Sparse shouting from the crowd can be heard, as the fight begins!
Charge forward and try to block any attacks.
You rush forwards across the sands and slam into the packs of drooling mongrels (4), stunning the first one in the path (-1 to offense/defense)! One of its friends leaps for your lower arm(5)! RTD: (4) It manages to latch on to your lower right arm, but only barely bites you! You now have a scratch and a dog latched onto your lower arm.
Kick sand into the pack, then charge what looks like the leader.
You raise your foot back and kick it into the sand (3) sending up a cloud of dust that doesn't really reach the pack. This only makes you angry, and you charge the closest dog, on Rasilux's arm (4)! (Dog RTD: (1) Striking with two axes, you send one into the dogs chest and one lops the dogs head straight off! The crowd cheers at the brutality!
Yell loudly, and charge forward. Push through anyone who stands in my way and begin to stab randomly viciously.
You release a scream and bound into the fray, your trident raised high! (4) Mongrel RTD: (1) One of the snarling mongrels turns, and bites at you, but your trident's long reach merely makes a dog-on-a-stick of him! (+2 damage, dog has died).
Throw my javelin into the pack and then hold my gladius and net and prepare to ensnare the first dog to attack me.
*note* You now have a wooden javelin and leather breastplate to fit within the startup rules
Flintus squares himself, arm drawing back to release the javelin. (3) RTD: (2) The javelin hits the dog, gouging its shoulder. It yelps and rushes through the sands hungrily for you. Dog: (5) The hungry mongrel bites you on the leg! You have a minor bite to the lower left calf. You attempt to ensnare it as it charges (3) but you take the opportunity to avoid a vicious bite.
Flank from the sides and wait until I have a good opening. If a dog anything charges me, skewer them before they reach me.
You circle, and spy the dog beaten back by Rashilul! Your cunning mind believes this to be an easy target, and you sprint forwards, lunging with your spear! (3) Dog RTD: (3-1=2) You land a hit on it's stomach, giving the dog a bleeding wound! One of the unengaged mongrels now bites at your face! (4) RTD: (5) You leap back, protecting your face, while the dogs teeth just click on your breastplate.
*Charges out with (Rashilul) and fights at his side or back so we can protect each other from flanking somewhat*
(preferred tactics, defensive stance... lure them into range, block attacks with shield and then stab)
You charge forwards, stepping up to Rashilul's side (2) but your position gives you no defensive bonus. One of the remaining dogs strikes first! (1) But you use your shield to block him and strike back with your axe, doing a moderate gash to the dog's shoulder! (3)
Alright, I won't hang back, I'll just try to be the last to join the fray (hopefully the crowd won't remember if I kill enough dogs afterward).
"Fuck this, let the others get them!" You wait until the others have had their actions, but a pair of dogs single you out first! At least you are ready for their attacks. They attack from both sides (5) (1). RTD: (3, but prepared) The first dog leaps over your shield and lands on your face, teeth scrabbling over your facemask but still doing a minor wound to your temple! The other dog leaps, but you see past a foaming mouth it's attack and stick out your gladius, doing a greivous wound to its jaw. It is now bleeding heavily.
Character ListName: Cato Ambustu
Status:
Gender: Male
Age and Background: 24 years of age. When he was 22, his father fell into debt and sold his son into slavery to pay it off, while faking his son's death to save face. He despises his father Duilius, though does not hate the rest of his family. Since he is supposed to be dead, he can not use his true name, Cato Tacitus Flavius.
Height and Weight: 6'2" 174lbs
Traits: Tactician, Counter-Attacker
Deity(optional): Minerva
Items:
Bronze Spear
Bronze Helmet
Bronze Breastplate
Name:Paulus
Status:
Gender:Male
Age and Background:(16 yrs.)One of the germanic tribesman from the northern territories he was taken as a prisoner of war as a young boy.
Height:6' Weight:160 lbs
Traits: Defensive fighter, Herbal lore
Deity:Mother Nature
Items:Hand axe (1), Shield (1), Bronze Breastplate (1), Sandals, Loincloth
Name: Maceris
Status: Carrying impaled dog on trident.
Gender: Male
Age and Background: 27; once Quintus Vitruvius Licinus, he was forced into slavery to pay his debts. His father, a blacksmith, perished three years ago. He was heavily in debt, and that debt was simply passed onto Licinus. He was soon captured, and ended up slave to Gnaeus Hostilius Macer. Unwanted as a slave, he became a gladiator.
Height and Weight: 6'2", 170 lbs
Traits:Can withstand pain, metalworker.
Deity(optional): Ianus
Items: Trident, buckler, breastplate, leather facemask.
Name: Lupus "The Butcher" Prowne
Status: Angry
: Male
Age and Background: 27 year old, Lupus use to live in a outpost town far from the walls of Rome, living a quiet life with a family. Until he went insane. Lupus is charge with the slaughtering of almost a hundred people, the bodies always torn to chunks. By the time he was caught, he was well known in the surrounding area, becoming something of a bogyman. He seems to have a affiliation with the moon.
Height and Weight: 6' 3", 240 lb
Traits: Axeman, Insane
Items:
2 Hand-Axes
Leather Shirt
Leather Greaves
Name:Flintix
Status: Minor bite on left calf
Gender:Male
Age and backround: 32, Flintix was a member of a higher class Gaulic family and was the brother of a highly decorated chieftan. Flintix fought alongisde the great Vercingetorix but was inevitably and to his great shame captured. Now he is a broken man fighting for the entertainment of those he hates and longs for the day he will break out and slaughter all Romans.
Height and Weight:6' 5'', 270 lbs
Traits:Very powerful, Leadership.
Items: Gladius, Javelin, Net. Bronze Breastplate
Name: Rashilix
Status: Scratch on right arm, feral dog head latched on to right arm.
Gender: Male
Age and Background: 24, Was captured and taken away when the romans invaded his little Armorican village and burned it down
Height and Weight: 5'7", 175 lb. I notice that almost everyone is tall, even by today's standards
Traits: Well-built, swordsman
Deity(optional): Toutatis
Items: Gladius, Shield, Bronze Pauldron
Name: dragnar
Status: Minor bite on face.
Gender: male
Age and Background: A man of few words and precise action. He does not speak of why he was brought to the arena, but he has a noble air about him, and he seems to fight for more than just his life.
Height and Weight: 5' 6"
Traits: calm, tactical
Deity(optional): none
Items: gladius, shield, facemask
"Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here? "
-Maximus Decimus Meridius,
GladiatorArea: 2 dead mongrels, 1 mongrel with a minor wound, 1 with graze and a heavy wound, bleeding, 1 bleeding heavily, one atop Dragnar's head, uninjured, 1 with moderate gash.
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Topic: Gladiator RTD! Turn 6, Tiger dead, no deaths through first bloodings! (Read 14917 times)