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Karovenon
08-14-2007, 04:16 PM
:wtf:


A greater orc swings a broadsword at you!
At the last moment, you block the attack with your shield!

You swing a basket-hilted imflass longsword at a greater orc!
Amazingly, the greater orc manages to block the attack with his shield!
Roundtime: 6 sec.

You swing a basket-hilted imflass longsword at a greater orc!
Blow to chest causes the greater orc's heart to skip a beat.
The greater orc is stunned!

You swing a basket-hilted imflass longsword at a greater orc!
Torn muscle in the greater orc's left leg!

A greater orc hobbles slowly southwest, uttering a curse under his breath.

[Cairnfang Forest]
The caravan route passes beneath the arching branches of a giant thrakwood bush, growing close alongside the trail. About head level on a Giantman, the branches are too high to be a hindrance to anyone shorter. Sunlight reaches down through the canopy and highlights a cluster of snowblossoms in a clearing to the northeast. You also see a greater orc and a greater orc.
Obvious paths: northeast, south
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You swing a basket-hilted imflass longsword at a greater orc!
The greater orc evades the attack by a hair!

A greater orc swings a broadsword at you!
Amazingly, you manage to block the attack with your shield!

You concentrate intently, focusing all your energies.
With instinctive motions, you weave to and fro striking with deliberate and unrelenting fury!
You swing a basket-hilted imflass longsword at a greater orc!
Banged the greater orc's left shin.
That'll raise a good welt.
You swing a basket-hilted imflass longsword at a greater orc!
Weak slash to the greater orc's right arm.
That doesn't even sting.

Your flurry of strikes leaves you off-balance and out of position.

Certain just arrived.

Certain intones a phrase of elemental power while raising his hands...
Certain gestures at a greater orc.
Certain hurls a powerful lightning bolt at a greater orc!
AS: +395 vs DS: +65 with AvD: +50 + d100 roll: +24 = +404
... and hits for 262 points of damage!
Massive electrical shock to the left arm destroys flesh. What remains is useless.
The orc screams and grasps at his mangled left arm as his wooden shield falls to the ground.
A greater orc breathes his last gasp and dies.

Certain hurls a powerful lightning bolt at a greater orc!
AS: +395 vs DS: +81 with AvD: +50 + d100 roll: +67 = +431
... and hits for 309 points of damage!
Massive electrical shock to back. Won't be bending over for awhile.
A greater orc breathes his last gasp and dies.
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A human traveller arrives, following Certain.
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You do not have a valid target.

Certain searches a greater orc.
A greater orc collapses into a pile of dust.

Certain searches a greater orc.
A greater orc collapses into a pile of dust.

You blink.

You see Certain Justice the Archmage.
He appears to be a Dark Elf.
He appears to be in his golden years. He has brown eyes and dark skin. He has a bald head.
He has minor cuts and bruises on his back.
He has old battle scars on his left leg.
He is holding a gold-capped orase runestaff in his right hand.
He is wearing a ragged blood red greatcloak, some silver trimmed black robes, a diamond stud, a gold ring, a silver dwarven wand belt, some enruned Fash'lo'nae bracers, a star-cut chrysoberyl pin, a bone-inlaid chrysoberyl stickpin, a pair of faulty thrak hide slippers, some ivory white gloves, a black widow spider pin, a ruby amulet, a deer skin sack, and a multicolored pouch.
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Certain picks up a sturdy mithril trunk.

You cough.

A greater orc strays in growling furiously!

Certain put a sturdy mithril trunk in his blood red greatcloak.

A human traveller tries to get behind Certain for safety.
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Certain intones a phrase of elemental power while raising his hands...
Certain gestures at a greater orc.
CS: +426 - TD: +24 + CvA: +20 + d100: +50 == +472
Warding failed!
Small flames of yellow and orange hues begin to lick at a greater orc. Before long, the flames grow more violent, reaching hungrily up her body. She falls to the ground and the flames engulf her. Black smoke rises in tendrils from the large blaze around a greater orc as she burns.
The greater orc falls to the ground and dies.

Certain searches a greater orc.
Certain gathers the remaining coins.
A greater orc collapses into a pile of dust.

Certain just went northeast.

A human traveller just went northeast.

