Securing the Landing

"Lirassa," starts Mon'Fargret into his wrister.

Puzzled, Granite Spear starts to raise her staff to poke ahead.

"Are you there?" continues Mon'Fargret. "What's hap..."

Just then, Granite Spear's fighting reflexes allow her to jump aside just as Ham suddenly materializes directly in front of her and tumbles backward.

On the other side of the stairway, Lirassa can be seen partly to appear. She seems to be quickly crouching and pressing herself against the rail.

"...pening?" continues Mon'Fargret.

Granite Spear immediately grasps her bulky pistol and dives up the stairs, disappearing from view as she passes Lirassa's half-visible form.  The armored Amazon, perhaps startled, seems to lose her balance and catches herself on the rail, allowing a little more of her form to fade into view.

"Lirassa!" cries Mon'Fargret.

Forgetting all about the crystal, Bina sprints across toward Ham, cutting in front of Mon'Fargret and leaping across the bottom of the stairs.  She pays no mind to the stun bolt that suddenly appears from nowhere in the stairwell and expends itself against the railing directly behind her.

Lirassa seems to right herself and move a little up the stairs again, parts of her fading out grotesquely as she does so.

"Tricks!" Widgy says, starting to move closer to the stairs as Betham raises his weapon and trots forward.