#8 The Bonfire

Party: Amergin, Claus

Amergin and Claus visit the village bonfire, where whole families gather — children run around, people dance and sing.

People met at the bonfire:

• Wester Murdoch — well-groomed, with his children and wife.
• Sister Rain — travels around a lot and worships the Patient Lady. Wears a necklace with a blossoming sunflower representing the Patient Lady (capturing light and positivity).
• Gaston Doray — a little disheveled with paint on his hands and face. Drew a sketch of the train with the Vagrant, the frogman conductor. Had a dream about the frog as a demon riding an eternal horse. "Heard screams, fire." Some say he is blessed by the Patient Lady to receive these visions. Uses drugs to make his dreams more vivid.
• Jeremiah Stover — offered work at the farms southwest of the village.

• The bonfire is a ritual for recollecting lost memories — "Sometimes when you travel you feel not so much of yourself and we use this sort of ritual of the bonfire as to say we are part of the village." New arrivals ("strangers") seem to have a loss of memory.
• While discussing demons and pacts, Claus's tarot card practically glows as if triggered.
• Rumors of lights coming from deep in the Wickermoor woods.
• The Soulfire Stoker — the spirit from the train that put souls into the engine — emerges from the woods and attacks. Everyone runs. The creature has a 5-foot aura dealing damage at the end of its turn.