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[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 3, Turn 10: Order: Cius (2!), Dwareet'ik (1!), Creeper (4!), Reece (5!); New order: Reece, Creeper, Cius, Dwareet'ik

Reece-

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(Observation check:3!)(Stealth:4-1!)
You decide to try doing your best to follow the wall and soon your crouching down, warily watching everything around you and trying to silently pad your way to the gate. You manage to get there eventually, though going quietly made you considerably slower. You're not really accustomed to stealth, it was never part of your training. You still manage it respectably well though.

You are now standing at a massive steel door that is cracked slightly, opening up into the fortress interior itself. It is dim inside but out here things are still fairly bright. You can see nothing other than a few birds overhead.

Creeper- (Absent)

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You wander around happily south of the fortress somewhere. The trees and forests here are old and have seen little of your kind.

Cius-

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(Observation check:2!) You head over to where you had dragged yourself to previously. Perhaps disturbingly, Weedo-su's remains lie only scant feet from where you had been and you realize that had it not been for him you would undoubtedly be in his position now. You keep getting distracted by the sheer volume of blood that is slowly seeping into the already red sand and the viscera of your one-time companion to be of much use. You check his body over. Yup... very much dead.

You do find some useful items on him still though. It seems the zombies didn't have much interest except in him as a food source. Almost all of his possessions are still there, including his food. Much of it is a little more dirty and beat up than it used to be, and his pants are badly damaged, but it's better than what you have.

(Here's what he has on him:
xGiant iguana leather capex (armor)
xXDonkey leather pantsXx (armor)
xRope reed bagx:
3 Xloaves of longland flour breadX
1 wood torches (good for 5 hours each)
1 flint and steel
1 small pot:
2 xmeals worth of roasted garlicx
Deer leather waterskin: Water (3 uses))

The bread he had apparently got smashed, and some of his other possessions got damaged in the fight, or afterwards, it's hard to tell. But it appears edible.

You search around in the room for more of those mushrooms as well. (Herbalism:4!-1) You find a few more of the mushroom, enough perhaps for half a meal, but many of the plants have been destroyed in the fighting, simply trampled underfoot. The torch you are using is guttering now and won't last more than another minute or two.

(Gained multiple items)

(And no, you don't get recovery rolls in turns where you engaged in combat. But since last turn you didn't here's last turns: Recovery roll:4! Your head feels better now.)
Recovery roll:1! All that motion seems to have been bad for your legs and you're bleeding slightly again.

Dwareet'ik-

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(Craft bone armor:2!)
You return to the quarry, shutting the door behind you. Lighting a small fire you prepare the vile rotting corpse of the mountain goat you had tossed in. Soon you have a pile of relatively clean bones with which to work. You begin the process of armor creation but try as you might you can't seen to get things to work out properly. You break a bone or two in the process. You simply lack the proper tools for good bonecarving and such a project is beyond your current scope without them.

If you had some leather perhaps you could create a vest or shirt of sorts reinforced with bone, but to do what you're thinking of you need proper metal tools, of which you have none. (Specifically you'd need a metal knife, file and drill, though a wood drill might work you also have no proper edged item. Your bone knife is only good for puncture work, not cutting. And cannot be adapted to do so.

(Lost 2 Mountain goat bones, gained 3 Mountain goat bones, 1 Mountain goat skull)

[Dwarmin]

Well that sucked-I thought of would have broken more valuable bones for spending an entire turn. That takes the place of the worst turn, moving "lets stumble in the dark and almost fall of a bridge and fail to light a fire before sleeping" to 2nd place. 

For my turn, I'll go look for a home depot.

Kidding aside, does my character know how long the fort has been abandoned? I'm wondering if there will be any tools left at all to loot, or if it will more likely be artifacts/treasure.

Actions

Might as well start exploring the skull keep again. Head within and go as far as I have already explored previously.

[tehstefan]

I go to the entrance, and look around for any signs for disturbances, or traps, not wanting to end up trapmeat.

[Mr.Person]

Now that I have ample food and water and a good bit of time, I suppose I now have everything I need to attempt to learn some magic. Now I have several options. I could do something boring and learn what Crawl describes as "Transmutations". For the rest of you, extracting bad potions out of dead bodies, at least for now. Later, I can either throw them at my foes... or drink them to amuse Xom. Later still, if I get good, I could even learn "Evaporation" and "Blade Hands".

