The Unholy Assault on the Kauppatori

May 20th 2007

Players: Taladan, Heather, Ellis, Alance, Shereem, Meredin, Michael, Tenian

Appetizers
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a rescue... actually, it's a dank, grey, pretty sucky day, and it looks like everything's going to get very, very drenched soon. Everyone is getting there act together to go and save the King from whatever Goldenroot's been doing to him... you know, Goldenroot? The little gnomish druid that ran Goldenglade? Anyway... everyone's getting ready to set out when there arises... a ruckus. Ok, ok, more like a hellacious racket of screams from the Kauppatori. GUESS WHERE YOU GUYS ALL RUN OFF TO!

Taladan comes out of Tools of the Trade, sword in hand when he hears the racket of screaming begin in the Kaup. He glances around quickly to ascertain the cause of the shouting and screaming.

Ellis is coming across the park from the Mimmisbrunner. his staff held in hand and moving at a swift pace, his hood up, hiding his face.

Heather comes out of the toy shop with her weapons ready "When it rains it... well becomes icy." Yes folks she is here all day.

Alance comes from the east, jogging towards the ruckus, he seems to have left his warhorse behind at the house. His sword comes into his hand easily, held low and ready.

Meredin was just coming out of the Lyceum when she notices Taladan and says, "Hi Taladan!" As someone screams the elf turns in the direction it came from and says, "Sounds like someone either has a monster trying to eat them or they just got a marriage proposal."

Shereem follows Taladan out of Tools of the trade with her own short sword drawn and her brown eyes darting around looking for the problem.

The screams, so far, seem to be coming from the area near the park entrance... right by the waffle cart.

Heather eyes goes wide "you know just once I would like the monsters to RSVP there attacks." she pats her wand "I so dident want to use you today." muttering to her self as she is moveing at a very fast speed.

Taladan immediately throws his cloak around himself, pulling the hood forward he speaks a word in elvish (yes folks, Elvish /has/ left the building) and the dull grey blade of his rapier is immediately limned in near-invisible blue flame. He moves with determination toward the source of the screams, taking to the shadows as is his nature, almost immediately.

The elf wizard starts to follow after Taladan until he disappears--then she just mutters something and huffs, following the sounds themselves. Meredin will eventually learn to stop doing that.

Alance turns as he locates where the sound comes from and angles that direction, his shield sliding around in front of him.

Ellis comes out of the entrance from the park, looking over to the source of the sounds "Can I never just have a quite walk through the park without soming like this?" he shrugs and starts walking that way, lookign to see what he can spy, eyes starting to glow with blue flame as he takes in the currents of magic and the unseen.

As you all approach, it becomes immediately obvious.. well, not to Meredin, but everyone else... that there's a woman lying on the ground screaming behind the waffle cart... and what looks like a small child, tickling her.

Taladan reaches the scene of the....whatever it is and pulls up short. For the moment he observes the child trying to ascertain if it's what it appears to be.

Meredin seems rather lost to say the least. "What's going on? I don't see anything!" huffs the elf in aggitation.

Heather sighs as she stands next to Meredin not knowing what to say or really do now.

Taladan still isn't buying the 'little kid' act. He moves up stealthily, sword still out, trying to get close to the little bugger.

Alance slows to a stop and glances around carefully, sure there's more that's going on besides someone being tickled.

Ellis starts to walk in the direction of the disturbance, slowing a little and murmuring to himself, or actually his staff "What is going on here Chez?"

The staff responds, "It would appear someone is preparing to murder a small child."

Shereem lowers her sword tip upon spotting the child and lifts the sticky bun that is in her off hand to her lips she takes a bite and relishes the flavor and the warm sticky goodness. She seems content to stand right there and eat that bun too. Licking her little fingers one by one when she is done. She looks towards the bakery as if trying to decide if she will go get another bun.

Ellis moves in a long stride in the direction of the child and woman, staff held loosely and his eyes moving from the woman and child, to the surroundings "What is going on here?" he demands.

