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Under cover of darkness, the intrepid arsonists split into two groups. Shan carries on up the main road to the manor house, and Charlotte and Coi-Shi, who has smeared himself with ashes, sneak through the woods.
Shan wanted Charlotte and Coi to break into the manor while she distracts the Baron and his guards, but they head toward the building in the woods that Charlotte had noted earlier.
The building is a small hunting lodge filled with Zhongguo artifacts, seemingly belonging to someone from that region. Charlotte searches for documents that might relate to the business with the Baron, while Coi-Shi steals some trinkets.
Having found what they were looking for, Coi-Shi hurls an oil lamp at the wall and sets the house on fire.
They move on, back toward the manor and find the barn, with fields of opium poppies growing between rows of traditional crops. The pair sneak into the barn, just in time for the guards to notice the blaze at the hunting lodge and run off.
Inside they discover the equipment used to infuse opium into the beer and recipes for creating the drugged brew. Coi-Shi pockets the recipe and lights the barn and fields, making escape a top priority.
The guards return as they are slipping away, but fail to notice Coi-Shi. Charlotte is spotted, but confused for one of their fellows in the ruckus.
The guards tell Charlotte to help put out the fire, but in her gruffest voice, she tells them she will get more help and more buckets, then runs off, disappearing into the night and not actually helping at all.
Meanwhile, Shan had been in the manor with the nobles, flirting with the Baron and convincing them she had foreseen a terrible disaster in the near future, just as Coi-Shi broke into the next room through the window.
In his pyromaniacal frenzy, the freaked out firebird lit the mansion on fire, causing general panic inside.
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