However, although that works great in Crawl (Seriously, it does, Xom Deep Elf Transmutors are powerful little shits), I don't wanna do that. I could do what the rest of you blokes have done, with stuff like healing magic or fire magic, but I'd rather not do that either. Instead, I'm going to try something a little darker. This place is crawling with zombies, how about I try making one? Start with a nearby rat. Make it a zombie. Try really, really hard. Don't even bother with trying to control it, focus EVERYTHING on just trying to make it a zombie. Worst case scenario, I either get more injuries (Xom will find this hilarious!) or I get a tiny bit of experience with fighting (good!) or it obeys me anyways (good!) or nothing happens. I've got time now, depending on how I conserve my light sources. Good thing I put the lantern out when I was about to die. I think I've got another 13 hours left, more if I make a campfire, conserve it, or find more.

This can only end well, I'm sure of it. Well, I suppose the "cost" of necromancy is going to be something important, but I won't know until I try. Besides, it couldn't possibly be something I'll really miss *wink*

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

(Waiting for Creeper. If AWOL by my next post his slot will be vacated.)

[Anti-Paragon]

Creeper totally comes to his Knightly senses and makes a stand against the goblin brigade. It's what a Knight on his way out would do!

[Dwarmin]

Yes, we need more epic deaths. We've been a bit short on them so far.

Everyone who dies from now on, try to explode somehow or jump into a bottomless pit.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

((All right, Creeper has wandered off into the wilderness and is now gone, having never even entered the fortress. No record of him exists. Warlord of Woe, you're up. You have until Friday to post or you're skipped. Your character is ready. I'll need your starting location and action.))

Day 3, Turn 12: Order:Reece (6!), Cius (1!), Dwareet'ik (3!); New order: Reece, Dwareet'ik, Cius

Reece-

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(Observation check:5!) A healthy paranoia blooms in your mind as you enter the fortress. You're pretty sure these places are always heavily trapped. You enter very cautiously and soon spot a small engraving on the wall. (Luck:3!) Unfortunately for you, you never really learned how to read, being a knight and all. It just never seemed necessary. You can make out a few words in the ancient human dialect that you see written, enough to understand that there are traps but not anything about what to do about them. The directions seem confusing, something about a stone you should press, or step on, or was it avoid? Still, your convictions are confirmed and you advance quite cautiously.

After an exhaustive search of the way ahead you continue to advance, albeit very slowly. (Trap detect:6!,1!) You see two traps ahead of you. One that appears to be a weapon trap of sorts and some sort of pit trap. You cannot, however, see any easy way past them.

(+2 Observation exp., +1 Traps and Snares exp.)

Dwareet'ik-

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(Observation check:4!)(Fortress lore:4!)
Reflecting on the nature of the fortress you think back to a time when your people used to regularly come here for thieving purposes. As far back as you remember it's always been that way. This place has been a site of countless battles, not to mention the dwarven artisans and whatnot. There's just always been something for thieves to find. In the last hundred years or so it's gotten a little harder, and you heard something about the fortress falling into ruin or something about four or five centuries ago. You know nothing of the reasons behind it though and that would determine what sort of things you'd find. Based on the bins in the room you found, it was left either in haste or without regard to order.

You decide to head back inside. Perhaps you'll find the friendly monk in there. Maybe the two of you can work out some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement. It doesn't take long for you to secure the quarry again, in like manner as before and head up. Passing through the first hall you smell wood smoke and garlic. You see no evidence of people though and press on below. You do see torch-light when you make it down to the trade hall but something isn't quite right. Some of your markers have been disturbed. You can still tell the safe way but the traps have been set off, multiple times by the looks of it. And whole sections of markers are gone, swallowed up in the pit traps. Your safe path is still clearly marked, it not being on any of the openings of course.

Suddenly you look up. You see the human making some sort of unholy symbol in the dust and see him raise some of the demon rats as undead! You try to hide. (Stealth:3!+1) But as you move he turns towards the sound and sees you.

(Recovery roll:3!+1): You condition improves slightly.

Cius-

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You get some ideas from the fallen and the dead and realize that it would be a great idea to have your own zombie horde to help fight the resident undead. You select one of the unmarred zombie demon rats' bodies and think about the best way to go about reanimating it. Such magic is typically frowned upon at most monestaries, but where you studies was strictly morally neutral and believed in knowledge for knowledge's sake.

