>>33535780
>[x] FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD!

>>33535780
[X] FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD!

FOOD! I need food!

The Healers gave me an early supper last night, so I’m starving right now! Figuring I should save what little gold I have, I head to the mess tent. Only to find it nearly devoid of people.

The only other person here is the green haired knight, Kyle, who appears to be in charge of preparing breakfast. Which is a big job for just one person, and I’d offer to help, but, uh, well…

>What do I do?

>>33535943
Get some food on our stomach and then help the man.

>>33535943

[X] Get food
[X] Offer to help a bit after eating and if we have time before the assignment

No loss in being nice.

First things first, I walk up to Kyle, who is just wearing a green tunic and a pair of slacks. He looks up from the large, and I do mean LARGE, bowl of oatmeal and smiles. “Good morning, help yourself to whatever you want.”

“Thanks!” I say as I fill up a plate full of eggs, sausages, oatmeal, and toast. I’ve often been told that I eat a lot for one so small, but I’m still a growing girl so I need to eat a lot! Of course, I also eat fast too. So I’m done with my entire plate in a matter of minutes, and boy, that hit the spot!

Now that I’m fed, it’s time to see if Kyle could use some help. “Excuse me, Sir Kyle? Would you like a hand?” Please say no, please say no, please say no…

“That would be much appreciated.” He says warmly.

Darn it!

Trying not to let myself sound disappointed I ask him, “What would you need me to do?”

“I just need some more sausages and eggs cooked. I can handle the rest.” Oh. I can do that. It’s just making sure they don’t burn, right?

I wonder if I should make small talk while I’m here?

>?

>>33536289
Mention our upcoming assignment. Perhaps he has some advice for his juniors' survival?

>>33536289
>>33536376
Seconded.

“So,” I say as I plop some sausages down into a pan, “My sergeant told me I have an assignment coming up, but I don’t know what it’s about. Do you?”

He simply shakes his head. “Sorry, you’ll have to ask your sergeant. But, I wouldn’t worry too much. From what I’ve heard, you have a good team. They’ll back you up.”

“It’s kind of weird. I’m used to always being told what to do and how to do it. But here, everything seems so free.”

“That’s a good thing,” he says, starting to make even more oatmeal, “We need to have some freedom outside of battle, even in it. If everyone just followed orders, we wouldn’t be able to rally ourselves if our plan was ruined.” I nod in slight understanding.

“Do you have any advice for a rookie like me?”

“Hmm, I would say, trust in your allies. Trust is one of the most important things between us right now.”

>Anything else?

>>33536485
Ask him if he has any advice for fighting armored foes, given how our sparring match last night went.

“How do you think I should handle an armored foe?” I say as I start scrambling some eggs.

Kyle looks at me critically, and then his expression softens considerably. “Don’t go in head first. Try and attack from their sides or catch them off guard. Failing that, make sure you have an ally to back you up. Also, aim for their joints. The armor is weakest there.”

“Anything else?”

“Not that I can think of.” He says eyeing the sausages that I nearly forgot about.

I continue to help for another couple minutes before excusing myself.

I should…

>Find the Sergeant
>Talk to _______ about ________

>>33536694
>Find the Sergeant
We have work to do.

>>33536694
>Talk to Gareth about yesterday.
Poor guy. He gets hit by Dark Magic, which starts giving him nightmares, and then he goes and accidentally breaks our sternum? He must be feeling like shit by now.

>>33536930
inb4 Gareth is cursed

>Find the sergeant
Ask about work, talk to gareth when we have free time

>>33536694
Go talk to Gareth.

>>33537166
What Orpheus said. Gareth Support could be useful.

>>33536694
Talk to Gareth.
Like >>33536930 and >>33537000 point out, Gareth may be in a dark (pun partially intended) place. We need to show him we are okay and make sure he is not't beating himself up over it.

I should really check up on Gareth, make sure he isn’t beating himself up over what happened last night. It was an accident after all. Now, where should I look?

Training field.

Of course he’s out here.

“Hey, Gareth!” I call out to him and he abruptly stops his drills.

“Mel, are you alright?” He sets his training lance aside and walks over to me, armor clinking the whole time.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Those staves work miracles!” I laugh, trying to help ease his tension.

“I am so sorry for last night. It wa-“

“It was just a reflex, yeah. Don’t worry about it.” I say firmly. “I learned my lesson, ‘always be ready to dodge’.”

“I suppose that’s one thing to take away from that.”

>What now?

>>33537938
Rematch time? "The best way to learn is to fight someone better than you."

>>33537938
Rematch, rematch!

>>33537938
Put Kyles advice to good test.

“So~” I say musically, “How about a quick rematch? First one to score three good hits is the winner?”

“Are you sure?” He asks, looking a little uncomfortable. I nod confidently. “Alright, you’re on.”

With Training lances in hand, the two of us make our way to the center of the field, and we get a couple spectators.

