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Post by soulfromheart on Jun 4, 2021 7:56:24 GMT
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jun 4, 2021 12:40:46 GMT
Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 19:52:31 GMT
Man, you do things exactly like I would, when it comes to gear. I'll post some stuff later on today
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 20:28:07 GMT
First I got the sword of danu. I hope to coat the blade in a layer of silver one day Or maybe it's better suited to the dagger? My morning star style rope dart/meteor hammer in case I feel like doing some Belmont style stuff I'm getting some broad heads (solid steel, not that razor blade looking sh*t they sell for 90$ for three) for the crossbow. Imagine if they were silver broad heads.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 4, 2021 20:40:50 GMT
You have some nice weapons, btw.
Besides the usual personal weapons and gear, something that'll call in this:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 23:29:02 GMT
More shots of the Weaponized Crucifixes by Purna, 5160 steel, These are actually heat treated as well. The smaller one is one piece, the larger one is two pieces fitted nicely and multi-pinned. The larger one is 28oz and 9"x11" and 6mm thick. The smaller one is 14oz and 7"x 9" and 5mm thick. I got some throwing stuff too, but mine are bunk
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 23:49:29 GMT
Could still be used as a distraction, maybe throw all 3 at once and then rush in with the spear! You read my mind lol. That's exactly what I plan on doing. If they see a pointy sharp knife flying at them they might at least waste some tempo dodging it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 23:55:31 GMT
I was thinking a silver plated blade makes sense of the witchers sword for me. It's not so much that it breaks, but rather, the coating gets rubbed off in use, and it's why he wouldn't wanna use it on humans, as he doesn't need the silver. It's a thought process I wanted to apply to my sword of danu, it can be my killing blow sword. On everything else I got these
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 0:38:29 GMT
I will put it out there that this creature does not require silver to harm it. 🤔 I wonder about the use of a shield in this situation, a shield to block massive blunt (mostly) trauma , it doesn't have claws really. All good ideas though bro! Let's put the stats of this creature at six and a half feet tall and 375 lbs, strength level of approximately 6 men. Bloodlusted though. Will fight until it's 100% dead. I always work under the assumption that silver helps haha. I dunno why. It's cool I guess. But that saves me the trouble of having to get silver plating Against the actual thing, I think I would haul all my stuff pointlessly just to lure it to a trap and bomb with moltoves, or whatever period equivalent existed (whale or bear oil?) But I know I would want my cross bow. Plus I'll have two throwing spears as well. Shield is mostly for thrown projectiles and to have some confidence. I'm not sure what good a buckler is unless the thing wants to fence me lol. Danu is the best for cutting, hewing, chopping and thrusting. Only downside is she's short. That's my finishing blow weapon
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2021 2:53:10 GMT
Good stuff, I am going to allow molotov cocktails. Because even though in this period they did not really have a suitable liquid equivalent to gasoline in real life, we can assume that if there is alchemy/magic and monsters in the setting that they would also at least have the ability to make very high alcohol content liquids lol. Maybe some 75% alcohol or so would work. It does, but it's a nasty waste of good liquor. In the SCA, that sort of thing is called "alcohol abuse".
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Post by howler on Jun 5, 2021 4:52:35 GMT
A powerful bow when at distance followed by a robust boar spear (for a boar monster like that). At arms distance (yikes, bad position ) you pull a hard to break medium length dagger (5-9 inch blade) from belt or chest rig and overhead stab the beast in the upper neck. I would say to go for the eyes but this seems a small target and that thick bone pig skull would be tough to penetrate.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2021 5:05:49 GMT
You have some nice weapons, btw.
Besides the usual personal weapons and gear, something that'll call in this:
That's a whole lot of collateral damage! I imagine that the sorcerer you would call in to fireball the forest would cause a wildfire that will not only envelope the orphanage but everything else as well. I suppose that is one way to do it lol Well, I have to admit that your concerns about collateral damage are valid. Given that, I guess that the time has come to officially unveil a project that I have been working on, which should allow extremely accurate precision guided surgical strikes against any and all monsters having an identifiable digestive system. It is, of course an air-deliverable autonomously terminally guided standoff munition. The flexible hose on the nose delivers a 20,000 PSI turbopumped stream of 40 gallons of whatever noxious fluid that you decide to fill it with. I call it a clyster bomb.
