From: Raymond D Turney (rturney@well.sf.ca.us)
Date: Tue 15 Feb 1994 - 07:24:06 EET
One Parthian shot at Axe Trance
Juliette {who has 59 stored MP personally, not as the temple's stockpile}
knows a female Issaries priest. We talk to the head of the Ernalda temple
associated with the Babeestor Gor temple, and offer them two points of
Sunripen if they will give Juliette a shot of Axe Trance and 3 shots of
Slash for a projected attack on the Lunar policitcal prison camp at X. {Why
Juliette wants to attack a lunar political prison camp is a long stroy, too
long to get into here}. After acceptance, Juliette Mind Links to the
Issaries, and she casts spell Trading so we can swap {fear not, Juliette can
afford to hire the Issaries.
Thus Juliette ends up 1 point of Axe Trance, and three points of Slash, to
put on a poleaxe, which admittedly she has never swung before. But 30 MP
into Axe Trance; followed by a pile of shield and Countermagic to protect
the Axe can solve this problem. Oops, she cannot parry. Slight change of
plan. We go to the Orlanthi for Great Parry, use Juliette's existing
shield, and buy a battleaxe {slightly less damage, but all that Slash and
some Bladesharp will make up for it}.
In short, Juliette is now 300% with a weapon she has never picked up before.
It does pretty decent damage, especially you add all that Slash and
Bladesharp 8. They're not going to knock it down cheaply, not with a pile
of Shield {love that spell trading, and we can get a lot of help freeing
prisoners} and Countermagic on the Axe. I haven't asked a male character to
trust a Babeestor Gor, joined the cult itself, or even put much real effort
into skill with the axe. I am better with the Axe than our Humakhti hero,
Rolf, is with his greatsword.
Why is this culturally inappropriate? The Ernaldans could as hell use the
Sunripen, and they are the ones asking the Babeestor Gor for her
cooperation. We've got a Babeestor Gor doing a favor for her Ernaldan
friends and helping to fight the Lunars; Ernaldans getting two points of
Sunripen for helping to free members of their husband-protector cults among
others, an Issaries making a nice profit; and a very experienced rune
lady-minor hero figuring out a better way to fight?
Rest assured that while Juliette is considered gross; her stock of stored MP
is not the reason. She ranks about 5th in stored MP in our crowd, having a
little less than the normal for her rank, which is about eighty to a
hundred. Rolf has two hundred and fifty. Fifty nine stored MP is hardly
unusual in a campaign that has been running for 4 years.
Go to +20% for Axe Trance. It's safer. Point made?
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