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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1698026" data-attributes="member: 18837">[OOC The whore did look in pain, but also resolved to her fate, not truly resisting.]The client says to Accalon gruffly, “I don’t know what the hell ‘zeal’ is, but everything goin’ on in here was needed by both of us.”  When he hears about the fire, he curses a bit, jumps off the bed and then throws the girl out of it to land hard on the floor.  “Damn it, I better be getting my money back.”  He grabs the edge of the bed, and with Accalon’s help, moves it back away from the wall.  Accalon moves the painting, then feels the wall.  Although very warm, with nothing combustible near it, it should be safe for the time being.  Both the man and whore quickly get dressed, realizing it’s best not to stay in here.Once back out in the hall, Accalon sees the girls have brought wet blankets and buckets of water, and Modrin is grabbing one of the blankets preparing to enter the room again and try to smother what he can.  Meanwhile, Loni comes back downstairs, looks around worriedly, but then sees Accalon, and the worry evaporates from her face.  She reaches her hand out, like she wants to come to him, but doesn’t, instead just saying “Accalon, be safe.”  She glances at Modrin and adds, “For Valasia’s sake, if not your own”.Accalon grabs a blanket as well, and he and Modrin brave the room together.  The fire hasn’t spread much, but there’s still quite a bit of smoke.  Both men begin choking almost immediately upon entering, but Accalon recovers quickly and begins trying to smother the wall, also using the blanket to protect himself from the fire.  As he does so, he almost steps on a jagged piece of glass, too round to have come from the window, but he avoids it.  Modrin apparently breathes in too much smoke, and can’t catch his breath, doubling over a bit in pain.  The flames on the wall lessen some, but one blanket isn’t big enough to completely smother the fire.[Made 3 Fortitude checks for 3 rounds; Modrin failed all of them, taking some damage, Accalon just the first.  Rolled Reflex save 15+4=19 to avoid glass]For a moment, the smoke begins getting to Accalon, and he bends over to try and suck in what fresh air there is at floor level.  Modrin finally recovers enough to come over and also begin smothering the wall, and when Accalon sees this, he rises and does the same.  Working together, they are able to stamp out whole sections of flames.  [More Fortitude saves, results should be obvious.]Finally, after many minutes of hard work and extreme difficulty in breathing, they get enough of the fire extinguished that they feel they can exit the room for a bit and breathe fresh air before they pass out, without fear of what’s left of the fire spreading much.At the edge of Taeirn, coincidentally after Sunedilar mentions guards, many of the festival workers start yelling for them, loud enough for the two adventurers to barely make out what their yelling for.  The drunkards seem to find this amusing, and join in their yelling, while still generally roughing up the workers.And at Boone’s, the proprietor says “I didn’t say killing 12 people would be wrong.  Just doing it in the middle of town is kind of… um, well, I was going to say stupid, but that might upset you, so I’ll say ‘reckless’.  You were reckless.”  He smiles at Aligor, a little impressed that he was responsible for an event they actually gave a name to.  “Alright, you can stay here, but I think I’ll be glad when you’re out of town.”  Aligor checks the box Boone brought, and everything he asked for seems to be there.  Boone sets up a cot for Aligor in the back, and when night falls, he wishes Aligor luck and tells him he’ll be paying for anything he finds broke in here in the morning, then leaves for the night.  Bane is generally restless, not particularly liking this cramped little shop, but the night transpires uneventfully.[Note: Lydia’s and/or Sunedilar’s next post can be arriving at Boone’s in the early morning, visibly not open for business at that time, unless they aren’t heading straight there.  Oh, and if the party leaves town, when they get back, someone please remind me OCC what Aligor did with that vial.  I’m sure there will be repercussions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ]</blockquote>

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