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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gray Shade" data-source="post: 3294420" data-attributes="member: 32340">The not unwelcoming committeeDongle's entrance stunned them.  They all turned to look at him then most of the froze.  A few let their jaws drop.  A few others let their brows furrow and their eyes tic.  The leader seemed most appalled of all, snapped out of it by one of Scouts pointing at us and saying: "I think that's them there."The leader gave him a glare, then smiled toward us. "Indeed!" he barked, then shifting his tone to a congenail growl he continued, "Greetings.  You must be the great explorer the boss told us about.  Dangle, isn't it?"Before my master could reply, the orc pointed at the entrance. "We've had that there dug out for a couple days now.  Our orders were to bury it by the end of today, so if you want through you can go on, or if you just want to look it over, that's fine, too.  I just know that come nightfall we're sealing it up."The rest of the orcs seemed to recover their composure about half-way through the speech and obviously tried very hard to look like they were returning to important work, but mostly just milled about muttering.  A few set about sharpening shovels and picks.  The two Scouts headed back up onto the hill, where they sat cross legged, staring out into the grim gray sky.A trio of them moved up the hill toward us.  The leader telling them in the ugly, orcish tongue to take our horses.  One, sitting by a fire, the leader smacked on the back of the head and told him to start coffee for the humans.  They didn't seem to notice yet that I could speak their language and that I wasn't, of course, human.</blockquote>

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