<strong>Aleria</strong><br/><br/>The young redhead could feel the piercing gaze of the ranger in her back as she slowly walked toward the orc encampment, drawing another set of sneers and laughter from the residents. She couldn't understand their language, btu she could try her best to observe their actions to try and learn about them. Unfortunately by the time she entered the space between the makeshift tents, the orcs stopped whatever they were doing, curious about the gorgeous trespasser. She could immediately tell that nearly all of the orc warband were male, some older with patches of grey in their fur others seemingly quite young. It didn't take long until her steps became uncertain and she found herself encircled by the savages, who might have had other ideas than academic study about her fresh, young body.<br/><br/>One of the the bigger, older orcs who was wrestling before walked up to her slowly, examining her carefully. Apparently he was smarter than most others, and knew by now that beautiful young redehads can be just as deadly as the fiercest steel-clad knight.<br/>"You not Chief Red Death. What you want here? Why you come?" he questioned her, speaking or rather grunting in a barely understandable common, using single syllable words, probably because their own language was made up of barks and grunts. He didn't really bother respecting the girl's personal space, getting really close, his rippling muscles and bare upper body almost blocking out her view on the others behind him. He smelled of sweat, dirt and mud, even blood from upclose. It was the smell of raw physical strength and of savagery. "Speak!" he barked an order, demanding the girl to answer his questions.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Aleria OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Please give me either a perception or a sense motive check. I'll leave it to you which one you make, but take only one of the two.</div></div><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Ashara</strong><br/><br/>Gavrel clearly liked the response of the fiery priestess, and redied himself while the younger recruits were all to eager to help out the beautiful and flirty woman, perhaps in hopes of receiving a similar offer another day.<br/>Once she fixed the shield to her arm and took a few swings with the morning star to get a feel of the weapon, she moved into the ring where Gavrel waited impatiently.<br/>"I have a feeling that whatever the outcome, I can't lose." he said grinning, then lunged forward swiftly, just barely faster then the passionate cleric could react. His swing with the sword came in a wide arc, quite predictable for an opening attack. Ashara quickly realized though that the attack wasn't so simple, ahving seen him just win a duel with dirty fighting. She could quickly adjust to prepare for the shield bash that was coming from the other side, except that Gavrel withdrew his slash in the last second, hitting the edge of his shield with his sword pommel, changing the course of impact. Thoush Ashara managed to avoid getting hit, the unexpected maneuver sent her staggeing back towards the eager and grateful crowd who reached out to try and catch her, keeping her from falling and even trying to cop a feel if possible. As a result, she ended up between a set of hands tryign to to grab and touch her, and between the cocky fighter, who was clearl better than the other soldiers, though nowhere experienced or serious enough to compete with the officers she saw fighting before.<br/>"Why don't you just give up now and march into my tent, love?" Gavrel taunts her while withdrawing his weapon and shield, either out of chivalry, or cockiness, not believing that the desireable woman could make a good enough martial comeback from this situation.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Combat</div><div class="spoiler_body">Improved Dirty Trick maneuver for 14 total vs her 13 CMD. For one round she is considered entangled (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/conditions#TOC-Entangled) thanks to the crowd trying to 'help' her out in their own way. She is also between the crowd (effectively making up the wall of the dueling ring) and Gavrel now and provokes if she tries to move sideways.</div></div>