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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:42 pm
 Moon Hunter
PRINCESS ISLAND
Maintaining a superior defense is the pride of the Moon Division, defending even at the expense of attacking. However, this can be hard, especially for trainees who just got new magic weapons full of glowing and powers. Thus the Princess Island. At the center of the island sits a princess who will do absolutely nothing to protect herself, and it's up to you to build defenses that will withstand shadowling attacks so she she doesn't die in a horribly realistic manner.
There's four main paths for shadowling's to travel through, and you have 3 types of building materials to create your defenses from: straw bales, wood, and bricks. The sturdier the material, the sturdier the barrier, but the fewer you can build in the allotted time. After a set amount of time, the princess will crush a pumpkin pill, attracting varying amounts of lurking shadowlings. You get to watch helplessly from the observation station, without getting to attack yourself.
These creature are extremely weak and ill formed, coming up against a solid defense they will disperse, but in turn they also weaken said defense. When a defense goes down, they go right to the princess and attack her. Should she survive the wave, you get to go back down, rebuild, and do it again.
If you fail: the princess has died, horribly, and you've wasted a lot of time on this only to look fairly incapable. All things considered? Most pleasant course to fail.
If you win: peen points and bragging rights go to those with the healthiest princess and lasted through the most attack waves.
If you choose to go beyond 5 rounds, switch the enemy dice roll to 4 d20s.
Mechanics
Your princess has 20 hp
First, roll the strength of you defense, using the dice for whichever building type you choose.
Brick: 4 d12
Wood: 8 d6
Hay bales: 12 d4
The order of the die determine the HP for each barrier location. For example, with bricks, rolling 5/6/8/1, would mean that path 1 has 5 HP, path 2 has 6 HP and so on. With a wood roll of 3/3/3/1/2/5/5/2, the first 2 dice would equal the amount of the first path. Brick would be the least math-y of the building materials (you lazy asses.)
Roll 4 d12 for the attacking forces. Once again the order of the dice correspond with the path being affected. Then do the math to determine the status of your defenses and princess.
Example:
My defenses are 5/6/8/10
The attackers are 3/7/3/8
The result defenses are 2/-1/5/2
Negative numbers are taken off the princesses HP, leaving her at 19 HP.
Go back and rebuild your defenses in the same manner as before, you'll be building on top of old defenses so you add the new defense HP to the remaining defense HP. Negative numbers = 0 HP for the defense, not negative HP.
Minimum rounds to complete the course is 3
Bonus Mechanics
Their defense expertise allows them to build slightly sturdier barriers. This applies to all paths that start at 0 hp. They do not stack. So if you are re-building on a barrier that lasted from an existing round, this bonus does not apply, as it is already still in effect.
Trainees: 0 hp bonus
Moon Trainees: +1 hp bonus to each path
Hunters: +1 hp to each path
Moon Hunters: + 2 hp to each path
Status Wave: (current wave number)Path 1 HP:Path 2 HP:Path 3 HP:Path 4 HP:Princess HP: /20 [quote="Status"]
[size=14][color=#00BFFF][b]Wave: (current wave number)[/b][/color][/size]
[b]Path 1 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 2 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 3 HP:[/b]
[b]Path 4 HP:[/b]
[b]Princess HP:[/b] /20
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Syusaki rolled 8 6-sided dice:
5, 6, 3, 6, 5, 1, 2, 3
Total: 31 (8-48)
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:44 pm
Wilson had never done the moon course until now. As an intermediate trainee, he really should at least give the training course a try. Besides, most of his close friends were moon hunters. It would do him some good to try and understand the kind of jobs they had to do when they were out on missions and such, right? There was a tiny pang in his chest when he remembered—no duh—Dakota was a moon hunter. The pain seemed only more poignant when he saw Dakota dressed up as a princess when Wilson arrived on the Princess Island. He stopped and stared. The golem stared back at him with a blank expression. Wilson opened his mouth to say something, an apology perhaps, but then he remembered this wasn’t actually Dakota. He just shook his head and examined the supplies. There were a few options to pick from, but in the end he decided to go for wood.Status Wave: 1 Path 1 HP: 11 Path 2 HP: 9 Path 3 HP: 6 Path 4 HP: 5 Princess HP: 20/20
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Syusaki rolled 4 12-sided dice:
5, 7, 6, 11
Total: 29 (4-48)
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:45 pm
