Although there were many smiles among our soldiers, there were others too who looked shocked: pale, slumped and tearful.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqEhtOnLtB
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'Except those guarding prisoners, fall in to your units!' My order brought their training back and even the most wretched looking stiffened and hurried to find a place in the ranks.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GD2LwOaLG
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'You fought well. Very well! And today will be the day I promised you. You will eat out on the story of the battle of Three Ways for the rest of your lives. But our work isn't yet done. Those of you on horseback…' I made my way to the light cavalry, half of whom were missing, chasing the retreating enemy, 'ride down the road, killing any enemy stragglers you find. Then, when our own soldiers return, scout beyond them until evening and report back here by dark… On you go!'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnFQVCs53M
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As the riders rode off, I turned to our archers. 'Sergeants, have your squads take the abandoned bows and quivers of the enemy; gather any unbroken arrows you can.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfxNZ9E8s2
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'You heard the king!' shouted a sergeant, 'on me!'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPpu0wlciC
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'Sergeant of the swordsmen,' this to the squad leader of our twelve heavy infantry, 'take the prisoners and find a way to lock them in the small tower. They can be given food and water but make sure none of them is armed.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0hje5wta7
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'Yes sire!'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ELMMOBgHP
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'You,' I pointed to the sergeant of a unit of twelve light infantry, 'are on the same task.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETJLfFBrfx
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'And you,' looking at the sergeant of my other infantry squad, 'get a cart and fill it with the abandoned weapons and any armour that is still useful. Also, tell the ballista crew to report to me at the bridge.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF1LBCo5Qq
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There was a bustle of activity now and the eagerness with which the soldiers set about their tasks was heartening.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYd3K2MYQYS
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'Sire?' It was the Cleric. 'May I heal you?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SjxoiIBrc
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I checked my hit points, 33 from 40. 'No.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTFnQ93I4z
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Coming down the hillside was a weak-looking Parrin, being helped by Carlena. I gestured towards them. 'Go heal the chancellor.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWFmsHaVcA
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By the time they reached me, the Scout was looking a lot more cheerful. 'Sire, permission to shake your hand.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHEgyHIeOJ
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'Granted.' I smiled at our Parrin as he took my heavy right hand in both of his and pumped it up and down.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2E2YyUWPJ
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'That… that was magnificent. Your charge. I'll never forget it, ever. I don't have the words.' And indeed, I could see tears were welling up in the elderly man's dark eyes.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7xifyNaDV
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'Good man yourself, Chancellor, your backstab was an excellent initiative.' I gave him a slap with my free arm. 'The Shaman might not have been able to save the battle for them, but we were about to lose a lot of men. It was brave too, with the sabre-toothed tiger at his side.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwLh3FGPzs
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I turned to Carlena. 'You too. To face the Shaman's spells and his pet without hesitation was impressive. I'm proud to be working with such courageous comrades.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2Elpdf2VE
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Carlena gave me the warmest smile I'd yet seen from her, a sincere one, from the heart. 'A rhino was a good choice for the potion.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBtX8O2NoG
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'When you said to pick something the size of my body… well, it came to mind.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOV7E63woG
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'Well done sire.' She dropped her voice to a whisper. 'Thank you Sean de Courcy. You really are the warrior we need. King Carlos would have stayed in Carrick. Yet that was a battle we might easily have lost and with it, the realm.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbt2sPShNwc
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Our mutual fan club was broken up by the arrival of the ballista crew, who had come at the double, as if to make up for the fact they had missed out on the fighting. Their sergeant saluted.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYObGAwCB92
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'Hard luck, sergeant. You were to be the hero of the battle by the original plan.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXe7puNB0S
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Checking first that I wasn't looking too serious, the powerful-looking young man allowed himself a reply. 'We're very disappointed sire; next time I hope you'll leave some for us.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvwVRWt3ln
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'Good man. Well, I've a task that will make you popular with the rest of the army. Are you honest?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFmobiJMOx
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'As honest as a mirror sire.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lpUKm25ku
