Hellknight Hill: The Lost Ring

Game Master Joana

Ren plunges into the smoke-filled corridor and douses a burning area he finds behind the stage before heading back for more water.

Ren Strides, Interacts & Strides
Fire spreads

Round 9 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 2), Jonagher (masked), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 3), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 6)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
20/37 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Ragna hauls her bucket into the worst of the smoke, stopping on the lower steps to pinpoint the remaining fire before moving deeper into the smoke.

Stride twice to E7. If there's a fire close enough to throw water on, I'll do that.

Ragna carries another bucket of water to the burning corridor.

Her lungs bursting, Abigail runs desperately up the aisle to daylight, taking a deep breath of outside air.

Ragna Strides x3
Abigail Strides x3

Round 10 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 2), Jonagher (masked), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 4), citizens, Abigail

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
20/37 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

As he sprints as fast as he can through the smoke filled rotunda, Shaserai prays to Torag they'll extinguish the fire in time.
"Blessed Torag, may our efforts not be in vain"

When he reaches the bucket brigade he takes a moment to breath. He takes a bucket and prepares to go inside once more.

Moving to O4 and taking a bucket

Shaserai ducks outside for a breath of air while grabbing another bucket.

Shaserai Strides, Strides & Interacts

Round 10 init: Shaserai, Jonagher (masked), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 4), citizens, Abigail

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
20/37 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

With a bucket in each hand, Jonagher holds his breath as he moves quickly towards the fire. He hopes to deliver a double dose of water to quench a particularly important part of the fire.

Jonagher Strides, Strides, and Strides or Interacts if he gets far enough...

Lugging his pair of buckets, Jonagher enters the corridor where Ragna is readying to douse some of the flames.

Jonagher Strides x3

Round 10 init: Shaserai, Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 1), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 4), citizens, Abigail

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
20/37 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

As the Chelish mage makes his way to one of the entrances and takes a breath of fresh air, he pauses for a moment.

"The fire has spread to the storage rooms behind the stage," he finally informs his companions and anyone else who is close enough to hear before grabbing another bucket of water and starting to get back to the flames.

Ren takes a breath of fresh air and informs the party of the fire's spread as he fetches another bucket.

Ren Strides, Strides & Interacts
Fire spreads

Round 10 init: Shaserai, Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 1), Ren, fire, Ragna (holding breath round 4), citizens, Abigail

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
20/40 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Wonderful. Ragna thinks on seeing the fire has continued to spread. Not sure we can get ahead of it now. Not ready to give up, she douses another section of the hallway and heads back towards the waiting buckets.

Stride to E4, interact to throw water on E3, Stride to G7.

Ragna douses another section of burning floorboard before heading back toward the bucket brigade.

Abigail takes another bucket and charges down the aisle.

Ragna Steps, Interacts & Strides
Abigail Interacts, Strides & Strides

Round 11 init: Shaserai, Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 1), Ren, fire, Ragna (holding breath round 5), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 1)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
20/40 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Just realized I forgot to add the squares Ragna doused. That should be 23/40 squares of fire extinguished.

"That can't be good." Thinks Shaserai after hearing Ren's warning. He hefts the water bucket and holding his breath he hurries to the storage room, hoping to douse the fire before it can feed on whatever flammable materials are kept there.

I don't see where the storage room is on the map, but Shaserai triple moves there

Shaserai has seen closed doors along the corridor behind the stage; now he is aware that at least some of these doors may conceal fire. In the eastern doorway, the only door immediately available has Jonather in front of it, holding two buckets. Shaserai moves in the other direction and discovers an burning door in the niche directly behind the stage with flames visible beyond it.

Shaserai Strides x3

Round 11 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 1), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 1), Ren, fire, Ragna (holding breath round 5), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 1)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
23/40 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Jonagher sees flames running along the inner wall of the rotunda and moves down the hall to put them out (moving to E2). Hefting one bucket at a time, he splashes water along the entire area (dousing E1 and D1). He notes more fire to the north and hopes everyone can bring additional help to confront it. Once he's finished, he turns to run back for another pair of water buckets.

Jonagher Strides, Interacts, and Interacts

Jonagher douses the flames in front of the door at the end of the hallway before turning and throwing his second bucket into the staircase leading upstairs.

Jonagher Strides, Interacts & Interacts

Round 11 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 1), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 2), Ren, fire, Ragna (holding breath round 5), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 1)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
27/40 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Following Jonagher's example Irenaeus grabs hold of two buckets -while at the same time thinking of perhaps making or acquiring a spell in the near future that takes care of menial labor such as this- and makes his way to Shaserai, ready to help the elf with the flames in the storage rooms.

Posting now before I go to bed. Stride twice to J13, interact to pick up a bucket from k14.

With lungs burning and head starting to spin from the lack of oxygen, Ragna returns for what she hopes to be the last set of buckets.

Jonagher seizes two buckets and starts down the aisle.

Ragna runs for the nearest bucket.

Abigail charges backstage, sees Shaserai near a burning storeroom, and throws her bucketful of water into the inferno.