>How should I handle this?

>>33538076
Oh, right roll d100, best of 3

Rolled 52

>>33538076
Follow Kyle's advice: go for the joints, and get behind him/get him from the sides.

Rolled 34

>>33538112
Pretty much. We're more agile, we need to abuse the fuck out of that. Especially cause we don't have much armor compared to him.

Rolled 28

>>33538076
Do what Kyle said.

>Rolled 52

I should focus on doing what Kyle suggested. Aim for the joints and use my speed to my advantage.

I move in quick and give a thrust to his shoulder, but he deflects it with his lance goes to counter. I dodge his counter by jumping to the side. This time I feint left, but quickly change it up to hit his right knee. It doesn’t take him down this time, but it does stagger him. “One,” I say smirking.

He responds by sweeping me off my feet with his lance. “One” He responds, waiting for me to get up.

>New Strategy?
Three more rolls please.

Rolled 68

>>33538285
Agility works well. We should try to feint him with out entire body - make as if we're gonna go left, but jump right instead when he goes to hit us.

Rolled 36

>>33538285
This time, try getting behind him. If need be, distract him with a feint.

Rolled 11

>>33538285
Keep going, we seem to be doing well enough. Though I do wonder if he's holding back after yesterday.

>>33538352
>>33538354
I swear, the dice are trying to kill us...

>>33538411
I think it's my and Orpheus's fault. RNGeezus seems to hate PACYOA participants.

>Rolled 68

Almost as soon as I stand back up, Gareth is right there going for another thrust. I spin my lance and deflect it, but it was a trick. His lance was lower than expected and gets me in the shin. “Two.”

I disengage and try to think of a new option. Simple feints won’t cut it here.

Right.

I move left and make it look like I’m going to thrust, and he takes the bait. Quickly, I jump to the right and get a good thrust to his elbow, causing him to hiss in pain. “Two.” I quickly disengage again, knowing full well that going for a second hit would be pushing it right now.

Gareth adopts a highly defensive stance. His weight on his heels, allowing him to pivot easily should I try that trick again.

>?
Last d100 roll for now. Best of 3

Rolled 48

>>33538654
Go for it. You can do it.

Rolled 16

>>33538654
Back off, send some testing jabs out, but wait for him to make the first move so we can counter it and hit him while he's vulnerable.

Rolled 41

>>33538693
Seconding.

Rolled 80

Just going to test something before I start writing...

Rolled 26

>>33538752
Well
>80

Of course. Good rolls when they don't count...

>>33538752
No. Why would you do this!? We NEEDED that dice roll for later, EQ! And you just stole it from us T_T

Rolled 19

>>33538654

Got here late, but going to roll anyway for the sake of rolling

>>33538788
Even worse, it is probably the likelihood of another curse flare-up. Let's just hope it is a low-roll type and he doesn't try to kill us again.

>Rolled 48

I should hold back. Going in now is just reckless. Let him come to me.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t try to fake him out.

Step, thrust, pull back! I repeat the process of taking a step forward, doing a half –thrust, and jumping back. Each time he gets more and more jumpy.

There’s a small crowd around us now, watching and taking bets. As I notice this, this seems to be the moment Gareth was looking for.

He moves in, thrusts towards my chest, but I dodge with relative ease. I return the favor with a thrust of my own.

But…

I missed. And now Gareth is thrusting his lance towards my face! I close my eyes reflexively, but nothing happens.

Slowly, I open them to see the tip of his lance stopped just before my nose. “Uhhh…”

It quickly taps me on the nose. “Three!” Gareth announces, laughing loudly.

“Good match,” says a familiar, authoritative voice says from behind me. I spin around to see the Sergeant standing there, once again, in full armor.

“Sir!” I quickly snap to attention and Gareth does the same.

Behind Hearthsted is the rest of your squad, who quickly move in line with you and Gareth.

“I have orders from Lord Ephraim himself that we are to move out ahead of the main army and secure supply points along the road.” Hearthsted announces. “This will be a difficult job for us, but we have been given funds to equip ourselves with, as well as the authority to hire any mercenaries we may encounter.” He nods to Christine. “These supply points are fairly well guarded, but nothing we won’t be able to handle if we work together.” He looks at the five of us and quickly asks, “Any questions?”

>>33539163
>Yes. Can we buy Siegmund?
>Seriously, though...

What sort of resistance are we going to be expecting?

Rolled 55

>>33539163
"Have our scouts given us any intelligence reports as to what we might expect?"

We need to know, or at least try to know, before we buy equipment.

Okay, feel free to ask more questions. Candlewick can answer anything about the setting. I need to take a break to mow the lawn and what-not.

>>33539606
Indeed. I am EQ's right hand dude. Feel free to ask questions, talk about FE in general, etc. Who knows, maybe I'll ask you guys some questions. Have at me, /tg/.

