells them to hold their fire.
"Rockhorn, I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow," Commander Oakfirst says.
"Your timing is both good and bad. We can use your skills against that beast. Your report can wait until later."
The beast roars again.
Inside the candle shop, Vinny casts
shieldbearer.
"What's going on?" Sobla asks.
"Stay here for now, but be ready to run." Vinny says.
"Or, go find Tuck. He's in the warehouse across the street."
Akos hurries toward the rest of the group, thinking about what he heard about the monster. He doesn't know much more than is already said.
"Guards, check the fallen, gather what you can, they had healing and defensive potions!
The guards don't need much prodding to begin searching and stripping the fallen Loyalists and mercenaries of their potions. Maena and Zenpher also find a ring on the doppelganger.
"Magical?" Maena asks.
"Probably," Zenpher says. He looks towards Akos.
"Loremaster, I think we found a magical ring. And, there is something else. A necklace of some kind!"
"The necklace looks evil," Maena adds.
"The thieves all seem to have magical rings and cloaks," Ela says to the commander and Akos. "More auras over there," she points towards where the Captain is standing. She moves away as quickly as she can without losing her spell. She moves to each fallen foe, one by one. She is using all her concentration for the task at hand. "So much magic."
Custodio moves to Beva's side and heals the young paladin's wounds, as Breva uses the rest of his healing energy on Falen.
I don't see any "auto-confirm vs evil" effect so this is probably NOT a critical hit
