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• Game Date: 8 August 2025
• Campaign Date: 25 July 1145
• All players present

After foiling the heist at The Gilded Dragon Tavern, the party takes a short rest and then heads off to Hofsteder Ranch, where the thieves intended to rendezvous.

Not knowing if the people at the ranch are allied with the thieves, they approach cautiously. The first person they meet is Frances, a young woman tending to the horses. She seems friendly and escorts the group into the main house to meet the couple who run the place, Grace & Luke.

After a brief discussion about the heist, Grace explains that one of their ranch hands, Amirah, has been acting strangely for the past week. She summons the rest of her ranch hands to the house and escorts the party out back to Amirah's cabin.

Once there, Leslie opens the door, which knocks over and breaks a small ceramic jar. This activates a magical summons spell, and a small fire elemental creature known as a Magmin appears. The Magmin immediately leaps on a pile of firewood, setting it alight and using it to summon another five of his brethren. The creatures then begin scampering around, setting fire to everything they can see!

In Amirah's cabin, Leslie discovers an unconscious woman on the floor under the bed, bound and gagged. He manages to pull her to safety, but in the process is set alight by the Magmin and collapses on the ground outside.

The rest of the party is quickly overwhelmed and struggles to coordinate in the resulting fight. But once they realize that the Magmin set everything (including people) on fire and explode when they die, the party shifts tactics to keep their distance and use ranged attacks.

In the end, the Magmin are all destroyed, but the cabins (especially Amirah's) and the main house have been damaged by fire, Leslie has been killed, and the rest of the party is scattered and wounded.

In addition, the woman that Leslie rescued from the burning cabin is the real Amirah! The ranchers and the party realize that her identity has been stolen by a Doppelganger!