Heather focuses on the child and sighs "can you keep it down you are way to loud." said to the people on the ground.

Meredin finally notices what's going on and, much like Ellis, she asks a similar question; but much more loudly. "What're you doing to that poor woman?"

The woman looks up as the child reacts, starting in surprise. She doesn't seem hugely thrilled to have people butting into how she raises her child. "Well, excuse us fer havin' a little fun while we watch the cart, hey, Jerry?" Rising back up off the ground, she scowls at the assembling aveng... er... adventurers. "Haven't you folks got sommat better t'do than harangue a working mother? Get a job, all'a ya!"

Taladan comes out of the shadows and says, "Let's leave these good folks alone...they are but seeking solace in play time with one another. We have much more important things to worry about than a mother and child playing. Royal matters." he quirks an eyebrow at the woman's outburst, but turns back to the others.

Heather sighs "I do have a job, hell I got four of them." said to the ones here.

Ellis frowns to the woman, but turns his attention to Taladan "WHat is it Tal?"

Alance nods to Taladan, still watchful as he sheaths his sword.

Taladan shakes his head and says, "It's time for us to go get the king from those bastards at the Glade, once and for all. I don't know about you folk, but I'm tired of waiting to see what the guard o' the watch is going to do about it. I think it's time for us to step in and do something about it."

Meredin huffs and puffs up a little when the woman yells at them. Thankfully Taladan mentions going to do something heroic and she quickly forgets what she was going to do. "Yeah, we should!"

"Aye, you should! An' stop loiterin' about my cart if yer not gonna buy anything, ya no good, no money busybodies! G'wan an' getcher noses cut off in somebody else's business!" Wow, she's really thankful for all the hero-types hanging about, isn't she?

Heather is about to say something "Are you new here." and she leaves it at that to the waffle lady "ok then lets all go now, I have all my gear." said pating her haversack.

Taladan shoots the woman a cool glance and says, "M'lady, pardon us for caring about your well-being in thinking you were possibly under attack. An it please you, we will away with ourselves and trouble you no longer. It is my sincerest hope that you do not come under attack once we depart, since our mere presence so seems to offend you." he tosses down a silver onto her cart and says, "For your trouble." before turning and moving away from the woman's cart.

Alance nods to the others "I am ready as well" He turns and starts to walk away a bit "Just have to go get Frostwind is all"

Shereem is the mature one of the lot and knows just how to handle a crass sales lady in the market. She pokes her tongue out at her and blows her a rasberry,"See if we come running to your rescue next time we here ya screamen like a banshe." she turns and walks off with Taladan. She can be heard muttering something about an old crone as she departs.

As the adventurers start to move off, screams begin again...

... lots of them. From over by the temples.

Soup & Salad
Heather eyes open wide as she is running towards the temple.

Taladan sighs and says, "What now?" rolling his eyes, he picks up the pace a bit and moves in the direction of the temples.

Meredin flails a little and starts to run after the others while declaring, "Wait for meee!"

Alance pivots on his heel and moves at a jog towards the Temple area, one hand resting on his sword nodding to Taladan "I agree, what now"

As folks begin to draw near, the wind changes, carrying on it a vague hint... of fire.

As you arrive at the entryway to the temples, there appear to be... rather large number of extremely large canine-type critters rampaging about, knocking things over, devouring acolytes, ripping people to shreds.. you know, good clean doggy fun.

Taladan immediately draws his cloak back around him once more, shimmering out of sight as soon as he spots the beasts, some sort of fiendish dog thing. When he disappears into the shadows he is stealthily working his way towards the nearest of the beasts, sword and dagger out and ready.

Heather coming in fast the little cleric anoyingly sticks the one dog thing with a near full charge.

Alance growls to himself and with and great shout, bulls his way through the 'dogs' his armor soaking up many of the bites and raking claws, three get through his defense and leave a trail of crimson streaks on his armor. He doesn't slow as he launches his attack at his intended target hurting the beast.

