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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr_Ruminahui" data-source="post: 5810152" data-attributes="member: 81104">Personally, I would start with ork attack first, with the PCs fighting it off.  Drop hints that there is more at work here - the orks come through a door that should have been barred and without any kind of equipment to bash it down (so, that they knew it would be unbarred). Second, I would make the attack personal.  Have the orks attack the PCs loved ones - the PCs can arrive just in time to save them (so, the orks have just hacked down the guards - then the PCs get there).  You can also make this part of your foreshadowing that "something is wrong" - the orks obviously went out of their way to attack their targets and/or skipped more tempting ones (the vault, or the keep's lord, or whatever) to do so. Finally, you can stretch things out a bit by making the culprit someone the PCs can't accuse without proof - maybe he's some lord, or a friend of the king, or what not.  So, even if the PCs "know" who did it, they need more than that - they need actual, independent proof... and it could be race against time with the villian moving to eleminate witnesses and other lose ends.</blockquote>