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-----Sarah, Thalog, and Rand dismount and check the condition of the bandits who were caught in Sarah’s spell. As all three men are unconscious, they begin to tie them up.
-----Raven yells, "Zentil there are more orcs moving in! Watch your back!" Raven kicks one of the stunned bandits to make sure he won't be anymore trouble. He then turns and runs towards Zentil and Sol.
-----As Raven, Zentil, and Sol watch the bushes, a few yards away, two of the bandits emerge from the swampland growth on horses galloping madly toward the south.
-----A busy rustling continues in the tall growth in front of the trio of heroes. Suddenly a large form erupts from the swamp vegetation.
-----A huge humanoid, standing nearly ten feet tall, rushes out of the brush. Dressed in layered furs and hides covering its warty, yellowish skin, it glares at the three adventurers standing before it with purplish eyes. Teeth the size of tusks jut from its lower jaw and its black hair looks greasy in the moist air. Raising its huge club, it loudly growls at the men. Behind it, about a half-dozen orcish warrior begin to approach looking at the position of all the party.
-----Sarah leaves the immobilizing to Rand and Thalog and starts lobbing darts at the orcs. Her first throw sends the dart flying toward one of the humanoids and strikes it in the neck. It projects like a needle, miraculously killing the orc and dropping its body.
-----Sol smiles for there have been no undead this day yet. Blessed Marlexa. Then he turns to Raven, "Since you love orcs so much, you wanna deal with them?..." He turns back to the creature, "...As fer you, you oversized goblin...IN THE NAME OF STRATOR!" He yells with fervor as he raises his blade high and runs straight at the ten-foot creature.
-----Sol slashes twice at the monster’s mid-section but his blade does little more than rip the hide covering its belly.
-----Sarah throws another dart and it goes sailing off into the dense brush. She throws again and this time her missile connects with the bare arm of an orc. It snarls and looks at the young spellcaster as it turns in her direction.
-----With a roar, the huge humanoid looks down at Sol and swings its mighty club. It slams into Sol’s left side almost causing him to drop his sword. The force of the blow lifts the foolhardy young man off his feet and he lands a few feet away. His right hand clutches at his left side. Sol is hurt!
-----Raven looks startled for a second at the power of the huge monster, but then he looks back at the orcs. Raven snarls and tries to plow into one of the orcs to knock him off balance. His vicious swing misses but causes the orcs to back up.
-----Sol mentally checks himself, confirming everything is where it should be. Deciding that he can still go on, Sol balances his sword lightly and moves into the creature more carefully, before once again throwing himself at the monstrosity.
-----The monster hefts its club and Sol sees himself staring straight at the thing’s exposed belly button. With a heave, he brings his sword across cutting into the huge humanoid’s belly. Dark blood spills forth causing the monster to scream. It staggers forward badly wounded.
-----Sarah looks worried because of the advancing orc. She gestures towards one of the healthy ones and begins to murmur in a soothing tone....
-----Suddenly, Thalog steps forth and looks at the orcs as his left hand sprinkles rose petals to the ground, while his right hand moves like the waves of a vast ocean. And from him rumble the words, "REBMULS EROF EMIT S'TI!"
-----Before Sarah can properly begin her spell, four of the humanoids drop to the ground unconscious. Thalog looks at her, raising his eyebrows and shrugs.
-----Meanwhile Zentil draws his bow and fires at the big thing. His arrow finds its mark in the monster’s eye and it drops its weapon. With a thud, it drops to its knees clawing at its ruined eye while it howls in pain.
-----Two of the orcish warriors swing almost at the same time at Raven. He ducks and rolls under them, jumping up into a stance behind them. With a quick pivot, he jabs a deathblow just under one of the orc’s ribcage. With a quick extension of his left hand, his off sword rips up and under the other orc’s jaw.
-----The huge monster begins crawling away into the brush. Quickly Zentil tries to fire after it, but his arrow impales itself in a tree limb.
-----Raven says to Sol, "You finish that thing off, I'll take care of the napping orcs." With that Raven begins to kill the sleeping orcs. Raven shows a burning anger as he drives his sword into the chests of the sleeping orcs. It is clear to everyone that Raven has taken a powerful dislike to orcs.
-----"Oh no you don't..." Sol says as he runs after the badly wounded creature.
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