Riddle of Steel? Sounds good to me! Onwards blade, to the groin!

You are Seymon Rivers, one of the many bastard sons produced by Lord Walder Frey. You have recently been "volunteered" to join the esteemed and venerable brotherhood of the Night's Watch after a brief yet enjoyable dalliance with one of your father's younger brides was unfortunately made public.

Seymon Rivers
ST:5 WP:5 Ref:5
AG:6 Wit:4 Aim:5
TO:5 MA:3 KD:5
EN:4 Soc:3 KO:5
HT:4 Per:4 Mov:5
Proficiencies: Sword & Shield 7, for a combat pool of 12
MAJOR GIFT: Careful
Equipment: Arming sword, small shield, full leather armor (AV2), mail shirt (AV4)

You are three days north of the Wall on your first ranging when you are rudely awakened in the middle of the night by the whinnying of horses. You should be sharing your tent with two other newly sworn brothers; Cressius (a scrawny young Lannister bastard with rotten teeth) and Andhun (a middle aged Dornishman with an enviably thick mustache), but they are gone. There's one other tent on the other side of the firepit where Osric the Ranger (the leader of your party), should be sleeping. Your horses are tied up about fifty yards from your camp.

You slept with your sword by your bedroll, but your armor and shield are outside your tent, by the firepit.

What do you do?

>>17025034
Draw my blade, then try to hear what's going on in camp/peer through the fabric of the tent/peep through a sliver of the opening.

All three things.

>>17025046

You can see your leather armor hanging from a tree branch, drying off the day's rain by the fire; your mail shirt and shield piled on you pack beside it.

There is no sign of Cressius and Andhun, but you can hear sounds of a struggle coming from Osric's tent.

>>17025055
Slip out of the tent as quietly as possible, to assess the Osric situation and whether or not I have enough time to arm myself properlly.

>>17025059

You don't see anyone around as you slip out of the tent, but you hear a muffled scream and a few wet-sounding thumps from the direction of Osric's tent.

There are a half-dozen different footprints in the dirt around your campsite, many of them unfamiliar to you.

>>17025074
Put on what I can as quickly as possible. Light a torch, and mount the best horse there is.

The horses are gone, though you can clearly see hoofprints in the dirt leading away from the camp.

As you struggle into your still slightly-damp leather armor, you see a fur-clad wildling leave the Ranger's tent with a bloody axe, breathing hard and wiping a spatter of blood from his cheek.

He seems surprised to see you awake, but not so surprised he can't fling his axe at you.

>>17025100
I lunge towards my shield on the ground and pick myself up quickly. Rush him while he's still disarmed.

rolled 1, 2, 4 = 7

>>17025100

You could:

a) Drop to the ground (Full Evasion, TN 4, 5 dice)

b) Try to dodge it (Partial evasion, TN 7, 5 dice)

c) block it with your shield (Missile Block, TN 8, 5 dice)

d)do something else.

>>17025112
>>17025116

Your seemingly suicidal headlong rush pays off, as the axe flies harmlessly over your head

The wildling yanks a short-sword from his belt and screams "DIE, you fucking kneeler bastard!"

Red or white?

(For those who don't know, this will determine whether you take the offense or the defense. Going white is generally considered to be safer, but if he has friends, you might want to go red and gut the fucker quickly)

>>17025130
Judging by those tracks, he's got friends. RED RED RED

>>17025130

stats for the short-sword.

Against your arming sword, it'll have an activation cost of 1 CP due to range. If he closes to his ideal range, that activation cost will hit you instead

Try to stay 3.5 feet away from him.

>>17025146
>>17025130
He's probably going red, so Simultaneous block and strike. Yay for shields.

>>17025142

He throws red as well.

Since both of us went red, we first both declare our attack, then work out who goes first with a contested Reflex roll. If you lose you can buy initiative, so it's always a good idea to save back a few dice to buy it - buying initiative costs your opponent's Perception in dice.

His Ref is lower, so he declares first - a thrust at your groin for 5 dice.

"I'll cut yer weak southern cock off, yeh bastard!"

