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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 1919025" data-attributes="member: 6521">The man -- who does not detect as evil, to Hiritus -- crouches down beside you, still talking in whisper."Are you the men Rall and Spiro hired?" He takes a quick look at your response, then shakes his head. "No, you wouldn't be..."He stares down for a moment, blinking his sagging eyelids briefly."We've... the orcs have come into town, here. They've taken over the mayor's house, and have his daughter hostage... If you come coming into town looking like that, armed and on horses, they'll probably kill her."He looks over his shoulder, but it doesn't seem that this mayor's house is anywhere in sight.Not considering much your interest, and seeming a little eager, he goes into detail:"They came the night 'fore last... Out of nowhere, really. We almost never have any problems with them, this far from the mountains, but I guess this time they wanted something bigger than they could get in the foothill villages. Anyway, we were all so caught of guard -- we only have a couple of men on nightwatch, mostly to make sure everyone gets home safe after a good drunk, is all. This time of year, passing out on the walk can be deadly..." He pauses for a moment, shakes his head lose of the sidetrek. "Anyway, they pretty much turned the whole town upside-down by the time anyone had woke up to notice. Must have been nigh a hundred of the bastards... But they couldn't find everything they wanted from us, so they gathered us up at the center of town -- they'd already taken over the mayor's house by that point, and had him, his wife, and his girl in there, too... Demanded we turn over some large amount of food, arms, and armor... The food we had, but the rest we don't have around town, not in the numbers they were asking."He pauses for a moment, clearly coming to what he finds to be a solemn part of the story."When we told them we'd have to go to Eivanrach to get everything, they killed Mag-... killed the mayor's wife, and gave us three days 'fore they'd kill the rest. Most of them had fled by that point, save the ones who'd ended up at the manor... As a town we could fight them and win easily, once we got ourselves together. But the hostages... the hostage, now... After we gathered up all the money we could send North, we realized we'd probably come up short, so Tanor, our priest, went to try to renegotiate... but the moment he even came near the place, the orcs guarding the front shouted some sort of signal, and charged at him. He ran, and they didn't chase, but it wasn't a minute later... the upstairs window opens, and they toss the mayor's head out, right into the middle of the street. At that point we decided that what money we'd gathered should be spent hiring men in Eivanrach, who could get in quickly or quietly enough that the girl could be saved... That's who I thought you might be, at first, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Whoever's supposed to come's supposed to come in hiding, on carts... They can't tell much of what goes on from the manor, but every few hours they do send out an orc to patrol the town, I guess to make sure we aren't planning an attack."He glances over his shoulder again, looking nervous once more."Anyway, that's our situation... Don't know if you folk can help at all or would want to... We've got not much left to offer in reward. But at the very least, if you only seek to pass, pass around town, on the west side, where they won't see you."</blockquote>

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