You wait below with Bella; your friend holding her finely weighted quarterstaff and weighing it in her arms for familiarity before tying it back to light pack. It's a little awkward, but easier to climb with it that way in a pinch; and the knotted rope hanging down through the window (while not a challenging climb) will most befit an individual with two hands.

When the visitors come, they come from an angle blind to the windows in the building. But you hear them just find, as they hop from one rooftop to the one above you. Three... four... five sets of feet. One smaller than the others - a child, or a halfling.

You hear them speaking, clearly enough.

"What's this, old man? Old man? What you doing out here old man?", says the first - the weird, gangland dialect junky and unpleasant on the ear.
"You got money? You got money old man?", says another.

Immediately, this does not sound to you like thieves you fought the night before. They were not the most sophisticated people you have met, but there was nothing wrong with their Tilean - city born, clear spoken.

"No, I'm - ... with the Weevers. And if you're still here in thirty seconds you'll meet the rest of us."

Cestié's response clinches it. These are not the people he was expecting - some other gang, some your gut tells you is more vicious and crude and almost native to this swampy slum condition. He tries to bluff them, hoping they'll accept the half truth of his affiliation as an indicator they shouldn't trouble him for risk of a clash with another gang.

But the hairs are standing up on the back of your neck, now. You recognize the tone, the timbre, the ambience sense of the encounter going on above - the fabricated strength of the pack, and the unspent violence quivering in the air like an taut bowstring...

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Cestié is trying to blather. Untrained, he will have a hard time. If he succeeds, they'll hold off for a turn. Otherwise, we're straight into initiative.

If you can hit a Scale Sheer Surface roll of +20% for the knotted rope, you can climb up to the roof with a half action on your turn and immediately engage with the other half. Fail, and it'll take a full round of action just to climb up.

vs19BlatherUntrained - (1d100)[33]

BellaInitiative - (1d10+4)[9]
CestiéInitiative - (1d10+4)[10]
GoonLeader - (1d10+4)[9]
GoonOffsider - (1d10+4)[13]
GoonBrute - (1d10+4)[13]
GoonGirl - (1d10+4)[12]
GoonShort - (1d10+4)[6]