>>17025174
Let's say 4 on the defense, and 8 on the attack. Hope he hasn't got much CP.

rolled 7, 9, 7, 9, 8 = 40

>>17025188
Hm... is Block&Strike useless if we win initiative ?

rolled 2, 7, 5, 4 = 18

>>17025194

His eyes widen as he sees the attack coming. In desperation, he tries to get his thrust in first, rolling his Reflex number of dice (4) against his ATN (5, for a short-sword)

You need to declare whether you're cutting or thrusting, which will determine the TN of 6 or 7 for the test, then roll your Reflex of 5 against it.

rolled 2, 1, 10, 3, 7, 4, 4, 10 = 41

>>17025238
Thrusting, at his groin too. "Not if I cut yours first !"

>>17025211

The wildling throws himself at you, desperately trying to impale you on his sword, spending 4 of his remaining CP to buy initiative.

...You could just let him hit you. 4 dice from B&S's defense plus your armor pretty much guarantees his attack won't hurt. Meanwhile, he's about to take an inescapable 8 dice of pain.

If you want to contest it, roll your Wit (4) against his Reflex (4). He's rolling his WP (4) against your Reflex (5)

rolled 8, 3, 2, 5 = 18

>>17025238
I rolled reflex here >>17025211
Here is for the Block part.

>>17025265

Shall I interpret that to mean you don't want to contest the initiative buy?

rolled 8, 7, 4, 4 = 23

>>17025275
No, let's roll.
Here's for wit.

rolled 2, 1, 7, 8 = 18

>>17025278

Ouch, 4 successes for your initiative buy. Methinks he's about to learn why codpieces are a sound investment.

>>17025292
>Ouch, 4 successes for your initiative buy

Initiative roll, rather.

>>17025278

Your attack strikes first. Using >>17025265 as the roll, that's a level 4 wound to the groin.

...Yeouch. Roll a d6 to determine hit location.

rolled 6 = 6

>>17025311

>>17025339

Looks like it hits the lower abdomen.

The axe falls from his hand and his eyes widen as he sees his bladder impaled on three feet of steel. With a sound that's not quite a scream and not quite a whimper, he slides off your blade and falls to the ground.

What now?

rolled 1 = 1

>>17025349
There's people in the tent still ? Try to topple it on them.

"Damn, missed!"

You cut the supporting ropes, watching in mild amusment as a figure attempts to untangle itself from the collapsing tent. A sword blade finally slashes a hole in the side, and a confused-looking woman stumbles out into the camp.

You see a muscular wilding woman wearing scale armor and a kettle helmet (AV 5 on body, AV 4 for the top of the head) and carrying a greatsword. She gasps in horror when she sees the body at your feet.

"Yeh killed Rolf, yeh bastard! he was the only man what could put up wi' me stink!"

>>17025410
Is that the ranger ? If not, take offensive stance and try to disarm her.

>>17025444
"I was just trying to cut his cock off, ma'am. Sadly for Rolf, with such minuscule targets even a master swordsman such as I can err."

>>17025451
Stratch that if we let the surprise pass.
Defensive stance, wait for her..

She raises the greatsword, takes a defensive stance (+2 dice for defensive maneuvers on the first engagement) and scowls at you:

"Come on then, let's see what yeh got swinging aboot down there!"

>>17025503
>+2 dice for defensive maneuvers on the first engagement

On the first exchange, rather.

>>17025503
"I'm the guy with the shield, it won't swing until you come striking it"

>>17025527

I'm gonna interpret that as a Ridicule roll (an attempt to force the other person to take the offensive).

I haven't actually give you skills, so take Ridicule at a TN of 8, and roll your 4 Wit dice against it. She'll contest by rolling her WP at a TN of 7

rolled 2, 9, 5, 9 = 25

>>17025557
Okay...

rolled 4, 4, 10, 2 = 20

>>17025587
That being said, it was more a thoughtless retort than a taunt.

rolled 6, 8, 1, 6 = 21

2 successes!

Her roll.