>>33539672
>En-garde, then! Nah, seriously though. SS. What sort of strategy would you recommend? I've been focusing on trying to level up Eirika at the expense of, say, Seth. Not sure if that's completely wrong to do, though.

>>33539760
Seth can handle himself for the most part. He's a crutch character ala the "Jeigan" archetype, but unlike most he's still usable by the endgame. I would say try to keep Erika leveled, since she's required for most stages when she's there, but do keep in mind the Tower of Valni can help you grind later, which is the main advantage of SS over other FE games.

>>33539825
The... Tower of Valni?

>>33539869
First time playing, eh? Basically it's a tower map that opens up filled with enemies for you to fight through. A very typical strategy for that game is to grind the lower floors to level characters up.

>>33539932
Ah. I presume the levels are repeatable? And yeah, I was the guy in the first thread who had never played FE before.

>>33539951
Yeah, you can repeat them. I believe you get the choice at the end of each floor whether or not to go on. There are 10 floors I think, each tougher than the last. But the Tower isn't too hard. That would be the Ruins that open up at the end of the game. Fuck those Ruins, man.

>>33540001
Heh. Sounds... Interesting. BTW, is there anything stopping me from just savescumming my way into perfect levels for every level for every character, aside from time? Or do save-states not work that way?

>>33540033
I don't think there is, though I never have done it myself. Typically perfect levels aren't even close to being necessary.

>>33540033
I can help with that one. In Sacred Stones, there's a sort of 'seed' that dictates how things will turn out. So, if you save, level up, and then load and level up the exact same character with the same weapon against the same enemy, with no other characters moving, the level will turn out exactly the same. You'll have to change SOMETHING before every attempt on leveling up, so it'll take quite a long time.

>>33540061
Unless one is the kind of person who obsessively trains his Pokemon with perfect EVs. Who levels up his FFTA Viera as Assassins and his FFTA Humans as Blue Mages before swapping their classes.

>>33540071
Thanks, I figured it would be something like that.

>>33540033
at the outset of each level, a long, long list of numbers is randomly generated and used to determine the outcomes of combats and level-ups

It is actually possible to abuse this RNG via abusing the pathing, but even that is an imperfect method as you can only force the system to dig further into its list, rather than generate the specific numbers you want

>>33540094
Ah. I'm not one of those people so I basically just take what the RNG gives me. It makes characters different each playthrough too, if only by a small margin.

Alright, fielding a question. For those familiar with Sacred Stones, where in Magvel would you like to see us go? Personally I'm hoping we make a turn towards Jehanna. Love me some deserts.

>>33540895
I'd like to see Jehanna too. Maybe Rausten?

>>33540895
It's been quite some time since I've played Sacred Stones, but I'd like to visit Frelia or Rausten. Jehanna would mean trouble from a tactical standpoint for Mel, but it'd be nice too.

>>33540959
>>33541014
Rausten is as fine a place as any. I would like to run into L'archel.

>>33541100
And what's-his-face. Dozla. Hiring a Thief might not be a bad idea, too.

>>33541310
WE HIRE THE TRIO OH MY GOD

Alright! Done mowing my lawn with a push mower in the warm and humid hell that is where I live! Give me a little bit to cool down and re hydrate and we'll be up and running again!

>>33541541
Ack, I didn't even know what our character looks like.
what I get for coming in on thread 2
Mind giving an innatentave guy a quick rundown of our char? or is OP pic it?

>>33542065
Aye, we're basically Amelia if she started out as a Knight of Renais.

>>33542065
as far as we know? Female Recruit in Blue armor. Don't think any other details were fleshed out.

>>33542065
>>33542086
>>33542101
Correct, Female Recruit in blue armor is all I've said at this point. In part because I want you to use your imaginations, but if you want you can choose what Melarracal looks like.

Or Candlewick and I can give her an "official" look.

>>33542184
dark blonde hair, green eyes, fair skin.

smallish boobs.

>>33542224
Bare in mind that you're also roughly 15-18

>>33542224
Funny, this is basically what we were gonna go with, except with brown hair. The all important question now: hairstyle?

I'm going to suggest a ponytail, but if any of you want another one, please chime in.

>>33542269
Hmm. Ponytail could work, I guess. Personally I prefer long-ish hair. Maybe with one of those weird little braid-things that starts from both temples and joins together in the middle?

Also, I'm guessing we don't want to use any of:
http://img.neoseeker.com/mgv/430618/618/1/nephenee.jpg
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/151/b/3/female_spear_knight_by_thuong1308-d51rggw.png
http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/817882-bigthumbnail.jpg

>>33542318
Mini-crown braid is what my Google senses inform me I was looking for.

>>33542269
I was thinking short like Amelia's hair, but a ponytail would be good too actually.

>>33542318
I am a fan of that second one.

>>33542439
We'll leave it to you guys. Put your votes in now.

