I am perfectly happy to spend any length of time preparing for the
journey ahead ... if it is even remotely as dangerous in the other
quadrants of this dungeon as the orcs implied, then we would be well
advised to obtain every advantage possible.
After all, it is not much of a stretch to say that, with perhaps a
handful of extra troglodytes, we might have been the ones exterminated
instead in that chamber. Or if the head-bags had decided not to split
themselves up so thoroughly, we would have been similarly overwhelmed
with baggage.
Now, admittedly, we have managed to get better weapons and armor than
I am likely able to make out of the materials I have. But we can re-
evaluate the armor situation, and worst case scenario I could fashion
an inordinate amount of useful adventuring equipment out of these
disgusting pieces of flesh and bone!