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Okay, I'm at the caravan site. What do I do?
1 of 12: What Hrothgar told you to do -- investigate.
2 of 12: Go along the path, and kill the wolves that attack you.
3 of 12: You'll soon see two orcs run into a cave.
4 of 12: Follow them, of course. You'll have to fight them once you get inside. Don't worry, though, because these guys aren't tough unless there's a lot of them at once.
5 of 12: Once you kill them, explore the place. There's one room you have to go through with a slightly annoying battle in it (there's a shaman who curses you), but if you draw out all the melee attackers first, you'll be fine.
6 of 12: Search the whole place, and you'll kill some more orcs for XP. There's also a chest in the western part with a good random item inside.
7 of 12: Once you're ready, go down the hall on the far west. You'll come to a room with a bunch of orcs and one ogre.
8 of 12: Let all your spells loose in this fight, nothing else to save them for.
9 of 12: It's not terribly hard really. Just retreat if you're having trouble, and only a few of them will follow.
10 of 12: Once you've beaten them, search the ogre's body to find the caravan contract, and you can also search the nearby chest for some stuff that you can sell, and a Scroll of Horror, which is a nice spell to know.
11 of 12: Once you go back to town, bring the caravan contract to the fishmonger, and you'll gain some XP.
12 of 12: Once you're ready, go back to Hrothgar, and tell him what you've found.
