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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 1331693" data-attributes="member: 990">The Lardworks Orc towns are disgusting, no doubt about it.  This is no doubt due to the vile habits and tastes of the inhabitants.  Take the town of Smashrock, for example.  It stinks like an open sewer, and given the casual violence that saturates every interaction, it's amazing the inhabitants haven't wiped themselves out.   Now one of the most disgusting places of business in Smashrock is the Lardworks.  Orcs like greasy food, and they aren't over particular in their sources.  The Lardworks supplies cheap cooking fat not only to the inhabitants of Smashrock, but to the whole region.  Old and sickly farm animals of every variety are brought to The Lardworks to be rendered down.  They also pay good silver for dead animals, so many an orcling spends his or her free time wandering the countryside looking for carrion they can steal from the buzzards.  Orcs being what they are, though, the environment around Smashrock has been degraded to such an extent that few farm animals can survive any longer, and even carrion is in short supply.  The local warlord, Grulbeak, has recently come up with a solution, whoever.  (Grulbeak is part owner of the lardworks, so he obviously had some motivation to keep the place productive and profitable.)  For the last two months, Grulbeak's men have been leading chain gangs of prisoners to the lardworks.  At first, most of the locals figured they were slave labor.  But none of these prisoners have ever come out.  And several of the best orc cooks (a relative concept) have noticed that the quality of the lard has changed recently, being richer, and slightly less off-tasting..... Next up: The Goblin's Girlfriend</blockquote>

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