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Tagar Swiftsword, would-be Humakti hero has Body 1+ and
Combat 1+, enhanced to 2 with low death magic. He fights the
Ghoul King on a quest to stop the corruption of undead. The Ghoul King
has Body 2 and Combat 2.
The two met on the dark misty countryside of the Lands of Badheim.
Tagar spat on the floor and noted that his tooth broken mouth
was still bleeding, his arm strap was rubbing against his skin and starting
to ache and he made another mental note to ensure that his squire found him
a lighter one. The Ghoul King was there, he had chased him and his forces
from the castle and now he was here, ready to meet the powers of Death, the
powers of Humakt!
The silhouette blocked out the streaming mist, and was rendered almost
invisbile in this bad light. Tagar swung, and his foes head was lopped off.
Almost too easy. In fact, it was too easy. Tagar's
instinctive sense for trouble flared, AMBUSH!! Tagar's blade was raised
in front of his face protecting him from the unseen foe he knew was
approaching, and the Ghoul King leapt out to meet him, the rusted blade
clattering against his shield. A stand-off, though Tagar, just the way he
liked the start of his battles.
The first round there is a tie since both have Combat 2, so neither is
damaged.
Tagar swung first, but the King skillfully pushed aside the attack. The
Ghoul King, seeing the exposed kidney's of his opponent, thrust forwards
almost passively. With thoughts of his family in his mind, with the thoughts
and memories of his fiance brutally beheaded by a mindless zombie, he rolled
out of the way and made a riposte. It sliced into the King's leg and ashy
blood, lifeless and somewhat congealed bulged out of the withered artery,
and dropped in lumps to the floor. But, thought Tagar, it hurt him just as
much as any mortal.
The next round Tagar calls on one support point from his tie to the Death
rune and adds +1 to his Combat which now totals to 3. So the second
round Tagar wins the contest. Since his Body is lower than the
Ghoul King's, the Ghoul king only subtracts + from his Body,
lowering it to 1+.
"You'll payyyy forr that, boiiieeee!!!" rasped the Ghoul abomination and
screeched his demonic squeal. Any normal man would fall to his knees and cry
in fear at the demoralizing, but Tagar was no normal man, he was a Humakti.
With the chaotic powers attacking his mind, he pressed on heedless. From the
powers of his Lord his blade erupted into a white hot, and almost invisible
flame. Tagar's face shimmered in the heat waves that pulsed through the air.
The Ghoul King stopped howling and skittered away at the sight of the
weapon. This gave the hero the briefest glimpse of his groin. Which was all
he needed. With a single swing he cuts off his foes leg, and lich ichor
leeked out onto the cold countryside, where the mist was already burning
away in wake of the magical blade.
The next round Tagar uses his second Death rune support point and once
again overcomes the Ghoul King, whose Body now goes down to 1. The
fourth round Tagar has used up his Death support and turns to a support
point from his blood brothers and sisters. The ghoul king is down to
Body 0+.
The blade died out. The Ghoul King groaned, and Tagar could see the Undead
Beast had loosened it's grip on it's sword, which now lay a mere three feet
from it's grasp. Tagar glanced at the sword. The Ghoul King hesitated as well
as it looked at the sword, it's only hope. It charged for it. Tagar leapt
for the creautre, knowing that if the King managed to recover his weapon in
the interim, he would most surely die before he reached the ground, but his
gamble paid off as his trusty broadsword crashed into the chest,
sundering the ribcage in half. Tagar collapsed to the dirt, heaving for
breath, and quickly looked at the disembowelled abomination, just to ensure
it was dead. He had won.
Tagar's circle of friends is small so now he is out of support.
However, he can see that the Ghoul King is weak now, so he gambles
1 Body on a desperate all-out attack. The gamble succeeds and
the Ghoul King is now soundly defeated since he takes 1 damage (1+ - 0+).
Tagar takes the foul carcass and tosses it into the Well of Death in
order to destroy the Ghoul King's undead powers. Forthwith, the ghouls
in his area can no longer worship the Ghoul King and will probably lose
some power.
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