suggestions for an orc wedding?

QuaziquestGM

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The adventuring party that I GM for, lead by a dwarf and rather elf heavy will probably soon be attending the wedding of the party's only human member. The bride is an orc.

This came about by misadventure after the party was conned into guarding a caravan of "medical" supplies through the territory of some "Plains orcs". (Who oddly enough have sunlight sensitivity and ride horses that don't have dark vision...) They party got separated from the wagons after a raid (wanted to kill the escaping raiders before they could tell the other orcs where the caravan was), and the wagons were captured along with the teamsters. During the later rescue of the teamsters the contents of the wagons were burned and the party, along with the orcs, got caught in an LSD cloud....Magic users and psions tripping on acid during a battle.....The next morning, the Human rouge/bard woke up in the embrace of his new fiancee, whom in the purple haze he had mistaken for the parties NPC human Healer.

Since then, he has accepted an engagement gift from her, a map to a treasure cache/dungeon crawl that they completed, and then he went off on a "Buddy movie" side quest with the elf sorceror to take and purposly fail the rumored "Ork test of manhood".
During this quest, purposely passed the orc test of courage, and accidentally completed the orc shaman initiation, and step 3 of the orc chieftain test. Then the sorc accidentally baleful polymorphed himself into a bullfrog (gypsy wagon, old lady, hick accent, sales you the kit to conduct the sacrificial ritual the evil wizard told you about, free sample of what was brewing in the cauldron...), so he captured some kolbolds to sacrifice on top of "The devils' Tower" on the new moon to summon something unspecified for unspecified benefits of the type that make evil wizards smile in the hopes that one of these benefits will be his buddy no longer going "rebit".
(we played a 2 player session over memorial day, off module, rolling encounters at random, so things got a bit odd). So he draws the pentagram on top of the mountain, places the bound kobolds inside, puts the frog and the weasel familiar at 2 points, stands at the third, lights the candles and waits....

When the aliens finished with them, the frog was an elf again, albeit with a leopard frog skin pattern and big webbed feet, the weasel turned into a auravorax (it's got how many hit die? it's natural armor is +11! Cool! My familiar kicks @$$! Wait...it eats gold?!?!?!?!!?), and the Rouge can now change forms into a 1/2 orc and then to a orc and back again. After viewing the orc girl in orc form and finding out that, in orc terms, she looks like "Jessica Alba at 15" he has gurgeingly accepted the impending marriage.

So now I have to plan a wedding....I'm imagining these orcs as comanche like, but still orcs. I'm thinking maybe it should be a bit like a cross between DS9 "You are cordially invited" and "Guess who's coming to dinner".

Any suggestions?
 

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Well...

I know this isn't DnD, but every now and then my one-eyed Orc Rogue in WoW would don a wedding dress and attack people with a broken bottle. Oh, and that character was male.

I'll just step back and let that image inspire :D
 



Back in my SCA days, I once attended a fairly meticulously researched "Viking Wedding." While Vikings hardly equal the barbaric splendor of Orcs, there are a couple of things that might be worth swiping.

1. The union isn't considered lucky unless someone present at the wedding dies. Preferably a nobody NPC.

2. Her family provides "security," in the form of the biggest, scariest Orc barbarians anyone has ever seen. Her father (or his stand-in) makes a big show of introducing said skullbusters to the important guests (and the groom) with the admonition, "Don't kill this one."

3. The rest of the groom's "tribe" (the PCs) are subjected to a number of non-lethal but dangerous tests of strength, to prove his tribe's strength.

4. Music. Orc music. Lots and lots of it. Loud.

5. Special Orc Wedding Mead. Lots of it. Could be delicious, could be vile. Will definitely be potent.

6. Special Orc Wedding Cake. Think of the scene in Star Trek Next Gen when Riker was trying to acclimate himself to Klingon cuisine.

7. Did I mention that someone needs to die? Seriously, it's not a proper wedding without casualties. If someone dies, the father/head man/whatever should make a big show of paying off the survivors of the departed, thereby showing his generosity.

Anyway, that's what I'd do. Have fun with it and play up the extremes.
 

IMC Orc mating rituals essentially come down to ritualised rape

The female is surrounded by the biggest and meanest looking orcs of her tribe whose role is to be her bodyguard during the 'confrontation'. The Orc shaman will go through rituals in which he recites her ancestry and asks that her ancestors return to her womb to be reborn (its the ancestors that make her pregnant afterall)

Finally the males tribe arrives and stage the 'confrontation' where the two tribes line up opposing each other. The Shaman will mark a halfway point over which the opposing tribe may not venture.

Then the groom and his tribe must run in fighting his way through the females bodyguard (and any random relative who decides to join in) in order to grab her and carry her back out to his own tribe. The brides tribe will wail and taunt whilst the groom and bride go off and consumate the union after which they return and the two tribes come together for the feast
 


Inspired by someone else's character: Orc clogging.

That's all I have. I hope this somehow sinks into my subconscious and becomes a highly amusing dream tonight.
 

QuaziquestGM said:
So now I have to plan a wedding....I'm imagining these orcs as comanche like, but still orcs. I'm thinking maybe it should be a bit like a cross between DS9 "You are cordially invited" and "Guess who's coming to dinner".

Any suggestions?

Have Sir Lancelot show up and deal with the wedding party that way.
 

QuaziquestGM said:
I'm thinking maybe it should be a bit like a cross between DS9 "You are cordially invited"


And in keeping with that, don't forget the path of Kal'Hyah:

Kal'Hyah is the path of clarity, sometimes referred to as a "Klingon bachelor party". It is a "mental and spiritual journey" that the groom and his closest male friends take part in before the wedding. Over the course of four days, one must endure six trials: deprivation, blood, pain, sacrifice, anguish, and death. One must do this while fasting.
 

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