>>33542269
ponytail is what I've been picturing, tbh

>>33542489
Forgot my name. I hate trying to post on multiple boards. So we have one for a ponytail, one for Amelia, and one for long hair?

>>33542489
Honestly, if everyone's dead-set on the ponytail, the second pic I suggested should be pretty easy to shoop for a char sheet or something.

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>>33542553
Behold 15 seconds of time in paint, for this is our glorious PC.

“Just one sir, what kind of resistance will we be encountering?” I ask, feeling a little antsy.

“Our targets are occupied towns and one mineshaft.” He explains. “From what we can gather, there are just token forces in the towns. Enough to keep them sending supplies to Grado, but not enough to properly defend them from an attack. The mineshaft however,” Hearthsted hesitates for a moment before continuing, “it is not a priority target, but the ore we excavate from it help keep us armed. It is the farthest south, just bordering Grado, and would likely be our last stop.”

“Sir,” Gareth says. “When do we move out?”

“As soon as you all prepare.” He goes down the line handing everyone a hefty pouch of gold. “Each pouch contains two-thousand gold. You are to meet back here in no more than two hours. Dismissed!”

As soon as he says that everyone takes off to prepare.
Current Balance: 2013G

Shop List:
Slim Lance 420G
Iron Lance 360G
Vulnerary 300G
Antitoxon 350G

Inventory:
Slim Lance (Good)

>Buy?

NOTE: 1G does not equal 1 gold coin. Instead, think of a bank note, where each coin is worth a certain amount of gold. Does that make sense?

>>33542888
Iron Lance 360G
Vulnerary 300G (2x)= 600G
Antitoxin 350G

1310 G

>>33542888
>I would say one Iron Lance, a Vulnerary (maybe two) and that's it. Unless... How many uses does our current Slim Lance have?

>>33542966
I'm not giving them numerical uses (Too much effort...). But it is currently in GOOD condition. Meaning it's got a little while before it goes kaputs.

>>33542888
>>33542963

>>33543045
In that case, I'm gonna change my vote to >>33542963 as well.

>>33542963
Sounds reasonable enough to me.

Would it be possible to buy the kind of unlisted stuff like rope, etc. As well? I mean, I guess I can't figure out an immediate reason to, but having options doesn't hurt.

Alright, I bought a new Iron Lance, two vulneraries, and an antitoxin. Kellen gave me a weird look when I told him about the antitoxin, but it never hurts to be prepared. Gareth bought a shiny Steel Lance, Chris bought another Iron bow, and Christine bought some vulneraries. Since this is all we are being given, we need to make it last.

Even if I only have seven hundred and three gold left.

Hearthsted has us fall into formation. Christine in the air as lookout, Gareth and him up front, Chris and I in the middle, and Kellen bringing up the rear. We set before noon and made great time. Hearthsted informed us that we would be reaching our first destination by midday tomorrow.

Right now, we’re setting up camp for the night.
>Help Kellen and Christine cook (Requires d100 rolls)
>Help Gareth and the Sergeant set up the tents (Freebie choice)
>Help Chris Hunt (Requires d100 rolls)

Rolled 93

>>33543620
>[X]Help Chris Hunt
dice gods please

Rolled 28

>>33543644
>[X]Help Chris Hunt
Sounds like a good choice. Also, with a 93 I doubt I need to worry about anything much. Still rollan to see if I can't beat that.

Rolled 55

>>33543620
>>Help Chris Hunt (Requires d100 rolls)

Rolled 97

>>33543644
>Help Chris Hunt

I think 2 is more than enough to cook for 6 people, and we really only need maybe 2 or 3 tents anyways unless we all get our own

>>33543644
>>33543722
I'm scared that you and I have perhaps used up all of our luck that we'll have needed in life-or-death situations just now.

>>33543750
Its ok, time heals all bruises, and magic heals everything else.

Also, if we do die, think of the possibility that we have as a skeleton.

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>>33543773
But if we DON'T die, think of the possibility we have as a General with a Spear!

Just as Chris is about to set out on his hunt, I run up to him and offer to help.

“You can hunt?” He asks skeptically.

“Uh, well, not really. But who knows what you’ll find out there. It might be best if you have someone watching your back.”

“Hmm,” he thinks about it for a moment before assenting. “Alright, thanks.”

It’s a relatively open field around where you made camp, and even after a long walk I can still see the light of the campfire. I can’t help but marvel at the beauty out here. The night sky looks so big down out here. Nothing like back in the capital where we had towers and mansions all around. Looking back to the field, I see something off in the distance. “Chris,” I whisper, “ what’s that over there?”

He looks where I’m pointing and nods. “A deer.” He knocks an arrow, takes aim, and fires.

The shot looks high, but looks can be deceiving, which in this case they are. The arrow strikes the deer and it falls over. We quickly rush over to it, me feeling sorry for the poor thing, and Chris being excited over his amazing shot. The arrow was a perfect shot, right in the eye, killing it immediately.

