Two thugs went down; more opened fire, but the bats still confused them.  Those shots were getting much closer, though-- a bullet nearly hit Duckling.  Reynard continued to down more of the criminals, but then a voice came from above.

"Heads up!" called Arachne.  "Reinforcements are on the way!  Better hurry it up!"

Duckling launched herself at the group again, this time trying to grab one of the briefcases and fly off with it.

[OOC: Ugly Duckling rolled 26 using 1d20+8 ((18)).]

The case was larger and heavier than a standard briefcase, but that was no problem for Duckling's great strength.

Except that something was wrong, and the jewelry was shaking, and throwing impossible amounts of weight around, and glowing  Something was very wrong...

Dex check to hold on...

In reply to GM (msg # 26):

[OOC: 16:00, Today: Ugly Duckling rolled 5 using 1d20 ((5)). Spending a point to reroll that:  Ugly Duckling rolled 3 using 1d20 ((3)), so 13.]

Duckling was holding on to the crate, but only barely-- something was happening, and the chest wanted to careen out of control!

"Something's going on with the crates!" Duckling shouted. "Get them away from the crooks ASAP!"

The crooks, in fact, were already scattering-- but that wasn't stopping the items in the crates from glowing...

"Okay, um, what do we do now?" Lovebird asked as she went to secure another of the crates.

"Fight whatever's inside them?" Duckling suggested.

Suddenly, from the crates, two figures stood and rose up-- and grew!  One was a lion-headed man, and the other, a falcon-headed man.  Both wore distinctly ancient Egyptian clothing, and bore strangely-shaped swords.  Both glowed with golden light, and they just kept growing until they were a good thirty feet tall, breaking right through the roof of the warehouse!

"Oh, that is not good," Lovebird said, flying up after the statues.

"Dibs on the bird guy," Duckling said, following.

"...Okay, this was not the plan!" said Arachne, but she'd hopped onto the leg of the lion-figure as it burst through the building.  Camille had grabbed Reynard, and they were following the figure as well.

"Do we have a new plan?" she continued.

It may need to involve rolling for initiative, of course.

"Maybe they'll listen to reason?" Lovebird said.

[OOC:  Ugly Duckling rolled 16 using 1d20+8 ((8)).]

"They seem pretty set on smashing buildings!" Arachne called.

"Of course," Lovebird said as she drew her sword and charged.

(OOC: Init roll - Lovebird rolled 11 using 1d20+5)

Both of you go first; feel free to shout suggestions or orders to the NPCs, too!

"Spider, fox, try hitting their hamstrings while the fliers hit them high," Duckling shouted. "Try and knock 'em over."

[OOC: Attack on Montu, using Move-By Action to fly past.  Ugly Duckling rolled 18 using 1d20+8 ((10)).]

Arachne appeared to have moved to spinning some kind of web around the legs of the giant figure, which at least was slowing it down.  Duckling's attack left a mark, in the form of cracks, and it felt like she'd struck a block of sandstone.

Lovebird dove at one of the giants, trying to drive her sword in,

(OOC: Attack Roll - Lovebird rolled 22 using 1d20+10.)

The sword struck a ringing blow-- but now the giant was striking back, swinging its strange sword in a vast, sweeping arc!

This is an Area Damage 10 effect; DC 25 Toughness save for both PCs, DC 20 Dodge save to reduce that damage save by 5

(OOC: Dodge Roll - Lovebird rolled 20 using 1d20+10, Toughness Roll - Lovebird rolled 9 using 1d20+6. Merps. Reroll - Lovebird rolled 24 using 1d20+6)

Lovebird just barely managed to dodge out of the way in time.

[OOC: Ugly Duckling rolled 13 using 1d20+8 ((5)). Spending a point to reroll that: Ugly Duckling rolled 27 using 1d20+8 ((19)).  Ugly Duckling rolled 18 using 1d20+8 ((10)).  Spending another point to roll again: Ugly Duckling rolled 24 using 1d20+8 ((16)).]

Duckling was nearly clipped by the sword, but managed to drop beneath the arc.

You're up, heroes!  Go!