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The stage curtains burn like a grease fire. In seconds, the wooden ceiling beams are ablaze. People scream in panic and run for the side door that serves as the only entrance. Elton has planned ahead: he's standing at the barn's much larger southern door. The moment the fire starts, he shifts into his glabro form and bangs it open, giving people a much larger exit through which to flee. But the door opens to reveal Heinrik already there. Apparently the Cultist also thought to open the door—the fallen tribe is fine with chaos, but a hundred casualties is a lot even for them.

Elton runs outside, past a startled Heinrik, and shouts for everyone to follow him. He gestures for the Cultist to help get the crowd's attention; together they can empty Hog Throne in less than a minute. Heinrik studies him for a second, then studies the crowd, then shifts into his horrific, rune-scarred crinos form and jumps on the theurge claws first. You hear Elton shout in pain and surprise, then the two of them roll away into the shadows.

People are flowing out of the south door, but there are at least twenty more people jammed up against the main entrance, which is just a normal-sized door on the west wall of the barn. Terrified as flames spread across the ceiling, they're trying to get out the way they came in, and it's not working.

What's the fastest way to get everyone out of here?

Where is Nin? I need to get her out before she gets hurt or captured.

I'm going to pound Heinrik into schnitzel. Where did he and Elton go?

Where are the cops? I can't let them see or learn too much about the Garou.

Where are the Cultists? I'm not getting torn apart by those maniacs.

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