He wasn’t a horrible builder. That was what Wilson had initially thought. The first path was pretty good and built with a solid foundation. The second path wasn’t as good as the first one, but still fairly decent. The third one was starting to get kind of iffy, though. Wilson stood back and stared at the paths with a neutral expression. It was easy to see the quality of the paths was slowly declining. Was he running out of energy or something? Wilson glanced at the golem before he finished building the defenses for the last path and stood back. He sighed, closed his eyes, and waited.Status Wave: 1 Path 1 HP: 6 Path 2 HP: 2 Path 3 HP: 0 Path 4 HP: -6 (why couldn't this have been the 1st roll huh?! you suck :C) Princess HP: 14/20
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Syusaki rolled 8 6-sided dice:
6, 1, 1, 4, 6, 1, 6, 3
Total: 28 (8-48)
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:49 pm
The first three paths held out well. They had done better than he thought, especially the third path. Silently, Wilson examined the three trails with mild satisfaction. The last path, on the other hand… A sigh escaped his lips when he began to observe the destruction in the final path. They had managed to tear this one down completely and had even gotten to the golem. He winced as he looked at the woods princess Dakota had incurred during the first wave. Wilson sighed again as he reached out to tug at the tattered portions of the dress. “Wow. Some defender I am,” he muttered quietly. “I guess this is why I’m not in the moon division.” He chuckled weakly before he turned around to begin rebuilding the defenses on the paths. Strengthening the first three wasn’t difficult, but it was the last path that gave him the most trouble. Wilson had to clear out all of the debris before he could even think of beginning anew, and even then there wasn’t much he could have done.Status Wave: 2 Path 1 HP: 13 Path 2 HP: 7 Path 3 HP: 7 Path 4 HP: 3 Princess HP: 14/20
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Syusaki rolled 4 12-sided dice:
8, 1, 2, 12
Total: 23 (4-48)
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:58 pm
Why wasn’t Wilson surprised that the wave hit the hardest on the last path? He crossed his arms and sighed despondently. The shadowlings had quickly realized the weak spot in his defenses and plowed right through to get to the princess golem. Wilson sighed loudly as he ran a hand through his hair while he headed toward the Dakota golem. He clicked his tongue when he realized the golem had taken even more damage compared to the last wave. Wilson closed his eyes, hands pressing against them as he groaned. He was never ever going to transfer to the moon division, if he ever considered a transfer at all. Wilson was pretty comfortable in his division, jackass leader or not. He sort of knew what he was doing as a death hunter, right? He shook the doubts out of his mind.Status Wave: 2 Path 1 HP: 5 Path 2 HP: 6 Path 3 HP: 4 Path 4 HP: -9 (GDI IT ALL) Princess HP: 5/20
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Syusaki rolled 8 6-sided dice:
1, 4, 4, 2, 4, 5, 2, 3
Total: 25 (8-48)
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:01 am
He wandered over to the golem again. Wilson knew it wasn’t actually Dakota, but he still couldn’t stop himself from sort of getting attached to it. Or at least, try his very damn best to protect it. That was what he had promised himself, right? To watch over Dakota even when the lad was still pissed at him. His hands slid into his pants pockets as he recalled the sugar cookies. Had Dakota eaten them already? Wilson looked up at the sky before he dove back into rebuilding the paths’ defenses. Unlike the previous waves, the first three paths had fairly even defenses. It was actually kind of cool and Wilson was sort of proud of it. He even managed a small smile, but that was before he turned toward the fourth one. He frowned.Status Wave: 3 Path 1 HP: 10 Path 2 HP: 12 Path 3 HP: 13 Path 4 HP: 0 Princess HP: 5/20
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Syusaki rolled 4 12-sided dice:
2, 8, 1, 10
Total: 21 (4-48)
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:02 am
As expected, the shadowlings easily ran through the last path and headed for the golem. Wilson closed his eyes and looked away until the creatures had retreated. The trainee went over to check on the golem, or whatever remained of it at least. Sighing, he knelt down to idly pick at the tattered remains of the pink dress. “Wow. I’m just so good at this, huh? Three waves and I’ve already lost,” he muttered as he let the cloth pieces flutter to the ground. Wilson leaned back until he plopped to the ground and simply sat there for a while. He pressed his hands against his forehead. “I’m such a great big brother. I can’t protect anyone, can I?”Status Wave: 3 Path 1 HP: 8 Path 2 HP: 4 Path 3 HP: 12 Path 4 HP: -10 Princess HP: freaking ded/20
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