Inside Building Three...
Luke is confused. He asks if he can get an explanation.
~Wait, I'm confused. Can you explain?~
The voice notes his confusion and need for explanation.
You are indeed confused. Let me explain.
It clears a nonexistent throat and begins to explain to the confused Luke.
You are a Pink Supplicant, the second most common form of creature that forms after touching the Artifact of Tendency.
~What's the most common form?~
That would be 'completely exploded and dead'. Now, as a Pink Supplicant, you are on the first rung of what we call True Understanding. Through True Understanding, you become more than what you are, Supplicant. You gain knowledge of the Pink and how it applies to you. You may seem like a humble creature now, but with True Understanding, you will develop. You will also become increasingly more, shall we say, otherworldly. But the Pink provides and delivers. You can use the Pink to your advantage in many situations, though its help may be... difficult to understand in your currently unaligned state. To make a long and Pink story short and understandable to minds without True Understanding, you are the lowest of the low. But you can improve under my supervision.
At Bernie's inn...
Tom realizes that this inn is really cheesing him off all of a sudden! And things that cheese him off can only have one fate and one alone - fiery burning!
[Pyromaniac destruction roll: 6]
He starts to roll around and set fires like mad, making sure to get every corner and not skip a bit! He gets a roaring fire going soon enough!
[Mark movement roll: 6+1]
In but a few seconds of the fire's beginning, Mark just so happens to return from his virgin-gathering excursion. Upon noticing the inn burning down rapidly, he, rather than try to save anyone just yet, opts to look for a culprit!
[Search roll: 2]
He can't see any inn-burners around, though. Nobody particularly suspicious, either. Drat!
[Yorinnsud will roll: 4]
Meanwhile, inside the inn Yorinnsud is spurred on by the sudden appearance of deadly, all-consuming flames inside the inn! The rather well-founded fear of burning horribly to long-overdue second death does wonders for her stiff limbs, and she is soon up and about again! Okay, so the inn is on fire and Mark isn't visible.
[Bernie perception roll: ?]
The necromancer seems to have gotten wise to the place being on fire pretty soon, since he busts out the door immediately, carrying several vials of his precious virgin blood.
"Gods damn it all! I liked this place!"
He runs past Yorinnsud and tries to dive through the fire into safety!
[Bernie fire avoidance roll: 1]
He has obviously forgotten where the entrance was, as he leaps into the flaming wall several feet to the left of it, smacking into the paneling and falling backwards, most of his vials smashed and his robe on fire!
[Bernie fire extinguishing roll: 6]
Fortunately, he is prepared for exactly such an occurrence, as he rips off his flaming robe, revealing a rather flabby physique beneath, and tosses it to Yorinnsud!
"Here, take care of this!"
[Yorinnsud dodge roll: 6]
She catches it with two skeletal arms and hurls it away into the flames, unwilling to touch anything of Bernie's for longer than it takes for a fist to properly meet a face. The mostly-naked Bernie now goes for another heroic dive!
[Bernie fire avoidance roll: 3]
He does manage to dive through the proper exit this time, though his pants catch on fire!
[Bernie fire extinguishing roll: 5]
He rolls until they are extinguished, then stands up and composes himself once more.
[Yorinnsud escape roll: 2]
Yorinnsud is about to jump out after him, but the fire roars with new strength, making escape through the proper entrance a bit more difficult and potentially lethal than she would like.
In the streets of Emlocke...
Darren, upon realizing that making out with a wall in public is probably a faux pas of some kind somewhere, makes some excuses and gives the surrounding area a careful look.
[Perception roll: ?]
Well, there are obviously several place on fire some distance from here. Including the inn, it looks like. Hm. And there are no hot ghost ladies around, either. That about wraps it up for his findings, he guesses.
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