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'That's what I hoped. I want you to search all the enemy bodies for coin. Then roll the corpses into the river along with any dead horses. We'll demoralise their army downstream as their dead comrades float past. Our own dead we'll bring home in carts for their families. When you've all the coin, report to me and I'll share it equally with every soldier here. Even you lot.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XOOI88Ful
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'You heard the king!' The sergeant gave me a salute and the crew immediately set to their somewhat morbid task as though it was a pleasure. Which perhaps it was. Loot was loot after all. Which gave me a thought.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFLSQTucS2
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'Do you have a Detect Magic spell?' I asked Carlena, who nodded.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLrCvOdWTT
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'Can you use it and see if there are any magic items on the dead, perhaps on the Shaman or their officers?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAesqXBDmj
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'Oh, I should have thought of that.' Carlena hurried back up the hill.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6GIbnvzLn
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'Any orders for me sire?' asked Chancellor Parrin.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOc2kBLRXyF
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'Soon I'll want you to go scouting again, in case the rest of their army moves up towards us. I've a feeling that they won't. For now though, if you could find some decent wine and tolerable bread, I could really use it. Being a rhino for eight minutes is a hell of a calorie burn… I mean it gives you an appetite.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVA1TmWGEAO
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Slowly, I made my way back over the bridge and up to the gatehouse, bringing the Cleric with me. On my way, busy soldiers glanced at me in an entirely different way than they had before the battle. There was respect and admiration in their eyes. Affection too even. I was becoming the king they wanted. And whenever my gaze rested on soldiers performing their duties, they hurried that bit faster, as though wanting to demonstrate their backing for me. This was a complete contrast to the sullen looks and slow responses when I had first gone to the barracks in Carrick.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53lTdxU4zG
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Of course, I'd been wanting to study the effects of the battle on my character sheet ever since the fighting had ended, but only now, after a deliberate pause to consider if I had overlooked any important orders, did I feel the time had come when I could open that menu.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSlAh63GLf
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Sean de Courcy, king of Greyland486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTj8did2z8m
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Fighter, Level 5 HP 40 AC 0486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2MU2P3Npk
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Str 7486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJ9mk38JzQ
Dex 4486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImuyvyFy7D
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Cha 4486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMb0pbvfe9r
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Bash 25486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmT70cr8YF
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You have 4 attribute points to assign.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZw3De6qkKo
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XP 2,860 (3,200)
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My attribute points I decided to save, again, tempting though it was tempting to put a point in Dexterity. Assuming I could train up the low stats, I'd want those points for later.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkgufDLilB
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There was also a new notification attached to my character sheet, which I opened.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnSNftLgey
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Congratulations Sean de Courcy on reaching Level 5 in Fighter. You have unlocked the following specialisations within the Fighter class. Please choose one:486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rTO27cptQ
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Berserker486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBLsOLfQYn
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Warlord
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Each had a description, which corresponded to fighter sub-types I was familiar with from Storm Wars: the Berserker specialised in speed, high DPS and was a master of improvisation, downside, medium armour only; the Champion was a duellist, a weapons specialist perfect for one-on-one fights, downside, all the benefits were individual only; the Paladin had holy spells as well as combat skills, downside incompatible with evil troops and creatures; the Shadow Knight was the opposite to the Paladin, with unholy spells and an incompatibility with good; the Warlord was the opposite to the Champion, a tactical specialist, all the benefits were group ones.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaw2lUFALW
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Obviously, with Lord Arval being a Paladin, the Shadow Knight was out. And it wasn't smart to replicate his spells and skill bonuses when I could gain new ones for our realm. Even if I got this body into reasonable shape, I was never going to be a Berserker. So that left Champion and Warlord.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3DXf3VRvU
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Rereading the description of both, the Champion appealed to my pride. Following that path would ultimately lead to a character who could defeat anyone else in the world in a face-to-face encounter. I could visualise myself using Lightning Draw to bring a sword into my hands faster than my opponent anticipated and cutting them down with Critical Strike before they'd even drawn breath.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQTIGVKndX
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It was clear though, that in this world of twenty-five kingdoms battling for mastery, the Warlord was going to be the right option. As a Warlord I'd get feats that could rally shaken troops, that could heighten the combat skills of those nearby and at high level could identify unfamiliar enemy troop types. I selected it and immediately got twenty or so new skill options and my first Warlord feat, Charge! All friendly units in the vicinity got a 20% increase to base movement and a temporary 5 hit point increase.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfllI2SkHV
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As for the skills, since I knew I would learn fast from practice, I would simply put one point in each to unlock them. With 15 skill points to assign, I could get all but five. My exact choices, however, could wait.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDAlTIZFis
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Closing my character sheet, I had a look at the state of Greyland's army on the military menu:486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudIiypjLC8
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Light infantry: 26*486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMzF0sxXDV
Heavy infantry: 11*486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtWj4IIbKa
Archers: 34*486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDG1DxS44nA
Light cavalry: 18*486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFHDNkViTS
Heavy cavalry: 4*486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIV2WtspE1t
Ballista: 1486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiabqUMxx4E
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(*veterans)486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfg8qxgl8it
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Hospital: 18486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokVtg2rC3n
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Military upkeep cost: 43 gold, 6 silver486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj97NbQ4bK4
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Buildings: keep level 2; curtain walls level 1; towers level 1; town walls level 1486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKhUFtvXIs
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Currently building: tower machicolations, 23 hours
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Not at all bad. In fact, considering my original plan, which would have been costly in terms of archers and probably infantry, it was a fantastic result. Greyland's army was small, but it was still intact, a viable force with which to face the other half of the army of our enemies, should they dare advance. If anything, we were actually stronger than when the day had begun, since a new veteran tag had appeared over most of the troops.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfFEVOVBRN
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There were rooms in the larger tower and although I struggled to get up the wooden stairs, which creaked loudly beneath me, I found a bench on the first level that could accommodate my bulk. The Cleric stood uncertainly by the door.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKs5CTxvAtr
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'Take a seat.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfcEy3QSQY
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She obeyed me.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZz0Bn7QdR
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'What's your name?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS15utcgGCR
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'Anthea Greyford, sire.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JDsr7YB8e
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'Anthea, you know I have menus for the running of ths realm?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQJum1Zeab
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'Yes sire.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8HQaCCDmt
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'Well, you aren't…' I struggled for the words that she might understand. 'You are listed under the church menu but you aren't a special person. You can't level up, or can you?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoISywqXxR
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'Apologies, sire. I don't really know. If you were to upgrade the church perhaps?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNMHiIZTzw
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'I was reading about the various levels of church earlier and while it's not a priority …' I held back from expressing my concern about the food supply, 'that upgrade will happen. But it wasn't clear if you would gain a level. I learned only that the town would gain a second Cleric and those attending the church would be able to obtain cures for moderate wounds and the delay of poisons and disease.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7Le08UJxO
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'I think it likely I would become second level sire, since those prayers are available to those who have reached it.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1k942iDrPQ
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'Let's hope so. And let's hope you can join me progressing. Because we are going to need a strong healer, both to level me up as fast as possible and for future battles.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNIjxVaBiZ
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It was hard to see her response: in her full chainmail armour the coif put most of her face in shade. Her mouth looked determined enough though and she gave a nod.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngLwMM5LIH
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Footsteps from below announced the arrival of the chancellor, bearing the very welcome load of two bottles of wine and four tin goblets. Behind him, a soldier had a basket with bread rolls and apples.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrcZjLPfD0
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'Well done Chancellor.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcg1mN5gUoT
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'Thank you sire.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlTQDQfwhw
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One of the joys of a high Dexterity, it seemed, was the ability to draw a cork from a bottle with just a narrow blade from his Scout's tool kit and it was only a moment's work before the comforting gurgle of wine being poured was heard.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEDl0tsQZH
