"It doesn't look or sound like there is anyone inside," Carth stated, "Although, I don't think this is any ordinary fire. It sounds... wrong."
He paused for a moment before continuing,
"However, a weird sounding fire is still a fire, hopefully. It seems to be only on the first floor, so if we can put it out quickly we might be able to stop the fire from spreading, and perhaps find out what started it."
"Anybody got a way to put out a fire?" he asked everyone before turning to Argius, "Is there a lake or a river or some other sizeable body of water close by?"
"Why wouldn't the town help? They stand to lose quite a lot if this gets out of hand." Galacia takes note of the man's tone, folding her arms before addressing him again. "What aren't you telling us Argius?"
Just in case...Sense Motive:
Argius goes to answer you Carth but waits to listen to the fire, "Odd is definitly the word." He then turns back to answer. There is a river it cuts through the forest there" Argius points towards the forest to the east of where you are stood. "It is the same one that runs through the town."
Archaouess seeing the fire is smoking more towards the back makes his way closer to it looking for anything suspicious. Strange most fires will smoke from anywhere not in one particular spot
"Hey I mightve found something.
"Argius, do you think you could at least some of the townsfolk to help put this fire out with the river?" Carth asked, "If this spreads to the forest, we'll lose control of the fire."
He then glanced over to Archaouss,
"What is it?"
"Its not to say im experienced with starting fires or nothing but isn't it odd how the smoke just seems to be coming from one spot?" Archaouess says squinting his elven eyes at the fire to reduce the brightness.
Carth nodded in agreement,
"It is quite odd. It could be where the fire started, or it could mean something completely different. Either way, it could do with being investigated."
Well sitting around here isn't going to get the investigation started any sooner. Lets get going and look into this place already. The mill is damned close to the forest, and if that goes up in flames then the whole damned town will be in trouble. Dampen your clothes as best as you can so you wont burn so easy, and then lets get on with it.
Elon will follow his own advice, making sure that he is soaking wet before walking as best as he can through the smoke etc to take a look inside the building.
"I doubt it, Mr Mirran, any who would be willing to help would of already arrived by this point and my men are helping the wounded and keeping order, I could try but I fear I would come back alone."
He turns to the group, "Forgive my defeatism but the town will not be harmed if the forest sets alight. It is no trouble to them as the river separates it from the town and no one uses resources from the forest, no one. Short minded fools that they are."
Galacia looks over Elon's soaked body, a look of amusement on her face. "While I admire your spirit, I don't think I'll be joining your little investigation. Why should we risk ourselves for a building that no one cares about?" She makes a motion back to the town. "Their mill. Their problem."
Elon, you are completely and utterly insane. pause... I like that about you.
I run into the river, do a twirl and run back out again sopping wet.
As I near the mill again, I call to Galacia:
The mill may be abandoned but most people are too busy dealing with the attack upon the town. We don't own property there, we're the ones who are free to check this out. Plus, someone said this might be connected to the orbs... and finding out about them is exactly what we're here for.
I tie a sopping scarf around my mouth and head for the back of the mill, lookign for an entrance.
Archaouess squats down on his haunches and watches the group and watches bemusedly as two of the party go to take a quick bath.
"I believe I shall stay out here. No that getting burned doesnt sound utterly enthralling."
Those in the forest/river please roll me perception with a +2 bonus, those outside the forest/river please roll normal perception checks.
Perception
Elon looks around as he heads back. Noticing that some of the newer people had not followed his lead, he heads around in any case, looking still for a normal not burning too much entrance that he can dive in through
Perception:
Choosing to not waste any time heading to the river and back, Carth headed round to where most of the smoke seems to have been coming from to see if there was a relativly safe way to enter the building.
Not much point in breaking into a burning building if'n no one is in there to be saved. Not much of a fan of saving a building for a town that ain't none too concerned about it neither but if it is connected to the orbs we'd best get about putting out that fire I suppose.
Perception
head wound again...yeah...
Krallek follows Elon into the water and back to the building.
