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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 1859881" data-attributes="member: 19130">{Darn, let a whole day and then some go by.  Sorry, I've been feeling out of it all day.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  I don't think I missed anything, but I may have.  If so, just drop me a post in OOC.  Bleh.}{Wow, Isida, when Narine blows a check or save, she doesn't fool around!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> }Illira 21Kestral 13Guards 11(Adinal 9)Cagthail 7Feiran 7Terak (Eron) 6Mathilde 6(Captain 4)Narine 3Flaming Warehouse 1After the guards retrieve their gear (apparently they are as wary of betrayal as you are), they set to, moving quickly to excavate their captain before he dies or the flames consume the warehouse.One of eerily-similar guards replies to your questions, periodically interrupting her speech with grunts of exertion as a particularly large beam or other weight demands to be moved.  "Political appointment.  Some friends high up in some organization that matters.  Eergh.  And no, that twit just collected whoever was hanging around the...  ooph...  guard station at the moment.  You guys are lucky this isn't a proper detachment."{Adinal - [SPOILER]You're pretty sure the guards are telling the truth.  A few rounds are all that it would have taken for the flames to break up the fight anyway, and they are clearly not willing to die for their "captain."[/SPOILER]}Feiran approaches one of the guards, who is standing and directing his fellows in a terse voice.  "He was standing there when the platform fell...  We don't know, but he was gloating the whole...  Quick, help Kelvres with that bit, Morillis!  Captains have some discretion with how they work in their precinct" - something he clearly is not enthused with - "he sent himself..."  A low moan comes from the heaps of rubbish around you, and the guard focuses his attention on that, urging the others on and directing their work.  He is coughing almost as much as he is talking now, though.The smoke in the place continues to thicken, and you can barely see more than a half-dozen feet ahead of you.  Covering her mouth against the fumes, Illira makes her way through the warehouse (to I7), greatly hampered by the low visibility, obstructed terrain, and alchemical sludge.Narine, meanwhile, is almost overcome with nausea.  Digging a crystal out of her pocket, she activates it and moves herself and Dros across the warehouse to the clear(er) air on the other side.  She has a good view of the proceedings from this angle, although the smoke will make diirecting any spells a tricky business.{Any way you can fake a Knowledge(architecture and engineering) check, to see where best to aim your spells to control the fire or knock obstructions out of the way?  You can try something anyway, of course, as an intelligent person and experienced caster.  The only difference is that I'll highlight some potential spots if you can fake it somehow or roll a really good Int check.)</blockquote>

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