USH'S LORD OF THE RINGS GAME PART 4- The Hunt in the Hills

How good are you at sneaking?

Anglomir stalk/hide 15; Menelacar 20

Okdiokey!

Tricky to stay hidden in a open valley of course, so not an easy roll.

Ok, question for Anglomir and Menelacar. You are about to make Perception rolls- are you wearing your helmets?

No, Anglomir will have left it behind.

No either!

Ok, then you guys are about twenty feet away from it when you see it is a piece of scrap metal...

Any markings on it?

You'd have to get closer!

OK!

Well, those Perception rolls weren't much good...

You just trod on a crude mantrap, Menelacar. Its bite into your lrg gives you a -5 activity penalty for the scene and leaves you currently immobilised!

Ahh, I should've checked sooner, Anglomir would've thrown something at it to see what would happen.

Anglomir gets down to examine the trap so that he can free Menelacar from it.

Ok, in that case as you kneel to help, someone tries to throw a axe in your face!

It's not a great roll but a surprise flank attack has hefty bonuses- you take a 5a hit as it glances off your shoulder armour, Anglomir; the A critical gives no result.

I will try and get out of the trap quickly!

Strength rolls to do it by brute force! A risk of hurting your hands if the roll goes badly.

Anglomir is going to turn and see who it is that has attacked him. If he doesn't like the look of this person, he is going to be flinging a throwing dagger in their direction, aiming to kill for daring to ambush a man of Gondor.

Maybe you can see how the trap works and do it that way, Menelacar, rather than scratching up your hands trying to force it open.

Whoever it is has ducked behind one of the rocks at the valley sides, Anglomir. This is a crude ambush.

"Show yourself, coward!" Anglomir says, keeping the knife-hand cocked and ready to hurl.

Menelacar will have a look first and inspectthe trap for a mechanism.

Lacking any particular skill for it, it is either Strength to force it or Intelligence to suss it; what do you want?

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Anglomir... that's another 6A (which again goes nowhere) as another axe hits you from behind, cutting open your hand. Shouting at them won't help!