GAL 8: Caravan Route Under Threat! (Completed, please move)

[WearsHats]

Heal Leaves. And, I presume, move forward with the others.

[Nerre]

Remedy sticks with the others, aiding them if neccessary (OOC: Please also make her follow the others and aid them in a fight if one occurs, as I have to work the next 6 or more days in a row. I might fail to notice updates.)

[Theis2]

Steals will find a solid place to mark with his iron stake before moving on.

[Synch]

Leaves follows, scanning around and covering the rear with his crossbow.

[nikohl]

All swaps her mace for her bow and carries along with the others now the stake is placed.

[spiderwrangler]

Caravan Route Under Threat! Turn 91

Steals and All cover the party with their ranged weapons as Steals sinks the Iron Stake into a gap between two blocks of the stone path. The party then moves on as a group, after Mines attempts to heal Leaves. The darkness twists and writhes in his chest... and fends off the healing energy, leaving him gasping for breath. He recovers enough to move on... he could feel it fighting Mines healing, and only barely managed to avoid being purged.

Costa really wishes he had something to drink. Remedy trails along with the others.

A steady hum builds as a swarm of mosquitoes rises out of the swampy grass and descends on the party... the smoke of the mosquito grass is keeping them at bay for the moment though. Ahead of them, the wispy orbs drift closer and closer, then darting away, almost as if trying to draw the group further along.

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Costa
Remedy
All
Leaves
Steals
Mines
Blood Song
Mantagar

Current Battlemap



.[tabs:Costa]
Player: Asks
Color:#005500
Gender: Male
HP: 5/5
ATT: 4
DEF: 1
Mudhoney Curse - if he drinks or touches mudhoney he will turn into a badger until the curse is removed.

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Head:
Face:
Body:
Back:
Neck:
Arm: Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand: Ghost Gloves ÔÇô Allows ATT/DEF vs. ethereal creatures (2x/adventure can phase gloves through solid material for 1 round.)
Rings:
Waist: Fancy Scabbard-(improves Bloodsongs mood)
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand: Blood Song +3; Temporary Bonus: Blood Sense: Has a chance to deal extra damage against wounded opponents.
Off-Hand:

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ITEMS:
Iron Stake
Mosquito Grass, unlit (10 turns remaining)
- Mosquito Mouthparts (1)
- Mosquito Wings (2)
- Stinky Silk (2)
goblin thrall corpse
- Magical Glasses - Allows you to see magical Auras
- 2 small bags

[tabs: Remedy]
Player: Nerre
Color:#00FF00
Gender: Female
HP: 5/5
ATT: 2 (% to give additional +1 ATT)(% chance to cause bleed damage)
DEF: 2

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Head:
Face:
Body:
Back:
Neck: Amber and Scale Necklace
Arm:Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist:
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand: Iron Gladius: (+1 ATT, 1H, % chance for +1 additional ATT, Temporary Bonus: % chance to cause bleed damage at start of enemyÔÇÖs next turn)
Off-Hand:Stick Swamp Hopper Shield (1H) : +1 DEF, 10% to break

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ITEMS:
Iron Coated Gnomish Rope, lasso: 50m long and very strong. Acid-proof for 10 turns, not flame retardant; coated with iron filings, may be effective against certain foes, but filings will wear off with use. (used once)
Walnut
Human teeth (6)
Human right hand
Pup paws (2)
Iron Stake
Mosquito Grass, unlit (10 turns remaining)
Bone-studded Wooden Club: ATT +1, 25% to cause 1 bleed damage next round
Bone Blade: ATT +1
Hide Swamp Hopper Shield (1H)

Berserker Axe: (+3 ATT/ -2 DEF, Temporary Bonus: % chance for additional +1 ATT; % chance to reduce opponent DEF by -1)
Yellow, Orange and Indigo snake corpses
Rat Trophies (claws, teeth, tail)
Mosquito Mouthparts (13)
Mosquito Wings (15)
Mosquito Exoskeleton (6)
Human Rib Bone

[tabs: First-of-All ]
Player: Nikohl
Color:#008080
Gender: Female
HP: 6/6
ATT: 4 (mace) or 3 (bow)
DEF: 2 (75% to give additional +1) (+1 conditional from Buckler)

