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[just_cant_lose]

 
Almost a week ago, a package was left at the bar for Feuilly. Today, he picks it up. 

Someone watching from a very safe distance - or who has placed certain technology in the package: we'll never know - might learn that this inauspicious delivery prompts a conversation out in the stables. It goes along the lines of 'ugh, another message from the king? Leave it, we'll deal with it later.' Because it is, after all, a beautiful day and Feuilly and Hotspur had plans to ride out and enjoy it. Which they do, leaving the parcel on the floor.


Some ten minutes later, there is a very loud explosion. Loud enough to be heard in the bar, and across the grounds. It's followed by the sounds of distressed animals, and the smell of smoke.

Hey, Milliways? Your stables are on fire.


[OOC: please see Back Room post here for brief recap details. EP open for however long anyone wants to play. <3]

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Animal rescue starts here!

[just_cant_lose]

There are many distressed horses - and dear Lord, is that a two-headed cow?

Animals don't like smoke and fire, news at eleven.

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"^Mmm_mmm^ooo_ooo^oooooo."

Yes. It is indeed a two-headed cow. One who is trying to kick her way out of the stall.

[never_shall_yield]

'Hold your noise, I will get to you!'

Javert is currently trying to wrestle an overwrought colt out of its own stall, and not choke as he does it. Cheval picks this moment to shoot forward and spin in the gangway, kicking out to slam his rear hooves into the stall door where the weird mooing is coming from.

Relax, mutant beast.

[never_shall_yield]

Javert is working at the church when he hears the noise. He almost ignores it - it is certainly no business of his - but then it occurs to him that it is rather like a canon boom. And the smell of smoke is clear a few minutes later.

He is rather more animated when he emerges from the forest and sees what's going on. Not only does he have two horses in there, they are locked in their stalls to prevent them being stolen.

This is A Bit Not Good, and he would appreciate you getting out of his damn way as he disappears into the smoke.

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[athelstanthescribe]

Fiachra doesn't like smoke and fire either.

...Fiachra is not being particularly helpful with all the running about and barking, but Athelstan is trying to be. Getting the animals out seems more of a priority than saving the building, so that's where he goes.

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[ostro_goth]

Teja has been working in the forge when he hears the explosion, and immediately comes racing towards the stables.

Without a second thought, he runs into the billowing smoke.

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[like_quicksilver]

Horses and..cows..aren't the only animals in the barn.

Gyda has a cloth mask over her face and a large stick in hand as she herds the goats outside. The billy goat she's managed to get on a rope lead, using him as well to lead the other goats out safely.

Even with the mask though, she's having a hard time seeing. Panic at the animal's safety not helping of course.

Fires don't like water.

[just_cant_lose]

The stables have buckets of water and sand dotted around, and there's even an extinguisher somewhere in the tack room. They're difficult to see though, because there's a lot of thick black smoke, and it's not advisable to breathe it in for long.

Only two stalls are alight, but you probably don't want it to spread.

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[manofbusiness]

Right then. Buckets of water and sand are good things, and wet sand is maybe even better. Childermass combines two of the buckets into one and sets about trying to find the root - roots, at this point, and more than two - of the fires to smother them.

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[merryeccentricities]

Little bit hard to miss an explosion and a fire.

Joly hopes no one will need a doctor today, but here he is, with a small clearly labeled crate of first aid supplies, just in case.

And in hopes of making sure no one needs a doctor, part of those supplies are smoke masks, supplied by Bar. He sets them out to one side and puts one on himself before picking up a couple more and heading towards the smoke.


((OOC- have your pup grab a mask if they'd want one, or loot the supply chest if they're the sort to know first aid themselves! Mun and pup will be around if anyone needs a doctor.))

[just_cant_lose]

Jim was in the bar when the explosion sounded. He only gave the appropriate action, of course - looking up in surprise, and then around to see if anyone else heard it. It's only when there are murmurs from near the back door, and smoke can be seen drifting past, that he does what others are doing and get up to see what's happened.

And now he is watching from a distance, giving the impression of wanting to go and help but also aware that he might get in everyone's way. There seems to be a number of people around, and it looks like they've got it in hand.


Heh.

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[diehard_daniel]

Daniel heard the explosion from the non working Stargate on the grounds.