Shereem slips into her shadows seeimg to become one of them. She moves yet noone might know of it. At least not until she bursts forth from the shadows with her flaming short sword. She has circled around and flanked the dogie on Alance and left a sizzling gash in it's side. It lest out a howl of pain and the smell of it's burnt fur and flesh reek filling the room even as the showsword bursts into flames upon the beast. She swings the sword again and finishes the wounded animal off leaving it smouldering as the little woman searches for her next enemy.

Ellis's eyes flash as he sees hellhounds desicrating the temples, he steps forward a step, raises his staff and slams the butt to the ground, with the first word, his whole body is wreathed in flames that lick, unharming, around his body, and then he extends the staff forward, poointing at the frontmost hellhound, an arch of lightning streaks from his staff to hit the leader, and then as his corpse smolders and drops to the ground, 6 more arches of lightning leap from the leader into the other hellhounds, one drops dead from this secondary strike, and the rest are horribly hurt

Meredin goes psycho elf on the monsters, rawr! Well, not quite, but she does end up using her boots to double-cast on them. First a glowing dot goes flying towards the middle of the pack where it blows up into a fireball--then a streak of lightning sizzles from her to them, burninating many.

The far pack, seeming a bit put out by the lightning bolt, start swarming toward the party in a rough horseshoe that sweeps up, around the nearer pack... and erupts into a bath of flame that... well, it doesn't DO much, but it LOOKS cool.

The nearer pack, snarling, tries to maul the adventurers in their midst, and succeeds in drawing blood on Alance again... he's starting to look a bit banged up.

Heather seeing the one she was fighting gets downed she moves on to a new target. With new hopes she comes in with a flury with her short spear killing the monster at her feet.

Death moves across the battle field cloaked and whirling like the wind. A fiery gout of flame announces Taladan's presence on the field of battle, and he is reaping death like the wind. Spotting him is yet un-possible as it usually is, but a fiery corpse is left gutted in his wake as he moves through.

Alance staggers a bit from all the attacks that are focused on him, digging a vial out of his pouch he quaffs it down quickly then resumes his attack. This time his attack is clean and the Hellhound drops dead at his feet.

Shereem slips around the 7th hound as it attacks one of her friends. She slides her blade into the gut of it and then pierces it through the heart with her next blow. The hound falls to the ground and she looks for her next target. Shimmering out of sight as she hunts them.

Ellis shakes his head "I have had enough of this" he points to one of the hellhounds, and speaks a word, as he does, a shimmering box of force springs up around that one hellhound, then he makes a sweeping movement with his staff hand and another arch of lightning streaks from the staffhead, and hits one of the hellhounds, and the results is that as the smaller arches of lightning spread from him, all that ends up left of the hellhounds are smouldering corpses, and the one he has captured in the forcecage. He starts to stalk forward, his eyes flaring in blue flame, that is a stark contrast to the red flames surrounding him still.

Meredin seems rather unhappy that most of the 'fun' is over before she even has a chance to do anything. The elf flops on her rear, pouting and grumbling outloud while her boots turn normal colored again.

The Main Course
Taladan stands for a moment looking around...

From back across the Kauppa... there's more screams...

Heather takes a chance to heal people heather goes to alance "I know you can heal your self but let me do this now." said touching him saying a prayer in Celestial and healing him pretty good but not fully.

And then more screams...

...still more screams...

Alance relaxes a bit after the last one falls, looking back at Ellis "I forgot what it's like to fight with you aroudn Ellis" He frowns and sighs moving back to teh Kauppa

... oh, and a few more screams.

Did I mention the screams? cuz there's more... (yes, they're erupting in different spots in one round.)

Shereem hears hte screams and though most could not see her do so she takes off to see what has caused them. Her little legs moving with a quickness borne of one who wears boots of speed. She's a blur, a shadowy blur if anything at all, a breeze as she passes you by.

And then... just to be different... screams! with more screams tossed in for good measure.

Ellis frowns and shouts to the priests in the temple area "Tend the wounded and watch the hound.. he should not be able to excape." and then wiht a short phrase, his body becomes insubstantial, and he extends his arms, and starts to rise quickly into the air.

