Van Gogh, or Marc Antony? Choose your own joke

12/1/2005: With a depleted group this week (just Brian, Craig, and eBill, plus Bruce as GM), it's just as well that the action focused on only four characters: Craig and eBill's two elves, Bruce's centaur, and Dave's reptile man as played by Brian.

It turns out that there are some orcs stirring up trouble, just as the less-enlightened townies are claiming . . . and what's worse, they seem to be doing it right under half-ogre innkeeper Grog's warty, bulbous nose. This came into clear focus when the three bipeds were attacked in their beds by two orcish guests at Grog's inn, and it became inescapable when one of the orcs chopped off eBill's ear (eEar?).

The orcs had a shot at making their escape by diving out the window, but a one-creature cavalry arrived in the form of Bruce's centaur and corraled the rascals. Grog claims that he had no idea any of his nonhuman guests were dangerous, but it's a bit unsettling that one of the orcs claimed to be working for Grog's benefit as he lopped eBill's ear from his head.