<div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/digitalpirana/0f85bae7-37cb-49e3-80dc-90374b4c2016_zps5b675277.jpg)</div>The sound of metal on metal rattles and scrapes as the tower of an Orc rises to the sound of alarm calls. He casts a shadow of four or five men, and scores more adorn his armour as a patchwork of all the dead that have fallen in his past. Elvish plates of armour lashed to the skulls and shields of men cover every inch of his mountainous frame. Entire lineages of elves and men now encrust Jawbraekka The War Tyrant, and their pendants of faith now hang from the horns that savagely wreath his head.<br/><br/>"To the gates, grind them into the mountain!" he snarled at his wardens.<br/><br/>The wardens roared in reply and began to disperse like cockroaches, disappearing into the gutters of the tunnels to gather their respective crews of cut-throats. The sound of bodies trudging through the tunnels pauses only at the blast of Gerald's horn. A small party of raiders don't call to arms with horns...perhaps an entire army is here for the queen. Perhaps it’s only the sound of Jawbraekka's threats from the heart of the mountain that reignites their blood lust.<br/><br/>The orcs pour into the cavern as a tide of teeth, iron and blades, finding their dead brethren strewn across the floor in a trail of death that leads into the up-tunnels, as they like to call them. The leading scout kicks an arrow-riddled corpse onto its back.<br/><br/>"Get the shields...."<br/><br/>Grunts echo up the tunnel as the slabs of steel are passed overhead and taken up by two orcs and brought down with a resounding smash that blocks most of the light going up the tunnel. The shields are overlapped to take up the entire width of the tunnel, their height leaving almost nothing exposed. The rest of the orcs fall into line behind, two by two column of savagery.<br/><br/>“Heave! Flush ‘em out, we’ll scrape ‘em off the walls”<br/><br/>The shields are hefted inches off of the floor and the orcs stampede up the tunnel, a piston of plate iron intent on squeezing the life out of the barbarian and king.<br/>