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Head:
Face: Veil of Protection ÔÇô DarkVision, Immune to sight and sleep effects while worn.
Body: Steel-Reinforced Old Leather Armour (+1 DEF, 75% to give additional +1 DEF)
Back:
Neck:
Arm: Turtleshell Buckler - Wearer gains +1 DEF when using ranged weapons. When using melee weapons, each round the wearer can choose to attempt to use it defensively (retains +1 DEF, but attacks are made at -1 ATT), or attempt to fight offensively ( +1 DEF bonus is lost, but attack is made without penalty).
Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist:
Legs:
Feet: Boot of levitation - Activation allows vert. but not Horiz. Movement (3 x height/turn; max 10 rounds/adventure, doesn't need to be consecutive. [7 remaining])
Main-Hand: Off-Hand:Dreamers bow (+2 ATT 2H)(+25% chance of causes sleep to target even if target was not damaged.)
Bone Tipped Swamp Hopper Spear (1H) (1)
Iron Tipped Arrows (4)
Iron Tipped Swamp Hopper Spears (13)

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ITEMS:
Iron Stake

Echo Mace (+3ATT 2H) (Damage from Mace vs. creature happens again automatically on next round, regardless of attack).
big paw pups (2)
Mosquito Grass, unlit (10 turns remaining)
Blue, Green and Red snake corpses
Small Hard Purple Berries (6)
- Burning wand -This does 2 Damage, ignores Armour (not Def) -This wand has 5 charges and cannot be recharged as every use will make the stick burn away.
- Speaker stone (complete)
Mangled Mosquito Corpses (2)
Wrung out mosquito corpse
wooden staff
- 1 Anger berry
- 1 small bags
- Grey Mushroom, small
Large Right Paw
Left Forelimb and Large Paw

[tabs: Leaves No Trace]
Player: Synch
Color: #747474
Gender: Male
HP: 4/5
ATT: 3/2
DEF: 1

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Head:
Face:
Body:
Back: White Rat Cloak
Neck:
Arm:Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings: Silver Ring
Waist:
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand: Off-Hand:Crossbow (Ranged)(2-handed) (Can be used to bludgeon someone for +1 ATT)
Bundle of Iron-Tipped Bolts (x10)(+2 ATT)(Once shot, cannot be recovered & Reused)

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ITEMS:
Short Bone Blade, +1 ATT
Iron Stake
Acorn

Violet snake corpse
Dagger (+1 ATT, Temporary Bonus: % chance to bypass some of targetÔÇÖs DEF)
Dagger (+1 ATT, Temporary Bonus: % chance to cause target to lose 1 HP before their next turn)
dirty, bloody rags
2-handed shield (+1 Def)
Mangled Mosquito Corpse
-Grey Mushrooms: 1 large, 1 small
-Small Hard Purple Berries (2)
- Mosquito Mouthparts (2)
- Stinky Silk (large swath)

[tabs: Steals]
Player: Theis2
Color:#8000FF
Gender: Definitely a male goblin.
HP: 5/5
ATT: 3 (% chance for burn damage)
DEF: 3 (75% for additional +1)
Mudhoney Blessing: Slight Blink: can be activated once per adventure, for 10 consecutive rounds, has a 10% chance for attacks by and against to miss.

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Head:
Face:
Body: Steel-Reinforced Leather Armour (+1 DEF, 75% to give additional +1 DEF)
Back:
Neck: Amulet of the fish - Water breathing
Arm: Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist: Belt of cool (reduces cool downs by 1) must be worn 5 round before it works.
Legs: -Lucky pants - The rather plain looking brown pants are actually quite lucky and have 3 effects -
1. 1x/adventure = Wearer may declare himself lucky, something 'lucky' happens per GM's discretion.
2. 1x/adventure = Wearer may declare someone other than himself unlucky, unluckiness happens per GM's discretion.
3. At the end of every adventure/quest a single gold piece is found in the back pocket.
Feet:
Main-Hand:Burning Blade: (+2 ATT, chance to burn enemies, Temporary Bonus: Burn % chance increased)
Off-Hand: -Chief Planners shield - MW Bladed Shield 1H - +2DEF or a + 2ATT weapon and lose defense on attack. 1x/adventure +1DEF to all allies in the same area for 3 turns.

