Orc Encounters

## Main Plot line closed

   There may be some left over tribes, scatted and routed after their leaders were killed. An annoyance for the towns guards and adventures more than a big threat.

## General information:

Orcs are the bad guys (surprise, surprise) and so far the adventures have come away victorious. In fact, adventures have been so successful dealing with the orcs they are no longer such a serious threat.

They have appeared in the following quests:

* Save the girl kidnapped by orcs (In person event)

* Orcs and Orcs
* Cooking up Disasters
* Moldy Orcs and Constitution Saves
* Get out the Goo
* Insubordination, Too many tentacles
* Hungry Thursty, Dead. Time Flies
* What's a corndog?
* Consequences have actions

Orcs seem to have come from somewhere in the west.

There are several different tribes of Orcs, each member of a tribe has inked on their tusk their clan symbol. Others have have the symbol on their chest.

They take prisoners and turn them into mindless slaves. Each prisoner has a solid iron band around their neck. These collars seem to be forged by the Orcs and enchanted by their priests. These slaves will follow any orders given them.

They have been seeing burning down crop fields and attacking farm houses. They have been flash raiding houses, killing people and burning houses.

When the boss is killed it seems the rest of the Orcs (if they aren't already dead) will often scatter and route. Something about adventures turning their friends into ash in 5 seconds.

They MUST go east (towards Waypoint) because anything else is worse. Even if it leads to death. As it is better.

Some orcs were spotted playing around and messing with a mechanical turret.

The orcs seem to be some how connected to the Servants of Chaos.

## Foreshadowing:

Four groups of Orcs had cursed gold on them that has appeared in other quests. Look I'm sure it is fine.

“Häuptling destroying the town and will turn it into dust.” Said by orc tribe leader who was killed in battle. Later a different orc called Häuptling the right hand boss and organizes the raids.

An orc raiding group attacking the towns south of Waypoint reveal that the main horde is going to be attacking Waypoint soon.

“You will be squashed by the Kalmanji leading the horde. And if you are not. You will be squashed by who they are running from.” A voice said after a failed ritual and orc tribe leader was killed.

Ghruff, with the help of adventures killed Häuptling and Ghruff becomes the leader of the horde. The have to fight several aberrations.

## Overview of encounters:

4 tribes encounter and killed.

* One tribe had kidnaped the apothecaries daughter to "break" her. [From the Quest "*Save the girl kidnapped by orcs*"]. No survivors.
* One tribe had overtaken a half-orc stronghold in the mountains and had started making half-orc slaves. [From the Quest "*Orcs and Orcs*" Also an Rp event before hand, see #rp-recap Nekodemus]. No survivors.
* Two tribes had banded together and had set up a camp to the plains in the west. They had Aarakocra slaves. [From the Quest "*Cooking up Disasters"*]. Orcs ran, one even survived the big battle between the boss and the adventures.

Task force.

* A group of 5 orcs with gold tattoos brought some adventures into a trap to try and kill them. [From the Quest "*Moldy Orcs and Constitution Saves"].* The orcs died. The boss will not be happy. They had an imp with them. They also had strange Iron rings on them.

Raiders.

* Two sets of 5 orcs that were planning ambushes and burning down crops. One group all dead while the second group one orc turned blue by potions was allowed to leave.
* Another set of raiders had mechanical modifications on there bodies. Shooting fire out of their arms or running extra fast. This group also had some aarakocra slaves that were performing some sort of summoning ritual but they were stopped in time.

The Camp.

* Briefly seen in Insubordination, Too many tentacles the camp has hundreds of orcs. Aarakocra and goblin slaves are spotted working for the Orcs.

The Final Boss (Gruff)

* The leader of the Orc horde (Gruff), and the top caster were killed on an epic battle.