Perception:
Staying out of the forest unless everyone else goes. Still not getting wet and running into a burning building though. =P
If this thing is as large as it is, and has gone to the mill, then this is not somewhere that we wish to be. Not now. Graves needs to know about this, and soon!
Elon will deviate strongly from the mill, and despite being soaked to the skin, will grab his equipment back and then RUN (160 feet per round) back to town to warn them. If the others follow then great, but he is unnerved by this, and wants to be well away, so will not take his time.
While he headed around to where the smoke was, Carth noticed a weird connection between the roaring of the fire and the billowing of the smoke. Realising that there is something alive (just not human) in the mill, he withdrew his crossbow and cautiously continued to head towards the smoke.
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EDIT FOUND IT!
Galacia raises an eyebrow as Elon goes streaking by her, despite his soaked clothes and gear. "Well, there goes our hero." The girl smiles over at Archaouss, the only other person with any sense. That's when she notices Carth pulling out his crossbow as he made his way toward the mill. "Wait. What's going on?" Seeing someone draw their weapons unnerves her a bit and a hint of worry can be heard in her voice.
As you get closer to the smoke (Carth and anyone else who approaches) it become more and more difficult to see, with a bit of struggle you can find the main door. which is not on fire or as hot as some parts of the building. The smoke is not at it's thickest here but enough to reduce vision. Through what you think is a window you are sure you see a large, hulking silhouette moving away from you. as the creature turns you see a flash of blue light. Argius immediately reacts to it.
"Was that blue? dam it, an orb is there." as he approaches the door it splinters open and a wall of hot air almost knocks you flying. Argius stays upright with no issue.
Keeping his footing, Carth moves to positions himself between Argius and the door.
"Not saying you can't handle yourself Argius," Carth said, "But i think I could take a hit better than you."
"So, mysterious weird creature inside a burning building with one of the orbs," Carth muttered, more to himself than anyone else in paticular, "Well, at least I can safely say it's gonna be interesting."
Perception
And for the record, Krallek is completely baffled by Elons apparent about face.
Archaouess chuckles rubbing his head looking at Galacia out of the corner of his eye when she gives her comment on Elon. He didn't hold too much of a grudge against her about her orc friend bashing in his head and maybe he could get over it if she kept up this up.
However when he also sees Carth pulling out his weapons Archaouss growls pulling out one of his many daggers. "I knew this was too easy. Come on girl the others might need our help."
As the door splinters and the wall of heat hits you,the smoke around you momentarily clears. You see no sign of the large silhouette, though another blue flash occurs deeper in the building. You don't see as much fire as you expect for the amount of smoke around, though you can still see the flustering red heat of destruction from inside.
Argius allows Carth to pass in front of him.
Galacia's shoulders slump when Archaouss asks for her to follow him. It's plain to see she didn't like the idea of going in the building. Still, she wanted to remain on Mr. Graves' good side so she follows the elf anyway, crossbow in hand.
When the pair get close to the building, she stops to load the crossbow, fumbling with it a bit before getting it properly loaded. "So umm...bad timing but I've never really uh...fired this thing before." Galacia gives a nervous smile that makes it all too obvious she's being sincere.
The pale elf smiles "The bolt with the pointy end is aimed at the target, prefereably not me, and shot by squeezing the trigger."
"At least one orb is in there."
Argius turns to those there. "It must not be destroyed here today"
He brandishes his own weapon. A extremely large and heavy looking hammer. almost dwarfing him as he holds it.
He steps forward motioning to go inside.
Elon:
The first people you come across are purple cloaks from the temple. They are ushering scared or injured people in to the temple or the Judges Ruin.
Elon will rush to one of the Purple Cloaks who seems to be in charge and then tell them the news about the fire in the mill. Request that all able bodied people bring fire fighting equipment so that they might be able to help out, and then dash at his best pace back to the mill to help out, assuming that the townspeople know where their own mill is.
Carth smirked as he heard Galacia's comment about the crossbow before entering the building cautiously, scanning the first room with his crossbow and checking for traps, people and other nasty surprises.
Perception: (checking for nasty surprises and such)