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[FallacyofUrist]

"My... associates are insane. Bloody insane."

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[Sir Knight]

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Seems reasonable.  Or at least traditional.  Meet new entities; kill them.

And I would like to thank Dustan (Dustan Hache) for trying a helmet-removing maneuver.  I set up a rule that any humanoid without a helmet suffers a "missing helmet while underground" penalty, but I'd had no reason to use it.  Now we just have to see if it works!

Spoiler: Combat round order (click to show/hide)

7, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2, 6

. . . The ugly mug sergeant, Durenadal, John, ugly mug patrolmember A, Dustan, Frank, ugly mug patrolmember B.

Overseer is left out until and unless somebody goes and disturbs him.

Spoiler: Pitched melee and a pitched rock (click to show/hide)

Ugly mug sergeant's combat table as before:

Ugly mug sergeant's attack roll: 5, Succeed!
Damage roll (1d6+1): 3+1 = 4!
Dustan, HP: 11/15

Durenadal's combat table, throwing rocks with bare hands:

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed weakly
4: Succeed weakly
5: Succeed
6: Fail by succeeding

Durenadal's attack roll: 1, Fail terribly!
Damage roll (1d4-1): 4-1 = 3!
Durenadal, HP: 10/13

John's combat table, now with iron pick:

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed weakly
4: Succeed
5: Succeed greatly
6: Fail by succeeding

John's attack roll: 6, Fail by succeeding!
Damage to ugly mug patrolmember A (1d6+1): 2+1 = 3!
Ugly mug patrolmember A, HP: 1/10
Damage to John (1d6+1): 4+1 = 5!
John, HP: 10/15

Ugly mug patrolmember's combat table, iron sickle:

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed weakly
4: Succeed
5: Succeed
6: Succeed greatly
7: Fail by succeeding

Ugly mug patrolmember A's attack roll: 4, Succeed!
Damage roll (1d6+1): 1+1 = 2!
John, HP: 8/15

Dustan and Frank are each trying a combat maneuver, which uses the basic results table:

Dustan's dehelmetization roll: 4, Succeed!

Frank's destandification roll: 2, Fail!

Ugly mug patrolmember B's attack roll: 4, Succeed!
(Randomly targetting Frank among the two attacking the sergeant . . . )
Damage roll (1d6+1): 2+1 = 3!
Frank, HP: 9/15

Blood!

Not always the right people bleeding, though.

Off to one side, Durenadal appears and tries to throw a rock at the weakened patrolmember.  It's not just that he fails: it's that he gets in the flight path when John discards his unhelpful weapon, and Durenadal is struck in the leg by the spinning iron sword!

John does a little better with the iron pick, getting wedged in a weapon-lock against the patrolmember's sickle.  Each side perforates the other.  You weren't expecting this, and you jab yourself on the back of your weapon as well, but the patrolmember is almost at the end of his rope!

On the other side, the angry sergeant with the halberd swings back at Dustan and gets a moderate slash.  You respond by smacking that skull cap right off his ugly mug!

Frank rushes up close and tries to take the sergeant down with a body slam, but once you've ducked under his arms you just wind up ducking past him completely.  The one remaining patrolmember puts down the lantern he was tossed and leaps to defend his superior, hooking your shoulder and cutting it open with his sickle!

Overseer just, you know, leaves you to it.

Spoiler: The GM rolls, mysteriously (click to show/hide)

Result: 5, Succeed greatly!

But wait!  You hear new footsteps pounding through the caverns!  At least two more ugly mugs appear at the far end of this tunnel!



(I keep having to jump into my copy of Dwarf Fortress, load up adventure mode, and drop an item like a helmet to see what symbol is used!  Is there any way to identify the symbol of items outside of that?  I had to make up one for the lantern, which is the thing against that lower wall.)

Now, Dustan (Dustan Hache): you said you'd want to stab him in the neck, but with a weak success I'm just going to judge that your attack will be the first thing you do next round.  Can I presume you're using your mining pick for the stab?  Your knife is on the ground nearby.

[ziizo]

finish the ugly mug.

[FallacyofUrist]

"What reasonable people would just jump to committing murder... for wheelbarrows? Have they been possessed or something?"

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[Dustan Hache]

actually, grab my knife and tackle the ugly mug who attacked frank. Try to take them hostage.

[Starver]

(Basic lookup (bi-directional). In this case, searching for "armor" would have been necessary to be shown "[" character, with nothing specifically for helm, helmet or even headware, but you might or might not get there easier for other things.  The page uses some characters that my browser renders differently from the Codepage437-based 'not graphical' graphics, and some don't render as anything other than "unknown character" in my browser (on my machine), so you can double-check against the data/art/ file. Precise colouration is a different issue, but probably you can be as flexible as you want, given your own set of materials.)

(And that's a very good choice of character for a lantern... )

[ufo]

I regret to inform you that "shadow man" is not a playable class.

Anyway, I'm back!  And if Durenadal (HugeNerdAndProudOfIt) is abandoning the position back there, I'll definitely need word from Overseer (FallacyofUrist) on whether he does something new or just stays blissfully distant from things that could make him bleed.

just an way to appear on the game 

[Sir Knight]

No action.

(There's a lesson in here about which players get the longest lifespan.)

(By the way: thanks, Starver, for directing me to that page.  I do use the wiki; but whereas animals and minerals have a depiction on their individual page, for items I was just flailing about.  And . . . )

lantern...

(This comparison did not elude me . . . )

[Coolrune206]

Frank instead tackles the asshole with the sickle. He de-standifies him good.

[Sir Knight]

So we now have two people trying to tackle the same ugly mug.  It's easy to guess that if Frank (Coolrune206) succeeds in tackling first, Dustan (Dustan Hache) will continue with his plan and use the subdued enemy as a hostage at knifepoint.

Coolrune206: If Dustan succeeds in tackling first, do you have a follow-up plan?  Or would you, I guess, double-tackle?

Beyond that, waiting on Durenadal (HugeNerdAndProudOfIt).  Back tomorrow!

[Dustan Hache]

if for some odd reason i move second, redirect my tackle-and-hostageify tactic to the seargant.

[Coolrune206]

Frank tackles the ugly mug with the sickle regardless of whether he's already being tackled or not.

[Sir Knight]

if for some odd reason i move second

(Yeah, you've got a habit of going before any lunatics in the combat order.)

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

Move up and leg sweep the Ugly mug Captan if he doesen't die before this. If he does die, just attack some other mug.

[Dustan Hache]

Move up and leg sweep the Ugly mug Captan if he doesen't die before this. If he does die, just attack some other mug.

One,  I am assuming you are referring to the seargant, and two, stop attacking my target after I pick them first, admit!