In this arid climate, fire spreads fast. The monsters, being excellent mimics if not especially bright, learned from the crew cooking one of their beastly brethren and, after a few burnt and combusted casualties in the name of discovery, found out how to use matches with their spindly fingers. Three of them wait outside now, waiting for the smoke to flush their prey out of hiding.
The smoke rises first, up to the top floor where everyone's sitting around or sleeping. The broken-down stairs may stop the monsters from climbing, but it doesn't stop their reach.
Then the fire spreads to the top floor rather quickly, straight across the house like a flaming knife cutting through the center. Soon enough, the two halves of the top floor are separated, leaving Howard and Cedric in a room with the ladder and Diana and Karis in the room with the rope of bedsheets.
SMOKE
In this arid climate, fire spreads fast. The monsters, being excellent mimics if not especially bright, learned from the crew cooking one of their beastly brethren and, after a few burnt and combusted casualties in the name of discovery, found out how to use matches with their spindly fingers. Three of them wait outside now, waiting for the smoke to flush their prey out of hiding.
The smoke rises first, up to the top floor where everyone's sitting around or sleeping. The broken-down stairs may stop the monsters from climbing, but it doesn't stop their reach.
Then the fire spreads to the top floor rather quickly, straight across the house like a flaming knife cutting through the center. Soon enough, the two halves of the top floor are separated, leaving Howard and Cedric in a room with the ladder and Diana and Karis in the room with the rope of bedsheets.