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ITEMS:
Bone Blade: +1 ATT
Hickory Nut
Acorn
Tiny amount of iron filings
A crossbow
5 crossbow bolts (+1ATT)
big paw pups (2)
1 potion of shrink
Dead Pups (2)
Mushroom - red with a purple edge - +1 attack for 3 round
Mushroom - Brown with darker brown rings - +1 defense for 3 rounds
Mushroom - white with black and red stripes - heals 1 hp
Mushroom - yellow with silver specks - gets you really really high and you may see things
flame shaped gem (Warm to the touch, used to get past strangler mold
Wand of Light (1 DAM, ignores DEF. 50% chance of blinding for 1 round, Cooldown = 2 turns (2 - 1 = 0 turns remaining)
Severed Rat Head (missing its teeth)
Mangled Mosquito Corpses (10)
Mosquito Corpse without legs, wings or mouthparts

[tabs: Mines Flagons]
Player: WearsHats
Color:#4080FF
Gender: Male
HP: 5/5
ATT: 2
DEF: 3 (50% for additional +1)

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Head: Pope-Peller Hat - Can heal any creature 1HP, but can only be used once per turn.
Face:
Body: Dawnstar Robe(+1 DEF) Bears the symbol of the broken god, Dawnstar.
Back:
Neck: Dawnstar Token(Has a calming effect)(Gain a bonus when attempting to resolve situations peacefully or calm aggressive enemies.)
Arm:Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist:Belt of Fisticuffs(+1 ATT when unarmed)
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand:
Off-Hand: Steel Reinforced Wooden Shield: +1 DEF, 50% to gain +1 DEF, Mosquito Grass, lit (3 turns remaining)

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ITEMS:
Torch, lit: +1 ATT if lit and used as weapon; 5% chance of setting an enemy on fire; 10% chance of breaking.
Iron Stake
Sack of Iron Filings (3 uses remaining)
Iron Shod Quarterstaff: +1 ATT, 2H, 25% chance to gain +2 DEF
Oilcloth wrap containing - 2 Stubs of Mosquito Grass - 1 turns remaining each
Mangled Mosquito Corpse
Reasonably large leaf
Shoulderblade Swamp Hopper Axe (1H)
Pelvic Swamp Hopper Axe (1H)

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[Nerre]

"I think we should hurry a bit more. Not much grass left." Remedy says and sticks close to the moss carrier, hoping he will speed up a bit. If a mosquito comes to close, she will swing her sword at it, but not stop to loot anything.

[Synch]

Leaves taps Mines on the shoulder, touching his own chest then making a claw with his fingers, then pointing to the Pope-peller hat and shaking his head. He continues along after the others.

[spiderwrangler]

Mines is able to see the patch of darkened flesh puckering around the wound in Leaves' chest. It's pretty gross, but doesn't seem to extend to any of the important organs inside.

[WearsHats]

Mines moves on with the others.

(What does "avoid being purged" in this context mean? The healing magic is fighting the dark magic. Does "purged" mean the healing magic wasn't quite strong enough to get rid of the dark magic? Or does it mean that the conflicting magics are potentially able to inflict additional damage rather than heal?)

[spiderwrangler]

(The former.)

[WearsHats]

"Leaves, I'm sorry it didn't work. I'm willing to try again if you are. But if you'd rather leave it alone for now, we can try that. Hopefully, it won't get any worse. But it may just be that if I can concentrate a little harder* I can clear the last of the dark magic for you."

*Translation: roll slightly better

[Synch]

Leaves gestures ahead, eager to get on with the task at hand and content to just point out the wound remaining unhealed.

[WearsHats]

In that case, revert to plan for last two turns. Attempt healing, move along.

[Theis2]

Onwards to adventure! Steals ignores the mosquitoes for now certain that Mines have the mosquito grass under control

[Nerre]

Remedy tries to touch the darkened flesh with her amulette, as she thinks it has a positive effect on herself. So why not on him as well?

[nikohl]

Onwards and upwards!

Also, there's always a chance that channeling positive energy into the creepy stone on the staff will fix the residual gribble in Leaves' body but it may not work and may also destroy a potentially useful item in the process. Your call. Maybe Costa could look and see if there's any kind of linky magical residue between the staff and Leaves' body... I'm just thinking of the magic-o-vision description of the staff as 'seeming as though it had magic before' - maybe it is currently in Leaves?

[Nerre]

Okay, then I will postpone my action with the amulette to a later time. Let him check it with his magicvision first.

[Synch]

(Happy to try anything, as long as it doesn't slow progress significantly. Don't really want to be standing around on a swampy walkway with mosquitos buzzing nearby while we experiment.)

