he elf laughs at the comment and then looks at around and notices he is outnumbered, but then smiles at the mist that is surrounding him.<br/><br/>As the mists begin to clear you can clearly see the shapes of several soldiers, but can not tell who they are, but from the sounds of it they are disoriented.<br/><br/><strong>"While I would love to stay and chat, these men look like they want to have some fun, ciao,"</strong>he drops down from the tree and stumbles when he lands and then begins to make a run for it.  The soldiers immediately look at the direction the elf drops from, but the elf simply smiles as the group is still disoriented from their transportation here.  The mists clears and shows the group.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the group now has a small unit of soldiers that bear a symbol of an emerald clawed hand.  Who are still orienting themselves, but they have their weapons drawn and are ready to fight...As soon as they can.<br/><br/>Arslan immediately knows that these men are affiliated with the Order of the Emerald Claw.<br/><br/>(http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9117/forestz.png)<br/><br/>Map is up and I shall be posting initiative soon.  You all have a surprise round against these people.  Except for Edmund.<br/><br/>The first soldier directly in front of Tylia has a +2 AC and +1 Reflex from cover<br/><br/>The second one next to him does not<br/><br/>The commander and the one to the left have soft cover<br/><br/>The one to the right of the commander does not<br/><br/>The last two have soft cover<br/><br/>And the elf has soft cover