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> SELECTED: If it Bleeds: Once per combat, reduce an Injured opponent to Wounded. If facing the Foe, this ability can be used twice per combat.
Throngs of bellowing Norsikaans line either side of the hall, some standing on the Aeltin longtable to get a better view of the marked borders of this duel for honour and worthy names. You’ve no idea whether they are cheering for their champion, bellowing insults or placing bets. Your translator has somewhat wisely retreated as far from the pending melee as possible, looking on with the fascinated revulsion of a servant of a more civilised people at this barbaric display of bloodletting.
You pay them no heed, your eyes remain marked on your opponent. You have heard the names, either granted by his fellow Named Men in recognition at the culmination of some great deed or taken from the corpse of a counterpart no longer worthy of the name they had claimed.
Einar Witchbane, Einar Redmane, Einar ‘Berserkurinn’. Your opponent was ecstatic to discover the fight was his, laying about his fellows with a manner of a braggart and smug looks. But the jovialness of the red-haired northman has fled now, he paces back-and-forth at the edge of the unspoken duel edge opposite you practically chomping at the bit. Literally chomping in fact, the one-eyed Norsikaan hands him a small pouch which your challenger takes a pinch from and begins chomping vigorously down on.
He seems to grow more furious by the moment, snorting impatiently and glaring your way like a frenzied bull. You do not particularly fancy a charge from the likes of him, but he is not the only one whose blood is up. You have been looking forward to this with an eagerness that borders on the impious.
The months at sea and in silent contemplation in holy places has left this hunger for battle unaddressed. It has been too long since you’ve whet your blade in earnest. Too long by far…
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<span class="mu-s">Blademaster Contest: Sir Andrei vs Einar Witchbane</span>
0 Success = Opponent benefits from a combat stance. QM selects.
1 Success = Benefit from a combat stance. [Belligerent]
>Langlish Swordmaster Lessons +5DC
>Masterwork Blade +1 Re-Roll
>Einar Witchbane: Dragon Guard +1 Adverse Re-Roll
>55DC
1 roll of 1d100. You have ONE re-roll. Your opponent has ONE re-roll.