>>17025598
>That being said, it was more a thoughtless retort than a taunt.

Yep, but it was that or have them awkwardly stand around and wait for the other to make the first move.

>>17025612

One success! She howls in anger, switches to an offensive stance and attacks with a 6 dice vertical cut to the head!

Remember, since she has a 1 increment range advantage on you, offensive manuvers will cost one more to activate. Here's a list of manuvers you can use and their cost:

>http://knight.burrowowl.net/doku.php?id=rules:sword_shield

Seymon Rivers knows how to handle bitches.

rolled 3, 7, 2, 8, 9, 6 = 35

>>17025651
Block open and Strike. Six dice on the block.

rolled 7, 10, 3, 5, 4, 8 = 37

>>17025685

Oops, my mistake; you're going Block open and Strike which is a defense. Disreguard this post: >>17025723

Rolling for her cut.

>>17025748

Yep, you are 100% right. I've deleted that post to avoid confusion.

...3 successes for both. The attack fails, but she keeps initiative. She throws 8 dice in a cut at your upper leg.

"I'm gonna eat yer balls and shit 'em oot into yer mouth, yeh southern soft-cock!"

rolled 1, 1, 8, 8, 3, 1, 9 = 31

>>17025745
So counting the +2 from the stance on that exhange, and the +1 from the margin on the next, that leaves us with 7 dice ?
Is there a range penalty after a successful defense ? If so, remove the last roll.
Cut at her neck.

rolled 5, 2, 5, 5, 10, 3, 4 = 34

>>17025776
Should have said the first.
>>17025773
Small shield has a block TN of 6.

>>17025795
>Small shield has a block TN of 6.

...Oh shit, I see what you mean; you actually got 4 successes against her 3.

OK, disreguard everything from >>17025612 onwards.

You have initiative, you also get a bonus die for this exchange from the MoS from your successful BOaS.

"argh! yer a feckin' weasel, yeh scrawny kneeler!"

rolled 1, 6, 6, 1, 2, 9 = 25

>>17025776

She tries to counter with 6.

>>17025848
>>17025776

Ooh, a tie.

New round! You still have initiative, but the fight is still at her range, so you have a +1 cp cost on offensive maneuvers.

rolled 9, 9, 8, 2, 3, 1, 1, 5 = 38

>>17025862
Bind & Strike. Here's the bind.

Is there a range penalty when I'm attacking her weapon ? Regardless, 8 dice.

>>17025894
Ugh. Dice aren't good to me.

rolled 10, 10, 4, 8, 3, 1 = 36

>>17025894
>Is there a range penalty when I'm attacking her weapon ?

Yep, so those 8 dice cost you 9.

She parries for 6

>>17025908
>>17025894

Hmm, 0 successes, but she doesn't take back initiative.

rolled 5, 3, 6 = 14

>>17025908
Hm... She'll probably get initiative if I continue to attack... let's full evade and have a pause.
It's risky. I don't really know what's best.

>>17025946
Fu.

rolled 10, 6, 10, 9 = 35

>>17025946

She's going to put 6 dice into a Stop Short. A reminder, as this one's tricky:

>Roll a contest of the attacker's WP against the defender's Reflex. The attacker's TN is equal to his opponent's Per. The defender's TN is equal to 7 plus the number of dice that the attacker spent in executing the maneuver.

She rolls her WP (4) against your Per (4). You roll your Reflex (5) against 13 (TN of 7+6 dice)

Not playing, just treating this as a crash course in TRoS combat rules, frantically looking up everything in the rulebook. Cool thread.

Go on.

rolled 8, 10, 3, 8, 9 = 38

>>17025988
Well balls, we have to roll 10s and hopefully those don't reroll on 1's and twos

>>17025989

Aye,TRoS threads tend to deliver.

>>17026003

OK, you got a 10, so re-roll 1 dice to see if you got a 13

rolled 6 = 6

>>17026019

OK, her successful Stop Short costs you 3 dice from your CP. Luckily for you, the round ends and your CP refills. Yeah; in retrospect, that was pretty pointless.

New round!

