This thread is for occasions you find to use berserk during a non-grimswarm hunt. Here is one such occassion:
[Ruined Temple, Third Floor]
Bleached bones lie beneath a collapsed archway, a victim of the devastation from long ago. The shattered windows have left shards of glass glittering dangerously on the floor. You also see a triton executioner.
Obvious paths: north, east, west
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A siren gracefully glides in, singing a sweet melody.
>stance off
You are now in an offensive stance.
>wt feint sir
[Roll result: 180 (open d100: 40) Bonus: 20]
You feint low, the siren buys the ruse and twists awkwardly to block the blow that never came!
Roundtime: 3 sec.
R>
A triton combatant charges briskly into the area!
R>
[Roll result: 92 (open d100: 41)]
A triton executioner crouches, sweeps a leg at you and connects!
A triton executioner whacks your legs to no effect!
R>
A spectral triton defender drifts in, gliding swiftly just above the ground.
>at
You swing a massive rolaren mattock at a siren!
AS: +558 vs DS: +417 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +7 = +180
... and hit for 64 points of damage!
The siren is knocked to the ground!
The siren is stunned!
Roundtime: 5 sec.
R>l
R>
[Ruined Temple, Third Floor]
Bleached bones lie beneath a collapsed archway, a victim of the devastation from long ago. The shattered windows have left shards of glass glittering dangerously on the floor. You also see a spectral triton defender, a triton combatant, a siren that appears stunned and a triton executioner.
Obvious paths: north, east, west
R>.s
[script aborted]
[Script s is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]
>glance
You glance down to see a massive rolaren mattock with a striated leather-bound golvern haft in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
R>sheath
>get my t'kirem mattock
>.signs
[script aborted]
[Script signs is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]
A triton combatant thrusts with an oak-shafted silvery blue trident at you!
AS: +408 vs DS: +464 with AvD: +11 + d100 roll: +100 = +55
A clean miss.
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A spectral triton defender puts a lackluster blue steel harpoon in his canvas sling.
In an awe inspiring display of combat mastery, a spectral triton defender engages you in a furious dance macabre, spiralling into a blur of strikes and ripostes!
The triton defender removes a seaweed-wound rusted steel hatchet from within his canvas sling, drawing it back adroitly up to his head.
A spectral triton defender swings a seaweed-wound rusted steel hatchet at you!
AS: +424 vs DS: +464 with AvD: +23 + d100 roll: +96 = +79
A clean miss.
A spectral triton defender swings a seaweed-wound rusted steel hatchet at you!
AS: +424 vs DS: +464 with AvD: +23 + d100 roll: +99 = +82
A clean miss.
A spectral triton defender swings a seaweed-wound rusted steel hatchet at you!
AS: +424 vs DS: +464 with AvD: +23 + d100 roll: +3 = -14
A clean miss.
A spectral triton defender swings a seaweed-wound rusted steel hatchet at you!
By amazing chance, you evade the attack!
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[Roll result: 20 (open d100: -31)]
A triton executioner crouches, sweeps a leg at you and connects!
A triton executioner whacks your legs to no effect!
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You put a massive rolaren mattock with a striated leather-bound golvern haft in your mithril alloy harness.
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You remove an enormous T'Kirem war mattock from in your mithril alloy harness.
>ber
Everything around you turns red as you work yourself into a berserker's rage!
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You rage across the battlefield, striking with unrelenting fury!
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a spectral triton defender!
AS: +582 vs DS: +249 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +29 = +400
... and hit for 107 points of damage!
Quick strike to the right leg!
The triton defender makes no bones about it.
The triton defender is knocked to the ground!
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a triton combatant!
AS: +582 vs DS: +274 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +10 = +356
... and hit for 99 points of damage!
Knocked sideways several feet by blow to back.
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a siren!
AS: +582 vs DS: +364 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +13 = +266
... and hit for 167 points of damage!
Massive blow smashes through ribs and drives the siren's heart out the back.
The siren gives a plaintive wail before she slumps to her side and dies.
The brilliant luminescence fades from around a siren.
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a triton executioner!
AS: +582 vs DS: +313 with AvD: +37 + d100 roll: +46 = +352
... and hit for 145 points of damage!
Vertebrae in neck disintegrate from impact!
Neck sinks into shoulders.
The triton executioner collapses, gurgling once with a wrathful look on his face before expiring.
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A triton executioner leaps from hiding to attack!
A triton executioner swings a coral-hilted sharply tapered longsword at you!
AS: +433 vs DS: +465 with AvD: +17 + d100 roll: +72 = +57
A clean miss.
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You spin around looking for something to attack!
You rage across the battlefield, striking with unrelenting fury!
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a triton executioner!
AS: +582 vs DS: +331 with AvD: +37 + d100 roll: +60 = +348
... and hit for 133 points of damage!
Shield arm mangled horribly.
The triton executioner is stunned!
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a spectral triton defender!
AS: +582 vs DS: +188 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +41 = +473
... and hit for 139 points of damage!
Strong strike splits the belly open, revealing ghostly organs.
Haggis anyone?
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a triton combatant!
AS: +582 vs DS: +264 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +90 = +446
... and hit for 136 points of damage!
Tremendous blow crushes skull like a ripe melon.
The triton combatant collapses, gurgling once with a wrathful look on his face before expiring.
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A triton executioner staggers slightly, swaying about in a daze.
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You spin around looking for something to attack!
You rage across the battlefield, striking with unrelenting fury!
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a triton executioner!
AS: +582 vs DS: +293 with AvD: +37 + d100 roll: +59 = +385
... and hit for 156 points of damage!
You hear several snaps as the triton executioner's neck is broken in several places.
The triton executioner collapses, gurgling once with a wrathful look on her face before expiring.
You swing an enormous T'Kirem war mattock at a spectral triton defender!
AS: +582 vs DS: +168 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +33 = +485
... and hit for 127 points of damage!
Hard blow strikes deep into the right eye socket.
Within moments the eyeball pops back out!
[You have 7 kills remaining.]
The spectral form of the triton defender tenses in agony as he begins to dissolve from the bottom up!
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The triton defender fades into transparency, his remnants rapidly dissolving into the air.
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You spin around looking for something to attack!
Finding no target for your rage, you let out a horrendous scream of frustration!
The redness fades from the world and you begin to breathe harder.
>loot
>loot
You search the triton combatant.
You discard the combatant's useless equipment.
He didn't carry any silver.
He had a yellow dreamstone on him!
He had nothing else of value.
A triton combatant's slick skin begins to rapidly desiccate and dissolve away, leaving nothing behind.
>loot
You search the triton executioner.
You discard the executioner's useless equipment.
She didn't carry any silver.
She had nothing of interest.
A triton executioner's slick skin begins to rapidly desiccate and dissolve away, leaving nothing behind.
>loot
>loot
You search the siren.
You discard the siren's useless equipment.
She had 407 silvers on her.
You gather the remaining 407 coins.
She had nothing else of value.
The siren's soft aura fades and her flesh crumbles to reveal the corpse of a hideous scaled creature, which then quickly decays away.
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You search the triton executioner.
You discard the executioner's useless equipment.
He carried an enruned steel coffer on him!
A triton executioner's slick skin begins to rapidly desiccate and dissolve away, leaving nothing behind.
>loot
Could not find a valid target to loot.
>loot
Could not find a valid target to loot.
>loot
Could not find a valid target to loot