Krista fires her arrow towards one of the thugs in the roof, her arrow burrows into man's shoulder and he curses and and slides down. Clearly not dead but unlikely continue the fight anyway with deeply pierced shoulder!<br/><br/>Then the thugs act; the three thugs on crossbows on roof fire on the guards and onto Tigara! However the thugs have lousy aim and all attacks miss their targets! Bolts clattering into the pavement.<br/><br/>Then four thugs move from front, pulling their cloaks aside to reveal they carry studded leather armors and short sword and buckler underneath. Kaneyoshi blocks their way to their targets but most do not decide fight him. They move and Kaneyoshi strikes! However Kaneyoshi also misses the thugs, so overall not good start neither party. The four thugs immediately gang upon the two guards and make powerful quick thrusts with their short swords, they prove to be brutally effective as the two thugs literally plunge their swords deep into guard's bellies through gap in their chainmail! Rupturing and tearing their innards onto pavement while two other thugs grab on the prisoner and start prepare make running for it while holding their blades ready towards the group. One of them saying; "We just take our friend here and if you do not stop us, no more folks gets hurt."<br/><br/>From behind two thugs rapidly approach the group, drawing bucklers and short swords like wise and they come close to Moshi and Tigara but they do not attack....just waiting party's response.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Thugs in roof got only AC 15, and 3 HP each. Thugs on ground have AC 16 and have HP 12 each (so lot more tougher). Now the two thugs critted on the two 1st level NPC guards and offed them one go and two other thugs grab prisoner and ready actions. Two thugs from behind moved and also hold readied actions vs Moshi and Tigara.<br/><br/>Party can now act now that surprise round is over. You all get to act before the thugs in round 1, including Krista who can act again as she was quicker to act in during surprise round.<br/></div></div>