Federation Meeting Adjourned After Infernal Envoy Spontaneously Combusts
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The Just Alliance’s annual strategic coordination meeting ended abruptly today after an Infernal envoy arrived and immediately combusted, leaving several delegates critically injured.
The summit marked the first appearance of representatives from the Pyragg’Thul, a recently discovered species of sapient magma-based lifeforms whose internal temperatures can reportedly reach up to 1,200°C (2,192°F).
According to observers, the Pyragg’Thul envoy entered the chamber by melting a hole through a load-bearing wall, offered a polite greeting, and then erupted into a blinding incandescent flame.
A contingent of plantoid Maweer delegates seated immediately beside the Pyragg’Thul were reduced to a pile of charred fronds before emergency sprinklers could be activated from a nearby Aquatic observer. Medics have confirmed the Maweer remain in critical condition in an intensive greenhouse unit.
Alliance officials have been left stunned, with the Federation still reeling from a scandal earlier this year when a member species repeatedly attended meetings without clothes.
“We thought we had taken every precaution,” a slightly singed spokes-xeno Ellira Vunn told Xenonion. “We’d bought the naked avians clothes, and they had agreed to wear them. Sadly, their attire ignited within seconds of the Pyragg’Thul’s arrival, leaving them both unclothed and slightly under-cooked. We just couldn’t have predicted that a molten species perpetually on fire would start a fire like this.”
Future Federation meetings will be held remotely until headquarters can be retrofitted with flame-retardant materials. A neighboring Devouring Swarm has offered the use of one of its industrial-sized “inflammable, non-stick” processing ovens as a temporary venue, assuring the Alliance it could comfortably hold “the entire Federation leadership and more” as a gesture of goodwill.
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