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[Old Dwarf]

Early morning,Senneach,YS1-outskirts of the Skidds

thud,thud-wake up,get up!

Quit yelling my heads killing me & if you kick my ribs again you'll have something to yell about,
who are you?

Name's Cadence & I'm whispering you drunken excuse for a Dwarf now wake your big friend before his
snoring brings all hell down on us. What are you two doing sleeping out here in the open?

Wake up Kolm we have company & she's rather ill tempered, as to your question we're scouting;
by Mother Moon my head's pounding explain it to her Kolm.

Well Miss, pardon Thundergut he can be a might testy until he had his morning pint. It's like this,
a couple of days ago a mess of orcs came through the Skidds murdering anyone in the streets so
the rest of us barricaded ourselves inside the buildings. Oddly enough the Orcs didn't try to
break in & when we peaked out it seemed that the Orcs had left.

We were holed up in the red Rooster where I'm the bouncer & Thundergut is a regular so after a day
went by people were wondering if it was safe to come out & what was going on with Orcs in the city?
So with all the talk about Orcs Thundergut starts recounting how he battled them when they attacked
his Clanhold.Next thing you know people were giving him Tankards & saying he was just the person to go
out & check to see if it was safe to open back up. After a few more beers Thundergut volunteers to
go have a look see & staggers out. He was in no shape to handle anything so I went after him.
We got almost out of the Skidds when Thundergut passed out so I propped him up against this building
& night had fallen went to sleep myself.

Thanks Kolm I knew their was something I was suppose to do but couldn't quite remember the details.
So Candance you look like a Wildlander what takes you from the forest to Cambrial & do you know
what's happening in the city?

Your right Thundergut I'm a Wildlander & I came to Cambrial following the Orcs of the Shadow's
Army to hunt then down & take vengeance for burning out my village. The city is awash in Fell
forces of Izador have slaughter everyone & their corpses have arisen as the hungry dead. It's
so bad the Orcs have abandoned the City to the Fell.The Orcs that came through the Skidds didn't
stay around as they were fleeing & I was following them out.

Cambrial is now under control of Sunulael one of Izador Night Kings & his Legates who are using
their Necromancy to control the Fell to eliminate any survivors. You say people are barricaded
in the Skidds how many?

I'm not sure Candance there's about 2 dozen in the Red Rooster & maybe another couple of dozen
holed up in some of the other buildings.

Well there's a mob of Fell close behind me so you & Kholm better warn them to get out
while they can .

Candance these people are spread out all over the Skidds will you help us find them?

Kholm these city people slandered my people calling us cowards that hid in the wilderness
when the Shadow forces attacked. I came to Cambrial to kill Orcs not to help people who
scorn Wildlanders.

Candance these people in the Skidds are not the ones who scorned your people, actually they
are also scorned as lower-class undesirables that's why they are here in the Skidds, they may
be rogues, thieves, pimps, working girls but they don't judge. They accept people as they are,
look I'm a Dworg a Dwarf/Orc mix & not accepted by either race plus I inherited the giant blood
trait anywhere else I am a freak. Here however I'm accepted, the same with Thundergut he's been
thrown out of his Clan most places he's shunned but no one here cares. The people here may
be considered scum but they don't deserve the fate that the fell will bring, help Us.

OK,Kholm I'll help but you & Thundergut must follow my orders, the first of which is give me
Thunderguts flask. Now
To be continued