CAMPAIGN: The Unburning (D&D5e)

Normin repositions himself at the top of the right-hand stairs to better fill buckets.

When he casts Light, the room immediately goes from black-and-smoky to white and smoky. The thickness of the smoke near the ceiling and in the far back becomes apparent.

One more body is clearly visible on the left, and and two bodies are now visible on the right-- in spite of the fact that only two had been there before, and one was removed.

3 outside, 3 inside... 2 bodies that had previously been visible are now unaccounted for.



Rasvim splashes a bucket on the fire near the top of the stairs, finishing what Petrol had started, and extinguishing it. no more smoke emanates from that corner, but a lot of thick white steam does, which is easier to breath, but even harder to see through.

Seeing that corner extinguished, Ebald has to decide if he will continue to the biggest flame in the back right corner of the upper floor, or go back down and tackle the new flame downstairs.

Caldon circles around the outside of the tent, looking for a way to help. He can see that the big fire in the back of the top floor has burned all the way through the canvas, and now smoke is pouring out of a charred ring up there.

With all buckets in play, already Evangeline is not able to find anything helpful to do.

Petrol tries to cut another hole in the canvas close to where Normin is, to try to vent some more of the smoke.

Petrol cuts another hole in the canvas. Now it is easy to breath near the top of the right stairs where Normin is stationed with the magic bucket.

Ebald decides to help fight the biggest flame on the upper floor, as he is already on the upper floor.

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Petrol joins Ebald in dealing with the fire on the second floor

Normin casts a few magic missiles onto the above canvas, where the smoke sees fit to find comfortable, so that it may drift out of the tent from there.

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Cece stops running long enough to get out her arcane focus and hold it up to her left eye. She then points towards the wires and draws a line with her finger. The image of a distinctive pink pole, about five feet in length, appears in the air and hangs there, pointing towards the wires. "These wires.. what for? Do you see them?" she asks the smarter members of the team.

Having pointed them out, she returns to following Petrol and his growing entourage of fire-fighters. If she has a bucket she'll use that, and if not she'll get her water skin out, take a drink, and then pour the rest onto the fire.

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Evangeline, irritated that there's no room for her to assist directly, takes another method of approach.

"Keep up the good work, everyone!" She calls, "You're doing wonderful!"

She takes out her violin and plays a brisk, airy jaunt, hoping to light a fire in everyone's heart and inspire her allies to work harder in her absence.

Get a hold of yourself Sharn!
Sharn pecks at her wing arm in order to gain a good amount of focus. They're fake people because they wouldn't risk real people for a test. A test you're failing right now as a bird unable to carry a bucket or lift a meat person. Perhaps Mage hand will still work.

If the magic bucket is unmanned, Sharn will attempt to Mage hand it, upside down into the air and take it into the tent. Otherwise, she'll Mage hand a normal bucket that's hopefully full of water.

Kailym coughs, perhaps this was not such a good idea after all. He grabs his wet cape and clips it back on before heading back down to catch his breath. Outside, he'll take a breather, regaining his strength before diving back in to play the role of dashing and daring hero once more.

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Normin, holding the magic bucket, will have a stream pouring from above for Sharn to collect in a normal bucket.

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<TheGiz> oh hai doggy, oh no that's the straw that broke tjhe came baclsb

Petrol, Ebald, Rasvim, and Cece all rush the flame in the far back with buckets and waterskin. They jump over the two wax bodies as they do this. This deluge almost completely quenches the roaring fire

Caldon (and Ursula who followed him) see a splash of water come out the charred hole followed by white steam

Kailyn retreats downstairs for fresh air.

Normin punches a few more small smoke vents in the tent with a magic missile. As he does this, he feels Shayna mage hand tugging on the bucket, but he keeps ahold of it. He pours it down for her to catch in a bucket, but she can't find one (all are upstairs) so the water splashes on her, and Kailyn too as he passes.

Evangeline and Arcadia stay back just a bit, and Evangeline begins to play her violin again.

At this, the blue-pink Kobold child finally stops struggling, and Bobo is able to relax his grip on her.

Only one more bucket should be enough to off the upstairs fire, but as the bucket bearers (and waterskin bearer) turn back, the two wax dummies they had jumped over before are gone

The buckets were all being used. The fake people were all being saved. Sharn wondered if this test was an individual thing or were they being tested as a team. There was no plan here. As a proud blood hawk, Sharn felt a need to form a better flock. They would need to plan better if they were going to do this in a real fire, with real children. Sharn knew she wouldn't be the one to do it.
For now, Sharn decides to join the onlookers and stay out of it all. She's sure she's just been in the way anyways.
Depressed, Sharn lets out no bird cry.

Petrol's interest was caught earlier when Cece mentioned seeing wires in the middle of the room. "Hmm.. maybe they're tripwires? They could be there to start up fires if we run around carelessly. Or they could be some sort of control mechanism for the puppets, and that's why they seem to keep disappearing on their own."

All the same, he was curious about what the wires were for. Since the fires seemed to have died down to less-than-urgent levels, Petrol takes a moment to check out the wires, and see if they were connected to anything.

"I 'ope een a real fire no one weel deesappear so easily.." Cece wonders, worry starting to creep into her voice. This place is kind of spooky, even if they are just puppets. The incessant gonging and even the beautiful violin is not making it any less spooky. She'll refill her waterskin with the bucket guys and keep going after the fires but she's seriously not sure what's going on. "Ees there more to eet than thees?"