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[hider=Orchid]Orchid's shouting seems to have drawn someone's attention: He could barely hear it at first, but several pairs of hurried footsteps had started making their way towards the party![/hider]
[hider=Ashkar]A strange smell emanated from the houses, but Ashkar could, after a while, tell what it was. There had been attempts to set them on fire, but the thatch had not been in agreement with this. After a while, he too could hear the steps approaching.[/hider]
[hider=Parum]Ruled irrelevant, Parum will not have the time to make it to the house before the unfolding events. She, too, hears the approaching noise once it has drawn closer.[/hider]
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Seemingly drawn in by the shouting of the party, a group of people rushed across the street, only to have one of them trip and fall on their face. The biggest one of the group instantaneously turned around to help them, lifting them up despite his obviously bleeding injuries. Now that the party could have a clear look at this group, it became evident that this was a family on the run. A father and three children.

Not long after followed a woman that had armed themselves with a shield and a somewhat broken spear. While injured, she was in an unmistakably better condition than her supposed husband and judging by her unwillingness to drop her guard towards the direction she had approached from, was not the last one to arrive on the street. And indeed, soon enough a pack of eight Kobolds came to view, slowly approaching the humans, snarling and making threatening moves every time any of the humans tried to move.