The group comes upon the wounded CID. The as yet unknown motley cast fills the stage,  for what is sure to be a thrilling Act I...<br/><br/>After running to catch up to the action, each character comes to their own nearly comical halt, forced as they are to stop and marvel as they come upon the scene. What would normally be the sounds of a rather busy city night life have faded to complete stillness.  Though silence claims mastery, your nose has already alerted you to the start of rain. Some segment of time passes. It will be years before you could guess how long everything stood motionless in that moment, as if the city itself was unsure how to proceed.<br/><br/>Before you are aware, your armor becomes heavy with damp. You notice the flash of lightning only.<br/><br/>Mankind sometimes makes its own thunderclap.<br/><br/>There is then a great din of what might be a small train clattering against the cold cobblestone of the street, making a circuit just outside your vision.<br/><br/>Small train it is...of armed soldiers. Squads of them fill from all sides save behind the party.  Including the guards already near to CID, it can be quickly counted out to seven separate squads, of three soldiers each; the metals in their armor and firearms glinting faintly in the low glow of the  gaslight lanterns, omnipresent in the city, now furiously flickering from the unwanted rain, but still allowing you to see the situation that you are in.<br/><br/>Cid is in the middle of a main carriageway of smooth wet cobblestone, roughly the width of a smaller two lane road.<br/>Two squads are nearing him on either side. All characters enter from the far end of the same carriageway, either on the street or on the rooftops,  There is a squad in each of some narrow side streets branching from the carriageway, two to the left, three to the right, as you are all currently facing CID.<br/><br/>One of the guards shouts: "Capture the Hawks!  Remove everyone from this area, immediately!"<br/><br/>Combat Notes:<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Each of you is Short range to the squads on either side of the street, Medium to the next squad. Any further would be considered Long range<br/><br/>Each of you feels fairly confident that were you alone, you could handle a squad. <br/>[swarm] = Each squad is a target, and the target takes reduced damage from single target attacks, since you are actually having to fight the group as one. <br/><br/><strong>Send me your rolls before you post, so that you may build that post based on your success or failure.  </strong><br/></div></div>