Taylor - Inventories water

It took me a couple of minutes to reach the Bay, and I waded out into the water up to my waist.

"Inventory, inventory, inventory, inventory," I chanted. I filled a single slot with fifty units of the same thing, water. Each unit of water was close to my limit of weight, a little more than a ton.

Each ton of water was about the same as that in eight bathtubs. I filled two slots with fifty tons of water in each slot.

One hundred tons of water might not be a lot, but it was the best I could do. I was acutely aware of the passage of time; people were dying as I sat with my hand in the water, watching water vanish in great gulps all around me only to be refilled over and over again.

I stepped out of the water, and then I sprinted back.

A message told me that my running speed had increased to sixty percent, which meant that it took less time To get back than it had to get there.

***

There was a wall of flames in front of me, and so I now began to release the water, spilling water from the Bay into the hallway. As a ton of wateR hit the floor, I could hear the floor groan with the added weight, but there wasn't anything I Could do.

The pressure from the water knocked several doors down; they were only hanging on by a thread. People had blocked the doorways with everything they could think of. Towels, blankets And the like were washed away by the water.

"INventory, inventory, inventory," I said. "Is anybody still alive?"

The only sound was that of crackling flames and falling pieces of masonry. The voices I'd expected to hear weren't there.

"Inventory, inventory, inventory," I said. Each time I summoned water, I dropped it from the ceiling. It hit me like a ton of bricks, and my knees buckled.

As quickly as the water soaked me, providing some protection from the fire, the ambient heat dried me off. The steAm that was created was blindingly hot.

***

Finally my water was depleted, and I was standing in a foot of water.

"Inventory," I said.

The water was high enough to hit my ankle, and that was enough for me to inventory the water closest to me. I Ran back and inventoried the most water I could. A Lot of it had turned to steam, but . Was able to collect enough to continue until the last of the fire had vanished.

I'd undoubtedly done a lot of damage to the floor and the ceiling of the floor below. The question now was whether I'd saved anyone.

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Fired up