Beginning of Urban Mystic

Gnomes are generally an intelligent and good group. They tend to focus more on their minds as their smaller size tend to make them not as useful as other races when it comes to manual feats. This group seems to have been descended from rock gnomes who spent a lot of time in mountains mining. They used to be seen as invaluable with their small stature allowing them into cracks and crevices that other races weren't able to reach and through years of toil their strength tended to be higher than one would expect just looking at them. With the advent of modern tech mingled with magic their utility has waned and a lot of rock gnomes have fallen to hard times, creating a stereotype of a rough bunch not knowing their current life. Because of this many people with legitimate businesses shy away from hiring them for honest work. This in turn began a chain reaction of chicken or egg. Do gnomes not get hired because they're criminals or are they criminals because they can't get hired?

What's that then Tin Man? Who're trying to talk to? One of the bolder few respond as the rest try to disperse into the crowd.

Josh, you notice the rest of the gnomes disperse into the crowd that's around the pathway but none actually take the path to the Underground, so you know they're near.

To Ethan-
"Easy there Tinman, you might be wanting to not eavesdrop on my conversation. Any marks you may have would be your own. I was saying you look like a bunch of marks. You obviously know next to nothing about anything, so maybe your collective dumbness might be a mark. I don't know I'm no marker. Do you even know what the Underground is? Do you know what's in it? Or do you think this is some magical version of Las Vegas? Come here to gape at the sights, experience so vices, and then go home and not have to worry about anything? All of us know that the mouth to get to the Underground has teeth, and once you're bitten it's hard not to get infected with the darkness. You stand to lose a whole lot. Why should it be someone in there to take it by force when we could with style, out here, where it's safer for all of us? We wanted to rob you, hopefully a quick pickpocket, but you got nosey, and now we have to do this."

The gnomes in the crowd swarm Shani, Crimson Jack, Nukux, and Joshua. The one talking to Ethan starts approaching him.

Initiative order:
Gnomes- 22 for the folks surprised (everyone but Ethan as he was actively engaged with the gnome closest to him) 17 (for Ethan)
Nukux- 16
Joshua- 13
Shani- 11
Ethan- 6 (but not surprised)
Crimson Jack- 6

Each gray is a gnome (you each get one)

Yes