(Raise Dead (very difficult):6!,6!-1 (unskilled)) (Control:5!-1 (unskilled)) (Strength:6!,2!-1 (unskilled))

You recall a section of a book you once perused that mentioned that the location was all important. The mountainous regions of this place, you realize now, have a very evil energy simply inherent and decide to drag one of the rats back to a section of the trade hall that has stone floors. That done you get a second corpse and,  using your hands and a sharpish piece of rubble carve your way into one of the other rats' bodies and messily extract the heart, putting it at the apex of a triangle. You break off one of the rat's own digits and put it as a second corner and carefully draw a necromantic symbol you recall from the book in the third. You speak a few words of Power, the language corrupting the very air you're breathing. It burns your mouth and tongue a little and suddenly you smell a vile rotting odor fill the air. The rat lives again in undeath! It turns towards you and stops, awaiting your command. To your surprise the other rat lying on the sand a few paces away has reanimated as well, though in skeletal form and clearly lacking in strength and power of the former. You feel hungrier, you feel thirstier.

(Observation check:6!,3!) (Hide (Dwareet'ik):3!+1) You hear a quiet sound behind you. You see a kobold on the other side of the traps. He has apparently witnessed your action.

(+2 Necromancy exp., +1 Observation exp., gained one Zombie Large demon rat minion, gained one xXSkeletal Large demon rat minionXx)

You are Starving.

Recovery roll:3! Not much changes.

[Dwarmin]

Damn. I hate PVP. I don't play games to ruin other peoples fun.

But Me and Mr. Person now stand opposed RP wise. 
If you want to run away or defuse the situation, please go ahead and think of something.

Otherwise, we fight. I feel good about my chances of dodging you to due to your wounds and my size bonus, but I will have to hope for a good leg shot to take you down. On the other hand, if you can establish a grapple, the battle will likely turn in your favor.

In happier news, welcome to the game Warlord of Woe! Good Luck.

Actions
First, ranged attacks, turn undead for the zombies and a curse of clumsiness on Mr. Person.

Then destroy the zombies, and destroy Mr. Person too. Concentrate my attacks on the Mr. Person first. If he tries to hobble away, chase after him.

*Que epic battle music*

[tehstefan]

I doublecheck the area around the traps, and look for something that might be able to activate the weapon trap ahead of me, so I can run though after its resetting itself.

[Mr.Person]

Fuck it, me and the zombie rats will rush the kobold, but don't go across the traps again. Knock it prone. For hilarity's sake, if the zombies get turned, throw them at the kobold. Wheeeeee!

Also, running is for pussies, I only run to get a tactical advantage. Since I have the advantage, no need!

[Anti-Paragon]

Name: Ajax Peltthrower
Race: Human
Class: Ranger
Gender: Male
Weapon: Crossbow
God: Some DF human god of hunting, preferably. I can't see the list because whenever I open your saved world in legends, it crashes due to an unknown material. I say we just roll with it.

[Dwarmin]

Onward to stupidity!

As players and people, we are quite incompatible Mr. Person, so it's only right that only one of us continue on while the other will feed the victor.

Welcome back to the Game AP. You'll be one spot closer by tomorrow, anyway

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

Day 3, Turn 12: Order: Reece (4!), Dwareet'ik (3!), Cius (6!); New order: Cius, Reece, Dwareet'ik

(For purposes of PVP battle I'll be doing both Cius and Dwareet'ik together this turn. I'll let Reece go first but the order determines initiative in PVP battle.)

Reece-

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(Observation check:4!) You search the area around the traps and see essentially nothing you could use to set them off. You find a small fragment of bone but it's certainly not heavy enough. Then you think back. There was a swamp out front you could easily get a log or something like that from. (Action:3!) You make  your way back out to the swamp and take your sweet time picking out the perfect rotten log. Just large enough to be freakishly cumbersome and heavy and muddy enough to be extremely awkward to carry. Still, you manage to half drag, half carry it inside.

Eventually.

You get yourself in position and roll it/throw it at the traps in front of you. (Set off traps:4!) The log fwumps heavily on the stone and moves forward a little, you hear a very faint 'click' then a quite audible 'schick' as obsidian blades spring up from the floor, impaling the log and sending splinters and debris all over. (Luck:3!) You're not struck by any but in the ensuing maelstrom of splinters you almost forget why you tossed the log in the first place. You hurry forward past the line of traps just as the blades withdraw, stepping carefully.

(Trap avoid:2!-1 (Dodge penalty)) Unfortunately for you, you didn't realize there was a second row of traps and as you step forward past the weapon traps the ground suddenly gives way beneath you. (Luck:2!) You fall into a pit, lined with a cage. There are a few odd bones in here with you. You look up and realize that the cage is metal, Zinc in fact, and realize that it's beginning to close.
(Secret DM roll:6!)

You are about to be  trapped.

DWAREET'IK VS. CIUS !!!!!!

