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Campaign, Ike!
((Water in your breath should already be evaporated, if that's what you mean.))
Does it (the food, not the bowl, unless the latter seems like it's made of something edible as well) seem warm yet? Eat it if yes. Breathe on it some more if not.
((I meant
this. Although that question mentions blowing, so maybe it's different if you simply breathe on it or if you breathe on the bowl instead of the liquid. Anyway, just saying, not that it's very important.))
You touch the bowl. It's a bit warm. You don't think it can get much hotter than this. It's like trying to heat something with a candle. You lift the bowl and put some of the soup in your mouth, biting the chunks of bread in it a bit before swallowing it. The food has not yet reached the same temperature, but you assume it will get there soon. As expected, it tastes bread-y.
"The beastman I was with is one I've been traveling with for quite some time now. He came with me, and as far as I'm aware, he's unrelated to any beastmen from around here. Could you tell me how well your people and the local beastmen have been coexisting?"
The man looks thoughtful, his tense expression making his face appear even more wrinkled.
"Hm... I see no reason for you to lie... Your presence here is
suspicious... And to be frank, I'd prefer it if you were not here. I have enough things to keep me occupied as it is."He leans back and relaxes a bit.
"But as long as you cause no trouble, I have no reason to do something about you. Like I said, I have enough troubles as it is.""To answer your question, from what I've heard, after the campaign to the north and with all the things happening in the elves' domain, beastmen raids have become less frequent.""I've read some books on the subject, but I'm not sure how much of the information in them is true. I have always said we needed more research on the subject. Other than that, I've only seen them as prisoners during the victory parade. Heard they sometimes had fights with them in the arena, but I've never gone there myself. It is common knowledge that they are raiders that plunder our villages and kill our people, raiders that cannot be appeased or be reasoned with.""And recent experience has done nothing to prove that wrong. Apparently, there must have been some hiding in the city, for after its destruction, there have been some attacks on our people. The survivors say there are some with the form of rodents, as well as some with the form of insects.""Why do you need to know that? Where do you come from? Why are you here? What is your relationship with that beastman? Or this man, for that matter?"He sounds less like he's interrogating you and more like he's genuinely interested now.
OOC@Wolfkit & Toaster: Like I said, you are both very powerful but neither of you is really a fighter. So it really came down to luck, who would manage to hit the other first. That's why I found it incredibly funny when you both managed to hit each other at the same round and with lethal results. But John's rolls were better, so...
To answer Wolfkit's question, I would suggest immediately attacking John with lasers instead of bothering with the raygun, since your lasers can bypass cover. With a good roll you could had either blinded him or outright hurt him, preventing him from retaliating and slowing him down greatly, forcing him to focus on protecting/healing himself, thus allowing you more time to pummel him and keep him on the defensive. Or even get a lucky kill. Of course, that had the downside that you had to remain stationary and failure would mean you just wasted time sitting still and allowed him to generate more equipment.
Other than that, you could had used the environment. For example, you could had used the maintenance hallways to flank John in that hallway.
The environment in general offered a lot of opportunities depending on where you are. For example, if you were battling over some vats full of bubbling acid/toxins/lava, you could had shot/lasered the walkway (which would be an easier, stationary target) instead of your opponent to cause them to fall down.
Or for more extreme/dangerous things, you could had unleashed some biological test subjects and then run in the opposite direction, hoping they'd take care of the other. Or you could had gone to the security office and retrieved some better weapons and armour. Or you could had gone to the AI and used your higher privileges to convince it and its cyborgs to help you. Or to the robotics labs to try and get a nice exoskeleton. Or to the energetic material testing to find something that can make a big boom.
Or for even more extreme/dangerous things, you could had gone to the secondary nuclear reactor, overloaded it and then escape through an elevator to the surface. Or you could had gone to the AI core and upload yourself. If the (rather dangerous) procedure was successful, it would make the game a lot harder for your opponent since at that point it would be more like a strategy game for you. Or retrieve a gas mask and flood the entire complex with CO2 through life support. Or even better, seal yourself in life support and flood the entire complex with aerosolized biohorror blood or a toxin or some other dangerous material.
Not that you could had known, hindsight 20/20 and all that. Just saying. You did really good, considering the circumstances.
@Hawk: Oh dear. I need to stop writing turns when half asleep.
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