'Red Hawk Down' incident

The 'Red Hawk Down' incident, as it was later dubbed by Scarossar homeland security, was an incident that occurred at around 6:43pm on Midwinter's Eve 1530, over south central Waterdeep. 
Members of the Thavians used a triple-barrelled experimental version of the Cancro condottiere standard Davis-Burton crossbow (later looted by the party) to shoot down Santa's sleigh as he was passing high above the city. The reindeer fled back to Tarkassia, and the sleigh crashed in the fields northwest of Fort Wheeler, south of the city walls. Santa, one of two survivors, was kidnapped by Fyra, the blonde and butch leader of the guild, and taken back to their hideout, the Rum Runner's Palace under the Fort Wheeler Barrows. 'In the red corner, from the steppe of Lakay, we have a bison, a bull of a man, who has yet met no equal, Mongkę Orkhagan! And in the blue corner, straight from the street corners of the Narrows, we have... what was it again? Claus?'Several not-so-noble heroes chased the burning wreck into Farmer Brown's fields. They were Archie Grimes, Santana Claws, Ulrick Starbright, Arkady and Croissant, who had just been enjoying a time at The Polished Pump, including Claws beating Mongkę Orkhagan at pankration, a round of arrow-splitting aarchery, some games of Dead Man's Hand, a round Liar's Dice and trying to drink one another beneath the table.
They fought many Thavians in the fields, though Fyra escaped, and urged on by Mr. Jingles, a gnome and the second of the two survivors, they stormed the Rum Runner's Palace. The party were like demons - they stormed in as the Thavians slept soundly, leaving a trail of destruction, blowing men clean through metal gates, leaving molten glowing stone dripping down the walls, and ripping, tearing, shooting and slashing their way through. Shots rang out through the marble-floored halls, as blood was sprayed up the pillars and the thieves rattled the locked gate, trying in vain to flee in fear and abject terror.'It's what you get for making such bad tea'.In the throne room, Fyra and Claws faced off beneath the towering pillars and dark shadows filled with watching cutthroats. They both fought valiantly as both factions watched in awe, but the wounded Fyra used Alkibiades' Kopis and barely bested Claws with her precise slashes and strikes, as Croissant kept him sustained from afar. Then all hell broke loose after some secret spellcasting, which included a thief named Kronk firing a few of the eye rays of the corpse of Quoronduscha (which led to Ulrick being slammed into a brick wall), and a short and bloody scuffle, in which Fyra was disintegrated by a bolt of golden light. The few thieves left yet alive surrendered, and agreed to join Grimes' gang. With Santa freed, the naughty list was in safe hands, and the party earned their way off it for sure. It was a tale for the ages.
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