Vizio's Tavern

Vizio's Tavern was the scene of a virulent, sweeping attack by Hellknights and tiefling associates under the command of Paralictor Gonville Chard against agathering of the Avengers of Westcrown. Vizio's Tavern hadn't been operated in several months, was large enough to hold a sizable contingent of Avengers, and was out of the way, all of which recommended it as a safe place for Arael and Janiven to hold meetings. However, on this occasion, Mossino had earlier turned Arael over to the City Watch and had further notified the Paralictor that the meeting was to take place that afternoon, allowing the Hellknights the opportunity to utterly destroy a traitorous gang of revolutionaries.

What the Paralictor hadn't counted on, however, was for the Adventuring Party to be in attendance that afternoon. Instead of a rather easy rounding up of revolutionaries and the murder of their senior leadership, the Paralictor suddenly found himself facing a half-dozen professional adventurers as well as several armed reolutionaries supporting them. Nevertheless, the Paralictor was prepared, and assaulted the building with a combination of darkness spells (cast by tiefling allies) and greek fire. Soon the revolutionaries were in retreat, and the Paralictor followed the rtreat by sending in armigers and tieflings to finish off the job.

Those that went into the building, however, failed to come out, and the Paralictor sent in reinforcements who similarly failed to return. Inside, the adventuring party and Janiven's cadre, under immense pressure from the Paralictor's men, fought viciously and effectively while conducting the noncombatants out through a secret passageway in the basement that leads to the exhaustive and dangerous Westcrown sewers. Rearguard actions at the upstairs bar, the basement steps and the entrance to the sewers took several of the Paralictor's men. Increasingly irritated, the Paralictor threw more men at the tavern despite the danger presented not only by the the adventuring party and Janiven's men but by the greek fire as well, which had spread to most of the supportive walls of the building. Nevertheless, the Hellknight armigers under the Paralictor's command rushed inside at his word,and several met their end not at the hands of the Avengers or the party, but by being trapped amongst the flames.

As the Avengers retreated to the relative safety of the sewers, the Paralictor regrouped his men and sent several specialists after the escaping revolutionaries. None of the revolutionaries were caught, but several more of the Paralictor's men died trying to escape from the sewers.

From the adventuring party's point of view, the attack allowed them to exercise their ire against the Hellknights in particular and the House of Thrune is general, and they fell on the attackers with aplomb. The greek fire drove them back, but they continually rallied and took Hellknight casualties at several fallback positions, not the least of which was the stairs into the basement, where several armigers and at least two tieflings were killed.