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'To Greyland!' I offered the toast and my two companions responded.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhW9RZiaD20
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I asked Parrin about his sneak attack on the Shaman and was listening to his account – it reminded me that the Scout had an extremely important Ring of Silent Movement – when Carlena joined us, a look of quiet pleasure on her face that made me hopeful. That and the finely made rapier she carried.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEnpY1pUfP
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'Four magic items sire.' She emptied a bag onto the bare wooden floor with a satisfying clatter from the three items that fell out. 'I've used the rest of my mana for the day casting Insight to discover their properties, but I thought you'd want to know.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeKzZnxgvT
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I nodded.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXo7QeO9ws
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'Their Shaman had a scroll of Hold Animal and an amulet with the spell Hide from Animals stored in it; one of their officers had Bracers of Archery; and the other had this: a plus-two rapier.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡji68t8dG12
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'Excellent, what do the bracers do?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnxcfTAnRR
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'Give you five skill points in your wield skill for all bows; a slightly faster rate of fire; and fifty-percent increase in all ranges.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmxTpZaVVI
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'Very nice. I'll keep them and the rapier. Can you use the scroll and the amulet?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXDh1XxbB1
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'The pity is that I can't add them to my spell book, with their being Shaman spells not those of a sorceress, but as a once off, I can cast those spells.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EchJxAP3y
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'Very good, they are yours. Sorry Chancellor, nothing for you it seems, though you deserved it.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5iVLl6e8W
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Parrin smiled and spread his hands. 'What's good for us all is good for me.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdw3uvfQgmV
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We were well into the second bottle of wine and nothing but crumbs and apple cores remained in the basket when Lord Arval bounded up the stairs and into the room. A glance, then he stepped over to me, knelt and clasped my hands in his.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9Zn1nNuJL
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'By Miya! What a day. What a day. When I rose this morning, I could not dare hope for such an outcome.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmlRCaHpwZ
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'Nor I Lord Arval, now take a seat and a drink.' I freed my hands from the warrior, picked up my goblet and passed it to him. 'I'm only sorry we ate all the bread.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwvXhAlVnG
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Our general was clearly exhausted, his face was wan and he sat with obvious relief. Yet his eyes were darting to check we all shared his happiness. And watching him, I had another thought. Perhaps the PCs had levelled too? I raised my arm. Carlena and Parrin were both still level 9. But Lord Arval had reached level 8.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjBIeVlQx3
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Lord Arval: Paladin Level 8486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSODmF5EDoK
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HP 79486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rrY514n8s
AC 18486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVyq6CzFIM
XP 30,124 (64,200)486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jtEfecFeq
Str 17 (18), Dex 12, Con 16, Int 8, Wis 9, Cha 9.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj7OrxhpkAB
Shield of Defence +1, Trueblade +2, Ring of Strength +1, Potion of Healing.
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'Another toast!' I declared, though I no longer had a goblet and had to raise just my hand. 'To Lord Arval, our level eight Paladin!'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFJ9mGDRit
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'Congratulations!'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6Z0jg498o
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'To Lord Arval!'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCTDW8dAuo
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Our general acknowledged the goodwill in the room with a cheerful wave. Then Carlena told him about the magic items we had gained and he told us about the rout of the enemy, whom he pursued for miles down the valley. After that we fell into a comfortable silence, the silence of those who had been through battle together and who were reflecting on the day's events.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZEU5ByaoX
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At least, that's what I thought they were doing. Lord Arval, however, looked over at the cleric and spoke: 'Can you leave us some privacy, please.'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwLtUaGYgm
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'Of course,' she got up at once and descended the stairs.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpZNT9Rdpp
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I looked at Lord Arval and no doubt my expression was curious.486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQMqtb0N5h
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He smiled. 'It's nothing urgent. But I wanted to know: how did this day compare to the battles you experienced in your world? You must have had other victories like this?'486Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNddsm1tJL
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How, I wondered, should I reply to that question? I could hardly say that the only battles I had fought in had been games.
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