Draiss was sitting at the table, with several of the twilight dragons around him, telling a story and using illusions to animate it when Daminor stumbled in, He stared at the bard for a moment, before trying to contact the shadow stalkers already in town, seeing if all sixteen were intact, and ordering the eight squads of rapid response line warriors to prepare for hot portal drop, while the other troops of the rapid response group were to prepare for deployment and report to portal rooms to stand by. He cut off the story immediately, promising the children to continue it later, before reappearing beside Daminor, purging any magic effects on him. "What happened?"<br/><br/>If any of the sixteen shadow stalkers were down, Draiss deployed the eight squads ready to go, six to the perimeter of the town in a hexagon around it, and two into the center. The other groups were then put on notification to prepare to portal.