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(I'm trying to be very meticulous with my rolls as well as with application of bonuses and penalties as this is a PVP battle. That being said, I've no idea what will happen, so, let the fight begin. Let's make it clean. Or not...)

Cius, seeing the kobold and realizing the look of abhorrence on his face surely indicates he doesn't approve of the undead siezes the advantage of the moment and (Action:1!) commands the undead to attack the kobold. They stare at him and don't move.

Dwareet'ik invokes the name of his goddess and asks her blessing in turning the undead before him. (Invoke:4!+1 (good standing)) (Zombie rat resist:1!) (Skeletal rat resist:1!) The two undead turn and flee  towards the corner of the room just behind Cius.

(Cius, you said rush him but you also said not to cross the traps. He's on the other side of them for now.)

Annoyed and very frustrated you grab at the (4!) Zombie Demon rat that is fleeing the kobold. (Attack on Zombie:4!) You grab ahold of the rotting carcass and in a fit of fury chuck the dog-sized undead creature at the kobold. (Throw:4!-1 (unskilled)) (Dodge Dwareet'ik:2!+1) (Opposed rolls:Cius:5!;Dwar:3!) (Location:4!) (Damage:2!/2) The spinning Zombie Large Demon rat strikes the kobold in the upper right leg. It is (bruised) Injured. They are knocked down. (That was your bad leg Dwareet'ik.) (Damage Zombie:(Location:6!) (Damage:6!,5!) The zombie's neck snapped upon collision and it's head fell off. It is dead. Again.

Dwareet'ik struggles to disentangle himself from the corpse and stands.

Cius grabs for the other undead creation, the skeleton. (Attack skeleton:3!) He nearly misses grabbing it as it has no flesh but finds a purchase on it and throws it too at the kobold. (Attack:4!-1 (unskilled)) (Dodge:2!+1) (Opposed rolls:Cius:2! Dwareet'ik:4!) The skeletal Demon rat sails through the air but at the last second the diminuative kobold manages to dodge to one side. (Location:6!) (Damage:5!*2 (frail)) The skeletal zombie demon rat crumples into the stone behind the kobold and does not move any more. Apparently it's head fell off as well.

Let that be a lesson to you. Never use undead as projectile weapons... their spines can't handle the stress of impact.

Dwareet'ik puffs out his chest and begins a strange little dance, shouting what sounds like gibberish to Cius' ears and he points repeatedly at the human. (Curse:1!) (Luck:4!+1) The curse missed the human entirely and bounced off the floor to strike one of the large glowing mushrooms, which suddenly fell to the floor with a earth-shaking thud, breaking in several pieces.

The two opponent's stare at each other briefly across the dimly torch-lit room before charging each other!

(Neither of you has range capable weaponry so that's how it's going to be.)

Cius, with his longer reach strikes out at the kobold. (Attack:6!-1 (weak)) (Dodge:2!+1) (Location:3!) (Damage:2!-1(weak)) He manages to trip the kobold, knocking it to the ground with a swift leg sweep. But the little creature resolutely stands again.

Cius attacks again. (Attack:5!-1) (Dodge:5!+1,6!) He swings at the kobold but it simply steps under his punch and dodges to one side, finding himself behind the human.

Dwareet'ik swing his staff at the human from behind. (Attack:4!) (Dodge:6!-1(racial)) Cius nimbly avoids the blow, surprisingly for one so large and injured. Dwareet'ik feels dejected he had to attack another, and intimidated. (-1 to rolls)

Cius attacks, lunging. (3!-1) But misses.

Dwareet'ik swings his staff again at the towering human. (Attack:5!-1) (Dodge:6!-1) The human sidesteps it, but just barely.

Cius punches at the kobold. (Attack:5!-1) (Dodge:6!-1+1,5!) The kobold dodges, putting himself in a favorable position to strike.

Dwareet'ik swings! (Attack:6!-1+1(position), 4!) (Dodge:2!-1) (Location:1!) (Damage:5!-1) The staff jabs out, catching Cius in the chest. It is badly wounded. You've broken some ribs. Breathing is harder.

Cius attacks! (4!-1) (Dodge:5!-1+1) But the kobold dodges him.

Dwareet'ik attacks back. (2!-1) He misses badly.

Cius lunges at the kobold. (Attack:6!-1) (Dodge:5!-1+1) (Opposed rolls: Cius:5! Dwareet'ik:4!) (Location:3!) (Damage:1!) He grabs your left leg, twisting. It is lightly wounded. You are grappled.

Dwareet'ik struggles to free himself from Cius' grasp. (Grapple:3!-1(weak); Cius:1!-1 (starving/weak)) The kobold breaks the grip.
(You're both prone)

Cius punches at the kobold. (Attack:2!) But misses.

