Chaos in the Market

Doredan's flashing rapier smacks a pincer away from him, followed up by piercing stab that impacts deep into the carapace of the insect. Using his leverage, the Prince pushes the beetle onto it's side, leaving it's legs kicking and it's less armored underside exposed to assault from his allies. Meanwhile, Bil's holy mallet and reveling spirits cause the insect attacking him to dissolve in a rush of radiant ligfht that leaves only a faintly smoking spot on the cobbles.

As Felicity repositions herself, the monster menacing her flanks takes a swipe at her, but her armor absorbs the blow. She rushes to cross the square, pike flashing in a maneuver that gouges the upended beetle in it's underbelly, causing viscous goo to start to flow. That is the only opening Hylusi's army of hands needs as they scrabble and crawl across the market and leap onto the exposed insect, burying it in a wave of assault. By the time the hand's master is prepared to execute her cantrip the bug is already dead, a dried husk devoid of life. She turns her attention to the two remaining mites. Bil's radiant spirits have danced and dashed their way outward, impacting and scorching the insects with holy power, which makes the foes all the more susceptible to the tolling bells of doom that the Magus intones.

Wounded, with the smell of dead and dying mites filling the air, the two remaining wounded monsters in the square release a new high pitched buzz, one that is picked up and resounds around the city. Both lift up into the air, wings chopping upward and lifting their body sixty feet in the air. This mass lift off is replicated in other parts of the market, and even other parts of the city as dozens of insects that had fallen over the capital lift off into the air. Disturbingly, some of them have corpses or still living humanoids in their grasp. However, when the insects get sixty feet into the air, something strange happens.

They land. They land on a semi-translucent ribbon of ethereal smoke that looks almost like a wisp of cloud. This trail of path seems to follow the roving moon like the trail of a comet, and once they have landed on it the mites begin to work together to drag the remains (and screaming victims) of their raid upwards towards the celestial body like hornets returning to a hive. While this grisly display may tug on the heart strings of some of the people on the ground, it is over quickly, as this milky, transparent path seems to accelerate the insect's journey to improbably speed, conveying them upwards towards the moon far faster than a bowshot or even a spell could manage.

In the distance, stone rumbles. The mountain shakes. Looking to the castle, one of the higher spires of the castle, undoubtedly an important wing filled with important people, suddenly shifts, tilts, and begins to tumble down the mountain. People of the market begin to scream and wail, pointing towards the crumbling tower with fresh waves of dismay. Something is wrong at the castle, it is has collapsed nearly a tenth of the entire mountainside structure.

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Time for reactions, and then back to the castle, I'm guessing?