Velma’s sensitive nose picked up on the sudden raw reek of fear from the two behind her as she began to change, but not from the man in front of her.  As her form finished it’s transformation, in only seconds, she swiped at the hooded man in front of her.  He tried to dive to the side, throwing up his crossbow and loosing it at the same time.  But she was too fast, too agile, and her claws tore through the cloth of his hooded cloak, and even too through the leather armor beneath.  She felt only a slight moment of resistance as her claws caught against the bones that joined his arm to his shoulder, but they skipped and tore free, spraying gore and blood in their wake to paint the door behind him and the ceiling above as well.  One tiny part of her mind knew that such a wound, untreated, would be fatal.<br/><br/>But then she felt a burning sensation in her gut.  A strange sensation and one she was not used too, certainly as impervious to pain as she usually was, it gave her a moment’s pause.  Then she saw the man’s belt as he dropped the crossbow and reached for the rapier at his belt.  There in his belt stuck three more bolts, the heads of which gleamed with a sheen that could only be silver, especially considering the pain she felt in her stomach right now from the bolt that was embedded in it.  The man in front of her tried to roll away from her, trying to put distance between them by rolling to the side and drawing his rapier at the same time.  But there was little room to maneuver in the apartment and he was barely able to do more than get his feet under him and draw his rapier that glowed with a magical light.<br/><br/>The two behind her came up and stabbed, both blades finding the mark in her now broad muscular back, opening wounds that closed in seconds and caused her little more pain then a stinging fly might.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">combat</div><div class="spoiler_body">3 points of damage from a silver crossbow bolt, zero points of damage from non magical / non silvered sword attacks  (yay DR)<br/></div></div>