Vorrik has all but said that he bought the zebra because he was told it would handle like a horse. He seems to have come from the direction of the River of Cradles Sun County (where I don't think horses are that common), but he may originate from some other Sun Dome temple where they train with horses.

Yeah, I posted that message above, I re-read the IC thread and figured Thangar's comment being about Vorrik being someone who'd normally ride horses.  I considered deleting my post, but didn't.

Sorry Thangar.  RQ/Glorantha has so much history/background that I don't want to be "that guy" who's nitpicking.  Looks like I didn't read the IC thread carefully enough.  I'll try to avoid such posts in future  :)

Just checking does the sable come to us or just close enough for Norajia to see the clan markings.

It comes wandering over to your group.

Hmm, wish I knew more about animal behavior :)

Itsa herd animal so likely comes looking for another Sable.

Looks like Norajia moved too soon. I interpreted Lemak riding by the sable in msg 86 as meaning it was Chaos-free.
I won't try to rewind the post, though it makes her look more ditzy and impetuous that I intended.

On the plus side,
so let's assume that she has done that and avoided any items returning positive.

Well, I don't think scorpionmen are as likely to have diseases as broo anyway.  (If this was the work of a scorpionman.)
Or I was wondering whether Norijia was going to trust in her skills as healer  :)

She makes a pretty good healer: high CON to resist disease and +10 to knowledge skills to help treat it. Her weakness is low POW for Resurrection and Fight Disease Rune spells (which she hasn't selected). Still POW gain rolls at Holydays and things... these might improve over time.

Nice, some combat  :)
Against Chaos!
Will post a few hours' time.

Hi folks, re: Combat pace-if I know your character's intentions, I will wait to roll for you for at least 24 hours, but I may need to go ahead and roll for your characters after that. Please let me know if you don't want that, I just feel that this will help keep things moving.
Also, I think if you roll to attack, parry, cast a spell, etc rolling hit location and damage would be good to have "just in case".

Yes let's turn the combat rounds over reasonably swiftly, mostly it's common sense, unless someone needs urgent. healing or thinks a a spell that might help.

Happy to provide intent and keep things rolling.

As an afterthought: Norajia's mount is probably not trained for battle (nor are those she's leading?)

(When) / Should she be making a 'ride' roll?

Good questions, I'd say only if Norajia tries something dramatic. The mounts do not like the looks of the scorpion man or that it's getting closer, but only if she tries to gallop up the side of the enclosure or something does she need to roll, otherwise she has good control of the mounts.

Sounds reasonable, I'll roll if a scorpion man gets within strike range, or Norajia tries to move her mount within it's range (e.g. to heal somebody) or she tries to get them out of the gully.

Actually, talking about our mounts, can (or would) Lobber attack as well?  Or would the animal be too spooked by Chaos?

In reply to Lemak (msg # 66):
My take is that he'd have to be a "war animal" instead of a "riding animal" to help in this way

No worries  :)
Or perhaps if the animal was not bearing a rider and was under attack itself.

I don't see where the scorpion man with Lemak and Tuari had its attack...?



I don't have the rules with me atm, but that sounds about right.  Melee only has one attack per round, but missile weapons might allow multiple attacks.



Subject to what the scorpion man does/causes in round 2, Lemak attacks with his dagger axe again.

Ah thanks, I knew I forgot something. He swings his club and misses.

Norajia will try to monitor both combats (head on swivel time) and if anyone is incapacitated she will release the spare mounts and ride to the rescue and try to lead their mount out of melee (or if they are dismounted, drag/carry them by an arm to avoid their head bumping along the ground). Assuming she doesn't fail her ride roll...
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In reply to Norajia (msg # 71):

Got it!

So Mabwe has Morokanth Martial Arts skill being a Morokanth and all that (not high). I thought it might be fun to throw that in, but whilst I can picture it, I don't know how that fits in system wise, I mean what effect a success has?

In reply to Mabwe (msg # 73):

That's interesting, so it looks like if you just make a normal claw roll and if you roll below your martial arts skill on an unarmed attack roll, you get double damage (only normal damage bonus though) as a natural outcome of your expertise.

Cool, just have to make a success in our now...