Upstairs
"Better than being a goat boy! Here goat boy! Come here goat boy! That's a goood goat boy!" one of the Thugs taunts back as he strikes Vince in the face.
Vince loses the opposed roll for taunt both times, getting angry and attacking the taunting thug.
Vincent lashes out at the Thug, punching him in the gut and dropping him like a sack of hammers.
Hit, failed save, unconscious Thug.
Michelle soars by rapidly, landing infront of the man in the tuxedo, the fake waiter, and blocking his path.
"Ahhh! Another one! Get her!" he screams in panic, and one of the thugs charges her. He hits her force field with a whump.
Hit, but needless to say, no damage.
The man in the tuxedo runs away down the hall, grabs a woman and pulls a curved knife out, holding her hostage as the others catch up. "You let me go or I'll kill her!" he says, paniced. His sleeve falls up a bit and you see a red rose tatoo on his forearm. The hostage is wide-eyed with fear. People in the mall are quickly clearing into stores, but watching with interest. More than one flash bulb has gone off.
The waiter has a readied coup de grace.