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[escaped lurker]

The Plains of Grating, Fifth Age
The Age of Death, Year 625
Day 2, Early Morning

Setting a plan into motion, you remove yourself from the immediate vicinity – and most importantly, point of view – of the camp. As soon as that is done, you get nearby into the blind spot behind the tent. Calling on the horse, you carefully let it trot nearby, and it is on.

You sprint towards the tent, intent on knocking it over, simultaneously the horse got the command to trample the human by the fire. The sound of hooves stomping the ground reaches the camp only moments before you reach the tent.

The posts holding up the strongly weathered leather are easy to see even from the outside, and as easy knocked over – you are even rewarded with a delightfully surprised scream. The other mortal is dumbstruck between the appearance of you and the horse, the later triggering a vain attempt at fleeing in him. Your animation meets him with a satisfying snap, the hooves mauling his right shoulder and some ribs in the attack.

Changing targets, you run up to him, but he somehow gets up before you can reach him. If it is panic, or the realization that fleeing would be futile, he clumsily draws a dagger with his left hand. The fight is short and mostly one-sided, ended by a claw to his throat. You only retain some slashes along your arms, with the ensuing bleeding not really serious.

-11 HP

On the other hand, your horse does not do its second task justice and by the time you are able to divert your attention back to the tent, the man has come free – and is holding a two-hander. At least it seems that this was the only thing hiding in the tent. While he is already in a bit of a sorry state, the sword could spell real trouble.

He keeps both horse and you in his eyes as good as is possible. This could get tricky...

Currently:
173/200 HP
31/157 MP

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Ghoulish Vessel
Strength: 11 (9)
Endurance: 11
Agility: 7
Intelligence: 13
Wisdom: 14
Charisma: 5

Status:
Well-Fed - Doubled HP-Regeneration, ??
Burned Hand - Temporarily lowers your overal Strength by 2 - slowly healing
Light Cuts - Nothing a Ghoul can't take. Could lead to Anemia with other wounds.

?? HPD
~40 MPD

Spoiler:  Spells (click to show/hide)

School of Necromancy - Adept
Branches: Mysticism, Occultism

Animate Skeleton – 50 MP
Raise a temporary Skeleton to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 3 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 30 MP on it.

Turn Lesser Undead – 30 MP
Allows you to destroy, render harmless or straightly take over an undead creature.

Soulspeaker – 20 MP
Allows you to contact the souls of the dead, and to communicate with them. Duration 1 Hour.


School of Transmutation - Adept
Branches: Enchanting, Alteration

Drain Energy – 20MP +50% of the drained Energy must be paid in MP
Allows you to drain a prone or enslaved creature of its mana or vitality.

Change Object – 80 MP, Duration 1 Hour
Allows you to temporary change the properties or shape of an object.

Store Mana – 40MP + Desired Amount
Allows you to store mana into gemstones.

Spoiler: Followers (click to show/hide)

Skeletal Horse Upkeep 16 Mana Per Day

"That... went reasonably well. Now for the last one! "

[Weirdsound]

Perform somatic movements and chants to bluff casting a spell. Signal for the horse to attack him once you have his full attention.

[GiglameshDespair]

Perform somatic movements and chants to bluff casting a spell. Signal for the horse to attack him once you have his full attention.

+1

[Tomcost]

Perform somatic movements and chants to bluff casting a spell. Signal for the horse to attack him once you have his full attention.

+1

+1.

Ahh, misdirection, the best tactic ever.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I told you we should have tried to tackle the humies one at a time.

[Detoxicated]

Its okay, this fight should end well. You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs they say. I +1 the suggestion of Weirdsound.

Also weirdsound, do you have a thing for sound and such, as your name and suggestion suggest my thesis?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Its okay, this fight should end well. You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs they say.

No reason to avoid breaking more eggs than we need to.

