When you are surrounded by bandits and they are completely unaware you have magical power the smart thing to do is announce that you have the power of fire in the most over the top way. Yes it will drain you of most your magical ability thus making it harder to do anything else afterward, but it will buy you precious fleeing time that you otherwise might not have. I believe I've mentioned before that conjuring fire takes power, but a way to minimize that is using fire nearby (like a camp fire or in this case a building that was already on fire), it's still draining mind you, but at least fire is already there.
So after I freed us from our rope bindings I "pulled" the fire from nearby building, encircled us in it and then exploded it outward (which had the unfortunate side effect of mildly burning Andre, Nidget and myself because of course it did). It did of course cause the bandits to be immediately terrified (I pulled freaking fire made it in a circle and exploded it, you try and not be terrified of a person doing that). Which afforded us a chance to flee, snatching our weapons that had been tossed aside after we'd been captured.
The problem of course when you have three people fleeing a larger group is that you don't coordinate the flee. So we all ran in different directions. I personally ran south towards the docks and a nearby boat, because screw Brownwater. Thankfully there was a boat at the dock and I got in it and shoved myself off, unfortunately it was only after I'd pushed away from the dock did I notice there wasn't a damn paddle in the boat and the river current had got me.
Yes I literally put myself into a situation where I was in a river without a paddle. No the joke did not escape me as I drifted away. At least I got rid of Nidget and Andre. Yes thats how I am, you should already know that!
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