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Nimitz heroically rushes towards the burning, wrecked house, pulling some debris away as he kicks open the front door (5). Inside, he sees Aelreth, barely clinging to life (3).

"Help..." he whimpers.

Saragoth runs past Nimitz, barelling into the house and pulling madly at Aelreth (6). However, the dwarf's legs are still stuck, and the pulling seems to knock him unconscious.

Lisaca also rushes in, manages to free Aelreth's legs (5), and the three pull him out of the burning house together. As they do so, it collapses completely.

Stan'la attempts to perform a sonic fife blast, but mud has clogged his instrument and he fails (2+1=3).

ExKirby waits for the werewolf to attack (2), dodging expertly away as he does so (4+1=5). He then draws back and throws a mighty punch at the flaming undead beast, connecting squarely and knocking off its burning head, which flies through the air and lands squarely on Aelreth, lighting his beard on fire (6).

A calm falls over the battlefield, save for the flickering flames creeping up the dwarf's beard.

Saragoth casts a head burning spell at the werewolf attacking Stan'la, striking it dead on (4+1=5) despite its attempts to dodge (3). The beast's head bursts into flames (4), and it runs around for a moment before collapsing to the ground, dead.

Stan'la, undettered by the fact that his attacker is dead, plays a fife tune to control it (5+1=6). The werewolf instantly re-animates as a zombie werewolf. It pulls out its own heart (3+1=4), but is over-enthusiastic and simply throws its heart at the other monster (5+1=6).

Lisaca attempts to jump out of the house, and manages to squeeze out a window as the building creaks mightily (3).

Nimitz jumps towards the living werewolf, landing on its back (4). He pulls back his bow to deliver a killing shot, and (5+1=6) shoots an arrow straight through its skull and towards ExKirby, who barely dodges out of the way (2+1=3).

ExKirby punches the dying werewolf for good measure (4), and connects squarely.

The undead, heartless werewolf turns against its fife-wielding controller, swiping at him with its unholy claws (5). Stan'la dives out of the way (6), but his fife rolls off down the hill, lost for the moment.

Enemy Status
Werewolf 1 - Undead, no heart, head on fire, attacking Stan'la
Werewolf 2 - DEAD, Arrow through head
Werewolf 3 - DEAD, Impaled on giant earthen spike

Lisaca prepares to fire a giant spike up from the ground at the last werewolf, which she easily does (6+1=7). The werewolf is impaled and instantly dies (5), but the spike is too large and also brushes up against the house, further destabilizing it (3). One more hit and this house is going over.

The werewolf attacking Aelreth is impaled on a spike of earth, which also subsequently blocks the door of the house. Saragoth, deciding that now would be a good time to get out of the creaky house, opens a window and shimmies out (5).

Stan'la plays his fife and attempts to control the werwolves further, but the death of their companion snaps them out of their trance, and one of them turns on him (1+1=2). ExKirby's humming fares no better (2), and simply draws the attention of the other werewolf.

Nimitz attempts another shot with his bow, which he successfully fires. However, his aim is off and the shot wizzes by the werewolf's kneecap (2+1=3).

The werewolf attacking Stan'la strikes a glancing blow on him, but doesn't really get his claws to sink in and causes no real damage (3). The other leaps at ExKirby (6), knocking him over and causing him to tweak his ankle when he lands (2). However, the force of his charge throws him off ExKirby, and he is unable to follow up with any particularly evil mauling.

Enemy Status
Werewolf 1 - Smoke-filled lungs, attacking Stan'la
Werewolf 2 - Injured shoulder, attacking ExKirby
Werewolf 3 - DEAD, Impaled on giant earthen spike

Stany - In light of all your fife-related accomplishments, I'll allow it.

Also, I'm working on a rudimentary HP system that I'll explain in the next post.

For what it's worth, leaving graphics off and just setting the font file to the graphics set bmp is working (mostly) for me, using Mayday.  The tiles all work, but the dwarfs are slightly simplified.  Mouse designation is also working fine for me.

Found this in the thread on .04... also, Baughn seemed to think that the graphics issue might be solved shortly, so that's good!

Happy Birthday! I hope you get everything you want (including the merge)!

I take my time to try and pick out a confederate officer and shoot at him.