Jonagher Interacts, Interacts & Strides
Fire spreads
Ragna Strides, Strides & Interacts
Abigail Strides, Strides & Interacts

Round 12 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 1), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 2), Ren (holding breath round 1), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 6), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 2)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
31/44 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Still holding his breath Shaserai hefts the bucket and after Abigail clears a path through the flames with her water bucket, he goes into the storage room and douses more of the fire. He hurries out of the still burning room to go fetch more water.

Stride to move adjacent to the fire, interact to douse it and Stride to go fetch more water at K14

Shaserai extinguishes more of the fire before heading out for more water.

Shaserai Strides, Interacts & Strides

Round 12 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 2), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 2), Ren (holding breath round 1), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 6), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 2)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
35/44 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Jonagher hurries back to the fire brigade, eager to grab another pair of buckets so he can lug them back to the flames. He avoids speaking lest he get another lungful of smoke, but nods encouragement at those working to save the beautiful building. 'We're so close!' he thinks, 'Just a little more water should do it!'

Jonagher Strides, Strides, and Strides?

Jonagher hustles back to grab another bucket.

Jonagher Strides x3

Round 12 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 2), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 3), Ren (holding breath round 1), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 6), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 2)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
35/44 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Wasting neither time nor words -and precious air- Irenaeus adds to Shaserai's efforts to put out the flames by tossing his two buckets' worth of water into the blaze as soon as he gets close enough that he can do so.

Ren hurries down the aisle and through the smoke-filled corridor and ducks his way into the burning room.

Ren Strides x3
Fire spreads

Round 12 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 2), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 3), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 6), citizens, Abigail (holding breath round 2)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
35/47 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16 & O17. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Ragna, this is the last round you can hold your breath before you're going to have to breathe.

Ragna grabs a second bucket and head for one of the backstage doors, her lungs feeling ready to burst.

Interact to pick up a second bucket, stride twice to D13.

Aching for breath, Ragna nevertheless plunges back into the smoke-filled hallway.

Ragna Interacts, Strides & Strides

The western door to the hallway opens suddenly, and Alak Stagram charges in at the head of a third bucket brigade. "Where's the fire?" he demands, coughing through a wet scarf tied over his nose and mouth.

Alak Interacts, Strides & Strides: 1d6 ⇒ 5/2= 2 smoke inhalation damage

Abigail dashes past the newly-arrived Alak to take a fresh bucket from the front of the line.

Abigail Strides, Strides & Interacts

Round 13 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 2), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 3), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 7), Alak (masked), Abigail (holding breath round 3)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
35/47 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16, O17 & E0. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Starting to feel dizzy from holding his breath, Shaserai is relieved to see that Alak Stagram has managed to take a bucket brigade into the backstage area. He points the man to the fires still burning away as he hurries into the rotunda to take more water.

Two stride actions to K13 and an interact action to pick up a bucket.

Shaserai goes back for more water.

Shaserai Strides. Strides & Interacts

Round 13 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 3), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 3), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 7), Alak (masked), Abigail (holding breath round 3)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
35/47 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16, O17 & E0. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Jonagher hands over his empty buckets and holds up two fingers, requesting another pair he can carry back to the blaze. Once he has them in hand, he turns and hurries back down the aisle to reach the stage.

Jonagher Interacts, Interacts, and Strides?

Jonagher picks up another couple of full buckets.

Jonagher Interacts, Interacts & Strides

Round 13 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 3), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 4), Ren (holding breath round 2), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 7), Alak (masked), Abigail (holding breath round 3)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
35/47 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16, O17 & E0. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Ren, you have two full buckets in hand. It's only going to take one to finish the fire in this room.

Deeming that using only one of the buckets would be enough, Ireaneus does just that before moving along towards the next nearest fire.

Ren extinguishes the last of the fire in the storeroom and carries the other bucket out, in search of more flames.

Ren Steps, Interacts & Strides

Round 13 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 3), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 4), Ren (holding breath round 3), fire, Ragna (holding breath round 7), Alak (masked), Abigail (holding breath round 3)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
37/47 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16, O17 & E0. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Ragna, you have to breathe this round.

Sorry. Busy couple days. Interact to open door, interact to dump one of the buckets of water on the fire.

Kicking one of the backstage doors open, Ragna flings a bucket of water onto what she hopes is the last of the inferno. Leaning against the doorway, she inhales and coughs out the scalding smoke, squinting through the haze to locate any more fire.

Ragna kicks open the door to reveal the room beyond burning. A backdraft rolls out of the room, hungry for the non-oxygen-depleted air, but Ragna manages to duck the worst of it as she counters with a bucket full of creek water. She clears a path into the room, but either end is still burning.

Alak rushes in past her and douses the western end of the room.

Abigail runs back down the corridor with a full bucket.