“Help me haul this thing back to camp, will you?” He asks, retrieving his arrow.

“Alright.” I say as I help lift the beast. It’s a young deer, but it will definitely keep us feed tonight.

Back in camp, Chris sets to work skinning and cooking the deer over a flame when he admits that he hadn’t seen it. “I was eyeing a rabbit, to be honest.”

After supper, I..

>?

>>33542269
Go for pompadour
It's just dandy

Rolled 9

>>33544179
Spar with Gareth!

Rolled 22

>>33544225
Ignore the peasant

>>33544230
If Gareth isn't getting tired of us constantly challenging him to spars, I agree with this option. We need the practice.

Rolled 29

>>33544179
>>33544230

Sparring is fine, but maybe with Kellen or Christine fora change of pace?

>>33544179
Maybe spar with Gareth
Don't want to wear on him too much, though. Maybe find another person to spar with, like Kellen?

>>33544284
Seonding, spar with the merc.

Rolled 24

>>33544298
fucked the roll

Gaiz, I think I found out where our bad luck went. Nobody wants to spar with us nao...

I, uh, won't say no. But, are you SURE? These rolls are, uh, well...

>>33544351

Were we rolling? I just kept my dice on.

Rolled 6

>>33544225
Seconding the pompadour, we can be a female Anaru.

And yeah, let's spar with Christine.

Rolled 2

>>33544368
We don't have the RESOLVE to be him. Or the natural fighting talent.

Rolled 80

>>33544368
No, what the fuck. Girls with pompadours don't fucking work. At all. I'm gonna vote for ponytail to bring that up to three votes now, since if I voted for long hair it wouldn't directly rule out a fucking pompadour.

Also gonna try and roll, see if I get better than any of these guys.

>>33544366
No, you weren't rolling for anything, but if they are indicative of your chances of success...

Also, just pointing out Kellen is closer to your level. But Christine it is!

>>33544368

Pompadour is terrible. I'm going to go with ponytail.

>>33544368
we can do this. Pompadours, go

Rolled 14

>>33544368
Thirding the pomp!
And yeah, let's spar with Kellen.

Rolled 82

>>33544471
Today isn't my day

Rolled 36

The vote was closed awhile ago and pompadour was not an option anyway. Mel is a small build, lightly armored recruit with dark blonde hair in a ponytail and green eyes that still shine with innocence.

>>33544409
And you did, which is sad cause we coulda used a roll that high for when we actually need it.

>>33544517

Good, because pompadour wouldn't work on a girl, especially in this setting.

Keep that hairstyle in the many, many KLK quests.

>>33544520

Rolls are determined by the time of the post, so it really wouldn't matter anyway. Rolls are pointless until the QM calls for it. There's no such thing as wasting rolls.

>>33544517
sorry for fowling this up with the pompadour thing, hue. Didn't expect it to actually cause a ruckus
Mel is in training to become a knight, right? I'm guessing that's why people opt to spar Gareth so much

Rolled 6

>>33544607
We just like Gareth is all. We could still go Cavalier or Knight.

Christine looks like she’s almost done eating too, so I ask her if she wants to spar.

“Hmm? Sure. I take it you want me off my Pegasus.” I nod. “Alright, give me just a moment.” When she’s done, the two of us go off to the far side of camp, where we can still see because of the campfire, but won’t accidentally hit the tents. Everyone is looking on intently, especially the sergeant. “So, you ready?”

“Yep!” I heft a training lance that the Sergeant brought. He seems to have brought a fair bit of other supplies too.

“Alright then!” Christine shouts as she makes the first move. She goes for a low sweep with her lance.

>Response?
Roll d100 best of 3 once again.

>>33544544
No such thing as wasting the rolls, yes. Wasting the good luck to get such rolls, also yes.

Rolled 43

>>33544631

Time to finally win a sparring match

>>33544631
>Let's be crazy. Block her spear, twirl ours in a circle to redirect her sweep over our head, and finish off with a swipe at her flank.

>Technically a staff move, but it'll work. Assuming rolls.

Rolled 36

>>33544631
Jump the sweep and bring our lance down when we start coming back down

Rolled 25

>>33544631
Rolling

Rolled 13

>>33544631
Jump and bonk her with your lance

Rolled 2

>>33544686
>You know. The rolls I forgot to include. Like an idiot.

Rolled 27

>>33544693
1d20, oops

Rolled 44

>>33544631
Lets just charge and wing it

Rolled 94

>>33544631
You know what? Fuck it, from now on I'm rolling 2d50 instead. That should give us a more reasonable RNGeezus.

Not a single roll over 50, this sparring match is gonna go great.

>>33544754
...

I just wasted a 94. I think I have non other option than to commit seppuku to wash away this shamefur dispray.

>>33544784
Matches have more than one move. Just have fai- ah, who am I kidding.