He's currently doing his best with a found fire extinguisher and a bandanna.

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[penderwydd]

Tegid ran to the stables and grabbed a bucket and ran to the closest water source to fill it. He also cut a large square of cloth from his tunic to tie around his mouth and nose.

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[bigarmy_strangepants]

Ragnar comes running up, sees Athelstan try to wrestle some sort of monster, and decides not to interfere.

Okay. Water.

There is some water, but there needs to be a bucket chain to bring more. There doesn't seem to be one.

"BUCKET CHAIN!!" he shouts.

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[tu_vas_triompher]

So about ten minutes into their ride, there's a loud explosion and a bunch of smoke coming from the direction of the building they were just at. That's a thing that's hard to miss!

The old warhorse Barbary is stoic about such things as explosions and fires, but Złota is not stoic about anything at all. So Harry Percy is mostly hanging back with them, while Feuilly runs up to join the fire-fighting.

((Unfortunately, Hotspur-mun has a heavy workload this weekend and I'm looking at an early bedtime for myself tonight--but these two guys are definitely here.))

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[cutting_edgex23]

The animals are well in hand, there are doctors present, and the water and bucket brigades seem well-handled.

Given that, X grabs a horse blanket, douses it in water, and goes to try her hand at smothering some of the flames from close at hand.

Maybe that will let her grab the hidden fire extinguisher, as well. All things are possible! Well. Some things.

[gredya]

Gredya and her children--now big teenagers--have come to keep an eye on things. Which they can do quite comfortably from the edge of the forest, standing around in a close group. Now and then one of them says something, and another laughs.

Fire away! No, really.

[yinyangwizard]

Seimei is up in the Milliways library when he becomes aware of a feeling - a diviner's intuition kind of feeling - that something is very, very wrong. He's deep in the stacks and the library seems to have shifted again, as it is wont to do: it takes him a while to find his way out.

When he gets downstairs, he follows the intensifying feeling of wrong-ness out the back door and onto the grounds. He sees, from a distance, the smoke rising up from the stables, and what appears to be a commotion in that general area. Assessing the situation quickly, he runs not towards the stables, but to a halfway point between them and the lake.

Once he reaches his destination, Seimei starts chanting and doing something that looks a bit like dancing, or perhaps like martial arts forms. If you are a certain kind of person from a certain kind of world, it looks like elemental Bending, but in a rather unconventional style. A large silver-and-blue koi fish takes an arcing leap from his shadow into the lake.

The splash from the koi fish becomes a huge column of water, which bends in midair and shoots over Seimei's head towards the stables. As it gets closer, it splits off into branches. Some of the branches hit flames that have caught on the exterior of the stables: others wend their way inside through windows and doors, snaking around walls, support beams, objects, and people. The branches of water unerringly seek out and throw themselves upon flames, as if they were being sprayed out of a very precise hose - but, of course, without the actual hose.

Once the fires are put out, Seimei ends his dance and recalls his koi fish back into his shadow. He runs Into the stables, looking for any incapacitated people or animals who might need assistance - as well as any still-glowing embers that may need stamping out.

Triage

[guppy_sandhu]

If anyone did get themselves hurt in the fire, Guppy is on hand near the outside of the stables, with a sort of pop-up triage, to help.

[never_shall_yield]

Javert does not know what triage is, but he could do with some advice on how to manage a full breath without choking if you have it, Guppy. He spent far too long inside before someone turned up with face masks.

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[not_his_pa]

William's looking for someplace to sit and coughing, he's walking slowly and staring at what's left of the stables.

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[manofbusiness]

Childermass walks out, holding his hands carefully away from touching anything because they're both a little scorched and have grains of wet sand clinging to them.

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[athelstanthescribe]

Because delayed effects of smoke inhalation are a thing, Athelstan finds himself coughing rather a lot as he heads back towards the bar.

After

[not_his_pa]

At a rock not far from the stables, William is staring at what's left and all the people running about.

The animals will have to be rounded up, hopefully none of the tack was destroyed and he'll be bruised and coughing for a while. Someone set the stables on fire and he wasn't able to stop them.

[road_to_calvary]

'William.'

Valjean walks over to him, holding a cup of cold water which he offers quietly.

'Are you all right?'