A Strange New Desert

As you make your way towards Snowden, Wulfram draws your attention to what appears to be some kind of campfire in the distance. It is quite a way off the main road. The people around it would probably pose little threat to you if you just passed through.

What do you do?

@Bigdog, you know that elementals come from the elemental planes. Fire elementals cannot exist outside of the fire elemental plane except for in certain, rare locations where travel between the planes is possible. Also, some magic users can summon them for limited periods of time.

As for magical reagents. The ash left from a fire elemental corpse is a very valuable magical component and can be used as a base to brew potions of fire resistance.

So a couple of options. You could attempt to sneak by in which case I'll call for a relatively easy stealth check or you could attempt to ambush the creature which will require a more difficult stealth check.

Either way please vote:
1. Sneak through to Snowden.
2. Ambush the fire elemental.

I'll take the path with the most votes in 24 hours.