[Magrus]

Snirf glances at the equipment and then, suddenly it starts coming off of the bodies on its own and floating into the chest built into the back of the cart. He strips the bodies of more than 100 of the creatures of their fine weapons and armor. While doing so, the little gnome spares a bit of concentration to say

"No sense letting this sit for others of their group to come by and find it I say. We'll save a set as evidence to research later, but what do you say to going to sell this stuff for some gold and scouting out some rumors about this mess shall we? I can't bring my cart into this here forest and I don't like the thought of leaving Nhutcluk and my cart here with these orc bands around. He can take care of himself, but not against a horde like this, no no no. Shall we be off to town?"

Setanta ponder's a moment and says

"I could use a rest and some cleaning up, why not. Lets go get some food and and actual bed for a night while we find out what this town knows."

He then hops back into the cart and Snirf joins him. Snirf pulls on the throttle and gives Nhutcluk a swift boot and they're off. Wandering for days, they encounter nothing, when suddenly arrows fly through the night air after them from a small stand of trees.

Snapping his head around, Snirf spots archers in the trees and growls as the arrows bounce off of his cart.

"You ready for a fight Setanta? I don't like chancing a scratch on my ride!"

Setanta grimaces and clenches his fists and nods as Snirf turns the cart around and tells his lizard to charge the stand of trees. Concentrating, he raises a glowing barrier around them, chuckling as the arrows bounce off of it and onto the ground around them. Drawing nearer, Snirf concentrates again and sets off a blast of psionic energy, stunning the creatures as Setanta leaps from the cart at the nearest stunned creature, bringing him to the ground.

Nhutcluk draws near, stretches out and clamps his jaws down on of them hiding up in a tree, pulling an orc into view.

Setanta wrestles with one of the orcs, snapping his neck, grabbing the dead creatures bow and firing an arrow at an orc in a nearby tree before rushing after another to bear him to the ground. As this is going on Snirf fires off rays of electricity at the orcs in the trees. Within moments all of them lie dead in the area as Setanta brushes himself off and trots back towards the cart saying...

"These were outfitted with that same type of armor. Orc bands on the move, and archers positioned near roads. This doesn't bode well."

Snirf nods and says "Lets push on through the night so we can make it to town by morning rather than setting camp then."

They head out and roll into the town of Windhaver as the easter sun crests the horizen.