The priests, still running around panicked, don't much listen.

Meredin immediately flails her arms and runs after Shereem, trying to keep up with her but not doing so well since the halfling is magically propelling along.

Taladan immediately turns at the first sound of screams rising behind them and begins running in the direction that hte screams are coming from. He seems to be supernaturally fast, covering the ground at a dead run.

Heather sighs and says "I am so hateing today." she then screams at the priests hopeing her cleric sway and power will get them in shape "Do your damn job and tend to the wounded." she then turns and starts to run to the shop full speed.

As people emerge from the Temples, the Kauppa is in even more disarray than normal. People are running around, screaming, trampling, making a mess... and it's not even a sale! There do, however, seem to a number of large red things moving through the fringes of the crowd... (+tmap for locations)

As you watch, a shimmering in the air near on of the farther red things resolve into another red thing stepping out of thin air... looks like a lion... deep red... fiery red.

<> Meg says, "FYI: They're on the far side of the Kauppa from the temples. There are something on the order of 500 people between you, and them. On the plus side, they're doing a good job of reducing that number."

Alance mutters under his breath and sprints across the Kauppa, dodging and leaping over people or trash n stuff. His armor seems to let him move like this, not as bulky as most plate.

Another large red lion fades into being near the closest foe. More innocents fall beneath the claws and fangs of the great cats... the streets run as red as the beasts that run upon them.

Shereem runs along to see what the fuss is about and is just ahead of Alance,"What is it?" she asks even though she is hidden her voice can be heard though with the screams it might be hard to locate. The little woman has her sword drawn but isn't close enough to do anything just yet nor is she sure what to do. She's never seen...whatever this is.

Down at the southern end, near the park entrance, another lion steps into the hustle and bustle from nowhere at all...

Ellis comes soaring through the air, eyes moving over the scene below and he shouts out "GUARDS< Get the people out, protect their retreat!" then he moves his hands and draws a stone from his pouch, blowing on it, the stone fly's across the space ahead of him to hit tothesouth side of the two Lions at A and B8, as the stone hits, the very rock of the roadway shifts and changes, risiong up into a sloped wall, pointed north at the lions, and giving the people .. hopefully, some space to run away in.

Alas, the guards seem as panicked as the rest of the crowd... Frightful Presence sucks.

"They're demons! That means they're immune to electricity and very resistant to fire and cold!" Meredin.. does nothing otherwise. Unfortunately she made the mistake of only having spells that do those types of damage.

Taladan continues running through the crowds of people, trying to get to the closest creature...it's gonna take a while.

Heather getting tired of this monster attack after attack heather moves a little and sends a beam of light from her finger only pissing off the monster "yeah uguly I did that." is all she says makeing her self known.

Alance keeps his sprint across the Kauppa, finally reaching one of the Demons or whatever they are, his sword flashes downward then sideways in a Lotus kama, hurting the catlike thing a bit.

Shereem lets two arrows fly and one seems to skitter off the beast while the other gets lost in it's mane. It's anyone's guess if it was actually hurt by her pitiful attack. She frowns and shimmers out of sight once more.

More people get eaten, more screams. Lotta screams. Loud screams. you're pretty sure people not near here are hearing it from a ways off.

Ellis comes down silently and rapidly to land right next to Shereem, with an arcane word he touches her weapon and it glows a blue-white "Try now," he murmers, before turning to the Lion creature nearest him and he shouts "EVIGHET" in a voice that carries above the din, visibly hitting the creature with its power, hurting him badly

The injured catdemon attempts to pounce on Shereem, but the sneaky halfling is too quick, and it only manages a grazing (but still damn vicious) swat with one paw.

Meredin flails her arms in the air and yells, "Don't hit the halfling, BAD KITTY!" before she suddenly sends an orb upwards at the one attacking Shereem. The brutality of what happens when it goes off is.. horrible! Organs and meat chunks everywhere.

