"I can't see shit!" One of the musketmen huddling beneath the battle mage's shield complained as he tried to scan for targets through the now green smoke that filled a large part of the storage room. 

"This is what you get for hiring the lowest bidder! I've always said the room's got crappy ventilation! You know, my father's in the business, and we could summon him to,-"

"Quiet your gums, men. They are escaping!" Blastwit yelled back at his men, as the Captain had managed to find his way to the battle mage's shield and had sheltered in it with the rest of his men.
"Battlemage Alfrix, cease with the blind fire and deal with the smoke! We need a clear line of sight!"

"Yes, sir!" The second battle mage in the group replied, nodding with his mask as he prepared another spell.

The air seemed to stand completely still around the group of White Hand soldiers for a moment, before suddenly exploding outwards in every direction in a forceful wave of magical, kinetic energies that functioned much like a powerful gust of wind; pushing the smoke away in a circle and out towards the periphery of the storage hall. This left them with a clear view of the crates that Liaena and Rithrynn were hiding behind, as well as a unblocked line of sight to the door.

The spell had come too late for them to see Kathlin and Alissah, however, as the two had already disappeared down the elevator shaft.

"We still have three knights left; have them do something!" Captain Blastwit called out, and was heard by the three remaining White Hand knights that remained in the room. The fourth remained either stunned or stuck in the crates he had fallen into, unable to wriggle himself in his heavy armor from a crate filled with large amounts of hay.

The rest of the three knights would react, however. Two of them would rush back to their original positions by the bronze doors, positioning themselves in a defensive formation in front of the narrow exit between the massive, half-open bronze gates. The last one would stomp down from the walkway and onto the ground floor, before heading towards Rithrynn and Liaena's position behind the crates.

But meanwhile, at the far end of the storage room, a lone figure would appear.

Walking out from one of the main, large hallways leading into the storage room would be Sherpa, wearing his dark blue and golden silk robes and satin, pitch black shoulder cape. Though separated from the main action by a series of large rows made up of crates upon crates, he could nonetheless hear the commotion from the center of the room.

Walking with a casual though hastened stride through the storage hall, with his hand resting on the handle of his sword which hung in its sheath by his hip, he would move towards the center of the storage which was just a little more than a hundred feet away!

*

At the bottom of the elevator shaft, in the small cove inside the very reef beneath Honor's Watch, a small group of four chevaliers had arrived by a small rowboat and headed towards the docks. Only two of them wore their uniforms, the rest of them wearing civilian garbs and only armed with rapiers as they seemed to have just arrived from the harbor Inn.

"We need to close the watergate. All exits are to be sealed." One of the chevaliers called out to a pair of nearby dockworkers standing on the pier. The two dockhands were quick to acknowledge the request, as the two lads set off and began to run towards a small tower at the edge of the pier built into the cavern walls of the cove that controlled the large metal grate that was built around the entrance to the cove.

"There's no need, the elevator's gone. There's no way they can get out that way." A chevalier standing at the pier shouted back at the arriving group in their boat as they docked with the pier.

"Security protocols. All entrances and exits are to remain closed during an emergency." The chevalier from the rowboat replied, as he and his group stepped onto land, leading the entire force in the cove to now consists of five chevaliers total, seven workers and one grumpy dwarf with a heavy blunderbuss by the elevator doors.
"We even got reports that one of the intruders escaped by jumping off the highest wall. We cannot take any chances!"