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Post by a moderator on Feb 28, 2014 0:58:05 GMT
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Sk 11 St 19 L 10 = 2 points Kills: 26 Bonus: Yes, eventually. Mission: Success. Points: 43
Star Strider Sk 9 St 22 L 11 F 7 = 2 points Kills: 5 Bonus: No Mission: Killed by Felina, a sewer-dwelling Furry. Points: 7
Legend of the Shadow Warriors Sk 11 St 19 L 9 = 2 points Kills: 11 Bonus: No Mission: Got trapped in the nightmare AGAIN. Points: 13
I'll try and get Curse done before the end of the day.
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Post by schlendrian on Feb 28, 2014 8:31:35 GMT
First of all, welcome back, Symm, and welcome Champskees! Warlock of Firetop Mountain Sk 8 St 23 L 10 = 2 points Mission: Couldn't hit the Cyclops even once Bonus: obviously not Kills: 12 Total: 14 Curse of the Mummy Sk 7 St 22 L 10 = 2 points Mission: Almost defeated the Scorpion, but in the end it proved to much of a challenge Bonus: nope Kills: 1 Total: 3 Overall Total: 17
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Post by a moderator on Feb 28, 2014 23:53:29 GMT
I'm not going to have finished my attempt at Curse by midnight, so here's what I achieved:
Curse of the Mummy Sk 12 St 22 L 7 = 2 points Kills: 17 Bonus: Not yet Mission: Not yet Points: 19
Grand total: 82
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Post by symm on Mar 2, 2014 12:38:13 GMT
First of all, welcome back, Symm! Thank you very much.
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Post by a moderator on Mar 2, 2014 15:58:07 GMT
Champskees gets to set the March challenge.
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Post by symm on Mar 14, 2014 22:24:53 GMT
Am I too stupid to find the March challenge?
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Post by a moderator on Mar 14, 2014 22:29:14 GMT
Champskees hasn't set one. There's arguably still time, as I get the impression that most participants leave playing the challenge until near the end of the month...
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Post by symm on Mar 16, 2014 12:57:55 GMT
Alright. I didn't mean to rush anyone. Sorry for that.
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Post by champskees on Mar 17, 2014 11:36:52 GMT
March Challenge These are some of my favourite books. Apologies for being so late; I didn't check the thread since I posted (msg me next time!)
Slaves of the Abyss Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 400 Bonus: Non Expert swordsman - Expose Sige without using the Sealed Locket.
Creature of Havoc Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 460 Bonus: Unstoppable beast - Kill six chaos warriors.
Dead of Night Dice: 4 (+1 to score for each talent you don't pick i.e. if you only choose 2 talents you can add 1 point to your score). Mission: Reach paragraph 400 Bonus: Hero - Save Tom's farm.
Talisman of Death Dice: 4 (+2 to score if you do not take a Potion with you). Mission: Reach paragraph 400 Bonus: Greedy bastard - Lose one of your fingers.
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Post by symm on Mar 20, 2014 20:56:10 GMT
SOTA 3/10/2 ---> 2 PTS Mission: Failure (I ended up in the abyss.) Bonus Mission: Failure Kills: 3 Total: 5 PTS *** COH 5/7/3 ---> 2 PTS Mission: Failure (Trudged into an oven...) Bonus Mission: Failure Kills: 5 Total: 7 PTS *** DON 1/6/4 ---> 4 PTS Mission: Failure (A pendulum blade pierced my forehead!) Bonus Mission: Failure Kills: 0 Total: 4 PTS *** TOD 5/11/5 ---> 1 PTS Mission: Failure (Instead of escaping the city, I went for a Lovecraftian trip on the cemetery and got wound up with a Ghoul and Zombies. It's a shame!) Bonus Mission: Failure Kills: 8 Total: 9 PTS
GRAND TOTAL: 25 PTS
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Post by nathanh on Mar 24, 2014 12:11:37 GMT
A pretty useless performance from me.
Dead of Night: Sk 7 St 20 Lu 12 (2) Mission: Killed by DEMONIC SERVANTS Bonus: No Kills: 1 Total: 3
Creature of Havoc: Sk 8 St 17 Lu 7 (5) Mission: Fell into the water Bonus: No Kills: 8 Total: 13
Talisman of Death Sk 9 St 23 Lu 12 (1) Mission: Killed by HAWKANA Bonus: No Kills: 3 Total: 4
Grand total: 20
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Post by champskees on Mar 29, 2014 8:50:18 GMT
Terrible adventuring until Dead of Night, which saved my bacon.