[Cairnfang, Stepfalls Gorge]
The force of the water and the jumble of unyielding stone churns the water to a foaming white along this stretch of the river. As the going becomes more difficult along the top of the gorge, the trail turns north for the safer footing of the forested slopes. You also see a human traveller, a broadsword, a wooden shield and the icy blue Certain disk.
Also here: Certain
Obvious paths: north, southwest

You say, "Thanks for your courtesy."

You shake your head.

Karovenon
08-14-2007, 04:17 PM
:tool:

What the fuck, do these frigging guild quests mean you don't even have to try any more? Same thing happened wth an asscrack named Vandele an hour later. How about a gee sorry I'm frigging poaching once in a while, huh?

Fallen
08-14-2007, 04:20 PM
Likely scripting.

Gan
08-14-2007, 04:28 PM
Likely scripting.


^^^

He's been around for a while.

Karovenon
08-14-2007, 04:59 PM
Not an excuse. Now I know bandits are keyed to the level of the escort, so that's another thing, but there are other guys in the hunting areas.

Makes me want to ring in a higher level character and ambush the travellers and say "oops, I was just scripting, sorry"

Sthrockmorton
08-14-2007, 05:17 PM
I remember when Certain was script hunting in icemule years and years ago, he got reported 100's of times. I just dont understand why no one ever did anything to him.

I hate script hunters and people that script escorts...

Gan
08-14-2007, 05:26 PM
One thing I noticed about traveller escorts. Depending on the level of the critter, some escorts would not follow me into a room with one near my own level. While at other times they followed without any delay (like moving through an area with kobols, roltons, etc.).

This reason alone makes me think he had a universal script that killed any critter that popped up on a look. Either way its still not an excuse.

Asha
08-14-2007, 05:29 PM
People doing escorts should murder everything that happens to wander in the room they're currently in due to it being such a pain to escort.
A little curtesy wouldn't go amiss though.
Maybe he wasn't scripting, maybe he was a fucking evil mage. Feh.

Sthrockmorton
08-14-2007, 05:41 PM
They'll go into any room with a critter under like 4 trainings I believe.

Gan
08-14-2007, 05:44 PM
People doing escorts should murder everything that happens to wander in the room they're currently in due to it being such a pain to escort.
A little curtesy wouldn't go amiss though.
Maybe he wasn't scripting, maybe he was a fucking evil mage. Feh.

Then he should have killed the OP as well. ;)
:devil:

Asha
08-14-2007, 05:57 PM
Heh, he's slack.

FinisWolf
08-14-2007, 07:01 PM
Unless the critter is level 5 or lower, I toast it. Escorts have crap for DS, and after spending an hour transporting it, I am not going to risk it dying.

That said.

If another character is there, I let them know I needed to protect my traveller. I leave any and all loot, and I pick a spell to toss at them (disk/strength/thurfels/guards I II III).

Then I move on.

If that isn't enough, o well I guess. I did what I felt was fair as a player.

Finis

El Burro
08-14-2007, 07:02 PM
If it really ticked you off you could have killed his traveller. Good times

Mistomeer
08-15-2007, 12:21 AM
I don't see the problem really other than searching the stuff. He's got an escort he's stuck with and you got your hits in so killing them was doing you both a favor. He could have not searched them though.

Gan
08-15-2007, 07:01 AM
Lets see, he could have....

Slept, bound, webbed, stunned, etc. the creature. Thus immobilizing it and also making it easier for the hunter in the room to kill it. Thus not cheating the hunter out of the kill or the loot, or the skin, all the while protecting his escort.

Lets admit it, his script sucks.

CrystalTears
08-15-2007, 08:31 AM
He could have at least said something, like I don't know, sorry? Sheesh.

DeV
08-15-2007, 08:33 AM
Yeah, no matter how you spin it, it's an asshole move. Call a spade a spade and move on.

Aphyd
08-15-2007, 04:46 PM
Too bad you can't find where he lives, and walk by his house and kill his pets. Then walk off without saying a word when he asks what the hell.

CrystalTears
08-15-2007, 04:57 PM
Too bad you can't find where he lives, and walk by his house and kill his pets. Then walk off without saying a word when he asks what the hell.
Tamral? Is that you?

grapedog
08-15-2007, 05:57 PM
Yeah, one of my characters makes his living on the glacier...and I'd say at least twice a week I have some asshat walking through who just blasts away my entire room, loots and keeps walking...or just as bad, walks in and EWaves without looking.