latten-edged invar gorget and sliced vocal cords

[Drunken Durfin]

>tap my gor
You tap a latten-edged invar gorget that you are wearing.

Loresong:

The first thing that strikes you about the gorget is the weight, which is about 3 pounds. In your best estimation, it's worth about 300,000 silvers. You can also tell that there is some type of metal in the structure of the invar gorget.

The way it vibrates in tune with your voice tells you that it serves some type of defensive purpose, different from that of normal armor.
The invar gorget seems to have some sort of unusual protection against damage.

The magical harmonics reveal that the neck is better protected when wearing the invar gorget.

As your song penetrates the invar gorget, you determine that it is resistant to slashing attacks.

Combat result:
[Roll result: 146 (open d100: 82)]
A triton executioner springs upon you from behind and attempts to slit your throat with his sharply tapered longsword!

A triton executioner slices deep into your vocal chords!
... 9 points of damage!

Roundtime: 7 sec.

So, here is my question: With that endroll, I still got a level 2 neck wound that ended my ability to deliver war cries. Does it look to those of you who know more about the mechanics of cman Cutthroat (which is what I am assuming that was) that this gorget provided any additional protection for that particular attack? I am assuming that the loresong revealing that it provides extra protection to slash attacks does not pertain to "slashing" cman's like cutthroat.

If it doesn't, I'm not going to bother putting the thing back on again. I'm already wearing masterfully crit padded plate, if that has any bearing.

[El Burro]

slash as in crush as in piercing weapon type damage I believe

[Khariz]

I can't answer your question, but I can tell you this. There was no messaging indicating that the resitance fired off on that hit. There is messaging when it works. I don't know why it DIDNT work, but I can tell you it didn't.

[Blushy]

I'm pretty sure that, on a success, cutthroat delivers a silencing neck crit. Looking at the d100 roll, it's *possible* that your neck armor helped you defend against the maneuver in the sense that it lowered the endroll. An easy way to tell, obviously, would be to take it off and try getting your throat cut.

[fallenSaint]

Given the setup for how a gorget works and how the manuever works they may not clash so well in the mechanics department. You may try and have a player that knows the skill do a few strikes on you and see if it fires off a protection from the gorget but I'm willing to bet the system is broken more than the item.

And as was stated, you'll know when the protection occurs you get specific messaging advising that whatever armor is helping.

[Drunken Durfin]

Anyone on FWI or Teras wanna cut my throat a few times?

[Danical]

I'm pretty sure that, on a success, cutthroat delivers a silencing neck crit. Looking at the d100 roll, it's *possible* that your neck armor helped you defend against the maneuver in the sense that it lowered the endroll. An easy way to tell, obviously, would be to take it off and try getting your throat cut.

On low endrolls you'll only receive a rank 1 wound to the neck. I know because a rank 2 wound and consequence silencing effect coupled with bardic renewals are so fucking awesome.

You're already wearing plate so I don't think it'll help you out any. I'm not even sure if armor helps at all but I would think it should if it doesn't.

[GS4Khistian]

I actually asked about this awhile back on the officials and got an answer from Mestys. He said that though the gorget gives protection against cutthroat, as any neck protection will, upon a successful roll the maneuver acts as if the armor was bypassed. Kinda like the dagger went under the gorget and slit your throat.

[Drunken Durfin]

I actually asked about this awhile back on the officials and got an answer from Mestys. He said that though the gorget gives protection against cutthroat, as any neck protection will, upon a successful roll the maneuver acts as if the armor was bypassed. Kinda like the dagger went under the gorget and slit your throat.

Do you remember what forum? I'd like to go back and see the original post, and maybe ask a couple more questions for clarification. What is the added protection, does it require a higher endroll for success? Does it give more protection than a standard gorget against cutthroat?

Still looking for a volunteer to slit my throat a few times.