(ooc: somehow I missed seeing this update. guess everyone else did too. d'oh)
Irathias tells Aramil "Keep watch and shoot anything that tries to shoot us, right? We'll get the fire going, and keep it going as long as we can, 'till its time to douse it and try busting in."
Then he starts grabbing pieces of wood and chucking them into the space in front of the portcullis, gesturing for Dowkan and Thogrim to help him build the woodpile for the fire. Once it's built, he gets to work on setting another branch on fire with his tools, then throws it onto the pile to start the smoke-out-the-stinking-orcs plan.