In the Shadows of the Past [Turn 05]
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:49 pm
And so it is a duel!
Engelier charges in, drawing Arthur into a masterful gambit in which Engelier can dodge the powerful overhand strike...
But the strike is so fast and so powerful that only the quick thinking of a nearby redshirt can save Engelier from insane damage!
Not to be deterred, Engelier strikes right back.
He's able to just overcome Arthur's heavy armor to deal 1HP of damage! (1 remains)
(Notice the convenient HP counters)
Arthur once again readies a mighty blow, but another redshirt arrives to knock Engelier away!
Engelier goes on the offensive, sliding underneath Arthur's hammer and barely, barely doing damage... but Arthur rolls a redshirt from 9" away to take the damage! It wasn't enough to kill.
Arthur, undeterred, strikes again, and is foiled by a THIRD redshirt! Engelier's troops have been exhausted!
After another failed attack by Engelier, Arthur is finally able to land a hit! Engelier loses 1HP! (1 remains)
Engelier, exhausted, chops overhead but Arthur dodges...
And he lands a huge blow on Engelier's back.
He limps away, ceding the Artifakt to Arthur...
Engelier and the Tourish are defeated!
"Gadzooks!" Van Helsing shouts.
He sprints to Arthur, mysteriously transforming into a werewolf!!!
He attacks, along with his ward, but the damage is too low to harm Arthur.
Arthur's counterattack, however, pushes Van Helsing back to the rock and damages him for 1HP (1 remains)
Van Helsing transforms back to a fig.
A skeleton searches the base of the rock...
EEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOO
"Oh! Oh! The excitement is palpable! It's me, Bone Rivers, here at the Old Abandoned Monastary, where Fre-bone-y Mercury has just started an impromptu show. It's true! It's true!"
"Look at how excited they all are! Oh, this is just wild. Even the living figs are distracted by the great performance!"
"Oh, oh, wait, wait, I'm here with the Vampire Lord, fresh off his conquest of such and such and what's that place. Mr. Vampire Lord! What's it like to be here right now in front of this crowd?"
"It's so good to be here, Bone Rivers, but I must run..."
The Vampire Lord transforms into a bat and flies straight for Arthur!
He tries to take the Artifakt!
Unfortunately, Arthur wasn't quite distracted enough for the Vampire Lord to take it away.
"What are you doing here?" Fre-bone-y shouts, "we need that Artifakt!"
A good number of skeletons mass against Arthur, but for now nobody can deal any damage.
The disrupted redshirts recover.
"Do I even bother?"
He does! The archer combine to barely overcome Tomoe's armor and knock off 1HP! (1 remains)
Tomoe reads from the text, just barely readable in the mud, as if fate itself framed the right passage.
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
The troops look at each other in understanding.
They commit ritual sudoku, producing a sudoku set and trying to solve it together to harness their strategic power...
They use it to kick the archer in the nuts!
"If your opponent is too strong, hit them in the schlong."
"Oh... my sausage..."
The archer keels over and dies.
Overwatch
Send orders for Turn 06! (Which will likely be the last turn, so plan ahead)
Note: the heroic duel lasted over two dozen rounds, I just took photos of the highlights.