There's a flash and a cracking sound and suddenly, Mike and Tenian are in the middle of the Fray; "Good gods!" Ten immedeiately begins preapring spells to cast

Michael is flushed, rushed to prepare on the fly and have himself ready for battle. On Tenian's heels he teleports, prepared for battle. A sword for each hand and a tower shield circling him. "FECK! Tenian, we gots prollems!" his eyes narrow and feet are already running along the ground as he charges forward, "I aint sure they brough nuff fer all of us. We'd better git our piece of th pie quick!"

The cloaked half-elf manages to make it through the panicking crowds to one of the beasts (A8), but in his haste, he solidly misses both of his attacks. however, he settles himself and prepares to deal death in just a moment.

Heather seeing her cat dead she pulls out a small item and twirls it in her hand, a spining disk apears over number 3 but was casted a bit to high not hurting it.

Alance spins as the one he was attacking explodes in his face covering him in red goo. SPotting Tal nearby he takes a half step and slams his sword downward cutting that Catthing deeply, blood flowing and pooling at his feet.

The wind whistles through beard braids that dangle beneath his helm. Feathers on his armor flutter and flash in the dim light. Flames lick along Michael's old sword, Frostburn. A heroic sight, one for ballads and stories.... so long as they leave out his dialouge. "Ye feckin kitty bitches! Dunnae ye knows demons belong in.. in... DEMON PLACES! Aye! Now.. GIT!" Frostburn lashes forth and scores a terrible hit upon the creature, leaving a rent in its skin."

The cat Michael attacked takes exception to being pecked at by some bird, and jumps up, glomping down on the fluttering futternutter and coming down w/Mike in it's mouth! Immediately, it rolls over and kicks twice with the rear legs, drawing more blood!

Shereem moves into a flanking possion on the cat playing with Tal. She emerges from her shadowy place and slices into it twice before slipping back intot he shadows. SHe wounds it badly but it is not yet dead. The little halfling woman looks for revenge and is angry at having been hit by one of the firey paws.

Ellis starts to rise into the air, extending one hand he points at the cat in a-5 and a beam of green light streaks from his hand to hit the creature squarely. After a moment of flickering suddnely it turns to dust. As this happens ellis calls out "About time you two got off your lazy behinds.. Michael, quit playng with that demon and get on to business" he actually grins a little bit, dispite the fighting going on.

The cat between Taladan, Shereem, and Alance decides to take decisive action, and since the halfling proved way too hard to hit, it JUMPS ON Alance, mauling him pretty badly.

Tenian smirks at Ellis; "We heard the commotion, thought you might need a hand." With that, he mumers softly raising his staff in the air, and in quick succession two brilliant green beams shoot out, one lancing the cat on Alance, another hitting one of the ones in the south. They both disappear in a puff of ash.

Meredin seems to realize she's the only person not really getting into the middle of things. Normally good, but, she can't reach monsters this way--so the elf clicks her shoes and does just that. Then she comes to pause and points either hand over at the kitty on top of Michael. Lots and lots of magic missiles fly forth, slapping it around like the little, unwanted bastard child it is! And then it falls over, dead.

Rogue2 to c7 - Taladan can't do anything but move around a bit, so that's what he does.

Heather getting even more tired of this casts searing lighs wounding it.

A charge, sped by hasted boots and rushing to Tenian's aid. "I likes all kinds a pussy! I likes me some fat pussy an some skinny pussy. Some hairy pussy an the kind whut dunnae shed! I likes me pussy whuts soft and pussy whut claws. I done seen pussy big n golden an bear beaver n black pussy sold all ta-gether..." his sword works its magic, as blood flows hot across the feathers of his armor and the wind whips his cloak and hair. "But by FRIHETS BLUE BALLS I GOTTA SAY..." a rhythm of destruction, of pain and death and yowling demon, "I'm a dog man, meself!"

Shereem slips through the shadows and draws closer to one of the cats. She is looking to flank them so aproaches (I & J) in the hopes of reaching them soon so that she may do them damage and go home to bed.

