May the Odds be Ever in Your Favour

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Meanwhile, over on the other side of the stands, Phil shot an arrow into the weak spot that Jaxx had told him about on the leading Haruk heading towards him, and it let out a high pitched girlish scream as it quickly crumpled down to the ground clutching at Phil's arrow in pain. "COOL." Exclaimed Phil, "I want do that again!" as he quickly pulled out and reloaded another arrow into his bow.

Alex's cage ball soundly smacks against the arena divider wall, as he fervently looks around to see if the coast is clear.
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Jade paniced as the crowd erupted into anarchy. Jay and Phil ran in opposite directions, forgetting momentarily the attached string tensioners. The rope tightened and then snapped as the heaving mass took it beyond breaking. For a few minutes as the Dwarfers dispursed, Jade moved with the crowd, having lost Jaxx, Jamie and Jacky. As the atlas ball smashed into the arena wall, the metals, tortured by age, the elements and other stresses finally gave out.

With an enormous crash the section of seating that Jade had been in collapsed in a shower of dust, shrapnel, Ssala and Haruk. Jade felt a sharp pain on the side of her temple and then it went dark.

As she felt the tightness around her wrist old memories surfaced and she tried to struggle from the grasp.
"Tony let go! No, please no!" She begged, looking around for the phantom assailant.
"The hell is Tony?" Alex said, having grabbed Jade and yanked her into the atlas ball to avoid the crush of panicing bodies all around.
"I... What? Ah! N... No one. It's not important right now." It was quite frankly a lie that was more obvious than the sun. Solvay looked on, seeing the briefly haunted look in her eyes, decided that now might not be the best time to ask about whatever demons the woman had.
"We gotta move, now might be our only chance to escape."

The pair scrambled up the wreckage back up to the seating levels. The Slavers were going wild. For once they had lost control, for the first time they didn't know what to do, and it was showing. There was chaos, and a lot of it. Some unseen barrier had been breached, from somewhere in the crowd a volly of arrows was launched, tipped with flickering light. Fire caught on one of the tall towers and rapidly began to spread through the soft furnishings, dried grasses and tapestries that lined the building.

That's when it got really bad. The Ssalans rebellion began. They surged through the city in numbers not known to the Haruk, from the camps outside the walls they poured in through the tunnels and any way they could get in.

"Oh holy..." Jade breathed, looking up at the inferno. "This is going badly now, we need to find the others, this plan has gone south I think."

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