She's going to cut at your sword hand for 5 dice.

>>17026028
>>17026003
>>17025988
Well done, but that still costs us 3 dice ? Seems quite effective.

>>17026082
>Well done, but that still costs us 3 dice ?

It does, but because I used it in the 2nd exchange, your CP refilled immediately afterwards anyway.

...That was not clever of me. Basically the only reason to use Stop Short in the 2nd exchange is to keep initiative if you have far fewer dice than your enemy.

>>17026078
I'm guessing a combat pool of about 12 for her, I'm voting simultaneous block/strike putting 6 in defense and 3 in attack, leaving 3 to defend if this doesn't take her down. Given she has no penis and her head isn't well defended a Cut to zone 4.

rolled 5, 5, 9, 1, 2, 1 = 23

>>17026103
I'll remember that.

For now, block with 6dice.

>>17026078
>She's going to cut at your sword hand for 5 dice.

I don't know, simultaneous block/strike maybe?

We can attack without the initiative, can't we?

>>17026146
3 wouldn't be much against her 7, since we have the same TN.

But if it can delete my last roll, I vote for it.

>>17026148
>>17026146

Hmm, one vote for S B/S, one for B. I'll wait for you guys to come to a consensus.

rolled 6, 10, 6, 8, 7, 1, 6, 8, 8 = 60

>>17026176
I said take down, if it doesn't injure we are in a very bad place but we might just nick her and she might still have some CP after that.
>>17026178
I think the consensus is S B/S so i'll roll 9d10 with the first 6 being Block and last 3 being strike.

rolled 2, 7, 3, 5, 4, 4, 2, 8 = 35

OK, looks like the consensus is a Simultaneous Block/Strike with at 6/3 split.

...She grins and feints, adding 3 dice to her 5 dice attack, and changing her target to the head.

"I got yeh now, yeh whoreson!"

>>17026148
Yeah, I change my mind to SB/S.

>>17026236
Cut to zone 4 and a prayer that it hits neck or lower face.

>>17026219
>>17026204

You casually knock away a clumsy cut from her weapon with your shield and strike home with your weapon in the same instant. Roll a d6

rolled 1 = 1

>>17026261

rolled 5 = 5

>>17026261
Come on Neck

>>17026267

Ooh, tough luck. What could have taken her head off instead hits scale armor, dealing no damage.

On the plus side you've moved into your ideal range, you have 3 dice left and she just blew all but one dice on that feint.

I'd go a disarm. We don't have enough to kill her, but we can guarantee a kill next round if we take away her weapon.

rolled 6, 3, 6 = 15

>>17026296
Well then, cut again zone 4.

If she's got one dice left and we're at our range (-1 for her), she can't defend with her weapon ?

>>17026296
We can either do a thrust at the face which if it hits has a 2/3 chance to avoid armor or do the disarm. I don't like only have a 1/3 chance to ignore armor.

>>17026330
>If she's got one dice left and we're at our range (-1 for her), she can't defend with her weapon ?

Yep.

So, a cut or a thrust at the face?

>>17026348
Well I just look in the books and kettle helm can't protect against thrust to face I say we go with that and skewer her nose.

>>17026312
I don't think it would be guaranteed. She can try a grapple.

>>17026330
>If she's got one dice left and we're at our range (-1 for her), she can't defend with her weapon ?

She can Partial Evade at 7. That's about it.

Someone want to roll for the face-thrust? That sounds like your best bet.

rolled 6, 3, 6 = 15

>>17026407
Gogo gadget face stab!

rolled 3 = 3

She tries to thow herself out of the way of the incoming stab...

>>17026429
And we both make complete asses of ourselves failing miserably, but we have initiative so there is that.

>>17026412
>>17026429
Who gets initiative if we both fail to reach the TN ?

>>17026460
Our attack TN for thrust is 7 not 6, no successes ;-(

Yeesh, for a second there I thought that was a lvl 3 wound to the face. Looks like a miss all round.

>>17026456
>Who gets initiative if we both fail to reach the TN ?

You keep it.

New round!