Dwareet'ik tries to bite the human. (Attack:6!-1) (Dodge:3!-2(racial and prone)) (Location:2!) (Damage:1!) He sinks his teeth into the human's left arm. He is grappled.

Cius tries to break the kobold's bite. (Cius:2!-1; Dwareet'ik:5!-1) He fails to do so.

The kobold continues to bite him. (No attack/dodge roll needed. Location determined.) (Damage:2!) He continues to tear into the arm. It is wounded and bleeding. Mmmm... tastes like chicken Human.

Cius punches at the kobold with his other arm trying to free himself. (Cius:2!-1, Dwareet'ik:4!-1) He fails to do so.

Dwareet'ik continues to bite his arm. (Damage:6!,6!) He savagely tears off a large chunk of it, freeing himself in the process, landing on his rump a few feet away. The arm is mangled and useless and bleeding heavily. The kobold swallows the Human chunk, licking his blood covered teeth and lips with his little forked tongue.

Cius stands. (Luck:2!) He charges the kobold. Dwareet'ik rises to meet him. You are both tired. (-1 penalty to melee actions)

Cius attacks. (5!-2 (weak, tired)) (Dodge:1!+1-2 (morale, tired)) (Location:1!) (Damage:6!-1) Cius kicks the little kobold a staggering blow in the chest. His little ribs creak and groan. (Luck:1!+1) He is knocked backwards, but rises again.

In a seeming fury Cius attacks again. (Attack:6!-2) (Dodge:4!+1-2) (Location:2!) (Damage:2!-1) He punches the kobold in the left arm but connects only weakly.

The kobold lashes out. (Attack:4!-2) but misses.

Cius attacks again. (Attack:6!-2) (Dodge:5!+1-2) (Opposed rolls:Cius 5!,3!; Dwareet'ik 5!,5!) But the kobold manages to avoid the blow by a hair's breadth.

The kobold strikes. (Attack:3!-2) But misses.

Cius attacks. (Attack:5!-2) (Dodge:1!+1-2) (Location:1!) (Damage:3!-1) He catches the kobold in the chest again with a quick jab, knocking the wind out of him and breaking a rib in the process. (You're both in pain by the way.) (Dwareet'ik Luck:1!+1)

Dwareet'ik attacks. (Attack:6!-2) (Dodge:1!-2) (Location:6!) (Damage:6!,4!) His staff connects with Cius' head. Very solidly. (Cius resist:6!,4!) Cius is dazed, his head is bleeding badly.

Dwareet'ik takes advantage of the opening. (Attack:4!-2+2(opponent dazed)) (No dodge) (Location:2!) (Damage:1!-1) He strikes a glancing blow on Cius' left arm, but there's little more that can be done to hurt it. (Cius pain resistance:5!)

Dwareet'ik attacks again. (Attack:4!-2+2) (Location:3!) (Damage:6!-1) He connects soundly with Cius' left leg which was already injured. (Cius pain resistance:3!-1) The human collapses on the ground and passes out due to pain and head trauma.

(Attack rolls:5!,4!,4!,5!,6!) Cius has passed away. Official cause of death is blunt trauma inflicted by a kobold.

Dwareet'ik you sit weary, exhausted and wounded next to the fallen corpse of the evil human monk.

You are wounded, it is hard to breathe and your leg troubles you. But you are alive. Post your action for Turn 12.

Cius, condolances, but a great job on RP and character. Of course, this opens up another slot for play. I'll take care of details and stuff later today if I get a chance.

(Dwarmin you gain:+2 Invocation exp., +6 Dodge exp., +5 Staff exp., +5 Unarmed combat exp., You have gained +10 Fame for killing Cius)

[Mr.Person]

Oh well, I knew one of us was going to be dead anyways. Besides, if I was trying to play that as best as possible, I would of chucked rocks at the kobold until he either fled or charged. Both would of been fine for me. Instead, for RP purposes, I just threw the damn things because it would be funny. The fact it didn't do much damage doesn't shock me, I'm more pissed they both died on impact. Pussies.

Sadly, death by kobold is a death I can never be proud of. No offense or anything, of course, kobolds are just small. It'd be like a cat being killed by a squirrel, possible but rare. Then again, anything can be quite deadly when you put it in fight or flight mode, so there's that. It's also kind of annoying to finally get a bunch of swag and then a kobold shows up and fucks shit up. On the other hand, this is based off a roguelike, so I guess I should of seen it coming.

Elyvion can suck it, for the record.