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[Squeegy]

Having recieved no response, I'll go ahead and post this:

FOOT SOLDIERS

You are a foot soldier in the Earl Thompson's army. You have been sent to meet an army marching towards the Earl's castle. Your forces were routed and only five of you barely managed to escape. You are, obviously, one of those five. You flee into the trees and escape your pursuers, but now you are lost in the forest. You must make your way back to the Earl and warn him that the defense has failed, at all costs. Be wary, the enemy still searches for you in the trees.

GAMEPLAY:
Should you escape to your Earl's castle, you are presented with choices. First and foremost is obviously to warn the Earl, but you can also sell any loot you've acquired, buy armor, weapons, and mounts, rest your wounds, or store items. Be warned, if the castle is sacked all items will be stolen by the attackers and all shops will be destroyed.
You start off as a foot soldier, with only a shield and a weapon. You may advance in ranks and buy armor and better weapons, perhaps even a mount. Once you have a mount you advance from foot soldier to knight. However, you are not an official Knight of the Realm until a nobleman knights you, but are considered a limited knight until then.
You don't have to work with your fellow player. You may abandon them, backstab them, or turn on them when the situation gets bad. However, teamwork is your best chance of survival. But you can still have any hidden backstory you like...

COMBAT:
Combat will be based on die rolls. On default, attacks have a 50% chance of hitting. This can change, for example if your health is very low this may be shortened to 25%. If your attacker is on a horse and you have a dagger, 10%. If the enemy has a shield or buckler, they will roll to block, usually a 50% chance. Then if the hit passes, you will roll against the armor. No armor has a 5% chance of blocking a hit, chain a 25%, and plate a 50%. When battle starts you are all required to post what you will do during the battle and I will play it out to the finish in real time, editing as the battle goes along. Experience is used solely for unlocking skills, which can do anything from raising your hit chance to allowing you to use a certain weapon, and for raising HP.

PARTY: (these will be randomly rolled so you won't get #1 if you sign up first, nor can you choose)
Name: Inaluct
HP: 12/30
EXP: 5/20
Coins: 0
Skills: Scimitar Specialization [1]
Status: Lively
Weapon: Copper Scimitar
Equipped: Copper Shield, Leather Breastplate, Wolf Fur Cape, Copper Cap, Leather Greaves, Iron Gauntlets
Items: Copper Bow, XXSteel Long swordXX, Decapitated Thief Head

Name: Rick
HP: 28/30
EXP: 5/20
Coins: 1 Gold, 4 Silver
Skills: Mounted Archery [1]
Status: Lively
Weapon: XXSteel Short swordXX
Equipped: Copper Shield, Wooden Low boots, Wooden Greaves, Wooden Bascinet, Bone Breastplate, Copper Gauntlets, Steel Shield
Items: Wooden Shield, Copper Bow

Name: Cheeetar
HP: 30/30
EXP: 6/20
Coins: 0
Skills: Short sword Specialization [1]
Status: Lively
Weapon: Steel Short sword
Equipped: Bone Shield, Steel Plate armor, Steel Cap
Items:

WAITING LIST:
Name: Emperor Jon
HP: ?/25
EXP: ?/10
Coins: ?
Skills: ?
Status: ?
Weapon: ?
Equipped: ?
Items: ?

Name: Drone
HP: ?/25
EXP: ?/10
Coins: ?
Skills: ?
Status: ?
Weapon: ?
Equipped: ?
Items: ?

DECEASED:

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                  /\_
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                 (    )
                 __)(__
_________+______/      \______+__________
  __--   |       R.I.P.       |-_-- __
_-- -    | ___ __________ ___ |
-_-- __  || | | | {|    /| | || __---  -_
 --__-   || | | | {|   /|| | ||--        -
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 __-- -__|| | | | {| |}||| | ||--   __--
         ||_|_|_|_{| |}|||_|_||  -__
 --__-  -|| | | | {& |}||/ | ||---   __--
         || | | | {| |}|/| | ||-__
--   __--|| | | | {| |}/|| | ||__-- -__
  --     || | | | {| &}||| | ||   __
---   __-|| | | | {| |}||| | ||_---__-  --
 -  -_   || | | | {| |}||| | || --
 __    __|| | | | {| |}||| | ||_--__-   _---
_________||_|_|_|_{| |}|||_|_||______________
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                     |}/
                     |/



Name: Webadict
Status: Dead & Buried
Death: Fatally bitten in the head and groin by wolves.