You have initiative, you both have full CP.

She looks like she's getting out of breath though:

"Yeh goat-licking *pant* son of a hoor! I'll cut yeh *pant* crivens off!"

>>17026483
6 dice cut to the uppper leg. No armor there, right ?

rolled 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 6 = 34

>>17026507

>>17026497
"Oh shut up, I don't even know what's a hoor..."

>>17026507

She has scale armor; it covers the same area as a hauberk.

>>17026515
>>17026507

That will hit the armor. If you want, I'll let you change your mind.

>>17026528
Lower legs with 6 dice seems like a better place now that we know of the armor location.

>>17026553
>>17026543
Okay, lower leg.

>>17026553

Roll it.

rolled 10, 4, 9, 9, 5, 4 = 41

>>17026564

Actually, technically I should declare a defense first.

Oh well, Counter for 9

rolled 5, 8, 2, 8, 10, 2, 5, 10, 1 = 51

Rolling

She grins, then drops 3 dice on a cut to the head.

>>17026600
Doesn't she have 4 left, with the three bonus dice from our attack ?

>>17026600
Simultaneous block and strike, 4 to defense 2 to chopping her lower legs off.
>>17026620
I'm guessing when OP said she was getting tired she took -1cp from fatigue

>>17026620

She spent 9 on the counter + 2 for activation + 1 for range.

rolled 3, 5, 2, 4 = 14

>>17026620
Anyway, S B/S, 4 defense 2 attack, cut to lower legs again.

rolled 10, 1, 10, 6, 9, 6 = 42

>>17026631
First 4 block, last 2 attack

>>17026636
Ha, forgot range.

>>17026638
Shit.

rolled 1, 6, 6 = 13

>>17026631

"Just bloody DIE already!"

>>17026646
Quick question before she splits our skull in two, did you roll to randomly determine what counter she would preform?

>>17026646

Oh dang. Roll a d6

rolled 6 = 6

>>17026669

>>17026664
>did you roll to randomly determine what counter she would preform?

I habitually take the first roll of the counter roll (>>17026586) to speed up play.

>>17026691

It clangs into the mail on your shoulder, you lucky, lucky bastards.

rolled 8, 4 = 12

>>17026725
Well we however get our chop at her legs with two dice.

>>17026725
So we're back to the start.

For originality, try a rota maneuver against the incoming attack ?

>>17026748
"what a verbose vocabulary"

>>17026744

Oh shit, I completely forgot about that, deleting that last post.

Someone want to roll a d6?

rolled 6 = 6

>>17026764

>>17026748
>>"feckin' ...*pant*... feck you up ...*pant*.... fecker"
"Well, it certainly illustrates the diversty of the word."

rolled 3, 9, 8, 4 = 24

>>17026766

Ooh, not good.

She loses another 1 CP from now on to pain, and has -5 CP for this round from shock.

And 2 bloodloss, which probably won't start to hurt just yet. Rolling for it anyway.

>>17026806
Should we subdue her ? Or finish her ?

Also, how does fatigue work ? We're fine on our side ?

>>17026806

OK, she passes the bloodloss check but she only has 5 CP for this round, and you have initiative and range.

...feck.

>>17026825
By the way, what are Cressius and Olric doing ?

>>17026825
Also, how does fatigue work ? We're fine on our side ?

Your armor is so light it doesn't even have a CP penalty, so you won't start to take CP loss from fatigue until 8 rounds into combat (EN x 2)

>>17026831
We could say throw down your weapon and come peacefully and you may yet live, but if she doesn't immediately surrender let us do a six die cut to her lower legs.

>>17026839
>By the way, what are Cressius and Olric doing ?

You have no idea

Mike Jones.

>>17026853

She drops her sword.

"I surrender, just let me sit down and catch meh breath"

>>17026853
Let's try and disarm her, I say.
Ten dice, keeping two to attack on the second exchange if she doesn't spend all her dice now.

>>17026889
"You'll rest better laying face down and your hands behind your back"
Then proceed to tie her down.

