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The Sudden Approach of Unexplainable Power: IC

“Okay, now to see whether I can pull this off,” Aekalos remarks, before casting his disguise self spell to assume a similar appearance to that of the downed orc. “So, how do I look?” he asks, trying to sound more like an orc too.
 

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Errast snickers. "You don't sound much like an orc."

Maris cuts his speech off, "But your disguise is smashing! If Errast is right, so long as you don't talk much you should be fairly successful."

Indeed, with the ability to study the downed orc, Aekalos' disguise turned out quite well.
 

“Well, I haven’t had much of a chance to hear orcs speak, so I’m not surprised,” Aekalos chuckles, changing his voice again to something somewhat deeper and more brutish, before he continues, “As Maris says though, as long as I don’t talk much, I should be good. Well, time to go see what there is to see.”

Aekalos looks for a place to enter the village unobserved by other orcs, near the building where the goblins are tied to the doors, as he figures that the best place to start his search for Ella.
 

Aekalos is able to to find what seems to be a decent path into the village. As he comes into the outskirts (assuming that he is trying to be quite but not overly "sneaky" so as to seem suspicious) he can get a good glimpse of one of the goblins. The poor creature's wrists are chained together with an 18" chain and this particular creature is chained to a post near the front door by way of a collar around its neck. The collar is resting slightly below a healed gash that looks to have been once cut perpendicular to the creature's throat.
 

[SBLOCK=OOC]No, not trying to be sneaky, just generally trying to enter the village observed by as few of it’s inhabitants as possible.[/SBLOCK]Noting the goblin’s state, Aekalos assumes the creatures are treated quite harshly, so he doesn’t even acknowledge it as he strides up to the door and tries to enter.
 

The goblin moves away, but doesn't make any sound as he slinks as far away from Aekalos as possible on his leash. In total, it appears as though this particular goblin is on a five foot leash.

The door creaks open, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of locking mechanism for the door anyway. Inside the rough structure is a simple mat of grasses for sleeping and what appear to be some rough (and horribly unclean) changes of clothing. The clothing is heavily soiled with brown stains and stink of manure and compost.
 

Exiting the structure Aekalos pulls the door behind him in apparent annoyance, though he tries to time it so the door doesn’t bang too loudly, and strides off towards another similar structure to repeat the process.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Aekalos will repeat the process a few more times, pretty much as above, if he finds no one within. If you want to move things along a little that is. :) [/SBLOCK]
 

The next cabin that Aekalos reaches is also empty. The goblin chained to the front door moves away as far as possible, just like the last.

The third cabin reveals something different. There are two young orcs playing a game on the floor. They look startled to look up and spot Aekalos in orc for. They shout something, but Aekalos doesn't recognize any of the words. They don't look particularily alarmed, just startled.

The orcling on the right quickly tries to hide the object they were playing with. It appears to have been a long bone of a foot or so in length.
 

Aekalos shakes his head and ignores the attempt to hide the object, leaving in the same manner as he has previously. Finding the orc children has thrown him a little, but he decides to persist and searches a few more cabins with goblins out front to see what he finds.
 

As Aekalos takes a closer look, he finds a few more empty cabins. At each time, none of the goblins make any noise and pull away from him in absolute fear.

Quite literally as he's coming out of the second cabin, he is able to hear two voices coming through the village near to the cabin that he is searching. He has a chance to try and get out of the cabin and try to hide among the buildings or duck back inside.
 

Into the Woods

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