[spiderwrangler]

((Costa can look, Remedy can press amulet and Mines can attempt a heal without delaying forward progress, though Asks hasn't posted, and may be getting skipped/voted for soon... Feel free to add conditional actions if you wish, otherwise I'll treat that as a vote for Costa to look, mines stenotype his cures, and the party to move on regardless of whether anything works... So take care of anything else you need to do and I'll update possibly later today. tomorrow evening [72 hours after last update] with whatever actions I have available.))

[Nerre]

OOC: I took back the amulet action, as nikohl pointed out some things.

[spiderwrangler]

Caravan Route Under Threat! Turn 92

As Remedy urges haste, Leaves gets Mines' attention to let him know that the healing isn't going as smoothly as normal, but making it clear that he isn't severely impaired, and doesn't want to hold up forward progress.

Costa idly drops his goblin corpse, puts on the glasses, takes them off, shrugs and shoulders his burden. There is a dark aura coming from the wound, but doesn't bear a similarity to anything he's seen before.

Mines empties his mind of all distraction, focuses on the healing powers of his hat and the propeller begins to spin, building more and more energy. He reaches out and places his palm on Leaves chest and unleashes it. With a jolt, the other goblin steps back, his chest aglow in golden light, in its center a black nodule. As they watch, glow nibbles away at the darkness, slowly at first, then faster and faster until with one last pulse of light, it fades, leaving his flesh unmarked. Leaves breathes easier with the numbing ache gone. [Leaves to 5/5 HP]

With relief, the party moves forward, following the darting orbs of light as they dance down the ancient stone pathway. The mosquito swarm trails behind, frustrated by the smoke keeping them at bay.

Suddenly, there is a stirring in the swamp water to either side of the road as small hunched creatures emerge from the muck and shuffle and jump their way to block the party's progress. Hunched over as they are, none of them stand taller than waist high on the goblins, their coarse greenish brown skin covering lumpy muscle and bone. The lower half of their faces are split by a wide mouth, rimmed by pallid rubbery lips. Above that, a slit of a nose, and bulging reddish eyes. Each of them is wearing a rough vest woven of reeds and marsh grass, and they carry an assortment of familiar weapons in their long, web fingered hands.

They squat back on their haunches, their heavily muscled legs and broad feet balancing in conjunction with their short tails. It appears you have met the 'swamp hoppers' who made many of the crude weapons in Mantagar's cart. There is a dozen of them facing the goblins, about half with spears, the other half with blades and shields. Currently, they aren't pointing any of them at the goblins, just holding them at the ready. One in the center shuffles forward, looks them over, extends a long finger to point at their weaponry and armor, then gestures to the swampy water to either side of the stone path.

The goblins independently hear a whispering in their minds, so faint and tiny that it doesn't fully register on a conscious level... "...iron...bad...take...off...steel...remove...iron".. It's an annoying stray thought flitting around the back of their skulls, and while they feel a vague desire to drop their weapons and armor into the murky depths, the voice carries no real compulsion to follow through.

It's at about this time that Leaves, as their rearguard, looks behind them as notices that the stone pathway behind them has disappeared. Not abruptly, but compared to the path stretched forward ahead of them, it just fades out behind them... almost as if it has receded to deep in the water to see... or was never as real as it seemed...

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Costa
Remedy
All
Leaves
Steals
Mines
Blood Song
Mantagar

Current Battlemap



.[tabs:Costa]
Player: Asks
Color:#005500
Gender: Male
HP: 5/5
ATT: 4
DEF: 1
Mudhoney Curse - if he drinks or touches mudhoney he will turn into a badger until the curse is removed.

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Head:
Face:
Body:
Back:
Neck:
Arm: Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand: Ghost Gloves ÔÇô Allows ATT/DEF vs. ethereal creatures (2x/adventure can phase gloves through solid material for 1 round.)
Rings:
Waist: Fancy Scabbard-(improves Bloodsongs mood)
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand: Off-Hand:goblin thrall corpse

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ITEMS:
Iron Stake
Mosquito Grass, unlit (10 turns remaining)
- Mosquito Mouthparts (1)
- Mosquito Wings (2)
- Stinky Silk (2)
Blood Song +3; Temporary Bonus: Blood Sense: Has a chance to deal extra damage against wounded opponents.


