Not too long thereafter, another servant enters and notifies everyone that the boat is prepared. The mayor takes his leave, and asks the servant to lead everyone ready to go down to the boats. Five of you follow him, Gabriel already having left; the other adventurers still need to finish preparations, and should meet you shortly.

The path to the docks heads through the market square, and your progress slows to a crawl as you have to negotiate refugees, shoppers, beasts of burden, carts and stalls, and other impediments. You've just about caught up to Gabriel when screams of fear go up from the center of the crowd; cruel laughter from not-at-all-human throats swiftly follows. Several plumes of smoke rise into the air where demons suddenly appeared, and through the panicking crowd you can glimpse more than a score of them terrorizing the townspeople and refugees. Near the center of the marketplace, several feathered demons rise slightly above the crowd, laughing and cawing, and then descend once more.

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Everyone roll initiative. We'll be doing group initiative, so we'll average the party's initiative and demons' initiative to see who goes first.