He is left to guard the bodies of several of his freinds and family while they were on an astral quest. Because of the nature of the quest, getting dirt on a spirit to use against the Ancients, they were in a part of the Underground somewhat isolate from the rest. Our hero, da' orc, and his best chummer, let's call him Bob, are all set up for a long night of guard duty, with Bob switching places with da orc just after everyone drops out. Unfortunately, someone has dirt on Bob and he has been told to leave a particular passage unguarded, hence the reason he switches places with da' orc. Some Ancients head in through the unguarded tunnel and get the drop on da' orc. they manage to geek half the mages and take Bob out on general principles. Da' orc is wounded, but not horribly so, before the Ancients toss a grenade and head back out. When the dust clears, the surviving mages only know that the Ancients got through the tunnle da' orc was supposed to be guarding and managed to take most of them out. Since Bob is dead, they only have da' orc's word to take for it, but they don't really trust him anymore, and most of them consider him a traitor.
Watcha think?
Gabriel