- Magical Glasses - Allows you to see magical Auras
- 2 small bags

[tabs: Remedy]
Player: Nerre
Color:#00FF00
Gender: Female
HP: 5/5
ATT: 2 (% to give additional +1 ATT)(% chance to cause bleed damage)
DEF: 2

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Head:
Face:
Body:
Back:
Neck: Amber and Scale Necklace
Arm:Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist:
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand: Iron Gladius: (+1 ATT, 1H, % chance for +1 additional ATT, Temporary Bonus: % chance to cause bleed damage at start of enemyÔÇÖs next turn)
Off-Hand:Stick Swamp Hopper Shield (1H) : +1 DEF, 10% to break

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ITEMS:
Iron Coated Gnomish Rope, lasso: 50m long and very strong. Acid-proof for 10 turns, not flame retardant; coated with iron filings, may be effective against certain foes, but filings will wear off with use. (used once)
Walnut
Human teeth (6)
Human right hand
Pup paws (2)
Iron Stake
Mosquito Grass, unlit (10 turns remaining)
Bone-studded Wooden Club: ATT +1, 25% to cause 1 bleed damage next round
Bone Blade: ATT +1
Hide Swamp Hopper Shield (1H)

Berserker Axe: (+3 ATT/ -2 DEF, Temporary Bonus: % chance for additional +1 ATT; % chance to reduce opponent DEF by -1)
Yellow, Orange and Indigo snake corpses
Rat Trophies (claws, teeth, tail)
Mosquito Mouthparts (13)
Mosquito Wings (15)
Mosquito Exoskeleton (6)
Human Rib Bone

[tabs: First-of-All ]
Player: Nikohl
Color:#008080
Gender: Female
HP: 6/6
ATT: 4 (mace) or 3 (bow)
DEF: 2 (75% to give additional +1) (+1 conditional from Buckler)

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Head:
Face: Veil of Protection ÔÇô DarkVision, Immune to sight and sleep effects while worn.
Body: Steel-Reinforced Old Leather Armour (+1 DEF, 75% to give additional +1 DEF)
Back:
Neck:
Arm: Turtleshell Buckler - Wearer gains +1 DEF when using ranged weapons. When using melee weapons, each round the wearer can choose to attempt to use it defensively (retains +1 DEF, but attacks are made at -1 ATT), or attempt to fight offensively ( +1 DEF bonus is lost, but attack is made without penalty).
Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist:
Legs:
Feet: Boot of levitation - Activation allows vert. but not Horiz. Movement (3 x height/turn; max 10 rounds/adventure, doesn't need to be consecutive. [7 remaining])
Main-Hand: Off-Hand:Dreamers bow (+2 ATT 2H)(+25% chance of causes sleep to target even if target was not damaged.)
Bone Tipped Swamp Hopper Spear (1H) (1)
Iron Tipped Arrows (4)
Iron Tipped Swamp Hopper Spears (13)

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ITEMS:
Iron Stake
Echo Mace (+3ATT 2H) (Damage from Mace vs. creature happens again automatically on next round, regardless of attack).
big paw pups (2)
Mosquito Grass, unlit (10 turns remaining)
Blue, Green and Red snake corpses
Small Hard Purple Berries (6)
- Burning wand -This does 2 Damage, ignores Armour (not Def) -This wand has 5 charges and cannot be recharged as every use will make the stick burn away.
- Speaker stone (complete)
Mangled Mosq uito Corpses (2)
Wrung out mosquito corpse
wooden staff
- 1 Anger berry
- 1 small bags
- Grey Mushroom, small
Large Right Paw
Left Forelimb and Large Paw

[tabs: Leaves No Trace]
Player: Synch
Color: #747474
Gender: Male
HP:5/5
ATT: 3/2
DEF: 1

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Head:
Face:
Body:
Back: White Rat Cloak
Neck:
Arm:Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings: Silver Ring
Waist:
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand: Off-Hand:Crossbow (Ranged)(2-handed) (Can be used to bludgeon someone for +1 ATT)
Bundle of Iron-Tipped Bolts (x10)(+2 ATT)(Once shot, cannot be recovered & Reused)

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ITEMS:
Short Bone Blade, +1 ATT
Iron Stake
Acorn

Violet snake corpse
Dagger (+1 ATT, Temporary Bonus: % chance to bypass some of targetÔÇÖs DEF)
Dagger (+1 ATT, Temporary Bonus: % chance to cause target to lose 1 HP before their next turn)
dirty, bloody rags
2-handed shield (+1 Def)
Mangled Mosquito Corpse
-Grey Mushrooms: 1 large, 1 small
-Small Hard Purple Berries (2)
- Mosquito Mouthparts (2)
- Stinky Silk (large swath)

[tabs: Steals]
Player: Theis2
Color:#8000FF
Gender: Definitely a male goblin.
HP: 5/5
ATT: 3 (% chance for burn damage)
DEF: 3 (75% for additional +1)
Mudhoney Blessing: Slight Blink: can be activated once per adventure, for 10 consecutive rounds, has a 10% chance for attacks by and against to miss.