>>17026889
NOW, WE STAB FOR THE DI... no wait, that won't work
WE STAB FOR THE FACE

>>17026889
Make her lie on the ground hands on her head. Kick the sword away from her, maintaining blade readiness, tell her to remove her armor and tell us how many of her comrades came other than Rolf and than tie her up.

>>17026860
Isn't he dead ?

>>17026860
Who?

>>17026889
Wildlings are tricky bastards. Maintain mental readiness to kill her.
She's probably expecting us to rape/kill her, so she has no reason to try to honor the truce if she thinks she can get away with it.

>>17026927
Some rapper who really likes saying his name in the middle of other peoples' songs. It's like his fetish.

And why the hell are we talking a wild woman prisoner? She's just gon'ta bite yer cock off man! Learn from history, or you'll repeat it!

>>17026860
>Mike Jones.

huh?

>>17026927
>>17026910
>>17026901

You manage to get her weapon away from her and tie her up. What questions were you going to ask her?

>>17026950
What was your purpose here, what happened to Cressius an Olric, did any others come with you, general questions to wildling location, movements, and major attacks in the near future?

>>17026950
Ask her about others.

Go see what's left of osric in his tent.

>>17026950
Do your people offer ransom in the form of goats, or am I going to have to talk to that Mormont kid about transmuting you into a retirement fund?

>>17026962

In order:

>What was your purpose here
"None o' yeh feckin' buisiness!"

>what happened to Cressius an Olric
"Who?"

>did any others come with you
"Only yer mother"

>general questions to wildling location, movements, and major attacks in the near future?
"We're hidin' up yer arse, kneeler!"

While this is going on, you hear distant voices from behind you:

"Oi, how long does it take to kill a pair of sleepin' toffs? Are you two coming?"

>>17026908
I again call for a swift execution to the face.

>>17027007
Thrust our sword swiftly into her neck, then go hide the opposite way from the voices.

>>17027007
Well gobshite, slice open her neck quick as can be, quickly check if the others are alive but don't waste time on it. If the horses are in the direction of the voices hide off a ways if they are in a different direction make our way to them.

We're doing well, but a 2v1 skirmish will likely end poorly for us. Maybe if we can get the drop on one of them, we'll have a chance.

>>17027016

You dart into the forest. Make an AG check to hide (your AG is 6, TN is 8).

rolled 8, 1, 10, 8, 9, 9 = 45

>>17027038
Don't catch us now.

>>17027016
>>17027034
Yeah, get the throwing axe before going into hiding.

>>17027038

Oh, and you slit the woman's throat. That goes without saying.

She crumples to the ground and slowly, painstakingly, drags herself over to Rolf's body before collapsing on top of him.

>>17027040

You melt into the trees, Rolf's throwing axe in your hand.

Since you don't have any points in it, you'll only be able to throw it at your Aim (AG + Per / 2 = 5).

>>17027071
We could try some Patriot shit. Throw it, hide, wait for them to approach, attack from a different direction. It's dark, so we could have an advantage. Maybe we could even climb a tree and get the literal "drop" on them?

I don't know the rules to this game, so I'm just shooting ideas.

After a few minutes, you spy Cressius approaching the camp, Andhun a few paces behind him.

"For fucks sake Rolf; you said if we ratted out on the Ranger you'd take us to King Mance so we can swear our allegian..."

"Oh shit. I knew we should have slit those bastards throats ourselves. "

>>17027079
You can't throw it from too far away. TN is 8 over 4 yards, 9 over 8 yards, and 10 over 12 yards. Hiding after throwing successfully looks difficult, though I don't know the rules for it.

>>17027098
Oh shit. Well, who is the weakest as far as we see/know ?

>>17027115
Cressius is described as young and scrawny with poor dental health. He's probably the physically weaker of the two.

>>17027115

While sparring at Castle Black, you could beat Andhun most of the time, but only ever managed to beat Cressius once.

>>17027098
Hm... I don't know much about the setting, if it's an established one. Do we have any interest in taking back a traitor ?

>>17027098
Well balls, unless we see a really really good opportunity to take one down quickly I don't see this fight going our way.