Name: Emperor Newmar
Status: Lost
Death: Separated from the group, never found.

Name: Aoness
Status: Dead
Death: Fatally bled to death from grievous wounds.

[Cheeetar]

I'll take Mr. Bone Flail and Bone Shield.
I sign up.

[R1ck]

I claim a spot. This should be interesting.

Edit:

Spoiler: Protips Bank (click to show/hide)

Protip: Name Pronunciation
Webadict - weh-ba-dick-teh
Inaluct - in-ah-luck-teh
Rick - rih-kuh
Cheeetar - cheee-tar
Aoness - ei-wah-nez

I tried to make the names seem less like usernames and more like... well, names. So sorry, a1s.

Protip - Armor
Armor protects certain areas of your body. Different materials protect better.

Steel - 5-10 damage
Iron - 2-7 damage
Copper - 1-5 damage
Bone - 1-3 damage
Leather - 1-2 damage
Wood - 1 damage

Plate - torso (+2 damage resistance)
Chain - torso (+1 damage resistance)
GM's Note: If either of these are made of leather, wood, etc, they count as breastplates instead of plate or chainmail. No extra damage resistance.
Cap - head (-1 damage resistance)
Helm - head
Bascinet - head (+1 damage resistance)
Leggings - legs + groin (+1 damage resistance)
High boots - legs + feet
Low boots - feet
Vambraces - arms
Gauntlet - hands
Greaves - legs (+1 damage resistance)
Buckler - left arm, halves damage if hit is intercepted, removes locational damage
Shield - left arm, blocks damage

Protip - Experience
Every enemy you face in a fight gives you 10 EXP. Five enemies yield 50. This is divided evenly among everyone in the group who was fighting (except NPCs). So, with five people fighting and five enemies, everyone gets 10 EXP at the end of the fight. People knocked unconscious or killed do not get EXP.

Every level your health is raised and you are allowed to take a skill. You can improve on your old skills or add a new one. Every level in a skill (up to 9) raises its effectiveness.

Protip - Currency Rates
1 Gold Coin = 10 Silver Coins
1 Gold Coin = 200 Copper Coins
1 Silver Coin = 20 Copper Coins

Protip - Unarmed Combat
Unarmed combat is fairly simple. If you're on a horse, you trample your enemy for 2 hits. Unless they are also on a horse, of course. In which case you default to haphazard punching. Punching is a low-power attack but beneficial in that if you roll a foot/leg hit you disregard it (unless you were aiming). It cannot cause bleeding and can only do up to 10 damage, max.

Protip - Bleeding
Normal - 1 HP drain
Badly - 2 HP drain
Seriously - 3 HP drain
Severely - 4 HP drain
Grievously - 5 HP drain
Fatally - 10 HP drain

Protip - Surroundings
I don't tell you everything.

[inaluct]

I'll sign up. Cheeetar, you can't pick, I think.

[Squeegy]

Ha, he managed to roll a 5.

[inaluct]

Hmm. I got the guy with 6 HP.

Could be worse.

[webadict]

I'll sign up!

[Cheeetar]

Ha, he managed to roll a 5.

I'm just too lucky.

[inaluct]

Come on, we still need another person! The suspense is killing me! D:

[R1ck]

Wait, why is there "Coins:0" in everyone's status' but mine? Does that mean that I only I have coins?

[inaluct]

Maybe you are coins.

[a1s]

I'll sign up, why not?

[Squeegy]

Why, R1ck, I don't know what you mean! Anyway, the slots are all full! Please talk amongst yourselves and decide your first actions.

Forest
Trees surround you in all directions. The forest is massive, and you are hopelessly lost. The rustles could be foxes, or they could be enemy soldiers. Who knows? You're tired, weary and injured.

[Cheeetar]

This is not my action, but just talking.
I say we take up defensive positions around the most injured, and slowly move towards where we think the castle is.

[Squeegy]

I would suggest actions like those in Peasant Adventure. Actions bolded, RP italicized, talking in quotes.