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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 857562" data-attributes="member: 3854">The Fiendish Oerth Game Story - part 2gBack up the stairs they went; back through the doors into the waiting room where another door and the upward stairway was."Shouldn't we go back to the village now?" said Simon."Yes," agreed Lorgard, "we're pretty much spent right now.""We should clear this level before stopping," argued Salem.The group debated for a while before deciding to go along with Salem's idea to finish exploring the first level before stopping. They opened the next door and again found a once-fancy room but no orcs. But this room did have a large set of heavy double doors, like would be found at the front of a inner keep."These might lead outside," said Simon.Simon and Salem listened to the doors. They heard sniffing on the other side. The ranger and halfling looked at each other for a moment, then the sniffing on the other side became a loud wolfish howl that even Lorgard and Cedrin at the back of the room could clearly hear."Let's open the door just a crack," suggested Simon.Salem stepped back and held a spear ready to throw. Cedrin stood ready to charge, and Simon and Lorgard took the door handles. They pulled the doors just enough to get a view beyond. About five feet away stood a large black wolf in the red light of the outside sky, staring at them and growling. Simon and Lorgard pulled the door more open, and Salem threw his spear. The weapon went high and missed the wolf. Behind the wolf, standing in the courtyard were five orcs and at the back a towering ogre. Lorgard charged the wolf with his hammer, Simon ran into the group of orcs, Cedrin stepped up beside his dwarf comrade to take on the wolf, and Salem ran out but stayed back so he could throw another spear.While Simon took on the five orcs single-handedly, Lorgard and Cedrin tried to quickly take down the big wolf. But where the ranger's dual swords were cutting down orcs with but a single stroke, the dwarf's and fighter's hammer and sword were doing only minor wounds to the wolf. It was like the beast could shrug off all but the hardest attacks.Salem throw a spear at the ogre and hit it precisely on its thigh, but the point didn't stick. The weapon just bounced back and fell to the ground at the giant's feet.The ogre stepped up beside the wolf and slammed his greatclub down on Lorgard. The dwarf staggered under the massive blow, but he held his balance.Simon had taken down three of his opponents, but another came running up from where it had been standing at the front gate.Cedrin was backed into a corner by the vicious wolf. Salem threw his third and last spear at the ogre but again the point didn't harm the thing.The ogre smashed his club down again on the dwarf, and this blow crushed the fighter/mage. Lorgard crumpled to a bloody heap. The giant then turned to help the orcs who were falling around the ranger, but Salem snapped his whip at the ogre to bring his attention away.The wolf knocked Cedrin down to the ground and tore a ragged bite across his throat. It howled in victory.As the last orc dropped, Simon stepped up to the ogre with both swords ready to slash. But the ogre brought his greatclub down again in a mighty blow, and the ranger was sent sprawling unconscious to the dirt.Salem, the lone companion still standing snapped his whip at the ogre once more then ran around the giant to retrieve one of his spears. The big black wolf caught the little halfling in mid-act, and Salem fell unmoving.THE END.</blockquote>

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