Faith succeeded in her back flip, killing one man by severing his spinal cord. But as she ran she tripped over a rock. The Thane threw the metal cylinder into the incoming horde; it produced a small explosion that peppered the surrounding horde with bird shot and fleches. Killing a small number of them. He stepped over faith with his activated power sword to protect her, but she would need to act fast.
Shea’s Heavy Bolter seemed to do a lot of good, tearing and ripping the horde apart. It didn’t necessarily kill them, but it did take away any kind threat they possessed. Even the small red beam emerging from his heavy weapon managed to kill one of the things.
As devastating as Shea’s fire was, some were bound to get through. But these were quickly put down by James and his precision firing. Each time he fired there was one less enemy that need be worried about. He also noticed a small wooden stall less than 4 yards ahead of him that would work.
The Marshall’s fire was spectacular to look at, every time he fired a pulse of blue energy tore through the horde, Killing large numbers at a time. But at the sound of the battle call the last of the people in the street turned and ran towards the group.
Marius was in the rear of the group scanning for targets trying to flank them, just as he was about to turn around he saw two men running at them. Since one was missing an arm he assumed they were creatures and fired for the first. He easily scored a head shot and it went down. But as he turned towards the second it dropped behind some rubble.
Even more shouting could be heard from the shrine, and two dozen men in white helmets could be seen on top now, Along with a dozen or so other people. They appeared to be cheering while laying down a huge volume of las fire, killing many of the farthest creatures.