So is that just another shit roll?
Their reactions will be rolled for as well, won't they?
Didn't actually roll for these ones no, and don't necessarily roll for every action. These are mutually exclusive narrative paths. It would be a bit weird for example if Scorn said 'watch out of the shaman' and then the Frostwolf shaman just whiffed their spells or something. Here characters have predicted what might happen, so you have a good idea of what each path entails
And to make clear if we remain that means kill them all?
confirming Thrall's biases cause we'll have slaughtered his clan and teacher.
unfortunately I don't the feeling we're being allowed to do that.
we have already killed a lot of frostwolves
Relating to the intensity of the battle, firstly, not that many orcs have actually died yet. Probably quite a lot of wolves on either side (your warsong wargs, their frostwolf pets), but relatively few orcs. As the characters note, the Frostwolf populace isn't especially motivated to do damage, and there's a lot of basically brawling going on before Grok got back to the formation and basically rallied everyone. There were some Orcs who fell into battle mode and just started swining axes around, but neither side was very well prepared, and neither side are that motivated. Say you were at the back of the BB column and you saw a commotion up ahead, you don't necessarily think it's treachery, so maybe you just tackle the nearest frostwolf and start punching them, rather than cutting their head off.
In terms of what'll happen, the characters feel that if they kill/defeat Drekthar, the rest of the clan will stop fighting long enough to have a discussion. That's why Vark is trying to snipe him in the middle of a conversation. No one has the intention of stalking through the camp and slaughtering everyone. If the Frostwolves are willing to stop, the BB will be too. Grok's internal narrative also talks about this. He's gravely offended at the treachery, and he'll kill anyone who comes at him with a weapon and not feel bad about it, but he has no particular desire to kill the normal Frostwolves who weren't involved in the treachery/ who were just following orders.
And we have no fucking way of controlling the narrative back in Kalimdor.
Don't worry, Neeru Fireblade is on the case!
@FractiousDay what's the result we get with the same roll if Grok saw to the storm pikes first?
So this gets into the weirdness of simulation. Firstly, if you'd spoken to teh Stormpikes, I may not have rolled as I did for Thrall's reaction, meaning that the dice had yet to decide that that reaction was very negative. The stormpikes were more chill with you, so probably wouldn't have given you any reinforcements unless you helped them against the FW. However, maybe at that point I'd have given you the opportunity to go talk to teh FW, adn tehrefore that owul dhave been the roll time.
with Scorn doing the actual day to day running of the Warband,
Pretty much. Scorn is good at that. He'd murdered someone and now wants to get back to a reasonable position in society by serving under a successful commander. He has a significant incentive in pushing Grok to acheive higher rank for example, because as Grok's most experienced commander he can rise with him.
Also of course Scorn serves a mechanical purpose for me because it means basically the whole warband can be represented in one character as an aggregate mass.
One question, where is Vok'fon and Kartha in all this? Kinda be interested how Kartha is taking all this, with the whole spy thing.
I admit some of the minor characters do tend to fall by the wayside a bit. I suppose in this they're just hanging about being confused and trying not to get killed. Kartha will indeed be consulted later on for the politics of the sutiation, both on this and on the general Alterac situation
