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Orc Trouble in The Great Forest (Updated July 26, 2006)
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<blockquote data-quote="A'vandira Silvermane" data-source="post: 2922160" data-attributes="member: 15957"><p><strong>Humble beginnings</strong></p><p></p><p>Excerpt from the journal of Ke'lana Amyn'dur Redraluin</p><p></p><p>3 Artalak:</p><p></p><p>Today we saw a column of smoke rise into the air. The location seemed to be the vicinity of the Gnome village Oakenhill, to the north of Littlewater.</p><p></p><p>Relen, as leader of the militia, called upon us to join her as she set out to investigate.</p><p>On our way we were ambushed by some of those thrice-damned orcs. We let them have it good. They were no match for us and we showed them no mercy. We routed them! Because that's the only good orc, a dead one. Which reminds me of a joke I once heard: "What do you call an orc with 20 arrows in its back? Not dead enough!"</p><p></p><p>I had to call upon Corellon's power to heal the most grievous of wounds that Trik had sustained. That guy is just as much a danger to himself and us as to those we fight, with that chain of his. When used correctly it's an awesome weapon, but correctly is the operative word here. And just as I know that there's a lot for me to learn about using a longsword, so does Trik need to learn to use his weapon. But we came out triumphant. When we finally crested the last hill, we saw the Gnome village being overrun by more of those hell-spawned orcs. Once more our weapons sang a song of death, but this time it looked like we had bitten of more than we could chew and the tide of battle for a moment seemed to turn in favour of the orcs. But then Gloobali caught the most fearsome and powerful orcs with a spell and suddenly they kept falling down. Later she told me that she had used a spell appropriately called 'Grease' to make their life slippery and miserable. When the battle was nearly over, a contingent of the Elven Army appeared on the scene and took care of the remaining scumbag orcs.</p><p></p><p>With them was a human sorcerer who introduced himself as A'pos'trofia DiMagio. What names some of these humans have. Ah well, at least he said we could just call him DiMagio. Even though that's only slightly easier to pronounce. While we were talking with the Elven soldiers and the sorcerer, Trik was busy cleaning his chain. Must have gotten dirty with orc flesh and perhaps that greasy stuff that Gloobali used to disable the orcs. But I tell you, that guy needs to get his priorities straight. It's more than just a little rude to behave as he did. And to make things worse I get the feeling he is hiding something. But when I asked him he seemed clean and honest enough. Yet something keeps nagging at me. Better keep an eye on him and make sure we can trust him.</p><p></p><p>I almost forgot about the gnomes: once the orcs were defeated, I spotted a strange hillock near the edge of the village. Looking a bit longer and harder confirmed my suspicion: it was not a hillock at all, but only an illusion that the gnomes used to hide from the orcs. They were right in the middle of these marauding beasts and those lame-brains didn't even notice that the hill was not real.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="A'vandira Silvermane, post: 2922160, member: 15957"] [b]Humble beginnings[/b] Excerpt from the journal of Ke'lana Amyn'dur Redraluin 3 Artalak: Today we saw a column of smoke rise into the air. The location seemed to be the vicinity of the Gnome village Oakenhill, to the north of Littlewater. Relen, as leader of the militia, called upon us to join her as she set out to investigate. On our way we were ambushed by some of those thrice-damned orcs. We let them have it good. They were no match for us and we showed them no mercy. We routed them! Because that's the only good orc, a dead one. Which reminds me of a joke I once heard: "What do you call an orc with 20 arrows in its back? Not dead enough!" I had to call upon Corellon's power to heal the most grievous of wounds that Trik had sustained. That guy is just as much a danger to himself and us as to those we fight, with that chain of his. When used correctly it's an awesome weapon, but correctly is the operative word here. And just as I know that there's a lot for me to learn about using a longsword, so does Trik need to learn to use his weapon. But we came out triumphant. When we finally crested the last hill, we saw the Gnome village being overrun by more of those hell-spawned orcs. Once more our weapons sang a song of death, but this time it looked like we had bitten of more than we could chew and the tide of battle for a moment seemed to turn in favour of the orcs. But then Gloobali caught the most fearsome and powerful orcs with a spell and suddenly they kept falling down. Later she told me that she had used a spell appropriately called 'Grease' to make their life slippery and miserable. When the battle was nearly over, a contingent of the Elven Army appeared on the scene and took care of the remaining scumbag orcs. With them was a human sorcerer who introduced himself as A'pos'trofia DiMagio. What names some of these humans have. Ah well, at least he said we could just call him DiMagio. Even though that's only slightly easier to pronounce. While we were talking with the Elven soldiers and the sorcerer, Trik was busy cleaning his chain. Must have gotten dirty with orc flesh and perhaps that greasy stuff that Gloobali used to disable the orcs. But I tell you, that guy needs to get his priorities straight. It's more than just a little rude to behave as he did. And to make things worse I get the feeling he is hiding something. But when I asked him he seemed clean and honest enough. Yet something keeps nagging at me. Better keep an eye on him and make sure we can trust him. I almost forgot about the gnomes: once the orcs were defeated, I spotted a strange hillock near the edge of the village. Looking a bit longer and harder confirmed my suspicion: it was not a hillock at all, but only an illusion that the gnomes used to hide from the orcs. They were right in the middle of these marauding beasts and those lame-brains didn't even notice that the hill was not real. [/QUOTE]
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