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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 8200808" data-attributes="member: 6788652">My last session saw the party take on a job that involved traversing a nasty, ill-reputed wood. They got very lost, and a random encounter roll provided 2 orcs.Dispatched easily enough, but I made them one male, one female, for no real reason. One of the players passed comment that they were probably out in the woods for a bit of nookie and so...I decided they were wearing matching rings. A search of their belongings discovered many brightly coloured ribbons and a small book of pressed flowers. A wedding gift.“Oh well”, said the players in fluent murderhobo, and went about their business of continuing to get turned about by this damn forest.Forced to make camp for the night, another random encounter roll resulted in...3 orcs!I decided they were to do with the wedding party, and had gone to fetch the newlyweds back from their traditional overnight tryst. Of course they found the corpses and followed the (incredibly convoluted) path the party had taken since, but being not bogged down by a ox of burden unlike the PCs, they made good time.Again they were dispatched easily enough but one player wanted to knock out the ‘leadery-looking one’.I had him wake up, and upon being questioned decided this Orc would speak in a French accent!This confused the players so much and delighted me so that, long story short, he Misty Stepped away to freedom and they now have a group of articulate, nature-loving low level Orcish Warlocks who are beholden to ‘The Lady of the Forest’ as enemies.When they then managed to suck at rolling AGAIN and got lost for another 4 hours I made sure that each of them heard a soft, feminine tinkling laughter just at the edge of their hearing every time they found a fallen tree blocking their path, or the Halfling fell into a 10’ snowdrift, etc. Amazing what some random encounters and a passing comment can become!(The session ended with them reaching their destination, so next time will be back on track...but these Orcs are going to mess with them for a while yet, I think...)</blockquote>

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