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will want to hand him over to the authorities.<br />

Chaotic characters will probably want to slay<br />

the orc on the spot. Note that torture, even of<br />

such a vile enemy as the orc, should be consid-<br />

ered an evil act, and characters who may wish<br />

to extract information through torture should<br />

be informed of this.<br />

If the characters dither over the captive’s<br />

fate too long, he will either expire from his<br />

wounds, or a light patrol will arrive and take<br />

the orc off as a prisoner of war. The orc will not<br />

stop blathering patriotic slogans and heaping<br />

praise on his beloved leader, ’Ibrosh Mak (un-<br />

less he is gagged or otherwise rendered incap-<br />

able of speech).<br />

Encounter #4: Clerics of Ehlonna<br />

This encounter can take place at any time and<br />

can be used to provide the party with informa-<br />

tion, or to heal characters who may have been<br />

wounded in previous encounters.<br />

You see a party of ten halflings approach-<br />

ing on foot. There are six females and four<br />

males: all are clad in simple robes of pale<br />

green and wear medallions depicting life<br />

runes, stylized trees, or unicorns.<br />

The leader, a wizened, white-haired half-<br />

ling woman, carries a wooden staff which,<br />

miraculously, still gives forth green shoots<br />

and tiny leaves near the top. She raises a<br />

hand in greeting.<br />

“Hail, brothers and sisters,” she says. “We<br />

are servants of Blessed Ehlonna, Lady of the<br />

Forests. Where are you bound?”<br />

If the party responds in a friendly manner,<br />

the clerics will stop for a while to talk and<br />

share provisions. Any wounded characters will<br />

be healed with spells or potions.<br />

The clerics are headed south, they say, to<br />

offer their services as healers to Prince Olin-<br />

staad. Should the characters ask about condi-<br />

tions in Prinzfeld, read one or more of the<br />

following paragraphs.<br />

“The high priestess in Prinzfeld heard<br />

that Graf ’Ibembly was ill and sent two<br />

healers, but they were turned away.”<br />

9<br />

“My brother and his wife are archers<br />

pledged to the prince’s service, but they<br />

have yet to be summoned to join the army.”<br />

“A human woodsman who attends our<br />

temple in Rittersmarche claims that he was<br />

attacked by goblins in the Suss Forest.”<br />

of Rittersmarche to tell him he was sick.<br />

They say he looked pale and weak.”<br />

~~ ~<br />

“I never heard anything about a royal<br />

herald visiting Prinzfeld. If one had, he<br />

would have visited ’Ibembly straight off.”

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