suggestions for an orc wedding?

[Mark CMG]

suggestions for an orc wedding?

Can't go wrong with the traditional head-sacks.

 

[mhensley]

It's a nice day for a orc wedding
It's a nice day to kill again.

 

[pawsplay]

Well, the primary purposes of an orcish wedding, I assume, are uniting two clans, producing offspring, and nookie. nothing unites orcs like a common enemy to distract them from each other. So I imagine what you do is hold a quick ceremony, then the families and friends mount an attack on a third party, and after, the spoils are used for a great feast and the marriage is consumated, repeatedly, in a tent.

 

[Hjorimir]

Instead of a honeymoon (mead is too good for orcs), have a kumismoon (because fermented mare's milk just sounds nasty to me) and drink that for a month.

 

[D.Shaffer]

...Le me start by saying that was one of the most awesome sounding campains I've heard in a while.

In any case, I always got the idea orc 'weddings' were more along the lines of 'If you can grab her and keep her, she's yours.' Anything more ritualized would just be based off of that. It looks like you had lots of tests, but there's always that old chestnut of 'If anyone objects, speak up now...'

 

[Aeric]

...one must endure six trials: deprivation, blood, pain, sacrifice, anguish, and death.

Sounds like married life to me! *rimshot*

 

[Fish Priest]

Make sure to have a lot of roasted meat. Have the cook make comments in earshot of party members about how you should serve Elf at a wedding, but it's so hard to get these days...

 

[QuaziquestGM]

...Le me start by saying that was one of the most awesome sounding campains I've heard in a while.

In any case, I always got the idea orc 'weddings' were more along the lines of 'If you can grab her and keep her, she's yours.' Anything more ritualized would just be based off of that. It looks like you had lots of tests, but there's always that old chestnut of 'If anyone objects, speak up now...'

Thanks.

The pirate ship was was just going to be a throw away reference to "LOST", but then the dwarf shouted "Parley"....so I went with it.

I try to stay within modules so that my scattered brained creativity won't be too irritating. I'm runing a mix of OD&D Judges Guild mods, some random rpga stuff, Monkey God Games mods, and a couple of amature adventures from the sites that link to RPGSheets.com, one of which was intended for Tunnels and Trolls. On those times when we end up running more than one game in a week without the full crew I wing it and things get odd as I make up filler material until the PC that a main plot point is tied to is present. As a result, the party has several "open" quests in their log.

 

[megamania]

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.

Have fun with it and play up the extremes.

These three are the most important with a great deal of exaggeration and use of extremes as Theron said.

 

[Andor]

I suspect an Orc wedding may have a lot of similarities to a duel, so you might want to have 'seconds' for the bride and groom. So if anything bad happens to Ugala he has to marry her sister, who happens to look less like Jessica Alba and more like Grizzly Addams.

And you can never forget the ceremonial fish slapping dance. Of course the problems with plains orcs may be the lack of fish "This salmon has been in my familly for 15 generations...."

Also, can I be in your game?