<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/f18686P.jpg)</div>The door to the dining car burst open as one of the servers who had been waiting on them through the dinner rushed in, her once immaculate uniform singed. She struggled to get words out through panicking, hyperventilating breaths.<strong>"Fire elemental - escaped from the engine - on the roof!"</strong>With that she collapsed in a dead faint.<br/><br/>Ambassador Antoine was already on her feet to lay the unconscious woman across a chair and tend to her.<strong>"I will take care of her - I believe your expertise lies in the situation on the roof."</strong>The words were still as polite as ever but the tone had seamlessly transformed from conversational to commanding, and the order was clear - get out there and take care of it!<br/><br/>The train was still coasting along at a steady clip thanks to its inertia, and the wind was blowing through the open door into the dining car. Stepping outside into the open space between cars, the wind felt much stronger, its rushing sound amplified by the confines of the tunnel that the train was in. The light and heat of a roaring fire came from somewhere between the roof of the car ahead and the ceiling of the tunnel. Every now and then a stream of flame snaked out over the side of the car as though it had a life of its own and smashed a window, like a arm reaching inside the car.<br/><br/>A ladder allowed access to the roof of the car, where thankfully there was still enough clearance remaining below the ceiling of the tunnel to stand. Here the culprit was evident: a huge serpentine being of living flame, with one end resembling the upper half of a humanoid with two arms and a head. Here was the downside of using a bound Fire Elemental to fire the train's engine: if it managed to escape for whatever reason, there would be a angry Fire Elemental running amok, like there was right now. As the heroines of Zettai Ryouiki ascended the roof, it turned its attention away from what it was doing before and on to them.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>If your characters follow the plot and move to the roof of the car ahead of the dining car, they will start in the positions shown. Otherwise, if they do their own thing, they will be somewhere else.<br/><br/><strong>Environment:</strong> Between the train's lights and the natural glow of the fire elemental, there are no light-based penalties. Likewise, the wind due to the train's speed imposes no penalties.<br/><br/><strong>Initiative:</strong> The Fire Elemental has 28 initiative. Waiting to see what you will do, it delays to 17 initiative, meaning that Kiyoni and Lucia can act. (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=129349)</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Fire Elemental Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body">AC 21, touch 16<br/>hp 85<br/>Fort +10, Ref +14, Will +5<br/>DR 5/-, Immune elemental traits (Immunity to bleed, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, stunning, critical hits, flanking, precision damage, sneak attack), fire<br/>Weaknesses vulnerability to cold<br/>Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft. (important for attacks of opportunity)</div></div><br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/LJIq9cn.png)