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2024-10-29 19:42:56The fighting pretty much ended when the lights failed. The few people left in the corridors and tunnels wandered aimlessly through the smoky spaces. All who remained in the great room were mostly corpses and several zealots who were unwilling to believe their leader was dead or couldn’t bear to leave his body to be consumed. They still argued about what they should do with the body and ignored the smoke slowly filling the dark space. Now in the darkness, the smell of blood and gore mixed with smoke as the wild-eyed people fought with each other about what they should do. One enterprising fool brought an improvised torch into the space, now spreading a gloomy light over the shredded remains of shifters scattered randomly over the floor of the great hall.
As others found flashlights and lamps by luck or chance. They found the fire came from the garbage room. Someone set the garbage stored in there al
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