Okay, that's very good.  It seems that the adventurers kind of took the worst of the damage, but there are still a fair amount of casualties.  You'd say that out of the five-hundred-odd people in this village, no more than half still breathe.  Though people are trying to help each other, you can see that there are some in desperate straits with no one around, the closest being a blond half-elf woman, unconscious, half-buried under the ruins of a house.  Blue frost crystals, formed of the ice magic explosion, cover her feet and are beginning to make their way up her pale skin, putting her in danger of hypothermia.

Torivir runs to the half elf, inspecting her wounds. He examines the strange crystals, and asks anyone near if they know anything of what's happening.

She appears to have several broken ribs and a minor concussion.  The crystals are some form of dangerous ice magic still leaking from the site of the crystal's explosion - it's definitely not safe to stick around here.  They seem to be slowly spreading to cover all the nearby objects, and the air is deadly cold.  When you ask for information, a nearby person who had been shopping in the marketplace only moments before pants, "No! The crystals are harmless unless you break them! I have no idea... Can you help us?  No one knows what to do!  I'm so cold..."

Torivir will quickly run to the person. "I'm afraid I don't know anything that could help. Do you have any information about the crystals?"

Torivir will search for anything warm, such as coals from a fire, and move them closer to the person using the telekinesis. 

"I don't know, they're just everywhere.  They, um, they're cold to the touch, but they never explode unless you break them.  Where did that shockwave come from?  ...brrr..." You don't seem to see any source of warmth.  

A middle-aged dwarf man some of you may recognize as the village alchemist is going around passing out the few bottle of healing potion that survived the sinking of the place.  He bends and forced feeds the potion to Thelanis.  6

Thelanis groggily gets up, thanks the alchemist for his help and uses healing hands on herself.  [[ 5 hp]] 

She climbs on top of a rubble pile and starts looking for Torivir. Perception: 6

The cold stings your eyes, and, as you sit up, you disturb some dust from the rubble, which floats up and into your eyes.  You blink rapidly and can't see anything.

Audun stumbles over, leaning heavily on his staff. He curses, seeing the crystals forming on his shoes and cloak, then addresses the alchemist.

"What kind of town houses a crystal capable of this thing? Does it not seem like lunacy and incompetence? Ancestors grant me the patience to not beat sense into those that remain."

The man seems to be in shock.  "I... I... you can't break them very easily.  They're everywhere, you can't build a town that doesn't have one nearby.  I think that shockwave did a lot more damage tha just teh crystal alone could do, too... what do we do?  We're trapped in this sinkhole, we're all going to die, we're all gonna die, we're all..."

Thelanis will get up as soon as she is ready and start looking to see who she can help.

Over the next few minutes, you do you best to help out villagers, even as your hands begin to go numb, and in about ten minutes all the village's survivor's - about three hundred - are clustered around the nearly sheer cliff that the village is now below.  This is the roughest part of the sinkhole wall, but with fingers that can't form a fist you have precious little chance of climbing it.  The villagers seem to be looking to you all for answers on how to get out of the pit that was once their home.

Cure Wounds: 8

Please note, I know this is immensely unhelpful, but I'm drawing my blade, and threatening Torivir as soon as I see him.  "You caused this, you smashed the crystal!"

Audun steps in between Thelanis and Torvir "No, I did this thing. I had hoped to disperse the energy before the blast hit, I did not realize it would explode like this. The detonation would have happened either way."

Thelanis shakes her head dizzily. “I got confused, and sorry, yeah the big shock wave was already coming.  Ok.  Wish I hadn’t already flown today….”

Torivir shakes his head, surprised by the fact that the blame was aimed towards him. He shakes his head.

***

Torivir will look around, while trying to calm villagers. He will make up for his loss of hand use with focused mind (really trying to make it helpful here, heh)

Annika has been helping gather the wounded villagers to the cliff that used to be the edge of town, casting Prestidigitation on items and clothing throughout the crowd to help warm them. But she breaks away when the argument between the other adventurers breaks out—

“Hey! Safety first. Fighting later.” She approaches the group, regretting the loss of her gloves and doing her best not to shiver.

“I’m Annika - Specialist. Army. From the White City.”

She nods to Thelanis - “Can’t say I’m sorry to see you back on your feet. Sorry I wasn’t more help before.”

Looking back to the crowd of townsfolk, she grimaces. “Any ideas on how to get out of here? It’s clear we can’t stay. I can lift something to carry people up the cliff face, but only a few at a time, and I won’t be able to hold it for long.” (Levitate)

"I think checking out topside is a good idea, but we don't want to just willy-nilly escape, something, an army, whatever could be using the shockwave as an opportunity."

“Good point.” She sniffs and rubs at her nose, which is beginning to run.

“Shall one of us check it out? I can give you a boost, or go up myself."

I’ll go, I’ll never ask someone to do what I won’t.

Annika rolls her eyes. “I was asking generally if there was any sort of strategy we wanted to pursue, but by all means…” She gestures toward the cliff, turning around to head back to the others. “Shout if you need something...”

She nears the hill dwarf and the tall man, blowing on her hands. “You two all right? Any ideas about how to help these people?”