F EVERa city needed a good fire service it’s Sarbreenar. The city has a long history of destruction by dragons, giants and goblinoids. Someone has to put out the fires! Sarbreenar’s Inferno Regulators is a tightly run team of specialists who use every facility at their disposal to keep the city safe from the flames. The Fire Chief is a female gnome named Tinkerbell Tenderly.

Tinkerbell Tenderly – Chief of Sarbreenar’s Inferno Regulators

You’ve seen one gnome you’ve seen them all! Small, dark-skinned, big nose, lively by nature and this one is prone to the giggles. Tinkerbell usually wears bright yellow clothing and a floppy yellow hat.

The Chief has been in the fire service as long as anyone can remember. Certainly before ‘The Time of Troubles’ and the last siege. Without her capable firefighting skills even less of the town would have survived.

She knows the entire old town inside out, and spends most of her waking hours walking the new areas so that she is aware of the availability of water, any access difficulties and particular high-risk areas. If the fire gong is sounded her acute sense of smoke detection (using a larger than normal gnomish nose) often gets her to the fire scene before her appliance. This appliance is of a standard Gnomish design involving a pump operated system that is controlled by an Unseen Servant and replenished with water by either the spells of Lenore Greenfingers or found with the Chief’s divining skills. She usually directs the fire fighting from a high vantage position achieved by a Levitation spell. A Phantasmal Force is used to warn onlookers away from danger.

She has a magic warhammer called Screamer for the obvious reason that if it is touched by anyone else it will bring the house down. She always carries a Potion of Extra Healing.

The Chief is assisted by –
Rigella – Leading Regulator
Clearwater – Ordinary Regulator
Bessie Broadback– Ordinary Regulator
Greentop and Hybiscus Minor – Assistant acting temporary Regulators

Rigella – Leading Regulator

She is the Deputy Chief . She is a dwarf and as old as the hills. She’s now finding it a little difficult to get around. She joined the fire service over 30 years ago after her husband died and is soon due for retirement if this new penny-pinching bunch of teenage louts on the Council ever bring in some decent benefits. It’s a job but she’d rather be setting up that little gem shop she’s always wanted. The punters round here are easy marks!

She still isn’t used to all these green skinned gobblies of Mielikki prancing round the town. Still, Clearwater is not too bad, she’s actually been taught his language in the last year.

"Can’t stand those thaumaturgiwhatical gewgaws,’ says Rigella,’ A good steel axe blade in the back of the head cures all combat problems.’ That’s right, she hasn’t any (magical items or problems).

Clearwater – Ordinary Regulator

Clearwater the goblin is a follower of Mielikki and aspires to her priesthood. By her special dispensation this could actually come to pass. He is also a citizen of Sarbreenar, so woe betide any visiting, drunken mercenary who tries to do some ’gobbly graunching’, as the Watch will be fitting him/her up for a bit of paddywhacking down the local nick.

He’s boning up on some proficiencies; Religion under the tuition of Basilican Beluar Mercurus, and Spellcraft with Lenore Greenfingers. He’ll soon be there he hopes. Fighting the fires is ok for a living but oh how he wants to go out and convert his fellow wild goblins to the way of Our Lady of the Forest.

Clearwater is small and green. He wears the symbol of a Unicorn’s head facing sinister on a green background embroidered on a white jerkin that comes down to his knees. You really can’t mistake him.

Bessie Broadback – Ordinary Regulator

Bessie hasn’t been adventuring since she first trained over 30 years ago. Lived in a hole with her halfling family until about ten years ago when the ‘Troubles’ started, the hole got burnt out by a passing flame breathing something or other (she never found out what it was), and she ended up in Sarbreenar. Never carries a weapon or wears armour, and she isn’t too sure now which is the working end of a club. If she was ever specialised in a weapon she’s completely forgotten it now. But she’s fairly nippy running round the rafters in a burning building looking for people to rescue.

Small (3 ft 4) only a little plump, and very, very hairy round the legs. Always wears tanned deer skin jerkin and breeches, and a jolly little yellow hat with a red bobble. She does her job, keeps her nose clean and is learning line dancing in her spare time.

Greentop and Hybiscus Minor – Assistant acting temporary Regulators

Greentop and and his one legged twin sister, Hybiscus, are goblins with great potential for advancement in the service of Mielikki as a speciality ranger or ordinary priest (see Faiths and Avatars). At the moment they’re learning the skills of firefighting. For goblins they look pretty neat and cuddly.

Hybiscus is certainly as keen as any other member of the Sarbreenar Inferno Regulators but she has never been seen approaching the blaze itself. At the scene of the fire she frantically hops around helping the Phantasmal Force to put up yellow tape to hold back the crowd. Her expression of panic does very little to calm the public and more often than not she manages to tie up spectators in the barrier tape.

Poor Hybiscus was badly hurt in the fire that occurred during the Razing of Sarbreenar. She lost a leg and it has since been replaced with a wooden one. As if that wasn’t bad enough, she later found out that the wood came from a barrel of oak aged spirit from Krakov’s distilliary. The shock of the loss of her limb turned her to drink and the strong smell of the spirit soaked leg is a constant temptation to have a tipple.

Hybiscus’ mortal dread of fire led her to volunteer as a fire prevention officer, but she can’t bring herself to actually approach the blaze itself. Other members of the team tolerate her hysterical behaviour because she uses her clerical healing skills so effectively on any injured victims of the fire. Anyone smoking in the vicinity of Hybiscus can expect a soaking!

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