I say if we don't see a golden opportunity that we sneak to the horses, cut all but one free and get back to the wall.

>>17027129
Given that Cressius could whoop our ass I say we avoid this fight.

>>17027123

He is also the trained warrior of the pair. Andhun was a baker before he was sent to the wall for rape; Cressius was a squire to a hedge knight.

>>17027145
Hm. Looks are deceiving, then. Escape with the information we gathered would probably be wise if we can't figure out a way to sneak attack them.

>>17027145
How far are we from them ?
I think fleeing is in order, unless we can take a really good shot at cressius with our axe.

>>17027138
I'm with this plan.

As you wait in the forest deliberating on what to do next, they start to search around the camp for you. Cressius calls out:

"C'mon Seymon, do you really want to be a fuckin' eunuch for the rest of your life? Join up with us and Mance will give you anything you want once he's taken the Wall."

rolled 10, 4, 4, 9, 1 = 28

It'll be another roll to sneak back to the horses, AG contested by Cressius's Per.

Rolling for Cressius, TN of 7 for both tests.

rolled 1, 2, 6, 1, 2, 3 = 15

>>17027180
Sneaking towards the horses.

>>17027190

...two ones, no successes?

Oh shit, that's a fumble. You trip over a tree root and let out a surprised yelp.

>>17027190
Shit. Ready the axe.

>>17027207
Book it, hopefully one is faster than the other so we can stagger them and take one at a time.

>>17027207


Cressius and Andhun both spot you and charge. You can either try to run, or take an Aim action and throw the axe at point-blank.

>>17027216
>>17027208

OK, one vote for the axe, one for running away. Someone want to give us a tiebreaker?

rolled 3, 3, 8, 6, 9 = 29

>>17027221
Aim for cressius. Wait until he's at 4 yards. Then 5 dice.

rolled 10, 4, 8, 7, 5, 2 = 36

>>17027251

It's +1 for point blank and -1 for a target running towards you, so yeah; 5 dice. ATN is 7, that's 2 successes.

Cressius Partial Evades with his Ref of 6

rolled 5, 10, 4, 9, 8, 10 = 46

Cressius nimbly dodges the axe.

"we have you now, you Frey bastard!"

Red or White, /tg/?

>>17027269
Fuuuu.

>>17027282
Hm. How do we do terrain rolls to fight them one after the other again ?

>>17027282
Would White be more intelligent, considering it's 2v1?

>>17027302

http://knight.burrowowl.net/doku.php?id=rules:terrain

Here's an overview. Basically, you take out of your CP however many dice you want for a terrain roll and roll them against a TN. Beating both of your attackers means you get to choose which of them you fight. Losing to both means you have to fight both. Losing to one means that one gets to choose whether he fights you or not.

I would highly advise you to put aside 3 CP for a terrain roll at an utter minimum. Fighting 2 guys at once in RoS is not fun.

>>17027335
>Would White be more intelligent, considering it's 2v1?

Hell no, you really want to put down one of them ASAP, even if doing so is risky.

>>17027337
How are cressius and andhun outfitted ?

>>17027366

Both have leather armor and mail shirts, just like you do. Cressius has an arming sword, Andhun a quarterstaff. Neither has a shield or a helmet.

rolled 6, 3, 5, 6, 8 = 28

>>17027337
Hm... so TN 6 ? Let's try 5 CP to fight andhun first.

rolled 8 = 8

>>17027386

The first four are Cressius's terrain roll, the last are Andhun's.

Both are throwing Red.

rolled 4, 6, 8, 9, 2 = 29

>>17027386
>>17027337
I don't understand it exactly. Can we get TN 5 by declaring we're sprinting ?

rolled 10, 7, 4, 1, 5, 7, 3, 9 = 46

>>17027394

Whoops, that roll didn't work. Rolling again.

rolled 8, 6, 6, 10, 7, 8, 4 = 49

>>17027398
Cut at andhun's head with 7 dice.

rolled 4, 10, 3, 6 = 23

>>17027396

Ignore the table, it's confusingly worded. Normally, you just ask your GM for the TN and he uses the same one for all the combatants.

