A Band of Orcs surround you just before the Ghouls complete their race through the maze of cells. The number of Orcs is hard to assess in the dark, narrow passage. Their miserable state as prisoners is not. 

Most are half naked. Although they appear starved, their hunger seems to fuel an animal strength that is closing all around you. A few have improvised weapons ripped from the dungeon complex. A rusted iron bar, splintered pieces from a wooden bucket and even a floor stone raised over one Orc's head are all aimed at you. Among those leering at you are the bloodshot eyes of an orc carrying a staff capped with an unidentifiable skull. 

"You no prisoner! You no Ghoul!" the shaman accuses in a broken dialect. "Me Gronk! shaman of Gore Stained Axe Tribe..."

Before either of you can come up with words to fit the occasion, the Ghouls erupt from all directions. Their cataract eyes twitching wildly in your dim light. Horrifically jagged fingernails reach out to tear apart the living.

"Hail Gzoroth!" Gronk! screams. As if in response, his staff erupts with a searing white light in all directions. You watch awestruck as the Ghouls caught in the short ranged glow of his staff are melting like a candle held in a blaze! 

"That way." Gronk! gestures towards the nondescript blackness with a jab of his staff. You fight along side Gronk!, because you do not have a better plan. You hack down the Ghouls preventing the forward motion of the shaman. You cut your way forward like a farmer hacking through weeds. You see glances of the horde of orcs behind you rending and tearing at the Ghouls. They are buying time for their tribal shaman to lead the escape.  

"We go down trapped dwarf tunnel" Gronk! shouts aloud to all while looking at you. "Before Lich King execute all!"

Sensing Gronk! knows of a greater foe, you slash faster. As many Orcs grapple with the undead creatures, you see a smaller group of Orcs lined up to let Gronk! through a narrow tunnel entrance. As his impromptu sword arm, they let you in behind the shaman. More Orcs race to follow your lead. Several more make it through before a blinding light crackles from the dungeon cells behind you.

The screaming Ghouls, enraged Orcs and the din of battle is instantly silenced. Instead it is replaced by the sudden smell of ozone charged air and burnt flesh. 

Everyone in the narrow passage freezes in fear. An instant passes as you and A Band of Orcs listen behind you. There is only silence. Gronk! growls quietly at you as he tip-toes ahead, "The Lich King destroys all. Many Orcs die for us escape." 

Perhaps he reads the look of concern on your face as you think about Gronks! callous report of so many dead Orcs. "Tusk's Up Human. Me see if you worth sacrifice". 

You pause for a moment longer as you consider his broken language. Did he mean to see if 'you are worth the sacrifice' or if 'you are worth sacrificing'.... 

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Hope you enjoyed your mini-adventure. 
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Hail Gzoroth!