After checking the platform and finding little of interest, the small group cautiously heads out across the causeway. It's well built, with a flagstone path about five feet wide atop it. Every so often there are ornately carved stone lanterns; here a kneeling dwarf, there a few strange animals. They are obviously unlit at the moment. The torchlight flickers and reflects off the water as you move. It's not surprising that Harman, from his experience taking a long watch on the riverboats, spots it first... the ripples in the water are going across the current. Something's moving down there... moving directly towards the causeway! Severin spots the strange ripples a moment later. Some sort of shadow in the water. He sees, out of the corner of his eye, Marina twitching as she reaches for her sword.

Then the water explodes in a wave outward and upward as six huge shapes burst outward, huge pale lizard-looking things, with long claws and a scaly, spiked head filled with jagged teeth. They charge up the side of the causeway, biting and snapping...

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Roll for initiative! (1d10)[10] Gabriele, Zdenko and Pietro are surprised.