Re: The Via Aurelia, the Road to Olbia
The party, especially Bryon and Druk, but possibly not Mystal, would be aware that Orcs very, very rarely desire to sleep with Humans, and consider the Human (and Elven) mythology surrounding this to be part of what makes Humans and Elves so insufferable.
From the Orc point of view: Of course Humans and Elves would imagine that they are so beautiful that everyone else desires them. They are THAT full of themselves. Somehow, Gnomes and Dwarves know better.
But the average Orc would think, if faced with the possibility: "Get a grip, Human, you are weak, you are smooth and soft like a frog, and you barely smell, who would ever want you?"
Of course it happens from time to time. It can usually be attributed to one of several things: An Orc with somewhat atypical tastes, a Human with atypical tastes, both, or an Orc playing into Human/Elven fears and using this as a form of punishment. Often, alcohol is involved.
It is good that it does not happen more often, from the Orc point of view. Half Orcs can be useful. Often they have skills and abilities that the Orc community in general is lacking. Or they can act as go betweens, linking Humans and Orcs when the dread Gnomish magic of "Eek!-A-Gnome-iks" makes it desirable to do so. There is even one Orc queen who has it in her head that Half Orcs make superior leaders so she is going out of her way to create them. But Orcs on the whole would not appreciate large numbers of degenerate semi-Orcs running around, especially if they had any of that annoying, smug Human sense of superiority.
Bryon and Druk have both observed life in Massilia- Orcs generally leave Humans alone. Druk, in his experience, would have noted that some Humans have a sick fantasy that all other creatures must lust after them, but this just annoys Orcs. Only Humans and Elves have those strange ideas- perhaps not coincidentally, Humans and Elves also lust after each other. Orcs find this bizarre too.