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>>33544645
>>33544688
>>33544690

I jump over her sweep and attempt to swing the tip of my lance down on her, but she sees this coming and gets out of the way easily enough.

Christine comes in again, this time moving fast and weaving. There’s no telling what she will do!

>What do?
More d100’s please.

I FUCKING HATE THE CAPTCHAS

Rolled 93

>>33544829
We just cannot roll well when sparring. At all.

Rolled 20

>>33544829
Start with a low sweep of the spear, but bring it upwards when she tries to jump it?

Rolled 56

>>33544829

Move out of the way and try to catch her off balance

Rolled 76

>>33544829
Swing out in a wide arc in front of us, at least to try and keep some distance.

Rolled 37

>>33544829
>If she's moving towards us unpredicably, we need to head towards her, get in her guard and smack her with the blunt end of our spear (using it as a staff for more maneuverability and speed)

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>>33544859

Rolled 23

>>33544829
She's kind of fast on her legs for someone who uses a mount.

don't think I'll beat 93,but may as well try

>>33544829
>>33544859
...huh. Pessimism does work.
Anyway, plan. Chances are she'll attack from an oblique angle. Plant our feet, keep the guard up, and when she gets close enough, lunge.

>Rolled 93 (Halleluiah!)

Even with her erratic movements, I feel really calm right now.

Her movement has changed and she’s now going for my left, so I take a page out of her book and give a wide sweep to her legs. She jumps, as I predicted, and I quickly raise my lance to hook her leg midair, screwing with her jump and making her fall flat on her face.

I move back as she stands back up. “Not bad kid,” She says with a smile. “Not bad at all.” She spins her lance around herself deftly and advances slowly, still spinning her weapon.

>Action?
D100’s por favor.

>one of the captcha words is "lance"
Heh

Rolled 16

>>33545098
Strike the spinning to try and throw her lance off balance.

Rolled 20

>>33545098

Will leave planning to others for now

Rolled 20

>>33545098
>thrust forwards, when she knocks our lance out of the way we spin it around and nail her with the blunt end. Because dammit I'm gonna have Mel use the blunt end at least once!

Rolled 20

>>33545098
hit in the chest

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>>33545138
>>33545143
>>33545147
I'm seriously considering just rolling 2d50 from now on. The RNG here is ridiculous.

Rolled 87

>>33545098
If she's spinning her lance like that, she's just trying to hide the angle (Or she got a crit, depending on her class without the pegasus). Probably want to either go defensive and hope for a counter, or just go full charge and hope for the surprise.

I'm voting for the second one off hand. This shot will end it, regardless of who wins.

Rolled 9, 4, 2 = 15

>>33545184

If the QM wants a difference dice system, 3d10 is a better system than 2d50, less variance.

1d100 is usually decent though, just not coming through today.

She’s showing off with that spinning. It also leaves an opening that I don’t plan on ignoring!

I swing my lance to deflect her spinning, but she quickly swings her lance to counter my own, knocking me off balance before going for another swing, hitting me in the side and sending me sprawling.

“Owww…” That really hurt! It’s definitely going to leave a mark, even through my armor! Luckily, it doesn’t feel like anything is broken, so I can keep going for now.

Urgh, Christine is smirking cockily as I stand back up. “Had enough?” She asks in her usual polite and soft voice.

“Not yet!” I spit back. Finding it a little hard to keep my cool when she’s acting so arrogant. She’s not making any moves to attack, so I guess this means it’s my turn!

>ATTACK! (HOW?)
More d100’s…

>>33545239
I use d100 because I have a neat little chart for determining varying degrees of success... and failure... But yeah, Anna is shitting on your rolls today.

Rolled 67

>>33545478
>Anna?

With a snarl, I lunge forwards with my lance, before taking a step towards Christine and sweeping my leg low, to take her feet out from under her.

Rolled 31

>>33545478
Since we're losing our cool, I'd assume we'd go in for a more direct contest, trying to slip through her guard while trading blows.

Feint a blow to the body, change to hit the thigh

Rolled 62

>>33545478
Wide slash towards her side.

>>33545513
Anna is a character in every FE. She's the red-haired tutorial lady, commonly joked to be the Random Number Godess.

Rolled 67

>>33545513

Rolled 58

>>33545478
Well we can't spot openings today and can't win a straight fight, so lets not fight one. Run in and use spear to block, but try to punch instead of use the weapon. If thats legal for this, anyway.

.... I think I might refrain from making dice rolls myself. I'm late to the thread and this is the first dice roll that comes out of me.

>>33545569
Think about it like this, "At least things can't possibly get any worse!"

>>33545597
That's a lie, EQ, and you know it! Things can /always/ get worse.

Especially when you say a line like that. It's like /asking/ for the universe to screw you.

>Rolled 67 (Improving)

I go in fast and hard with a feint to the chest, she attempts to block my lance but it’s too late. I’ve changed my trajectory and successfully clipped her upper thigh, in the same motion I spin my lance and smack her in gut with the butt of it.

