Black Zenith [Adventure RPG / Chapter Four: Fires of Heaven]

Savannah clutches at her head. God damn, that hurt. She remembers the explosion and slamming into a wall again and possibly passing out. She grunts and touches a bump on her head, wincing. Yeah, that hurts.

"Where... the hell am I?" She glances around to try and get her bearings. Where are the others?

You're currently lying against a mostly-undamaged wall at the edge of the blast radius. You appear to have been blown the farthest away from the center, though perhaps that owes to how you were also the farthest away to begin with. Mayor is closest to you, slowly getting back on his feet after having been slammed against a rock foundation. The others are spaced out not far beyond.

Watson uses his baseless assumptions Wits to deduce what the deuce happened. Because apparently someone didn't follow the rules concerning lawful use of superweapons.

Or use of superweapons at all for that matter! Who unleashed this devastating force on hapless visitors to this... you can't quite call it a city anymore, can you? There are no other people here besides this renegade police force of asylum attendees. A city can't qualify without citizens.

Well considering the bright light and the rather ridiculously powerful explosion, you would hazard a 'guess' that the little vial is a powerful source or container of vast energies which, when released, create an explosive, fire-based effect aswell as a nova of pure force - what knocked you back - with tremendous destructive power. Obviously it is all magical... And yet that should have been impossible as magical items are suppressed while within your cage, so you're not quite certain what precisely that even was. The odd light effects of the vial seems to be notable too as its luminance was near-blinding even before it was opened, yet the captain was able to keep it easily hidden merely by hiding it beneath his breastplate.

You also noticed that the fire acted rather oddly before being fully released - it formed into tendrils of fire that seemed to act independently... Which mostly involved burning the captain near to a crisp in the moment before the explosion.

Also, it hurt. Its probably safe to say that if you had stood any closer or if your cage had not dissipated with the captains death, you too would have been killed. Actually its rather neat that your cage disappeared in such a timely manner.

Kind if unrelated, you've also noticed that the second sun seems to have grown slightly in size from what you remember. Thats certainly odd, as it remained unchanged throughout the past thirty years or so.

Regardless the next logical step would be to make sure your allies are alright, then move on to the center of the city where the king is presumably waiting for you, if the guards' words are to be trusted. If that is the case you are probably in a lot of trouble and fleeing would be the logical option... For anyone who doesnt have a band of adventurers on their side. Seriously how have you survived this long. Your wits cannot find any logic to this.

Lastly, your hat seems to have sadly been burned to a crisp while you were blinded.