Ragna Interacts: Reflex 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10: Success for 1d6 ⇒ 4/2 = 2 fire damage, Interacts & Seeks: 1d6 ⇒ 1 smoke inhalation damage
Alak Strides, Strides & Interacts: 1d6 ⇒ 4/2 = 2 smoke inhalation damage
Abigail Strides x3

Round 14 init: Shaserai (holding breath round 3), Jonagher (masked, holding breath round 4), Ren (holding breath round 3), fire, Ragna, Alak (masked), Abigail (holding breath round 4)

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
45/47 squares of fire extinguished

Updated map link

Buckets of water are available for anyone who wants to fetch them in O3, K14, L14, M15, N16, O17 & E0. Each full bucket will douse one 10 x 10 area of fire, if thrown with an Interact action from an adjacent square.

Smoke is a hazard. Using an Interact action to dip a handkerchief or strip or cloth in water and tie it over your nose and mouth will halve the damage. (You need to be carrying or adjacent to a bucket of water first.) Exiting the rotunda for a breath of fresh air will prevent any damage that round. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier.

Fighting the urge to take a breath, Shaserai runs into the backstage area and into the still burning room. Seeing the last vestiges of the fire, he hurries to dump the water on it.

Taking advantage of his elven speed, Shaserai hurries up the aisle, dodging the chairs in the way, ducks between Ragna and Alak, and empties his bucket over the last of the fire, which hisses resentfully into submission.

Shaserai Strides, Strides & Interacts

5/5 children off stage
14/14 panicked spectators evacuated
47/47 squares of fire extinguished

Encounter Mode over

With the flames extinguished, the fire fighters break for the outside and fresh air. The bucket brigades break apart to check on the evacuees, get a better look at the damage, and exchange questions and information about the disaster. The town's clerics and healers are moving from person to person among the people who have exited the burning building, gathering those who have been burned or inhaled smoke into groups for healing.

Alak approaches the party outside the town hall, coughing and gasping for air, and sits down sprawling out on the ground. He pulls the makeshift mask off his face.

In the street, Neven Deckard and his crew are congratulating each other on their successful bucket brigade. "Real heroes over there, eh?" Alak asks wryly.

Shaserai rushes out of the building, fighting the dizziness caused by holding his breath. Once outside, he takes big gulps of air, coughing in between due to the damage done to his airways by the smoke.

As the others come out, he gathers them around him, as well as any injured villagers nearby, so he can use his magic to heal them.

"Anyone in need of healing can come near," He announces with a raspy voice "I'll channel the blessings of Torag to soothe our injuries."

He waits, as he sees Alak approaching, and once he is by their side he holds aloft his holy symbol and intones "Oh Father of Creation, may the heat of your divine forge repair our bodies and warm our spirits."

The silver holy symbol glows briefly with light and a pulse of magic washes over the group, healing them.

Hearing his jab at Neven's crew, he turns to Alak. "While it is true they didn't brave the flames themselves, the whole community got together in a time of need and fought the fire as one. That's commendable."

3 action heal healing: 1d8 ⇒ 3

The fire extinguished, Ragna stumbles out of the hall, coughing and tripping over chairs. Once outside she upends her remaining bucket of water over her head to cool her burns from the backdraft, collapsing into the pool that forms at her feet. The urge to cough immediately disappearing as Shaserai’s healing washes over her feels unnatural, and she forces out a few last, satisfying coughs.

”Someone had to bring all that water.” Ragna agrees. Lifting her head from her puddle of water, she looks around and asks ”Is everyone accounted for?” Head falling back to the ground, she starts absently picking at the dead, burned skin on her hands and face to clear it from the newly healed skin.

"Yes, they proved useful at least," Irenaeus remarks drily after finally breathing freely again. "Still, given their eagerness to face bandits and such, I would have expected a little more from them," he adds with a shrug.

Taking another deep breath, the Chelish mage lets out a sigh. "Well, all is well that ends well, I suppose. The people that were inside, both adults and children, appear to be safe and healthy. No casualties or lasting injuries from what I can tell. Yes, Shaserai?"

At Ren's inquiry Shaserai looks around "It does seem that way. It's apparent Breachill has no shortage of healers, so we'll only have to lament material losses."

Then addressing the whole group he continues "If any of you is in need of further healing, don't hesitate to ask. I can help by both magic and mundane means."

Greta Gardania approaches the party through the hubbub. "Thank you so much for saving the children and fighting the fire! You've already demonstrated your heroism before even embarking on your task. I can't, by law, offer you official recognition as Heroes yet, but it would be remiss of the town not to reward you for what you have already done. I've asked Councilor Posandi to bring you something from the town stores. While we're waiting for him to return, I must ask you: Do you have any idea how the fire may have started? Did anyone see anything?"

Ragna props herself up on her elbows, looking towards the gates of the hall. "If the smoke's cleared out we can go in and see what we can see."

"I led the last brigade in from the river side of the building," Alak volunteers. If the back door is still open, the crossdraft ought to clear the smoke, given time."

Indeed, peering in the doors reveals that the murk is slowly dissipating; before long, it seems safe to venture back inside without risking further burning in the chest and throat.

Greta nods. "Be careful in there. If you see anything suspicious near where the fire started, let me know."