Chapter One: Greenest in Flames!

The townsfolk are probably 40 feet away from you, but are so focused on the keep that they haven't noticed you. The keep is just a couple minutes walk now, over mostly open ground.

You creep up as close to the keep as possible without entering the open ground, and the townsfolk spot you. They shy back nervously and grip weapons tighter until you wave them on. An older man in the group, with a pitchfork, nods his grim thanks and urges his fellows on.

The keep appears to be probably 25-ish feet tall (likely two stories vertically on the inside). There is a gate at the end of a path leading between these buildings. You are not able to see any sort of enemy in the area around the gate.

Two of the children are small enough to carry, probably 5 and 7 years old. The oldest boy is around 12 and merely nods his assent and gets ready to assist his father.

Erich and the child head across first. Then, one after another, you all make the keep, slipping in through the barely-open gates. As Bughu enters last, he can see groups of the looters and kobolds making their way toward the keep. As Bughu enters the gates are shut and barred behind him.

Inside of the keep, you can see a number of scared and wounded townsfolk inside. There are a number of the less-injured rushing about, tending to wounds as best they can, while others grab rocks and anything else they could throw and make their way up to man the wall.

A couple of men stop running about at Oridun's call. Seeing Linan and her husband's condition, they rush over to take them for aid, "I don't recognize any of you newcomers, but I'm very glad you found them when you did, doesn't look like they were faring well on their own. Thank you strangers," one man says, then calls for a priest to come assist.

A passerby turns to Oridun as he walks by, "You'll want to see the mayor, Tarbaw Nighthill. He's usually up on the wall, looking out over the town."

You notice after a few minutes that most people are avoiding the area around Perses as much as possible, apparently scared of his obvious demonic heritage.

As Bughu climbs up to the wall, he sees an elderly man standing there, staring out over the town. The right side of his head is bandages and slightly bloody, his right arm hangs in a sling, and his light blue tunic is stained with blood. He seems intent on looking over the town, a grim look on his face.