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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5534140" data-attributes="member: 90804">Back story: The party had retrieved a magic staff from a band of orcs who had stolen it, killing the orcs in the process. They also recovered a Sending Stone and pieced together that someone (call him Mr. X) had hired the orcs to steal the staff and was communicating them via Sending Stone to provide instructions.The party was on the road, and the Sending Stone activated and spoke to them. The person on the other end (Mr. X) started making demands about bringing the staff to him... so the sorcerer in the party pulled out a huge Bluff, acting like he was the leader of the orcs. This was interesting because, unbeknownst to the PCs, one of the orcs had escaped and had told Mr. X what had happened (the orcs were dead, the PCs had the staff). Thus, when Mr. X heard "the orc leader" (the bluffing sorcerer), he took a minute (offscreen) to beat up the orc who had apparently lied to him about the other orcs being wiped out.It threw me for a loop as the DM, but everything worked out okay in the end.</blockquote>