>>5886580>>5887245>>5886567It is decided to send word to the capital, to summon the dragon as well as several prominent warrior-priests for advanced study of these creatures.
There is a warrior, sitting guard at night, keeping watch for any sign of trouble. His partner goes out to relieve himself nearby.
Several minutes later, just as the yawning warrior was beginning to wonder what was keeping his partner for so long, he hears his partner's voice... coming from inside the pit.
"Help me, I've fallen in!" his partner says in a hushed tone. "The beasts are asleep! Please, don't let them get me!"
The warrior scrambles, his mind too set on helping his friend to consider how his friend could have fallen into the pit when he had walked in the opposite direction. He lowers a rope into the pit.
A moment later, something very large and very strong yanks on the rope, causing him to fall into the pit, whereupon he is devoured by the cackling fiends. As for his partner, he too is devoured---by the ones who followed the trail of the captured pack and waited for the moment to strike.
The demons, having dragged a fallen tree across the land in their savage jaws, angle it to be pushed into the pit. The demons within escape by climbing up its bark, with the ones at the top biting their allies to drag them out.
From here, the horde of some forty to fifty demons set about enacting revenge against these uppity half-elves. They run across the plains, until they come upon the burgeoning town of Harenae. In the night, these demons set upon the town, and the savagery that followed, the slaughter and chaos, will be spoken of for generations to come. With the town being so new, adequate defenses are not yet in place, such as walls and proper sentries. The demons rampage right inside, past whatever meager defenses have been mounted by monstrously mauling any night guards. From here, they unleash chaos.
The demonic hyenas burst into homes like things out of nightmares, dragging people out into the night. They make parents watch their children be devoured before their eyes, then make husbands watch their wives suffer the same fate, before eating the men. The large creatures trample homes and kick torch emplacements to start fires, they charge through walls and crash into the bases of wooden towers. Fires rage about the town; some of the demons even purposefully light themselves ablaze just to run through more buildings and set them on fire.
Their rampage is short, but the damage is severe. Some two hundred people are killed by the beasts, their acidic jaws leaving horrifying half-melted corpses for the morning sun when reinforcements arrive. The pack is long since gone, having eaten their fill, but they did not leave alone; they captured several young half-elven girls and dragged them screaming away into the night. Whether their fate is to be a snack for later or something far more sinister is something that one shudders at the thought of.
