There's not much of a splash, and fewer ripples as the dwarf's mace disappears into the river, claimed by the slow-moving mass of gray, forbidding water. Rausimond mourns the loss briefly as Banio blends in with the crowd and Trusova steps back as well. Lambert and Foghorn work on making sure the sodden mass of steaming, now blackened flesh stays put, but the thief lends an eye towards the two guardsmen to see how they are reacting to the steel in the Confessor's hand, and in his words.
Interestingly, they look at one another, and glance they share is an uncertain, perhaps worried one. The city's guard are renowned for not wanting to work too hard, and for preferring to settle things quietly. A few coins here, a promise there -- that's the usual way with the watchmen. Today, these two men have clearly been pressed into a service they find distasteful, and at some level they look as afraid of the demon-hunter as anyone else present.
"Well?" Tyrinious says to the formerly mouthy dockworker, the end of his dagger still at the man's bare, vulnerable neck.
The bald man risks a swallow, then says,
"Lord Telk wi--"
The rest of the sentiment goes unheard when the Confessor bares his teeth and opens the man's throat, flicking a wet spray across the dock with a single violent motion. Blood spurts and fountains until the docker brings his hands to the wound and falls to his knees. The red fluid bubbles and courses as the shocked man's mouth moves for a few seconds more, until Tyrinious wipes the end of his ornate, straight-bladed dagger on the man's shoulder, then turns from him.
"You wish payment for dragging this here, do you?" he says to Rausimod as he walks to face the dwarf. Raising an eyebrow at his dagger for a brief spans of seconds, he then smiles slightly and sheaths it.
"Very well. Well earned. If you find more, I'll pay for those too. And if you find the source of this corruption, the payment will be ten times this." Extending a gloved hand, the man shows Rausimod two coins of gold. Gold!
"And a hundred times this, should you put a stop to it."OOC:
The docker will die quickly unless he's tended to. If someone can succeed at a Medicine check, they can save his life. Only one attempt can be made... a bonus would be in the offering for the right equipment, approach, help, etc.