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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 5060908" data-attributes="member: 19688">Silence falls over the group. Jokad offer up some irrefutable wisdom. Jokad catches the look on Jovik's face. Not disappointment, but almost disgust. Still, the Shoanti was certain that his idea was the only viable, the only responsible action.The group moved together in silence, seven battle weary men, a dog, and a bear. They half carried, half supported the rangers out of the barn and quickly away along the edge of the barn and into the woods.The ogres would find the corpses of their  brothers soon, but for now it was quiet. Perhaps the homestead's occupants were used to loud noises and screams. After all, the three young ogre-kin had been coming out for some alcohol and torture. Perhaps screams were quite a normal noise around here.Danth shrugged his shoulders when they arrived back at the horses. Jokad was right, but that didn't make retreat fun. They had done it before, of course, and they would no doubt have to do it again, for they valued their lives too much to throw them away in useless rage.The four horses took the three injured men, and the others took turns of the remaining horse. It was a slow journey, of course, dictated by the speed of foot, but nobody seemed to follow them. Thirty minutes out and they heard a distant noise, carried from far on the wind across the falling land. It sounded like an animal rage.After that, they heard nothing but the wind, and the sound of the rain on their armour.Turtleback ferry was still not a welcoming sight. A really shanty town, coming at it from this angle made it almost look as if it was huddled against the water's edge as if shirking away in fear.The first welcome sight was an old woman who, on the narrow road into town, stopped to move to one side to let the men past, and seeing the injured party, shouted after them "Give those ogres hell boys!"Little did she know that the fort itself was in the hands of these ogres.Kael took care of getting the animals, including Kibb, stabled for the night, while Danth went ahead to book a complex of rooms, lots of hot food, and enough hot water to bathe everyone.It may be a retreat, but it may as well be a warm and relaxed one.OOC: I am in Munich Tue/Wed. Please let me know what you want to do. You can ask any questions you want of the 3 men (with rolls if required/relevant). If you want them to fully recover, then either 3 days to recover the extreme fatigue, or you can use magic if you have any.</blockquote>

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