Saloch grew weary of waiting for the group to return from the cavern so he set out after them tracking them through the undeground fort and making it to the hags cavern. He then helped the party loot the room by summoning water elementals to bring everything they could find underwater back to them. The water elemental returned with a dead Kuo-Toa cleric, scrolls, gold, platinum, crystal starfish, and a squishy ball of tentacles contains in a translucent membrane. The party decided that they had found everything of value here and left the cavern. There was a brief argument between Bl'nx and the rest of the party about disabling the traps.
Once again the party was on it's way to Fernmire when the unthinkable happened. A horde of 40 orcs was standing on the road demanding tribute from party in everything that they owned. Areden cast tongues on Zanben and Zanben headed up the negotiations. Zanben negotiated witht the orc chief that if the party's best could beat the orcs best in a game of wrestling then the orc would let them pass for free, if not they would pay the toll. Eventually this got changed to a fight to the death and the orcs sent out their champion, a large strong beast with a battle axe. Bl'nx was nominated as the party's strongest though he wasn't allowed to use his horse. The battle started and the orc quickly overwhelmed Bl'nx. Bl'nx then retreated behind Saloch and everything went to shit. The entire party and the orc horde went to arms with Areden disarming people and Bl'nx and his horse chopping and kicking people and Kyler impaling people and Saloch burning people and Ellie scratching people and Dankil hacking people and Areden blasting people. The fight was quickly won considering the party's numbers and the party now continues on their way.
