Adam wrote:Alfonse raises a hand in a signal to those behind.
"No thanks, mates," he says, "Job's getting a bit too hot for me."
GERTIE steps near the mage who holds the gnome's arquebus and slow match.
She sticks one of her fire-arrows against the smoldering match tip. It lights.
A pirate on the cog says,
" Hey, that's my job!" He shakes a smoking arrow of his own at GERTIE.
GERTIE places a second arrow between her teeth, biting it to hold it steady, and lights that with the first.
The cog moves off slowly, with men pushing against the dock using long poles. The sails lift.
GERTIE shoots at the oily rope draped over the ship, firing both arrows in rapid succession. One hits. The rope catches fire.
The pirate archer shoots over GERTIE and Alfonse, striking a sack left behind on the wharf, which Gem is sniffing. The dog barks, scrambling away as the sack erupts in flame. A black trail connecting that sack to other sacks strewn along the wharves behind the party catches light...