No need for a spot check! you can see a pair of guards racing towards you, weapons drawn, barging people out the way. The Grinning Snake smiles, "I'll deal with them, you flee along the docks, just follow the directions in the letter."

With that he steps towards the men and takes a fighting stance. The two guards stop and smile at each other as they close in, swords raised. Suddenly The Grinning Snake lashes out and the the snake up his sleeve shoots out and bites one of the guards on the nose before retreating back up his sleeve.