The Saga of the Hoon Tribe
Hoon, an experienced hunter, recognized with the melting of the snows it was time to take his fellow Hoons on a hunt. It had been a hard winter, and the tribe was hungry.
Hoon: A Crotchety old hunter, he always insists on leading from the front. He carries a club and likes to set things on fire. Today he is bringing fire with him.
Thang: spear-armed twin
Thong: Thang’s spear-armed twin brother. Over the winter he has “domesticated” one of the feral dogs that managed not to get eaten. He calls it “dog”.
Gluck: The oddball. He insists on using a contraption made of wood and sinew that (sometimes) throws pointy sticks in the general direction of animals.
Hoon and Thang start at bottom left. Thong and Gluck start upper left. A small herd of grazers are attempting to drink from one of the last half-frozen puddles.
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| Hoon and Thang |
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| Thong, dog, and Gluck |
Wind is from upper left corner to lower right corner
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| For today, all are of the same herd. I need more figures! |
There are icy patches on the ground and all the hunters start hungry. They may not be able to control themselves once the smell of blood is in the air.
First round:
Hoon leads off by loping in a wide arc to get ahead of the beasts. He doesn't trigger any reactions. Thang follows him, splits off between some rocks.
Thong moves in a parallel fashion up top. Dog forgets what he is supposed to do at first, then follows. Gluck moves towards some rocks.
Round 2:
Hoon sneaks closer and starts a fire.
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| Hoon make fire! |
Thang gets close enough to stab a beast with his spear. He misses! The beast flees. Not a good start.
Thong goes. 1P 2F. The closest beast moves away, he's heading for the edge of the board! The other does nothing. Thong decides to keep going after his original target and lopes.
Dog gets 2P 1F. He moves in and attacks! one wound.
The beast flees directly away, almost charging into the fire.
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| Why is that crazy beast running at me? Can't he see I have fire? |
Everybody on the board sees this. Everybody is hungry. Everybody moves toward him.
Gluck tries to go, gets 2 failures. 1st beast flees, trampling the dog. The dog dodges.
2nd beast is alarmed, he is moving right along the board edge.
The fire spreads!
Round 3:
One beast had fled right towards Hoon and his fire. Hoon misses his first attack! The beast flees. Hoon moves short, will attempt to light a bush next turn.
Thong is in the best position for a kill, so he goes next. 2 successes. He moves a short and attacks the wounded beast. A 6! The beast is dead. One other beast sees this and moves away. (I forgot to trigger the dog on the kill)
Boss, dog and Thang keep their cool, but hunger overcomes Thong and Gluck. They must spend all future actions loping towards the kill and eating it.
Dog skulks to next beast, attacks, misses. Beast attacks, misses.
Thang gets 2 successes. He stabs the nearest grazer, 1 wound. It attacks in return! The beast can only hit Thang on a 6. Guess what he rolls?
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| These beasties aren't supposed to fight back! |
Thang takes a wound.
(I missed that everybody should have skulked towards him here).
Gluck (2 Successes) lopes twice to get to the downed beast. That triggers the other grazer.
He attacks dog again. Barely misses.
Fire keeps spreading.
Round 4:
Hoon goes first. 2S. He runs a wide arc around the beasts, attempting to head them off.
Thang goes next. He's wounded, so he only rolls 1 die. 1S. He kills the beast.
The other beast sees it go down. Leaves the board.
(Again, forgot to trigger dog)
Thong 2S. Moves up and eats beast for 1 bulk. No longer hungry.
Gluck 1S. Eats beast for 1 bulk. No longer hungry. No more beast.
Fire spreads more slowly.
Round 5: There's only 1 beast left on the board, and dog is chasing it.
Hoon: 1S 1F. Beast moves away short. Hoon lopes.
Thong goes next. 2P 1F. The failure triggers the beast, who stampedes off the board.
Final tally: 2 bulk of meat.
Thang has 1 wound. He rolls for survival and recovers without a problem.
But according to the scenario description, we did kill 2 beasts for 4 hunters, so the hunt is a success!
Thang and Thong both got kills, but Thong lost his head and went for the food. Thang gets the upgrade for the successful hunt. Thang now has the "hunter" trait.
