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

Hunting without care sounds like Orcs hunting for food.
Can we use the Cat-tracking to see where the dead animals may have been taken?

Anglomir rounds on the scavenger, smashing away whatever clusmy blow the Dunlending throws at him with his shield then slashing at the stupid man.

You're no expert, Palidan but... yes, If nothing else, the Dunlendings are reasonable farmers. They don't need to scavenge off the land unless in numbers and you are sure they'd make a cleaner job than this.

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Oh, racism from the Gondorian, eh?

Good! Basically, the books approve...

Well, they can't be that smart if they attacked me...

Menelacar swings the Rhudarian sword aiming to chop various body parts off of the Dunlendings as well.

One each on you then!

The one on Anglomir rolls a 77, which is a much better go at thing. His shieldy defence +5 cancels that out so it stays at 77. Against Rigid Leather, that is 5 hits. You are being bashed at but unharmed!

Against Menelacar, a 62. He has the same defence... and that is a miss!

Anglomir gets a 33 in response, for a total of 102. A 15C on an unarmoured target! The critical roll is a 41- a chest wound giving him -5 to activity and losing a hit a round, as well as +3 damage. He's not down, but you slice his chest open rather nastily.

Menelacar rolls a 39. He's on 61 whilst he has that Rhudarian sword but he has a -10 penalty right now due to his damaged lef. That's a total of 90, a 10A against an unarmoured target, with no wound rolled.

May as well fight on! A 50 against Anglomir is all the worse with that activity penalty, and an 09 on Menelacar is no good either.

Anglomir rolls 53 which ends up as a 21E. Oooh, he;s not getting up from that one...

Menelacar rolls a 50, which comes out as a 15C. The hits aren;t quite enough to drop him but the arm wound he inflicts with that causes him to bleed out soon after, even if the two of you didn't mincemeat him.

Your targets are down!

Menelacar limps a few paces, sheaths his sword, and flops down on the ground, a little out of breath.

"Damn trap," he says inspecting his leg.

"You fought well as ever, my friend," he says to Anglomir.

Yeah, that leg is going to be an issue without attention.

The skill to treat wounds is Herbalism.

As for the dead Dunlendings... scavengers, sure. But unusual for them to set up an ambush like that.

Anyone have Herbalism?

Lana does.

"They must have been expecting someone else," Anglomir says, inspecting the dead Dunlendings that he quite literally took apart. "Or acting on orders. This isn't their usual tactic."

Well, they can't have mistaken you for someone else; they had a good look at you. So acting on orders or the like seems more likely!

"Yes but from who?" can we search them?

Nothing much more than rags and hides.

Dunlendings are not innately suspicious; they inhabit Rhudaiur and these Downs are on the border. They raid all over the place, especially into Cardolan.

"Anglomir," calls Menelacar, "do you think we should go on, or return to the pack mules?"

Originally posted by Ushgarak
You're no expert, Palidan but... yes, If nothing else, the Dunlendings are reasonable farmers. They don't need to scavenge off the land unless in numbers and you are sure they'd make a cleaner job than this.

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Oh, racism from the Gondorian, eh?

Good! Basically, the books approve...

Unfortunately there are no more blood traces, though a VERY good Tracking roll can follow almost anything from nothing... but you'd be unlikely to pass it (some of the Ranger 'spells' are useful, I think).

But you do have a lead for the area and can think about what to look for.

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You doubt the Hillmen were out entirely alone; someone will notice their absence at some point.

Yea, if the Orcs are hunting, then we perhaps can find their prey, and hope they come to us.

That's an idea!

"We should head back," Anglomir says. "We are just two men and I do not want to see how many friends this lot had. Not to mention your leg needs attention."