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Post by howler on Jun 5, 2021 5:20:04 GMT
A powerful bow when at distance followed by a robust boar spear (for a boar monster like that). At arms distance (yikes, bad position ) you pull a hard to break medium length dagger (5-9 inch blade) from belt or chest rig and overhead stab the beast in the upper neck. I would say to go for the eyes but this seems a small target and that thick bone pig skull would be tough to penetrate. Nice choices! But oof, the arms distance strategy with the medium length dagger... I could imagine it bear-hugging the person and just crushing them while trying to bite them while the person desperately tries to avoid the mouth by pushing on it's neck with their left forearm and stabbing wildly. Pretty gruesome struggle. All the while it's screaming at you with a blood curdling pig squeal crossed with a lion roar. Oh, by no means would I call the arm distance stab defense a strategy. I'd call it a desperate hail Mary from getting arse raped by a pig beast , and about the only other thing you can do aside from poop yourself. You're holding a BAD hand at that point after the bow and spear fail. I would have said a longer dagger (12" or longer blade) but that is best underhand with space, targeting belly and whatnot, with the overhead stab having more control at the tip, space to work with, more and quicker throat/neck stabs where you don't have to penetrate fat, muscle, bone.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2021 5:49:50 GMT
Well, I have to admit that your concerns about collateral damage are valid. Given that, I guess that the time has come to officially unveil a project that I have been working on, which should allow extremely accurate precision guided surgical strikes against any and all monsters having an identifiable digestive system. It is, of course an air-deliverable autonomously terminally guided system. The flexible hose on the nose delivers a 20,000 PSI turbopumped stream of 40 gallons of whatever noxious fluid that you decide to fill it with. I call it a clyster bomb.
So after years of research and work, you now have confidence that you have developed the ultimate weapon. One that can annihilate almost any monster with precision without a lose of innocent life in collateral damage. You fire it off, it soars through the air... You stand there looking at it's descent onto the forest where it undoubtedly found the Boar-Monster. A tear of joy drips from your hardened eyes that have seen their share of haunting combat. The magnificent torpedo sours through the tree tops toward the beast. There is only a split second for it to react and you see something unfamiliar on it's face...fear. This is it, it's about to be the end... And the beast cartwheels out of the way.
............and the one right behind the first pops him open like a water balloon. Of course, even with a miss, it's squirting the sort of a fluid lance that brings down trees, not to mention that a combat load would be one of the more obnoxious contact toxins. And if it doesn't work, WTF, there's still the napalm.......
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 6:10:43 GMT
So after years of research and work, you now have confidence that you have developed the ultimate weapon. One that can annihilate almost any monster with precision without a lose of innocent life in collateral damage. You fire it off, it soars through the air... You stand there looking at it's descent onto the forest where it undoubtedly found the Boar-Monster. A tear of joy drips from your hardened eyes that have seen their share of haunting combat. The magnificent torpedo sours through the tree tops toward the beast. There is only a split second for it to react and you see something unfamiliar on it's face...fear. This is it, it's about to be the end... And the beast cartwheels out of the way.
............and the one right behind the first pops him open like a water balloon. Of course, even with a miss, it's squirting the sort of a fluid lance that brings down trees, not to mention that a combat load would be one of the more obnoxious contact toxins. And if it doesn't work, WTF, there's still the napalm....... Thanks I got a good laugh out of that 😂 that's one of the most hilarious images I've had today
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Post by howler on Jun 5, 2021 6:14:49 GMT
Lol there is no evidence that it has the intention on arse raping just to alleviate your concern. I actually wonder if maybe a push dagger in each hand would be the ultimate last ditch effort. Something that works at hands-on range to bleed it out before you do . Maybe you can get lucky and get it in throat with a punch in the grapple. That is always the quandary, stab with both hands wielding daggers or commit one hand, strong or weak, to grapple and cover. This may be one of those instances where you duel wield because the thing is so strong that grapple/cover is near worthless and a single stab in an eye or artery could immediately end the conflict.
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 5, 2021 7:03:57 GMT
............and the one right behind the first pops him open like a water balloon. Of course, even with a miss, it's squirting the sort of a fluid lance that brings down trees, not to mention that a combat load would be one of the more obnoxious contact toxins. And if it doesn't work, WTF, there's still the napalm....... Thanks I got a good laugh out of that 😂 that's one of the most hilarious images I've had today We could always mount the warhead on a drone that chases a target until it........uhhhh....... nails it.
Here's a souvenir patch for everyone who took part in this exercise:
Okay, back to our regular programming.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2021 22:33:47 GMT
Would you guys prefer duel wielding or a large two handed weapon? Both seem like a pretty good idea. In that case I got my great sword of war. This one's a beast For duel wielding I can use the two katana, or my arming sword and saber, dark souls style
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 5, 2021 23:18:41 GMT
In the name of gothic horror: Dual wield your frankenkat and the saber. Complex hilt is soo gothic!
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Post by treeslicer on Jun 6, 2021 0:04:53 GMT
Imo... I would only duel wield in this situation if it was two smaller, purpose built specialty weapons. So two push daggers, two katars, that kind of thing. And again that is only when I know we are going into a desperate, very close range situation. I have an idea of how I might tackle the situation though... If we're talking genuine gothic horror here, I'd expect a British 1796 LC or a Blucher with a spadroon or degen to be very period. Shooting the thing with a Brown Bess carrying buck-and-ball should be indicated, too.
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