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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pneumatik" data-source="post: 4778874" data-attributes="member: 21087">“Oh, good,” Torrent says, “I was afraid you'd want to get out now. Stout companions, all of you! Now, if something happens to me, the depository is an eighty foot tall building. It's smack in the middle of the next district to the east. It's in a walled compound and is always guarded – you can't miss it. Rivereye will be in it. He looks like what you'd expect an ugly gnome to look like. He's pretty hard to miss, too. Now, c'mon, let's get moving.”Threat of war kept the populace of Gate Pass inside, but the war itself is bringing them out. People mill about everywhere, trying to find somewhere safe and quiet. There's a general flow of civilians to the east away from the attack, but it's balanced out by the Gate Pass soldiers who are heading west, towards it. Between the mob in the streets and the burning buildings, the remaining snow in the city has turned to slush and water. In some places the water has re-frozen, making the street dangerously slippery. The flames roar and the mob shouts. You smell burning softwoods and smoke and frightened people.Before you reach the gate into the next section of town, you hear a piercing scream. “HELP ME!” A young mother leans out of the fourth-story window of a nearby burning building. “SAVE MY BABY!!!!” She's holding a tiny baby bundled in blankets. Her building and all those around it are four stories tall. Most of them are burning, though one next-door building is not burning. There's a sky bridge from that building to the one the woman is in.</blockquote>

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