Adina feels her grip on the casket slip! The force of the blow, together with the already awkward grip, her sweat and the rain, the pine wood slips from her hand. the box tilting dangerously... Thankfully Maggs swoops in at the last moment to grasp the box and... heave it onto her back? And start to... run... forward? As it turns out, Maggs, the professor and his pine box are<em>plenty</em>heavy when there's not three other people helping hold it up. You manage to get it on your back, however<br/><br/>The man who was attacking Adina was close enough to see something weird was happening, and simply fell out of the way. The two men focused on their scuffle with Amanda had no such foresight however, and Maggs plows into one of them with the fore-edge of the casket, making a heavy, wet<em>thunk</em>, sending him sprawling, just as intended.<br/><br/>What probably (one hopes)<em>wasn't</em>intended was that the combination of the unwieldy cargo, the muddy path, and her own velocity into a 200+ pound man had the net result of overbalancing her something awful. Her feet slide in the mud, and her body responds with instinct to keep from falling... that and inertia send the casket tumbling off of her back. The pine box lands with a<em>crunch</em>, the lid breaking open, and the professor's frail body tumbles out into the wet path, half-covered by the casket and the votives that had been atop it.<br/><br/>Everything sort of... stops. The other funeral-goers who have not scattered start up an uneasy wail, and even the assailants look a little shocked and lower their clubs. One good thing is that this includes Kendra, who was<em>just</em>starting to intone the words for a spell... those words trail off with a gape-mouthed look of bewilderment at Maggs.<strong>"What...? What? Why would you?!"</strong>