The lower end of her staff struck Hodge on the right side of his head, forcing him to reel back, releasing her ankles as he did [Hodge takes 5 damage!]. He cursed as his hand went to his temple, where a welt was already forming. The man looked dazed, as if there wasn’t much fight left in him after having his head struck so hard. But he grunted, and moved around the side of the bar where the man in the black hat was. “You’ll pay for that,” he said as he tried for a better angle to grab her legs and body. His hands shot out, snatching onto the fabric of her pants as he tried to bring her prone onto the bar. He caught a piece of the fabric, the pant sliding ever so slightly from her waist, but staying on.<br/><br/>Mhurren surged forward again towards her, frustrated by her rebuffing of him a second before. He ducked under the swinging of her staff, standing beside her on the bar, his hands grabbing at her shoulders to immobilize her and help Hodge to knock her prone. [Hodge is attempting to knock Miriel prone with a Help action from Mhurren – Make an opposed Athletics or Acrobatics check (DC 17) to resist being knocked prone]<br/><br/>The man who had been wearing the black hat took a step back farther away from the bar, respecting the skill Miriel had already displayed in her dance and in the way she recovered from her bridge. He laughed as Hodge swarmed around her legs, but seemed content to let the events play out however they may. “She has spirit, yes, yes,” he said as his eyes turned cold. “But too much spirit, to work for us, perhaps.”<br/><br/>Miriel could see that because of the positioning of Mhurren, if he failed to help wrestle Miriel prone and she was able to escape the grasp of the two men, Mhurren would likely be too off-balance to prevent her from making a run for the door.