Rhizome - 10/3/2005 6:04 PM A thick human looking figure clad in black approaches the board. He looks at the heap of papers, curled and tattered at the ends by now and gives a calculating smirk. He looks around the room to see if anyone is watching. It's in the middle of the night, or early morning actually, and the inn is basically abandoned. You just happened to be in a part of the inn, obstructed from view, conducting your unrelated business. With a quick gesture from the dark figure the signboard begins to smoulder and then erupts into flames. The notes are consumed first, but they make perfect fuel to set the whole board and in a few moments the wall of the inn ablaze. It takes several moments before the smoke alerts the innkeeper, who bolts through the door and screams out for help. Many buckets of water later the fire is put out and the inn seems safe. The arsonist, however, seems to have vanished with the smoke.