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Head:
Face:
Body: Steel-Reinforced Leather Armour (+1 DEF, 75% to give additional +1 DEF)
Back:
Neck: Amulet of the fish - Water breathing
Arm: Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist: Belt of cool (reduces cool downs by 1) must be worn 5 round before it works.
Legs: -Lucky pants - The rather plain looking brown pants are actually quite lucky and have 3 effects -
1. 1x/adventure = Wearer may declare himself lucky, something 'lucky' happens per GM's discretion.
2. 1x/adventure = Wearer may declare someone other than himself unlucky, unluckiness happens per GM's discretion.
3. At the end of every adventure/quest a single gold piece is found in the back pocket.
Feet:
Main-Hand:Burning Blade: (+2 ATT, chance to burn enemies, Temporary Bonus: Burn % chance increased)
Off-Hand: -Chief Planners shield - MW Bladed Shield 1H - +2DEF or a + 2ATT weapon and lose defense on attack. 1x/adventure +1DEF to all allies in the same area for 3 turns.

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ITEMS:
Bone Blade: +1 ATT
Hickory Nut
Acorn
Tiny amount of iron filings
A crossbow
5 crossbow bolts (+1ATT)
big paw pups (2)
1 potion of shrink
Dead Pups (2)
Mushroom - red with a purple edge - +1 attack for 3 round
Mushroom - Brown with darker brown rings - +1 defense for 3 rounds
Mushroom - white with black and red stripes - heals 1 hp
Mushroom - yellow with silver specks - gets you really really high and you may see things
flame shaped gem (Warm to the touch, used to get past strangler mold
Wand of Light (1 DAM, ignores DEF. 50% chance of blinding for 1 round, Cooldown = 2 turns (2 - 1 = 0 turns remaining)
Severed Rat Head (missing its teeth)
Mangled Mosquito Corpses (10)
Mosquito Corpse without legs, wings or mouthparts

[tabs: Mines Flagons]
Player: WearsHats
Color:#4080FF
Gender: Male
HP: 5/5
ATT: 2
DEF: 3 (50% for additional +1)

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Head: Pope-Peller Hat - Can heal any creature 1HP, but can only be used once per turn.
Face:
Body: Dawnstar Robe(+1 DEF) Bears the symbol of the broken god, Dawnstar.
Back:
Neck: Dawnstar Token(Has a calming effect)(Gain a bonus when attempting to resolve situations peacefully or calm aggressive enemies.)
Arm:Iron Bracelet: Provides minor resistance to mind altering effects.
Hand:
Rings:
Waist:Belt of Fisticuffs(+1 ATT when unarmed)
Legs:
Feet:
Main-Hand:
Off-Hand: Steel Reinforced Wooden Shield: +1 DEF, 50% to gain +1 DEF, Mosquito Grass, lit (2 turns remaining)

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ITEMS:
Torch, lit: +1 ATT if lit and used as weapon; 5% chance of setting an enemy on fire; 10% chance of breaking.
Iron Stake
Sack of Iron Filings (3 uses remaining)
Iron Shod Quarterstaff: +1 ATT, 2H, 25% chance to gain +2 DEF
Oilcloth wrap containing - 2 Stubs of Mosquito Grass - 1 turns remaining each
Mangled Mosquito Corpse
Reasonably large leaf
Shoulderblade Swamp Hopper Axe (1H)
Pelvic Swamp Hopper Axe (1H)

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[WearsHats]

... We forgot to leave an iron spike behind us last turn, didn't we?

Crap.

I'll use my amulet to try to keep things calm. But I'm not sure how to interpret their gestures or what to say to them.

[nikohl]

I thought we were leaving them every now and again, not every turn, as we only have four. *shrug*

"Ahem. Stand aside, please, fellow beings!" All states from beside Mines with his amulet in effect. "Return to your swamp - we have no quarrel with you!"

She'll shoot the leader in the face if he sends the troop to attack rather than going away or anything else non-peaceful.

[Synch]

Leaves taps whoever holds the iron stakes to drive one into the path where they stand, then encourages the others to ignore the swmap hoppers and continue on. If they attack, Leaves will shoot any that attacks them first.