Unexpected Ingredient

Unexpected Ingredient is an encounter in Orange Eyes.
==Enemies==
*Drugged-Up Orc (1235 Gold, 152 XP, 95 Energy, 7 HP Normal)
*Drugged-Up Orc Soothsayer (1235 Gold, 152 XP, 95 Energy, 7 HP Normal)
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
There are certain things a veteran comes to learn through experience, fragments of knowledge drawn from each battle which coalesce around his training and become part of his martial instincts.
One such thing is that it's likely undesirable when strangely attired enemies start brandishing bowls of steaming alchemical mixtures and chanting in unintelligible tongues.
Which is exactly what those orcs over there are doing...
You throw your latest enemy aside, letting him redden the snow and the boots of friend and foe with his spurting carotid, and stride towards them.
The chanting intensifies, becoming louder and if possible more garbled. The orcs lean over their bowls, allowing bright, swirling steam to float towards their nostrils.
You break into a run.
Blood rains down from the heavens, splattering the orcs, splashing into their bowls and scattering the mixtures in all directions. Hot droplets spray across your face, sending a tingling spiciness up your nose and along your tongue.
For a second you understand this to be the culmination of their ritual, and brace yourself for its diabolical effect. Then the wyvern crashes down a few dozen yards away, rolling and thrashing, sending clouds of displaced snow and steams of crimson fountaining through the air.
The sight make you giggle. The orcs are giggling as well. It really is very, very, funny!
===Conclusion===
"I'll kill you for this!" you giggle.
The orc titters as you run him through. Another orc points at the sword protruding from his comrade's back and guffaws. He's still laughing as you stab him in turn.
It's all rather humorous. Annoying, but humorous.
Stupid, funny orcs...
"Interesting," Brachus says. "Wyvern's blood does have certain alchemical properties when combined with other reagents."
You chuckle. Brachus is funny too. And so's the fat pie man he's inside.
"Perhaps this will help..." he continues.
He slaps you across the face with a throbbing turquoise hand. Now that wasn't funny. Not even a little.
"Thanks," you say, rubbing your injured cheek.
Category:Orange Eyes