Downtown Druid

Dantes walked through the main streets of midtown toward Mondego’s manor. He was lit by street lights casting their rays through a thick fog. The streets were busy as they always were at night in midtown. Some of those going about their shadowy business noticed Dantes, and cleared a path. Some watched without shame, excited to see what drama was stirring outside their homes and businesses. Most had no actual idea who he was, thinking he was another mutt with an inflated sense of self walking through town dusted out of his mind.

As he came within sight of the Manor, the guards began to cry out and prepare for him. There were men raising crossbows, mages brandishing wands, and even a few dwarven mercs pulling out rifles to aim at him. It was at that moment he gave the signal for the pigeons he had flying far above the manor to drop their load.

He’d only been able to prepare two dozen explosives due to a lack of easy access to gunpowder, but even that had a profound effect. Before the first of the guards could fire off their weapons, the bombs began to strike the grounds of the manor. The pigeons had surprisingly good aim, with three of the bombs landing solidly on those guards in front of him, and exploding in flashes of light and fire, sending out shards of scrap metal he’d mixed into them and knocking them off the wall.

Those same explosions rang out all across the manor, killing guards and setting fires all throughout its grounds. At that moment, Dantes began to bolt directly for the front gate, drawing one of the anti-vermin enchantment breaking hammers from his coat as he ran. One of the shooters managed to recover and Dantes extended a wand from his wooden arm and aimed it at him, firing out a flurry of razor sharp icicles that impaled him and knocked him from the wall.

A second guard, a dwarf with a rifle, stood up and aimed his weapon at him, but he too fell backward as a crossbow bolt hit him in the chest and exploded. An excellent shot by Jayk who was laying down on a nearby rooftop.

Dantes reached the outer barrier where the enchantment lay and sent his will through his hammer, slamming it against the invisible wall created by the enchantment which caused the hammer to crumble into dust from being expended.

With the enchantment down and all of the focus on the front gate, Dantes moved on to phase two. He shifted into a bat and began to fly up into the sky, once there he dove down into the rear of the manor and landed on the roof, sitting quietly and slowly into himself as he crouched down, watching the courtyard.

Dozens of guards were scrambling, looking for him, trying to escape the explosions, or trying to put out the fires before they spread. Occasionally one of them would be dropped by a crossbow bolt.

To increase the confusion further, Dantes released his coiled will, and gave a single order to all of the vermin he’d gathered nearby.