June wrestles Leon away from leaping back down there, shouting something it's hard to make out over the screams of the mob. The people around him mostly spend the next few seconds trying to stand back up.

There's the loud report of a gunshot from somewhere.

Burst of Radiance.

Basically everyone is blinded or dazzled! 

The building starts to collapse. He can't see his other party members anymore, they ran past the lip of the roof.

Yes, they're clearly going to have to regroup elsewhere. He bolts.

He can hear fighting as he runs. A stunningly loud horn blast like at the dreadnought blows and a booming voice declares, "DISPERSE IMMEDIATELY OR WE WILL DEFEND OURSELVES WITH FORCE." More gunshots.

The gangs are out in force now. Most of the big streets are blocked, most side passages are full of cowering folk.

Grace and he'll chance weaving through a gang.

You need to get past a gang.

Grace got you past the gang, you say.

But what about second gang, one street over?

Yeah, he doesn't have another one of those. He has a mace and will attempt to be very clearly looking to get beyond them without necessarily hitting any of them with it.

"No fucking passage until this shit's over! We got families in here! Get!"

"I only want to leave the town."

"Yeah, and I'm the Queen of England! Find a place to hunker down like the rest of us!"

"I do not live here. I only want to go."

"What part of Fuck Off isn't in English?"

"I will fuck off in that direction."

"...You can do that if you let two of us walk right behind you, alright?" If only to get rid of him so they won't be distracted.

"Yes." Off he continues to attempt to fuck.

He gets past that one block. The next one is in the middle of an active fight between two gangs. Looks like defenders are losing. Something's on fire. The area's getting less dense though, this should be the last significant blockage.

There are loud stomping sounds coming from behind him; Those twelve foot high constructs are on the move.

The last thing he needs is a steel golem. ...can he get around this blockage by going into the building which is on fire? He doesn't have an air bubble but you can pull a lot of smoke out of the air with a fine mist of Create Water and it's not like it's not lethally dangerous to walk through the combat itself.

He can go into the building! It contains a kitchen and the same sort of trays the hothouse at the old wreck did and people trying to snuff the flames.

...Create Water and on out the back door before they can ask him any questions about that.

They seem too busy for that.

There's more shacks and people guarding their shacks but no more fully street-blocking gangs. Looks like a lot of people had the same idea and are hiking out into the snow.

He cannot prepare enough Endures to save any significant fraction of these people but hopefully they can keep moving to stay warm and come back when the town's settled as it gets. Tromp tromp.

People steer away from each other and him, except when he sees, distantly, what is probably a robbery in progress.

The windswept plains are quiet, in a way, at least in how the wind shrouds the screams and fighting.

Okay. So. That was bad.

He retraces their steps. Their Endures won't run out till a few hours into the next morning, which gives them a while to get out, if they can, and hopefully this is the obvious place to return to. He'll prep more Endures but - maybe not enough for everyone, they do have coats and can load up one person with extra coats if the rest of them have Endure Elements on (and that's assuming they all make it out alive), if he can think of first-circle spells he'll need in place of the Endures that might be useful for extraction. Tomorrow's supposed to be a Create Food day but they can all go hungry for one day without it being the end of the world and then eat heavily the day after tomorrow to make up for it, if he needs the third circle spell. At second he will definitely want Calm Emotions, maybe more than once.

A group of twelve people including three kids stumbles upon the meetup site.

"Ho stranger! We're going north, to high pass- There's a safe place beyond! Safer than that shanty town anyway!"