She jumps back quickly, looking a little worse for wear, but it didn’t seem like that was too effective. Still, it makes me feel a little better.

Christine starts strafing me, but I keep my eyes locked on her. After a moment of this she breaks into a sprint around me!

>What do? (I know, I already used this phrase)
More d100s best of the first 3

>>33545622
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

>>33545597
No, it can. My party just had that moment last session, when going through a dungeon. We triggered a trap that half flooded the dungeon with scalding water, and released three sharks immune to the heat thanks to magic rocks

>>33545752
Be glad there weren't WATER SPIDERS!

Rolled 15

>>33545750
take a more cautious approach, but be prepared to move quickly. Take a defensive stance and get ready to counter

Rolled 97

>>33545750
Fucking defend.

Rolled 2

>>33545750
Alright I'll try one more dice roll just to be sure.

>Keep following her, limit our movements, so she tires herself out with her running around. Defense, defense, defense!

Rolled 75

>>33545750
Stick our lance out, and when she goes to jump over it we raise it upwards to trip her.

>>33545778
Oh dear god, that sounds worse. Don't know what those are, heh. There was some steam sprite. I woulda hit her if I didn't have to carry the gnome paladin on my bach
>>33545783
ack. I wasted my 87 on pompadour shitposting

Rolled 55

>>33545752
hey, I once decided to have a sharktopus swarm attack my party on a trap. There's always a worse enemy.

>>33545750
anyways I think we're better off trying to just swing the but of our lance in the opposite direction as she's running, maybe spinning it a bit first to build up momentum.

>>33545813
.... Yeah, that's enough for me to say I shouldn't roll dice.

>>33545809
WE'RE SAVED!

Oh, I should really point this out now, but, when there is no clear consensus for how to react in a fight I will take what I think I can work with the best and improvise. But there are two people wanting to DEFEND, so we'll go with that.

And thank gods for 97's

Hey guys I just realized something: the bad luck is /tg/'s version of that freaking retarded 'battle flow' system they used in FE10 (I don't remember if that was in 9). Hated that thing. It basically never worked in my favor, except when it didn't matter at all.

>>33545835
holy shit.
And I thought centipede filled corpses were bad.
I keep getting unlucky. Last campaign I rolled the highest encounter, a werewolf lord. on a fucking jungle island
>>33545809
thank god

>>33545906
Oh yeah, that was absolute shit.

>>33545943
Don't believe I played FE10. was battle flow like flanking/fatigue or something?

No way! I am not letting her get behind me! I spin in place and keep her in my sights the best that I can, ready to block any attack.

She keeps this up for almost a minute, and I’m starting to feel dizzy, but I won’t let it bother me! But if this keeps up, I’ll surely fall.

Then it hits me!

I stick my lance out and start spinning the OPPOSITE direction.

Christine did not see that one coming, and she gets a chest full of lance for her troubles, as well as a back full of grass.

Despite my dizziness, I manage to put my foot on her chest and hold my training lance at her throat.


Good news and Bad news /tg/.
Good news is, You WON!
Bad news is, I'm falling asleep at my computer.

If the thread is still alive at some point tomorrow, I'll pick it back up for a bit. I won't make any promises though. Sorry!

But hey, you guys were great! Keep being awesome /tg/!

>>33546044
No, it was this weird chart that every character had. Different characters had different wavelengths that moved up and down steps depending on their chart with each turn.

It was terrible. Being in a bad 'step' killed your accuracy and dodge, among other things, so you couldn't hit crap even with good characters (and that's even worse when it hurts the Dawn Brigade members, who mostly have terrible stats and don't get enough EXP for later on).

Being in a good step was great, but those basically never happen except when it doesn't matter one bit.

>>33546084
FINALLY! We finally won!

I know that feeling EQ. Go sleep. I was late getting here because I didn't sleep well and passed out in a nap for a few hours this afternoon.

>>33546095
AHAHAHAHAHA! WE ARE VERITABLE GODS OF COMBAT!

No but seriously, it's awesome that we actually won a fight instead of lucking our way through it.

Archived for safety reasons. Night all!

>>33545913
Hey, the knew the risk when they flipped that switch that reversed gravity while in a ruin under the ocean.
They spent like 15 minutes building a complicated rope system to pull themselves to safe ground afterwards, then second to last guy to go up it rolled a 1 and everything went to hell.

>>33546095
holy shit, that sucks. I know the reason why they did it, but
gah

>>33546228
night then, EQ

>>33546228
Oh wait, let me just do one thing real quick.

Status:
Recruit
Level 4
Weapon Rank: Lance D (Almost C)
Supports: Forde E, Gareth E

>>33546237
hhehehhhhehehh
They deserved it, then.
the dice gods are fickle, heh

>>33546262
Yeah, it was an interesting idea, but terribly implemented.