Alance recovers a bit as the Demon he's fighting poofs. Turnign he surveys the area quickly then moves at a run to the next closest Catthingie, closing fast shield held protectively, sword crackling a bit with static.

Ellis spins once, and there is a 'poof' as he dissapears in a cloud of smoke, there is a moment where you may not know where he is.. but it isnt long, as from behind the one at e-3, you hear "By EVIGHET" in a tone that could litterally shatter stone, the force of the word hits the cat-demon from behind causing physical damage, and knocking it prone for the moment. Ellis continues to hover, some feet off the ground where he appeared, behind the demon, getting ready to work on finishing him off.

Tenian growls, seeing the demons closing on his postion. "We'll just see about that..." Suddenly, he's well to the north, away from the cats, and there seem to be traces of 3 beams, one black, two green. Two more of the cats fall dead, the third seems unphased.

Meredin is running out of ideas which would explain why she's resorting to Fireball when she knows it probably won't work. Her Magic Missiles don't get through, either, and the explosion barely singes the creature. "..."

Taladan moves again.

The cat he's whomping on tries to take a bite out of Mike, but doesn't seem to catch the birdy...

Heather eyes glow black as the aura spreds from there going over her whole body "DIE." is all she says as the aura shoots out and covers the one in front of Ellis. The black aura goes away only leaveing what ever items the monster had.

Alance hangs onto the Catdemon with one hand trying to hold it off, his other, holds his armor together to keep his innards inside, murmuring a quick prayer, he glows a bluish color and heals back.

The bird and cat push back and forth, shoving one another across the battlefield, moving and cirling and slicing. Two more serious strikes among Michael's series and he snarls, "Too dumb ta die, too smart ta let live. Jes like me, but thar's a difference." he grins and spits blood that's flecked out onto his lips. "Yer weak."

Ellis spins in place and again there is the 'poof' of smoke, and he dissapears, to instantly reappear hovering about 15 feet over top the one fighting alance. Ellis reaches his hand into his pouch and pulls out a leather glove, slides it on and makes a fist, instantly there is a gigantice fist of force that slams down toward the lion-demon below him... unfortunately the fist seems to deflect off to the side before impact and ellis frowns "Now that really is a bad kitty. your not supposed to do that."

Tenian sees the one on Michael and flings a pair of magic missle spells at it, not quite killing it

Meredin is getting a little irked--it's like back when she was still new and couldn't help kill anything. And the elf's woes just keep growing as her disintegration spell flies off course, hitting harmlessly against something in the distance. Then she gets mad--and summons George. A celestial dire bear appears some distance away from her and hauls ass in a dead charge straight towards the Jarilith.

Heather seeing her friend very hurt, every ones least favorite hyper half elf lesbian runs to Alance touching him sending a powerfull healing aura healing him up fully. "hope you are ok now big guy." said pleasently.

Taladan finally gets to actually swing his sword at something, though face to face isn't his usual style. He blurs into motion, slicing the beast badly, enraging it, but not killing it.

Finally, the cat gets a paw on Michael... not that he probably noticed, the way this thing's swinging... maybe he's right, and it IS weak...

Meanwhile, its companion brutalizes Alance some more... and just when he was all nice and healed up, too!

Alance grapples with another Catdemon, after casting a look and nod to Heather, stabbing upward with his sword he hurts the demon pretty bad.

The third catdemon, facing the tricksy rogue, seems to have the best luck of all of them, jumping on top of him in a manner similar to the way Alance and Michael experienced earlier and pummelling the living daylights out of him.

