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 The party reconvened, and Rioux explained what had happened earlier: they had received a vision of the town ensared in black tendrils, stretching from ground to cloud, and they knew from similar such visions that this foreshadowed great calamity. The party attempted to piece together the meaning, believing that it possibly indicated an Akselian attack, but still concluded that the tunnels in Olson's Ruin was the town's greatest chance at survival. Later in the evening, a tearful Moira reappeared to Cairo, to discuss the Light and whether or not every sacrifice made in service of a goal was truly worth it: she was consumed by thoughts of turning back time using the Poteus Ark to before Taron had died.
+While they talked, and Keith dreamed of the Fleeing Dark, the fires from Akselmarch started at the break of dawn. A cloud of red-hot shot descended through the air, with seven striking Taronsawk: one hit the tavern, and Moira disappeared in the carnage; others tore through the ground and farmsteads. Keith and Cairo attempted to tend to the wounded while Rioux went to find Moira at her house unsuccessfully. Otto took a second to survey the situation while Armick Helcullen gave the order for the town to arm themselves, and reasoned that the shots came from over the Wall, and that no attack was imminent. Armick readied to fight in case an attack would hit immediately, but hearing from Otto that there was indeed a window, he instead gave the order to retreat. He had seen someone struck directly by a shot from Akselmarch's Gonnes, and had no faith that Akselmarch would wait for them to dig their escape tunnel.
+Keith and Cairo failed to contain this order, so Karver took it upon himself to physically stop Armick Helcullen, thinking that their pact had been broken: he told his supporters to get the grain stored in Maine-Roche so that the Helcullens could not unilaterally order a retreat. Armick waited for Karver to lead his supporters away, before killing the man who had apprehended him, and calmly gave the order to the remaining villagers to start fires in the houses of those seeking to break into his manor: they who wanted to stay would not allow their homesteads to burn while they attempted to breach the manor. Cairo attempted but failed to scare them off from this purpose with a //Wall of Fire// while still convincing some of those at Maine-Roche that fires had indeed started. Keith threatened Helcullen to stop his course, but neither man would back down, and Armick attacked. Cairo used a harming spell on Armick to try and force him to back down, but the spell ran wild, and he died in utter disbelief at the creatures that had let themselves loose on his town. Moira watched all of this happen, and resolutely decided to run for the Poteus Ark and undo all the errors that had transpired. She delivered a //Divine Smite// to Cairo, and warned the party not to try to stop her plans, before disappearing behind an Angel Door that hung in the air.