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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2250149" data-attributes="member: 3192">Climbing down the hill and back towards the river, the band returned to the dryad’s grove. With their ears properly stuffed they approached the fallen tree. This time however the bear hid behind the tree. The dryad did not notice the group until several calls went out to her. Nonchalantly she said something Ben could not hear because his ears were stuffed. But Darius waved on the group to a nearby hillside. Climbing down the hill and back towards the river, the band returned to the dryad’s grove. With their ears properly stuffed they approached the fallen tree. This time however the bear hid behind the tree. The dryad did not notice the group until several calls went out to her. Nonchalantly she said something Ben could not hear because his ears were stuffed. But Darius waved on the group to a nearby hillside. It seems they had done their duty by checking on the Dryad, but she was not interested in talking. Brother Ben recognized the area as the group moved away from the grove and slowly up the slope. This was the same hillside that he and Dram and run down a marauding orc on before letting it go free. Ben felt uncomfortable heading straight for their lair, but if they were working for the Giant they may have some clues to where he was.About half way up the hill Darius had Igor swing the party to the right so they could circle the hill and avoid any possible lookout. After a few hundred feet the crew turned upwards again and marched to the crest. The hill’s strange shape corresponded to the map Darius had. It was horseshoe shaped and had several caves in the interior ravine. Darius pulled out his large map and Kayla her ink and quill as they noticed at least two cave entrances that were not on the original map. <img src="http://www.geocities.com/dbedell2002/chaos_caves.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> After a few minutes of spying into the ravine, the group decided to check in the nearest cavern to see what lay inside. Everyone took out their weapons in expectation of ambushing the orcs. The closest cave was back towards the river, but still atop the crest of the hill. As they approached Kayla saw a group of tall hairy creatures with thick, striped manes running down the backs of their heads. Instead of the red-skinned pig-like orcs these had mongrel faces with green skin and fur. Each stood a foot or two taller than any human and had strong, lean bodies. Each carried an axe or a bow and wore metal armor. At the sight of them Kayla screamed out: “ATTACK!” Chaos ensued. The party turned to see seven creatures running toward them through the woods and pulling out their axes. Ben and a few others hid behind trees trying to gain cover when arrows started to zing by coming from beyond his vision. Bizarre archaic words fell from Kayla’s lips and almost every face turned towards her in confusion. Ben screamed in terror of her. The seven charging humanoids fell to the ground a few yards away from Kayla. Ben could hear the barks of the unseen archers now moving away in fear. Igor ran forward with Dram and Dalin and started cutting the sleeping beasts’ throats. Darius pursued the retreating archers with Mirel at his heels. “This is all very wrong”, thought Ben. “This is devilry, a witch’s work.” Scared at losing sight of Mirel, Ben ran after her.</blockquote>

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