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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khairn" data-source="post: 4671772" data-attributes="member: 20153">Here's the scene.Party of 5 are tracking a group of orcs that have been preying on a village.  The party has followed them to the foothills of a mountain range, and after a long days travel they decide to camp and continue the hunt in the morning.On the 2nd watch, Bob, who was playing the cleric, climbs a tree to get a better view of the surrounding area.  Everyone else is asleep.Halfway through his watch, with the fire little more than smoldering coals, he spots 2 orcs just on the edge of the camp."Aleryn.." I ask, "What do you do?""I point to the orcs to warn my friends!" he cries, only then realizing they were all asleep.  Eventually he decides that the party is in a vulnerable position, what with him up a tree, and the rest in their skivies.  "I'll wait and see what they do next." he declares with conviction.I describe how the 2 orcs creep up on one of his companions (my future brother-in-law playing a paladin), then lay a cloth over his head which they then beat on with blackjacks.  None of the party notice the muffled thuds."What do you do?" I asked the now worried cleric up a tree."I get ready to scream if they draw weapons." he replies.The orcs then pick up the unconscious paladin and carefully leave the camp."What do you do now?" I ask." I'll wait just a few more minutes...since they might come back.  Won't they?" he says with rising doubt in his voice, as he see's the glowering faces of his party members watching him in shocked silence.The party eventually was awakened by the cleric and set out to find their lost companion.  Tracking the paladin ladened footprints of the orcs they eventually discovered his body bloated after having been cooked in a stew pot.</blockquote>

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