By the time the party, lead by Inar and the befuddled Thon, make it back to the center of town and the temple, the ranger's assurances seem well founded. Several rangers guard a large pile of valuables apparently recovered from within the temple, with a bruised-but-otherwise-healthy pair joining them to add to the pile.
Over near the Tears, the barkeep you remember and a small handful of white-robed (but now maskless) individuals are being lead off in chains. One of the bruised rangers rushes over at the sight of Inar and gives him a salute.
"That's the last room cleared out, sir. Nasty bit of business with a golem down there by the coffers, but we took care of it. Hans even disabled the electric trap on the big mask, and we pried out the gemstones there."
Inar nods. "If that's all the rooms clear, then you know what to do. The clerics are ready with water to contain, yes?"
The man nods.
"Then light 'er up!"
It's not long before the once-impressive structure of the temple of Owbej makes an even more impressive, gigantic blaze in the center of Martna. The precaution of the clerics is a good one, as embers from the massive structure more than once drift on the night wind. But as they're prepared for it, there's little to no damage. And, as the blaze spreads upward, so does news of the change spread outward, such that the height of the burning sees the middle of Martna filled more than at the height of the day. Citizens from all walks of life gather in what becomes its own impromptu Festival of The Burning Temple. A festival whose attention quickly falls to the party, whose hands are shaken and backs clapped enough to be as sore from the congratulations as they are from their evenings' battles.
[sblock=ooc]Unless there's something pressing you guys want to resolve the night of the fire, I'll probably transition y'all to morning and your 'morning after' with the next post.
GE, on the spreadsheet, I thought that didn't work except as an xlsx file? I can only open those at work (and even then I have to downcovert), since I use google docs and openoffice for home. I don't really have call to use spreadsheets enough to justify buying office for myself when there's been generally-workable freeware available that did what I needed. I'll have to give it a looking over at home, though, and see if I can get it to play well with others...[/sblock]