It's worse on Hard mode, where being in a bed step can kill your characters. It didn't help that which step they started the battle on was random. So during the crucial opening of a difficult level, you could end up with a lot of your characters on a poor or bad step, while your enemies were on good steps.

AAGH! All my hate.

>>33546301
Should be level 5....

>>33546301
>>33546327
Typos are expected when sleepy. Go to bed!

>>33546327
So we're actually half-way to promoting? Neat! I'm guessing we're planning on heading towards Knight then General? At least, that was the impression the first thread gave me.

Honestly? I'm more interested in possibly going Cavalier myself.

The dream of being a knight in shining armor, atop our valiant steed.

I've been wondering, do we HAVE to follow the pre-set promotion routes? I mean, is it possible we could become a Pegasus Knight ourselves? We're already using lances.

>>33546524
There's an interesting thought. I didn't consider that!

I think we're still thinking too much in game logic.

Something to ask EQ, I think.

The image of Mel sitting, terrified in her saddle as the Pegasus flies through the air for her training is a tempting image.

>>33546524
Or if we wanna get really crazy, a Wyvern Knight, perhaps?

>>33546392
We could split the difference and go Great Knight in the end.

>>33546573
Nah, nah. If we can promote outside the traditional paths, Wyvern Knight is the only way to go.

>>33546585
Yeah. Because fucking DRAGONS.

>>33546524
Class choices were tied into our starting character. Pegasus knights were one of the Frelia choices. Renais was knights and Cavaliers.

>>33546613
Wow, how could I forget the wyvern knights?! Of course! It's perfect!

>>33546618
Awwww, really? That makes me sad then.

>>33546618
So how would we have gone about getting a Wyvern Knight?

I'm not above kidnapping a Manakete into slavery if that's what it takes.

>>33546715
Grado start. Also Manakete are not the same mounts as Wyverns.

>>33546736
not the same as Wyvern mounts*

Mounting Manakete is not a thing. At least not in this context.

>>33546736
That's what I thought. Man, classes being restricted by nation is kind of a downer.

>>33546736
I know, I know, I was kidding. In retrospect? I wish we had gone with Grado. Redemption stories are always cooler.

As are Wyverns.

If we kill Valder, can we steal his mount?

>>33546763
Humorous though it would be, no. Mounts are fiercely loyal. When we put down Valter, the wyvern gets put down too.

>>33546828
>Mounts are fiercely loyal
That's funny considering Awakening's class change mechanic.

>>33546828
Yeah, figures as much. Ah well, too bad. Maybe next time someone does a FE quest we'll make sure to ask how the classes are governed.

Unless we can get a Wyvern Knight to train us while we're still a raw Recruit, full of unbridled (get it? Cause flying mounts? It's funny) potential...

>>33546828
Does this 90+ change your mind?

>>33546891
Or it could fail. Stupid hands.

>>33546849
Never side the riders were loyal.

>>33546869
Carlos/10. But nah, we're locked in.

>>33546891
I have a very high will save.

>>33546618
What's stopping us from visiting Frelia or Grado and getting one of those mounts at some point? I mean, besides the fact that we'd probably already be long down the path of another cllass.

>>33546940
Oh well! Maybe next FE quest then.

>>33546951
Thinking about it, riding flying mounts is a highly specialized career choice I would imagine. You'd need training in getting used to it, which we sorely lack since we didn't grow up in Frelia or Grado.

We'd have to learn on the field and that would just get us killed.

>>33546951
The QM's mechanics. I understand some of you want to be something else, I wanted to be a Myrmidon, but no one else voted for Jehanna. It's just how it is.

>>33546618
Aw man, really? That's the kind of information we shoulda been told before voting for where we started out in.

>>33547027
Yeah, I'll relay this kind of thing to EQ. It is his first quest. He did try to imply it in the names a bit like "a mercenary in Jehanna", "a knight of Renais", but if we do this again we'll have to be a bit more clear.

Sorry guys, I tend to forget my thought process doesn't follow everyone else's.

Meaning when I thought that the choices were "obvious" means they really weren't. I'll keep that in mind from now on.

So sorry for that, but hey, think about it like this. PERFECT GUARD MOTHER FUCKERS!!

>>33547027
>>33547066
Looking back at the thread archive, most of the titles do imply certain classes.

Although I'm curious what our class would be if we were from Carcino. Would be have been a non-combatant?

>>33547101
A common mistake, EQ. Don't feel too bad about it. It's okay, this is still a fun quest.

>>33547137
Carcino would have been Thief or Bard/Dancer. A weird combo to be sure.

>>33547185
Ooooh, right, I forgot about those.

>>33547137
>Carcino
>Non-combatant
Master Chef Quest - Fire Emblem edition

>>33547222
Heh. We'll win over hearts of Grado's soldiers by hitting them right where it hurts! Their stomachs!

>>33547185
I'm kinda curious how being a bard/dancer would have played out.