Under his breath Leeoli responds
I'm afraid to open my mouth
As the commoners once again dissolve into shouting and accusations, Hearthmount tries to calm them down in futility. They seem to be largely driven by anger or hatred at the newcomers to their town. The Sheriff and Father Grimburrow, with his acolytes make an effort to calm the crowd, but their please are only met by more shouts and curses.
Leeoli suddenly stands deathly still.
Do you not feel the ice in the air ??!? Leeoli roars.
Leeoli draws his rapier.
Death is come.
I don't know about any coldness in the air, but that man over there is singing to himself oblivious of everything going on around him. Anyi points towards a disheveled man in the crowd. He is rocking slightly and not taking any notice of what is happening around him.
The lamps! Feel how they burn! Leeoli guestures to the walls of the hall.
Leeoli moves to where the sheriff stands.
Who is that man there, the one singing to himself? Leeoli points.
Quick man! Leeoli pleads most earnestly to thr sherrif.
Sheriff Caeller is obviously on edge, no doubt due to the sudden agitated nature of the hall. That's Gibs Hephenus, surly old Veteran. He hasn't been right since the professor's funeral.
In no more than the moment it takes for the Sheriff to identify Hephenus, chaos erupts in the town hall. Five of the large lanterns that light the hall suddenly explode into bursts of burning oil that douses the surrounding walls – lighting the room on fire and causing the townsfolk to truly panic.
The odd chill is gone from the room, and instead it heats to nearly suffocating levels as townsfolk cry out in fear, and pain.
Anyi uses Bralani's step to move to 8A (35' away).
What to do?..... I'm paralyzed by my choices
Anyi pulls down a tapestry.
Zazaria does the same, moving to J3 and attempting to haul down a tapestry.
Vrilli, both annoyed and puzzled by the crowd's response, focuses on adjusting his belt and scabbard. Result: he notices
N O T H I N G other than the fact that his belt is becoming more frayed...
Vrilli moves the nearest burning villager from the fire.
Leeoli with haste moves to save the villager knowing the poor villager will have been burned by the time he gets there.
Anyi quickly moves to the nearest fire, easily hurdling over hastily knocked down benches in order to get the the flames. She tears down a tapestry and smothers the blaze before any townsfolk can be harmed.
Zazaria leaps into action on the other side of the stage, and beats at the flames with another torn tapestry, to the same effect.
Vrilli moves as far as he can to the south of the building and pulls one villager from the fire. Beating at the flames on the poor man, he puts them out, leaving a charred but still breathing body. The villager weakly moans, and begins to crawl away toward the exit. Meanwhile, the fire that had just nearly consumed in has spread. It now blazes up the legs of a poor young farmhand who was trying to push his way through the crowd and out the doors. The lad cries out in pain and stumbles.
Leeoli, knowing that the furthest fire could become a blaze before they focus on it, jumps down from the stage and nearly sprints to the far southeastern corner of the building.
Asenath moves to the eastern wall as well, but only just barely makes it to the blaze. She appears prepared to seize a tapestry and beat at the flames.
Kendra stays close to the sheriff, who leaps up to the stage to make sure that the councilmembers are all okay. The two remaining councilmembers join Hearthmount and Favran on the stage, obviously not wanting to brave the near stampede of townsfolk out of the hall.
Anyi moves to C12 beside the nearest villager on fire and pulls the nearest wall hanging down to put out the fire consuming the villager.
Zazaria runs to join Asenath and help extinguish the fire there, but as she runs she hollers People of Ravengro, do not flee, you will be crushed! Withdraw to the stage, where the fires are under control!
Leeoli grabs the poor panicking man, and pulls him from the flames.
If Anyi has managed to put out the fire in our corner, Vrilli attempts to pull anyone aside who is in danger of being crushed. If I need to help put out the fire, here is my CM roll...
Asenath makes an attempt to put out the fires near her.
Anyi and Vrilli attack the fires near them and are able to pat them out before anyone else nearby is harmed. Asenath manages to put out some of the fire nearest to her, but still the blaze spreads around the area that she and Asenath are in.
Leeoli grabs and saves one villager, only to see another set ablaze. as the fire spreads. The poor woman was trying to squeeze into the crowd to escape out of the doors, but her bunched skirts caught ablaze. She now twirls about, frightened, batting at them and screaming.
Zazaria's powerful voice cuts through the din, and it seems as if everyone goes silent to listen...though the screaming still continues. Her words seem to resonate with the townsfolk, and nearly half of them move to the north, away from the doors. They huddle near the front of the stage and those to the south can proceed out of the doors in a more orderly fashion.
Father Grimburrow hastens to the south, despite the horrified calls of his acolytes. He rushes towards Leeoli, his hands outstretched and seeking to help one of the fallen townsfolk.
Anyi moves to H12 and grabs another tapestry to quash the fire that has engulfed the nearest villager.
Calling out to the Sheriff Never mind the Council...fight these fires, by Pharasma!, Zazaria sprints to the citizen closest to death and summons up the power of Pharasma, releasing positive energy in a great burst of pale blue light that floods everything in a 30' radius around her.
The power of the Mother of Graves bathes the area in potent, cool light, easing the pains of the dying, and - perhaps - saving some from an untimely judgement.
Leeoli, if there is any villager to pulls the villager from the fire (as he has no tapestry to fight the fire with).
Zazaria is looking to make a Heal check - next round I guess - to help stabilise anyone who is still in real trouble.
Vrilli moves to I-J6 to help Asenath with the last fire. He keeps an eye out for Hephenus on the way.
Once the fire is under control, Vrilli looks for anyone else still in trouble.
Asenath attempts to help douse one of the fires.
Anyi’s attempt to pull a tapestry and fight the fires is thwarted by the very tapestry itself, as it gets tied up in one of its hanging rods and remains fixed in place. Vrilli, unfortunately, meets with the same lack of success. Asenath is able to rip away her tapestry and stamp out one of the fires nearby.
Leeoli pulls the poor woman away from the fire, and Father Grimburrow quickly begins tending to her wounds. Zazaria’s powerful call to her goddess, however, seems to do the work that he’d just begun. Some of the townsfolk that have been burned seem to be recovering quickly, and one that was down only moments before is not on hands and knees, coughing out smoke.
Leeoli tries to move to the Tapestry behind him, but encounters some difficulties moving by the flames
Zazaria jerks away swiftly from the hungry fire and calmly pats out the flames that spread to her robe - O Lady of Judgement, you are indeed close to hand today! - and, seeing no-one in need of immediate help, resumes her firefighting duties.
Anyi pats out the fire on the villager next to her. She then grabs a tapestry from the wall.
Vrilli, determined to make up for lost time tears down a tapestry and begins beating out flames in earnest.