I demand to know what's going on here! Just because we can kill them doesn't mean we should.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 05:05 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:30 |
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Get an explanation before we kill them. Or at least ask for one.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 05:28 |
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Demand explanation, they might just be doing their job.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 06:17 |
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Let's not attack human soldiers right away, demand an explanation instead.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 10:20 |
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Demand an explanation. We're white people, we're allowed to loot things.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 13:08 |
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Kanthulhu posted:Let's not attack human soldiers right away, demand an explanation instead. Flight from the Dark posted:The rough-looking leader approaches you and says, ‘Our needs are simple, kind sir. Your money or your life!’ Although he is being reasonably polite about it, we're still not going to be handing over our money or anything else. Shall we fight the three of them, or make a run for it?
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 15:18 |
With a heavy sigh, draw our weapon and prepare to fight.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 15:52 |
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Fight.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 15:59 |
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Like I thought, unauthorized banditry. Fight!
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 16:59 |
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achtungnight posted:Like I thought, unauthorized banditry. Fight! Let's counter with some morally authorized banditry then fight
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 18:23 |
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"'Your money or your life?' Ugh. You are so gonna die for threatening us with something so stupid." Let's kick their asses.
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# ? Aug 31, 2017 19:14 |
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Flight from the Dark posted:They see you raise your weapon, and they instantly attack you. A new twist is introduced in this fight: evasion. Sometimes the book will offer you the chance to evade a fight part-way through. Sometimes there are conditions attached, like "only after two rounds" or something like that, other times (like now) you can do it any time. The way it works is, you do one last round of combat (but ignore any damage you would have dealt to the opponent, only apply the damage they did to you) and then turn to the indicated section. Often what happens is just the same as if you'd avoided the fight altogether, but other times you get a different outcome - sometimes better, sometimes worse. In addition to that, you may remember me mentioning earlier that fights with multiple opponents function like a gauntlet: as soon as you kill one, you start fighting the next. So what we have here is essentially three separate fights with no chance to heal up or do anything else in between. Now, when you're playing the game yourself you'd be able to evade at any point during the fight, but it would take way too much time to ask for votes between every combat round, so I'm not always going to ask about evading if the fight looks easy, and when I do ask I'll ask once and you'll be able to vote for whatever conditions you want to evade under. For example, you might say "We'll evade if our Endurance drops below 10" or something like that. But in this case I'm just going to let the fight with the leader play out and see where we're at after that. Leader: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 22 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 28 Combat Ratio: 4 We roll: 9 Leader: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 8 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 28 We roll: 2 Leader: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 2 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 25 We roll: 5 Leader: COMBAT SKILL 15 ENDURANCE 0 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 23 So we've taken 5 damage and have two opponents remaining. The combat ratios for those will be 6 and 7 respectively and you can see what that means for our chances by looking at the Combat Results Table. So the question is, will we evade and if so, under what conditions? Immediately? Never? If our Endurance gets below a certain number? If the first of the two soldiers does a certain amount of damage to us? It's up to you.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 04:21 |
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I'm going to say Keep fighting, evade if Endurance falls below 10.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 04:26 |
Keep Fighting. Never Retreat.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 04:29 |
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Onwards! YIELD FOR NO MAN OR NUMBER!!!
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 04:35 |
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achtungnight posted:Keep fighting, evade if Endurance falls below 10. This would be a good rule.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 06:41 |
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Looking at the combat rating it seems like these guys would need to get unreasonably lucky to actually have a real shot at killing us. There's a good chance we can two-shot these guys, and nothing less than a ridiculous streak of ones are actually going to kill us. Thus I can agree with Evade only if Endurance goes below 10, because that would mean we're getting absolutely horrible luck.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 08:30 |
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We have potions correct? The only time you can actually use them is in combat right? or is it only outside of combat?
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 08:52 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:We have potions correct? The only time you can actually use them is in combat right? or is it only outside of combat? We have no potions at this time, and they can only be used outside combat anyway. (Our Action Chart is on the first page of the thread and shows what equipment we currently have and what special rules, if any, apply.)
