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Fighting former adventurers is horrific. I made a demigod character, superior strength speed and toughness, and wrestlegrinded him up to legendary and superhuman in a bunch of stuff. THEN, this guy gets shot through the foot, motor nerve is gone. Guess he's retired.



I decide to do my old thing of building a new unarmed fighter to challenge him, doing all my usual grinding tactics, but starting from hero instead of demigod.


No matter how strong I made my current guy, everytime I'd go and try to kill this crawling, jacked sonuvagun, he'd land a single hit and demolish a part of my body. He'd consistently break the spine of the adventurers id make to go after him, and from there its just him beating me to death while on all fours.


Can't beat perfect genetics I guess.

My pickaxe fighter, whom I've named "Omni", is honestly pretty strong right now. I've decked him out in an almost full suit of iron, and his pickaxe is fucking lethal. It's gotten to the point where when I'm ambushed by animals, I make him fight them barehanded just so that the poor beasts last a few rounds.


I'm really lucky in this current world that there are actual semi and megabeast lairs that people can direct me to. Killed an ettin very quickly, by pickaxing it through the heart. It bled out as it ran away.


I then got a direct to a Roc lair across an ocean ( my world is basically an archipelago, but there is some water divide between the main lands ). Thankfully, the world temperature is warm, so I was able to start swimming at the crack of dawn, and even as night descended and the oceans got colder I was able to keep swimming until I hit dry land.


Honestly, the Roc was a bit of a letdown. I crippled it, knocked it unconscious and gouged out its eyes till death. Pretty much any monster that can feel pain dies too quickly against Omni.


Now Omni is stuck across a body of water, and there doesn't seem to be any towns in this part of the world.

Made a nice hammer fighter in my new world, wrestlegrinded him until he was superhumanly strong and superior in all combat stats. I gave him a silver maul in character creation, and I was having a lot of fun beating the bones and limbs off of bandits.


When asking for a quest, my guy ( whom I named Stronghammer ) found the location of a Bronze Colossus shrine. Learning from many repeated past failures, I decided not to go at this one alone.

Brought a spear-woman with me, who honestly did really well in helping divide the Colossi's attention. But, even with all my guy's strength, and a goddamn silver maul ( which has to be the best blunt weapon in the game, right? ) I couldn't fracture any of its bones.

Eventually, my spearwoman companion got their leg broken, and I hoofed it out of there at full sprint, cause I knew the Colossus would start going after me once it killed her.




I had a few more adventures, but eventually decided to retire Stronghammer after he got shot through the lung with a crossbow bolt. It's always annoying playing characters that drop to half speed every few steps.



I made a new character, but this time I wanted to create somebody capable of hurting a Bronze Colossus. Spear and Swordsmen that I've made in past worlds were never able to fracture its limbs, or meaningfully damage it.

I decided to make a miner. I gave him the background of a miner in character creation, which actually put him at proficient in Mining to start with. I bumped it up to talented, and dumped the rest of my points into dodging ( and one point of swimming ).


I wrestlegrinded this guy all the way up to superior and superhuman stats, and boy was my iron pick a good weapon. After killing the usual amount of bandits, I decided to fulfill the next part of my plan.




I went to the hamlet I retired Stronghammer in, and found the Elite Wrestler in a house. After recruiting him, we went after the Bronze Colossus.



I wish I could say it ended in glorious victory. But the damn thing was too tough. I was able to fracture its foot, and its head ( probably because of me having an iron weapon with great penetration ), but that did absolutely nothing to cripple it, or bring it closer to death. I genuinely have no idea how to do enough damage to one to kill it. Get to legendary in mining?



Anyways, me and Stronghammer battered at it from all sides, and even with his faulty lung, Stronghammer did well as I desperately tried to rain down pick strikes and kill the damn bronze bastard. Eventually, Stronghammer got an upper arm beaten to a pulp, and his other lower arm broken. He had no hammer, we had no chance. I ran and hightailed it, far away enough to fast travel.



Imagine my surprise when I see that Stronghammer was still with me. Some scars on his arms, and I think permanent nerve damage in one, and minus his hammer. I renamed him "Armstrong", he's still a legendary wrestler multiple times over. And I sent him on his way.



It's nice not having a former character die on me for once.

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Shade, acting with surprising grace and decisiveness, moves towards the gas station building. He will reach the inside on the next turn.

Vera's eyes go big as she sees the boy dash for the doors of the gas station, but she does little to stop him. She looks around fidgetingly, not making any big moves.

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Alright, here we go. Blackpaladin, Naturegirl, you're up.

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Tonight's entertainment begins at the end of a derelict, nearly abandoned street. An old, out of use gas station is the arena of choice for our two fighters.

The two of them follow each other across the street, taking positions a few steps away from the 4 fuel pumps. To their side, is the building where one would pay for the gas, if it was still occupied. No lights are on, and it looks like nobody's been in there for months.





What do our combatants do?

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Please remember to copy and paste your character sheets in spoilers, at the end of your turn. When needed, please put status effects in them too so I don't accidentally lose track ^{in case all my notes get deleted}

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Jack, undeterred by his dizziness, decides to end things once and for all. [12(!) vs 5-2]. With all of his might, Jack clenches his fists around Pete's mangled neck. A snap is heard, and Pete's eyes go blank. Slippery Pete shudders, his death rattle wanting to express one last "fuck you" to Jack. And then he's gone.

The fight is over.

Jack falls backwards, still bleeding from his leg, his hands covered in blood and bruises. With only 18 HP left, whether an ambulance can get to him in time is still up in the air.

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Great fight guys. Feel free to go back through all the previous actions and perception rolls, to see how the other side fought.


Up soon:

Blackpaladin99 vs Naturegirl1999