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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 6660526" data-attributes="member: 893">Carefully opening the next door you indeed do enter into a long, twenty foot wide corridor.  Several doors branch off to the North East and South, while to the West there is a statue of a human figure.  You can't make out any details at this distance, and besides, your attention is quickly diverted to a lone Orc to the East.  He seems just as startled as you, and although he is armed he seems wary, at the very least of the idea of tackling two dwarves alone.  He drops into a combat stance, but slowly seems to be edging away, his beady eyes darting back and forth and his pig like snout twitching as he tries to catch your scent.The state of his equipment is somewhat unusual.  Most Orcs either find employ as mercenaries among warlords or petty strongmen, or survive as bandits and raiders, but his equipment suggests that his tribe is either incredibly down on their luck, or something more bizarre.  He has a battleaxe, but it looks as though it is simply cut from a piece of scrap metal which is in turn strapped to a haft, and barring a loin cloth and a wide belt that holds several pouches he is completely naked.</blockquote>