Playtest Scenario
[OOC: Okay, think you got it!]
Callum and the remaining bandit are too consumed in their mortal struggle to notice Lira re-stringing her crossbow or Oliver stalking forward with his sword. Callum and the bandit's weapons clatter loudly against one another until the bandit's horse almost backs up into Oliver. With a cruel thrust, Oliver runs the bandit through before either he or his steed can twist away. Lira holds her fire.
Once the chaos is over, Callum removes his coat and his leather cuirass to inspect his wound. The heavy blow from the hammer broke the skin, and an enormous discolored bruise now graces Callum's sternum, which is miraculously somehow unbroken. Ribs are intact, too. Callum mutters some prayer and pulls a flask of alcohol from one of his horse's packs. He drinks deeply from the bottle, but doesn't seem to get drunk. Callum never seems drunk. [OOC: Callum drinks a flask of alcohol, but doesn't take any inebriation penalties due to his Iron Liver trait. Just a natural reaction to a near-death experience, I think.]
"Were that a sword, I'd be dead," Callum says between gulps. "Captain," he says to Oliver, "if that happens again and I die, you must deliver this to the lieutenant." By 'the lieutenant,' Oliver knew Callum meant Lieutenant Jonathan Frame, the leader of the Ranger outfit they both were hunting. Callum pulled a sealed letter from his hip-pouch, waving it in Oliver's direction. "I hereby charge you in the name of the Golish Royal Mail, and all that." Callum drank again, grimacing and shrugging his cuirass back on. "And second, next time, just give them the damn gun." Callum finished the bottle, and either grimaced or smirked. It was hard to tell.
[OOC: Don't mind Callum! He's just grouchy. That went pretty well, I think. Pierce die were interesting and the whole thing had the exciting, high-stakes rocket tag feel I was hoping for!
The bandits have on them: 5 silver pieces, their clothing, two pistols, a carbine, a musket, a heavy cavalry saber (1-handed weapon), a warhammer (bludgeoning 1-handed weapon), four daggers, five days of trail rations, and a riding horse. You can try to hunt down the other horse if you want, but I will need some kind of check and some idea of how much time you devote to the endeavor.
As far as Callum's injuries, I haven't really figured out healing yet, my bad. Here's my idea: you regain HP every 24 hours. You regain your level in HP from just natural healing and clotting, even if actively adventuring or running for your life the whole time. If you have the opportunity to rest for at least 8 hours during those 24 hours, you instead regain double your level in HP. If you spend the whole time on bed-rest, it's triple your level in HP.
I need to be generous with healing, since it may be a long time before you get reliable magical healing, and is really up to chance whether you get it at all. It also fits the swashbuckly, Shadow of the Demon Lord-y flavor, I think?
You are three days to your destination, and it's up to you how fighting fit you want Callum to be.]
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