The sun sword goes point first into the ground, ready to snatch back up when needed, and Michael draws another weapon in his off hand... a white bleached gnoll skull with wire on the jaw and wooden eyes in the sockets. Bad Dawg joins the battle. In what might be the world's worst act of ventriloquism, Michael speaks for the puppet, "Oh, tis jes like ye, callin me out ta take care of yer light werk an finish off th demon cat. Like that hoor last night, but ye done more ta finish this one off than ye EVER did fer her." And Michael attacks in his main hand, slicing at the beast with Frostburn and making it pay for this foray into the mortal world, smiting it with holy wrath and insane glee. Chunks of it go flying, and the head and right shoulder are cut from the body on the first blow, but Mike keeps chopping through it on the second, leaving a quartered cat demon's innards spread across the taiga. "Oh, ye is, is ye? These damn things keep on showin up on me lawn an actin like me neighbors be a litter box, well I AINT STANDIN FER IT!" spittle flies free and a third of the thing's heart flies through the air to land with a splurch on the ground. Mike turns and howls, holding Bad Dawg in the air with open, skeletal, jaws.

Ellis frowns a little and punches out with hte fist again, which this time slams into the cat-demon effecitvely, battering at it, he calls out a simple magic missile spell to follow it up, but the missiles simply dissapate before hitting the creature.

Tenian gets one of those looks in his eye. Those that know him know that look. It's the "I have HAD. ENOUGH. OF YOU!" Ones... he mumers under his breath again, and a brillian haze engulfs the cat on Alance. Suddenly.. it's a dog. A small, yapping, TERRIFIED minature poodle.

The elf takes out a scroll she's long since kept with her and suddenly vanishes, reappearing next to her bear, which she reaches out and touches while saying, "I wish you were BIGGER!" Wtf? .. And then the dire bear grows to tremendous size. The violating it gives the poodled Jarilith is simply not fit for print.

Heather once again she takes a item from her belt and starts to spin it. A new spining disk apears from no where above the cats head a bit way to high "ahh damn not again." The cat twists around the disk. that's what cats do. They got them cat-like reflexes.

The half-elf has had enough...as the cat beast pins him, rolls to the side and springs up underneath it, slicing and cutting through its belly as he spins out from underneath it. The sound of viscera and blood hitting the cobblestones sounds like a small waterfall as it falls to the ground before the beast falls to the ground, dead. Taladan slumps to the ground, badly wounded himself, but still alive after kicking the dead cat one final time. "Fucking Outsiders ruining the peace of the city"

Meredin just sort of falls back onto her rear and sits on the ground, moping, even as 'George' comes over and nudges her. The elf looks up at him and says, "Thanks for comin'..," just before the massive beast disappears, sure to have quite a tale to tell his buddies back home.

Dessert
Near the park entrance, the waffle cart is smashed, destroyed utterly...

Taladan sighs and stands, slowly moving towards the wafflecart. He's feeling every second of his age now and the blood is still flowing freely, but he does move over to the cart to check on the people there.

Michael gathers his swords and wipes them clean. He looks from one person to the next, around at the carnage and dead people, and splurches through the exploded demon he's left in his wake. A flask from his hip is drawn and he takes a long drink of it, heading back towards town as he whistles, hums and sings, "In th meadown I met a girl fair, she had sharp claws an tawny hair..." Wind dances around him, but he ignores the tangled hair and flapping cloak as town and food are sought.

Tenian sighs, shaking his head. "Now we have to find out who was BEHIND all this..."

There is... no sign of the child or his mother.

Taladan sighs and looks around at the devastation, carefully peering through the wreckage to see if he can at least tell if they managed to get away before the creatures attacked or not.

It takes a bit of doing, but before long, both child and mother are found, alive, and seeking refuge amongst the Open Hand.

After locating the woman and her child, Taladan speaks a few quiet words to her and a small bag of coins passes between them, call it a donation to help replace her waffle cart. After that Taladan heads back to Tools of the trade to collapse on his bunk.

While normally, folks might expect clerics to offer healing, right now, the temples are a bit overloaded. Not only are they dealing with all of the injured, and all of the dead... but they're among the injured... and in some cases, the dead, too.

Meredin has disappeared, strangely, either to the Lyceum or to her home. Either way the elfy doesn't seem to be around right now.

And the evening stretches on, as the great-hearted of the city work tirelessly into the wee hours to find the injured, and collect the dead, offering comfort and succor the former, and peaceful rest to the latter.