"What didn't they cast against us would almost be a better question," Sir Moss responds with fatigue in his voice. "It's hard to beat spells that back up an intelligent tactic. They came around a shift change of the guard, and mounted a very showy assault heading for this building with lightning and fire- everything you could want to attract attention. Most of the guards ended up here, while all the other cultists tore a swathe through the parts of the town where people live; we think they had a list of kids." He gets a little redder in the face admitting that. "There, the order of the day was illusion, concealment, invisibility; eventually the guards heard kids screaming, realized they'd been duped, and went off after them... right into an ambush. Cultists were stronger than they should be, more resilient, and they were backed up by what we think were druids making their progress as slow as possible. That's where the Captain got hurt, poisoned as a matter of fact. It's a damned mess."<br/><br/>Ambrosia gets a terse nod as she sums up the objective, before others go into tactics- as the discussion reaches the nuts and bolts, Sir Moss leans against a wall and visibly relaxes. "Splitting up's always a risk just because it's hard to tell one another if a plan needs to be changed. I expect your bird," he nods to Ain, "could do a good bit of work there if the other group had someone who could understand him. If you're confident in getting the coordination right, it's probably the best way to go about such an attack. And it sounds," he adds, "like you're getting enough used to it to be thinking already of who should be in which group if you do split up which is all to the better. Any other questions for me? Because it not, I'll let Lyla take care of getting you your things and getting out of town-" He's interrupted by the snake's appearance, and the mayor tenses up again. His aide, however, just sighs. "You should probably warn people a bit further beforehand." is Lyla's only verbal comment.<br/><br/>[[Tigerclaw: does sound like mostly relatively low level spells, just cunningly employed, as far as you can tell from the vague descriptions.<br/>4of- Actually just go ahead and buy one, since it explicitly represents 'all material components that don't have a specifically listed extra cost'.]]