[Detoxicated]

True that

On a different note, I hope you don't feel offended since its the second time I replied to your posts in an argumentive manner. I feel that you are usually a nice player with good suggestions (good as in agreable or agreeing with me  ). I wonder though, didn't you mention before that you do not like dark grim themed games? Just wondering on a personal level where you draw the line.

[GreatWyrmGold]

On a different note, I hope you don't feel offended since its the second time I replied to your posts in an argumentive manner.

I find this extremely amusing.

I wonder though, didn't you mention before that you do not like dark grim themed games? Just wondering on a personal level where you draw the line.

I don't remember saying that.

[Tomcost]

I told you we should have tried to tackle the humies one at a time.

I think that we had bad luck mostly. A failed stealth check could have made the now dead guy scream, alerting the other guy and having to face two attacks at the same time.

Anyway, I'm just hypothesizing.

[GreatWyrmGold]

On the other hand, this plan was guaranteed to alert both humans, and I don't see a tent impeding the second too much without extreme luck on our part.

[Weirdsound]

Its okay, this fight should end well. You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs they say. I +1 the suggestion of Weirdsound.

Also weirdsound, do you have a thing for sound and such, as your name and suggestion suggest my thesis?

Sort of. I threw words together until I got a handle that worked without tacking numbers on the end, but the name does fit; I dabble in the trombone and also writing song lyrics from time to time.

[escaped lurker]

The Plains of Grating, Fifth Age
The Age of Death, Year 625
Day 2, Early Morning

You decide to bluff, assume a somehow familiar feeling stance, and start to chant some stuff with the occasional magical reference in it. Some of these things could even work, or that is the feeling that you get. Not the human thou, he is more focused on the horse than ever, only sparing you the occasional bewildered glance. Even wearing a triumphant grin does nothing on the presumably dense fellow.

True enough, ghouls are actually not known to be casters. Not that you would still know, at least. Still, necromancers seldom keep anything around that they can't control or enslave, safe the odd natural undead that allies itself to them for their own purposes.

Meanwhile the mortal - his concentration almost fully on the horse by now – grows daring enough to lunge and swing his sword at it. The surprising part is that he actually was able to hit it. Luckily it is only missing a few ribs though.

Currently:
173/200 HP
31/157 MP

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Ghoulish Vessel
Strength: 11 (9)
Endurance: 11
Agility: 7
Intelligence: 13
Wisdom: 14
Charisma: 5

Status:
Well-Fed - Doubled HP-Regeneration, ??
Burned Hand - Temporarily lowers your overal Strength by 2 - slowly healing
Light Cuts - Nothing a Ghoul can't take. Could lead to Anemia with other wounds.

?? HPD
~40 MPD

Spoiler:  Spells (click to show/hide)

School of Necromancy - Adept
Branches: Mysticism, Occultism

Animate Skeleton – 50 MP
Raise a temporary Skeleton to do your bidding. Lasts 1 Day, extendible by 3 MP per day.
Can be made permanent by spending additional 30 MP on it.

Turn Lesser Undead – 30 MP
Allows you to destroy, render harmless or straightly take over an undead creature.

Soulspeaker – 20 MP
Allows you to contact the souls of the dead, and to communicate with them. Duration 1 Hour.


School of Transmutation - Adept
Branches: Enchanting, Alteration

Drain Energy – 20MP +50% of the drained Energy must be paid in MP
Allows you to drain a prone or enslaved creature of its mana or vitality.

Change Object – 80 MP, Duration 1 Hour
Allows you to temporary change the properties or shape of an object.

Store Mana – 40MP + Desired Amount
Allows you to store mana into gemstones.

Spoiler: Followers (click to show/hide)

Skeletal Horse Upkeep 16 Mana Per Day Slightly Damaged

" This.... this is humiliating! Just ignoring one of the once most powerful necromancers of the continent for a simple horse..."

[Tomcost]

Tackle and disarm the guy from behind. There aren't many things we can do now, actually.

[Detoxicated]

+1
Make it a carnivoric fest of hunger.