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-----"I can help with that!" Sarah says, enthusiastically. Moving over to Raven she says, "Okay, don't panic this is going to feel really weird." Rubbing her right hand against the runed leather loop around her left wrist she beings to murmur incantations.
-----Slowly the body of the hunter begins to rise up. Sarah beckons for Rinda to bring Raven’s horse over, which is put under the floating ranger. Slowly, Sarah lowers Raven until he is back in the saddle.
-----"See! Wasn't that fun, huh?" Sarah says to Raven. She mounts up on Marlexana and looks around briefly. "What did you find?" She asks the people searching the orcs’ bodies.
-----Raven appears to be very uncomfortable with all the attention people are giving him, "Hell.." Raven says to Seth not hearing Sarah warning, "there was this one time I was attacked by a huge bear..." Raven starts to rise. With eyes wide with surprise he exclaims, "What the hell?!" Raven twists his head and sees Sarah working her magic. He quiets down, trying hard not to show his fear. Once in the saddle Raven’s lips start to snarl back, but then his hand goes to his wound. Raven's snarl turns into what could be called a smile for Raven. "Thank you Sarah," he says, "I have to admit I'm in a sad state to say the least. Your help is welcome." Raven moves the horse toward Oakwood. Raven's face shows beads of sweat from the sharp pain Raven is trying to hide from his friends.
-----"Hmmmm...." Sarah says regarding the tied up orcs. "Who wants to play executioner this time?"
-----Sol grins as he replies to the sorceress, "Unless Dread is lonesome for some exotic company this evening, I guess we may as well hand them over to th' Oakwood guard. Give them a chance t'exact some o' their own justice."
-----Sarah stifles a giggle and nods to Sol.
-----Seth watches Dread tie up the orcs to the back of a horse, "You know, orcs can come in pretty useful during the most awkward situations," and smiles at Kazel. Then he casually mentions to Dread, "Are you going to wake them up or just drag them to Oakwood?"
-----The Dread Pirate takes a long piece of rope and attaches one end to his saddle horn and the other to the orcs' rope, forcing them to trot along behind his pony. The Dread Pirate looks concerned at Raven's pained countenance, "Arrr, the idea is to avoid the sharp pointy things, not try to slow 'em down with yer corpus."
-----Sol mounts up on Thunder and moves his horse up beside Raven's. As they head towards Oakwood, the Gorian slowly scans the surrounding forest.
-----The party moves out now taking up the reins of their steeds and heading off through the trees to the southeast. Behind them lies the carnage of the orcish battle awaiting the arrival of carrion birds. A unique procession of confused humanoids follows along behind the Dread Pirate’s pony. The orcs, now fully awake, appear disoriented by what, for them, was a very quick change in events.
-----After traveling a mile through the forest, the party begins to round a large hill lightly covered with trees. As they pass by, they can see a small stone structure atop the hill. A strange-looking emblem seems to be carved into the exposed stone.
-----The Dread Pirate looks curiously at the stone structure on top of the hill and turns to his orc parade, "Arrr, now ye be good orcs and don't go runnin off, or I'll have to hunt ye down and cut yer heads off. I'll be back in a minute. Stay!" The Dread Pirate then hops off his pony and walks up the hill to examine the carved emblem.
-----Sol turns in his saddle to Raven and says with a heavy dose of humorous sarcasm, "Raven, perhaps ye shouldn't have taken us along th' scenic route. We'll never reach Oakwood at this rate." He then turns and watches the orcs, not trusting them to stay still.
-----Sarah watches in disbelief as the Dread Pirate leaves the orcs. Oh well, she thinks. Not even orcs are stupid enough to run while tied up from people who could easily take them out from a distance. At least Sarah hopes they aren't that stupid.
-----Sarah slides off Marlexana and hands the reins to Sol. "I'll be right back, hold on to this, please?????" Sarah begs for a split second and then dashes up the hill after Dread.
-----Raven comes out of a pain induced daze caused by his wounds, "What? Oh, yes we seem to be taking the long path to Oakwood. Maybe..." Raven's gaze leaves Sol and settles on the orcs. Raven's eyes flash with hatred, "Why do those monsters still breathe?" Raven's right hand moves to his sword, but then ends up on his nasty leg wound. Raven grimaces in pain and sways in his saddle. Raven lets out a low growl and then looks back to Sol, "Kill them now Sol. I want no chance of them escaping."
-----Sol looks about to follow Sarah up the hill, but instead looks at the hunter as he speaks. He frowns slightly as the wounded man makes his order and begins to shift uncomfortably in his saddle. Sol rolls it over in his mind and replies, "I...can't. If they try t'escape, then fine, I'll cut them down. Gladly. But not like this."
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