Slaves of the Abyss Sk 8 St 20 L 9 = 4 points Mission: Killed by a Troll (after killing an ogre with a double 6 roll...gah) Bonus: No Kills: 6 Points: 10
Creature of Havoc Sk 12 St 21 L 7 = 2 points Mission: Wizard cast a creature control spell on me Bonus: No Kills: 2 Points: 4
Talisman of Death Sk 7 St 20 L 8 = 4 points (+2 for not taking a potion) Mission: Killed by Minion of Death Bonus: No Kills: 0 Points: 6
Dead of Night Sk 8 St 20 L 9, three talents = 4 points Mission: Victorious Bonus: Yes Kills: 6 Points: 25
Which makes for a total of 45 points
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Post by a moderator on Mar 31, 2014 21:04:08 GMT
Dead of Night Sk 9 St 21 L 9 = 2 (+1 for only taking Holy Circle and Speak Demon) Kills: 4 Bonus: Didn't live long enough. Outcome: Killed in combat by Magrand. Yes, Sk 6 St 6 Magrand. The dice hated me. Total: 7
Slaves of the Abyss Sk 11 St 20 L 12 = 1 Kills: 3 Bonus: Died trying for it. Outcome: See above. Total: 4
Creature of Havoc Sk 7 St 19 L 12 = 2 Kills: 7 Bonus: Wouldn't have tried for it if I could. Outcome: Died fighting a Thief. Total: 9
Talisman of Death Sk 10 St 22 L 8 = 2 Kills: 4 Bonus: Didn't quite live long enough to have the option. Outcome: Killed by Hawkana. Total: 6
Grand total: 26
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Post by a moderator on Apr 1, 2014 0:27:22 GMT
Thanks to the 'no setting two challenges in a row' rule, I get to set this one despite scoring 19 points less than Champskees. Tribute to VagsanchoIn honour of the previous forum's most unique poster, this challenge is shaped by his idiosyncratic view of what is best in FF. Scorpion SwampYou must accept Grimslade's quest. Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 358 (as close as the book gets to the 'obtain Grimslade's approval' ending vagsancho thought should have been included). Bonus: Hand over 5 amulets to Grimslade. House of HellDice: 5 Mission: Reach paragraph 328 (vagsancho so regretted the fact that the sacrifice was not on the true path). Bonus: Survive a chat with the ghost in the Diabolus room. Crypt of the SorcererDice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 125 (defeating vagsancho's hero just wouldn't be appropriate). Bonus: Kill the Bonekeeper, but fight the Gargantis anyway. Island of the UndeadDice: 5 Mission: Reach paragraph 400. Bonus: Use Champskees' solution to win. Yes, this challenge is an April Fool's gag. I'll have the real one up before the end of the day.
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Post by champskees on Apr 1, 2014 6:32:26 GMT
What is funny is that I would love to actually play out his laughable recommendations. I vote for this to be the actual April challenge; who's with me?
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Post by symm on Apr 1, 2014 9:35:13 GMT
I'm in!
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Post by a moderator on Apr 1, 2014 15:17:43 GMT
I'll list the actual challenge I had planned anyway, but if the majority genuinely prefer the gag option, I'll go with that.
In at the Deep End You're only on section 1, and you're already in some kind of trouble.
Starship Traveller Dice: 4 (crew and ship are not counted, and you might as well only roll up any that are actually needed) Mission: Reach paragraph 340 Bonus: Defeat the Manslayer Robot
Siege of Sardath Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 400 Bonus: Kill Morn Preeler's duplicate
Island of the Undead Dice: 5 Mission: Reach paragraph 400 Bonus: Net the Squirting Octopus
Spellbreaker Dice: 4 Mission: Reach Paragraph 400 Bonus: Win a game of Eclipse
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Post by schlendrian on Apr 1, 2014 17:24:59 GMT
I'm in either way.
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Post by nathanh on Apr 1, 2014 17:26:10 GMT
I vote for the april fool challenge, for the selfish reason that I own all of those books and only one of the ones on the real challenge...
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Post by symm on Apr 3, 2014 9:24:30 GMT
SS 4/10/1 ---> 2 PTS Mission: Failure (Fear Flowers and Crab Grass!) Bonus Mission: Failure Kills: 6 Total: 8 PTS *** HOH 6/3/3/5 ---> 4 PTS Mission: Success Bonus Mission: Success Kills: 1 Total: 20 PTS *** COTS 5/7/1 ---> 4 PTS Mission: Failure (The Centaur got me!) Bonus Mission: Failure (-3 Luck was fun...) Kills: 11 Total: 15 PTS *** IOTU 1/9/1/4 ---> 4 PTS Mission: Failure (The Squirting Octopus was already too much for me!) Bonus Mission: Failure Kills: 1 Total: 5 PTS
GRAND TOTAL: 48 PTS
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Post by hynreck on Apr 3, 2014 18:23:44 GMT
This gag is most excellent!
