Following the path through the woods towards the lake brought Petra to a bend in the road where she could hear the splashing and rough laughter ahead. Moving near the sudden twist in the road she could see past the bushes there and to the clearing, an almost idyllic small grassy field and beyond it, sandy small beach and crystal clear lake.<br/><br/>The sight that ruined the serenity of that was a pair of wooden poles put up nearby with a man and a woman tied to them. The woman was gagged and squirming, but looking alive and unharmed, but the man near her was worse off. His body was badly bruised and battered, shirtless and covered with red, bleeding marks.<br/><br/>The man had black hair and short  beard, the woman a brown curly hair that was disheveled. The two of them had their arms tied up around the post, unable to really move from there if they tried, but based on how the man was hanging up even though injured, there was somethin keeping their arms up at that height too.<br/><br/>Near the group stood a gathering of three orcs, seeming to be talking to one another about something, throwing an occasional stone right at the bound man, some hitting and causing more blood to flow a moment. The man had lost consciousness, it was hard to tell if he might even be dead. He was bleeding but he wasn't reacting much.<br/><br/>Beyond the orcs near the waterline stood an ugly, lumbering giant, standing roughly ten feet tall and holding a club he kept swinging at a small figure in the water trying to get near the shore, looking like it was drowning. The orcs laughed at the splashing, watching the lumbering figure slam its wooden club into the lake's shore again the splash pushing the swimming figure back further, the giant of a malformed man snorting.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Orcs are so common at times, that Petra ought to know them on sight, but on some other monsters I wonder if I should try describing them or naming them for you. In anycase, there's a 150 feet wide stretch of beach ahead, and orcs are at 80 feet distance tormenting the bound man 20 feet ahead from their position. If you had emerged from other side of the clearing, you would get in 50 feet range of the captives, and 70 feet range of the orcs. <br/><br/>The other figure, the ugly giant (large sized creature) at the shoreline is roughly 80 feet away, at the waterline to the side of the orcs, keeping someone (or something) in the water. </div></div>