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 09:28 |
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Just keep fighting. I think we are going to school these losers anyway.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 11:49 |
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Ratatozsk posted:Onwards! YIELD FOR NO MAN OR NUMBER!!! Soldier 1: COMBAT SKILL 13 ENDURANCE 20 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 23 Combat ratio: 6 We roll: 3 Soldier 1: COMBAT SKILL 13 ENDURANCE 12 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 20 We roll: 5 Soldier 1: COMBAT SKILL 13 ENDURANCE 2 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 18 We roll: 2 Soldier 1: COMBAT SKILL 13 ENDURANCE 0 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 15 Well, that didn't go quite as well as hoped, but we fight to the death! Soldier 2: COMBAT SKILL 12 ENDURANCE 20 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 15 Combat ratio: 7 We roll: 3 Soldier 2: COMBAT SKILL 12 ENDURANCE 11 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 13 We roll: 2 Soldier 2: COMBAT SKILL 12 ENDURANCE 3 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 10 We roll: 2 Soldier 2: COMBAT SKILL 12 ENDURANCE 0 Lone Wolf: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 7 That could have gone a lot better. Random.org apparently has it out for us today. Still, it probably wasn't worth running away by the time we hit 10 Endurance since there was literally no chance of the second soldier surviving another round. Flight from the Dark posted:The ‘soldiers’ lie dead at your feet. They were bandits who were stealing from the refugees of Toran, and from the abandoned houses and farms in the area. We're already carrying a sword, so unless anyone objects we'll just take the food and cash. This puts us over the 50GC limit, but as with weapons I'm going to rule that we can keep extra in our backpack (up to 50 per slot). Flight from the Dark posted:As you reach the walls of the fieldworks, the large oak gates open and you are quickly hurried inside. A sergeant, bloodstained and battle-weary, calls to an officer who turns and recognizes your cloak. Well, we've finally reached the city. Do we stick with this soldier, or should find our own way to the citadel?
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 16:19 |
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Let's not get lost, stick with him
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 17:08 |
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Stay with our escort.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 17:23 |
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We are a Kai. We work better alone. Ditch the soldier and use our superior training to find the better way.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:22 |
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Why make things harder? Stick with him.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:48 |
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Stay with the soldier.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 19:55 |
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Batman often disappears when Gordon least expects it. Let's be Batman! Both options are up for grabs and this felt most fun.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 20:35 |
Let's give this soldier a story to tell to his grandkids and let him escort us.
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# ? Sep 1, 2017 21:22 |
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Seyser Koze posted:Stay with our escort. Flight from the Dark posted:Staying close to the officer, you follow him through an arched portal and up a short flight of stairs to a long hall. Soldiers run back and forth bearing orders on ornate scrolls to officers stationed around the city wall.
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 03:04 |
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So i know it's jumping ahead a bit, but other than exploring the graveyard closely or going your own way through the city, the next book mentions some items that i don't know how you'd find otherwise. But in any case, we are to close to the end to risk getting shanked in an alleyway or something. So lets follow him
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 03:24 |
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Let's look back so far at what happened to us:
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 04:36 |
All that is gold does not glitter, follow that man!
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 06:39 |
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Again don't see much point in ditching our escort, stick with him.
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 07:07 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:So i know it's jumping ahead a bit, but other than exploring the graveyard closely or going your own way through the city, the next book mentions some items that i don't know how you'd find otherwise. Snorb posted:Let's look back so far at what happened to us:
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 07:31 |
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Tiggum posted:Not sure what you're referring to here? some kind of key or crystal i want to say? i might be thinking of something between the 2nd and 3rd books then.
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 08:44 |
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Didn't these books have fake paragraphs and item prompts for items which never existed? I'm almost sure some of the Fighting Fantasy books worked like that.
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 08:55 |
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New escort.
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 10:07 |
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RabidWeasel posted:Didn't these books have fake paragraphs and item prompts for items which never existed? I'm almost sure some of the Fighting Fantasy books worked like that. HOOLY BOOLY posted:some kind of key or crystal i want to say? i might be thinking of something between the 2nd and 3rd books then. Flight from the Dark posted:You follow the man into a small library off the main hall. He pushes one of the many books on the shelves which line all four walls, and you hear a metallic click. One section of the bookcase slowly slides back to reveal a hidden passage. The book almost seems to be mocking us at this point as all the "stop following" choices lead to the same section, so it's very obvious that if you say "no" at this stage then it will have been pointless saying "yes" the first two times. It's either a very unsubtle hint or a mean trick. Tiggum fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Sep 3, 2017 |
# ? Sep 2, 2017 15:20 |
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Yea, now I just want to follow for the sake of knowing how it's gonna kill us, the book's making it obvious that it doesn't want us to, though.
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 15:23 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:30 |
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Yes, I agree. Follow the evil advisor to our deaths!
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# ? Sep 2, 2017 15:44 |