Anyway, you got one more success than either of them, so you chose who you fight.

>>17027413
>Cut at andhun's head with 7 dice.

You're both going red, so you'll need to win initiative. Also, due to his range advantage you can only attack him for 6 dice.

He tries to get his swing in first, rolling his Reflex (4) against his ATN (6)

You need to roll your reflex (5) against your ATN (6)

rolled 10, 8, 8, 3, 7 = 36

>>17027439
Ugh.

>>17027452
Well, that's one good thing.

Your strike will land first, and he doesn't have enough dice to try to buy initiative.

...This is gonna be messy.

rolled 6, 1, 8, 10, 8, 1 = 34

>>17027477
Do I have to reroll ?

Well, got to go. Hope he won't die.

>>17027489

Only if you don't want to bash his head open like a brain pinata. Roll a d6

rolled 2 = 2

>>17027510
Just don't hit his shoulders dice.

>>17027522

See:

>>17026669

>"Real, real messy. Instant death."

...You and Cressius are both splattered with blood, bone fragments and brains as Andhun falls to the ground, twitching. For a moment there's a stunned silence between the two of you. Then Cressius speaks:

"Damn, Frey. I always thought you were a useless cunt."

>>17027588
boss!

>>17027588
I've killed three people in fast succession tonight, are you going to run like the shitstain traitor dog you are or am I going to get another trophy for my collection.

17027619

He grins at you;

"We both know what they do to deserters. I'd prefer a good clean death in battle, and it looks like you can give me one."

Red or White?

>>17027649
Well damn, was hoping to avoid fighting him.
RED!

He throws white.

Wait, so we both have arming swords, but he doesn't have a shield?

We bash him with it. He can't block a shield bash with a sword, and the evasions don't give you initiative if you win.

>>17027722

Go for it

>>17027722
I like that as an idea, shield bash with 6 dice + the 1 die activation sounds good. Thrust to the head.

So, shield bashing for 6d. This is OK, everyone?

>>17027806
Always in support.

OK, he's going to Partial evade for 7, paying the extra 2 to steal initiative on a success.

The TN for Shield Bashing with a small shield is 6. Roll away

rolled 1, 6, 6, 7, 9, 7 = 36

I'm suddenly having second thoughts about this plan.

rolled 8, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 3 = 30

Rolling

>>17027909
5 successes says those second thoughts are of "Fuck yeah this is going to be rad"

>>17027927
Poor unlucky bastard, I get the odd feeling this is going into chunky salsa territory when it comes to his face.

Well, fuck.

Somebody better roll a d6 for poor Cressius.

rolled 2 = 2

>>17027966

>>17027909

Bonk! Nostril full of buckler!

Really good thread, OP. It's good to see Galt pop his head in too.

I suggest that we Simultaneously block and strike - try and smother him before he has time to react. Keep a few dice in reserve though.

I'm feeling a little guilty about killing 4 guys without any scratch on us.

Oathbreaker.

Defector.

Traitor.

He dodges back, expecting the shield to be just a feint; expecting the sword. But he doesn't deserve the quick mercy of a blade. You slam the boss of your shield into his cheek and the force of the blow runs up your arm as his skull caves in.

>"Death. Destruction of Cerebellum. Really Messy."


Well, that seems like a good place to leave it. I hope you had fun, /tg/.

>>17028103
Isn't it a level 4 wound ? Not that it changes much, we'd have to slit his throat after that.

>>17028103
Daaaamn! Badass.

>>17028138
>Isn't it a level 4 wound ?

Shields do SB +1, which in this case is six damage. Add the MoS to that and you're looking at 10 points of damage.

Presumably he had a TO of 5; decent, but not enough to soak that.

>>17028264
All right.

>>17028103
I did. Thanks.

>>17028103
Thank you very much for a good thread OP. I've missed the Riddle of Steel threads - they've been rather absent lately.

Holy fucking shit, Seymon Rivers you glorious bastard.

Lovely.