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Post by champskees on Apr 14, 2014 10:12:48 GMT
Scorpion Swamp Sk 10 St 20 L 10 = 1 point Mission: Killed by a thief Bonus: Died trying – too greedy Kills: 4 Points: 5
House of Hell Sk 10 St 17 L 10 F 9 = 4 points Mission: Died from bat fright Bonus: Yes Kills: 2 Points: 11
Crypt of the Sorcerer Sk 9 St 15 L 9 = 5 points Mission: Killed by a Chameleonite Bonus: No Kills: 1 Points: 6
Island of the Undead Sk 8 St 20 L 9 P 6 = 4 points Mission: Killed by a Greater Ghoul Bonus: No, should have tried it though Kills: 3 Points: 7
Which makes for a total of 29 points...damn.
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Post by schlendrian on Apr 29, 2014 18:57:24 GMT
House of Hell Sk 10 St 17 L 11 F 8 = 4 points Mission: Died from mirror fright Bonus: Yes Kills: 3 Points: 12
Crypt of the Sorcerer Sk 10 St 17 L 10 = 4 points Mission: Harpoon Flies - 6 needles Bonus: nope Kills: zero Points: 4
Which makes for 16 points
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Post by champskees on Apr 29, 2014 21:03:29 GMT
HOH 6/3/3/5 ---> 4 PTS Mission: Success Bonus Mission: Success Kills: 1 Total: 20 PTS I like to read these reports as they are quite interesting, I was curious as to your 'kill' count. My understanding is that you need to kill the Great Dane's to get the secret code, is that right? Or did you simply know the secret trapdoor from a previous reading?
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Post by a moderator on Apr 29, 2014 23:33:33 GMT
You'd need to kill Great Danes to be able to find the hidden room containing the Kris knife, but as the rather special victory conditions for the book in this challenge don't make possession of the Kris a necessity, it's quite possible to succeed here without killing any dogs.
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Post by symm on Apr 30, 2014 9:52:08 GMT
HOH 6/3/3/5 ---> 4 PTS Mission: Success Bonus Mission: Success Kills: 1 Total: 20 PTS I like to read these reports as they are quite interesting, I was curious as to your 'kill' count. My understanding is that you need to kill the Great Dane's to get the secret code, is that right? Or did you simply know the secret trapdoor from a previous reading?
Are you referring to the secret trapdoor in the drawing room? I used the secret passage way in the library to get to the cellar.
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Post by champskees on Apr 30, 2014 10:37:21 GMT
No, I forgot about the unique victory conditions for this challenge. My apologies.
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Post by a moderator on Apr 30, 2014 22:33:47 GMT
My results:
Scorpion Swamp Sk 10 St 19 L 7 = 4 points Kills: 12 Bonus: Didn't manage to get the Frog Amulet. Result: Success Total: 26 points
House of Hell Sk 9 St 21 L 11 F 9 = 2 points Kills: 5 Bonus: Yes, but it cost me in the long run. Result: Scared to death by a mirror. Total: 12 points
Crypt of the Sorcerer Sk 8 St 20 L 11 = 2 points Kills: 6 Bonus: Trying got me one of my kills. Result: The Harpoon Flies and Chameleonite blood both hit me with 2-point Skill penalties, so I wound up killed by a Goblin. Total: 8 points
Island of the Undead Sk 11 St 21 L 11 P 6 = 2 points Kills: 5 Bonus: If I could have used Champskees' first solution for the adventure (the one that, in vagsancho's words, 'does not work and has no validity'), I would have. Result: I think I died of Lung Rot in the swamp. If not, I starved to death just after leaving. Total: 7 points
Final score: 53 points
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Post by a moderator on May 1, 2014 16:55:02 GMT
Symm sets the May challenge.
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Post by symm on May 1, 2014 19:09:29 GMT
GOLD
Nach Golde drängt, // Am Golde hängt // Doch alles.
(Toward gold throng all, // To gold cling all, // Yes, all!)
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Goethe
All the bonus missions have the same object: The contestant with the most gold pieces wins the 5 PTS (It doesn't matter if the contestant dies).
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 400
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Demons Of The Deep
Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 236
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Midnight Rogue
Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 400
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The Forest Of Doom
Dice: 4 Mission: Reach paragraph 400
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