Measuring distance in blocks doesn't quite work in the decidedly un-grid-like streets and alleys of Cliffside, but in a more orderly district you would have traveled about five of them before you hear a screech, then a clatter, and then a crash of splintering wood, and finally a series of shrieks and screams from the previously-raucous crowd. Within a few seconds the crowd in front of you starts a slow-motion stampede back towards you, though the cause is hidden behind a dogleg bend in the street.