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A Villain In A World Of Heroes

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Also, I will finally tell you what all of you were missing: If you can smack it with the flat of your blade, why not just cut it instead? You could have killed it instantly.

[X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you canat it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point, bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
Dark Ness threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: Smack Total: 6
6 6
Dark Ness threw 1 7-faced dice. Reason: Shoots +1 Total: 5
5 5
Dark Ness threw 1 2-faced dice. Reason: by blade or magic? Total: 2
2 2
Dark Ness threw 1 5-faced dice. Reason: Force Total: 4
4 4
Dark Ness threw 1 4-faced dice. Reason: Shh, you aren't suppose to see Total: 3
3 3
 
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Also, I will finally tell you what all of you were missing: If you can smack it with the flat of your blade, why not just cut it instead? You could have killed it instantly.

[X] Smack it on the nose (with your sword)
[X] Get a tree between you and the wolf, if it's not so close that this becomes a quick-time event. A few seconds means a few more spells means a lot better chance of killing it without getting mauled.
[X] Regardless of whether or not you've gotten cover, shoot as many bolts as you canat it's joints, preferably the front elbows*. It can't lung if it's crippled
[X] Simultaneously with the last point, bring your sword between you and it, angled for maximum penetration if it lunges, because it can't smell how your sword is angled. Better it dead from thrusting itself upon your blade and lying on you than it not dead and just slashed a little. Dead can be wriggled out from under.
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Well, at least it seems that the dice gods are on our side.
 
Well, it appears that, as long as that Force roll wasn't something the wolf was doing, we have been saved by the grace of the Dice gods. But then again, the Dice gods aren't Fate; their whole shtick is randomness, so naturally they'd be the enemies of Fate. It's just that the enemy of our enemy is the enemy of our enemy, nothing more, nothing less.

This means that we're going to need to find a way to add dice to as many things as possible, to screw over Fate's plans for us and stuff. How are we supposed to lose if our plans are decided on by dice-god rolls and plan tables, hmm? It'd waste a lot of their power hard-countering every single plan we concoct if our plans haven't even been thought of yet until it becomes time to do them, and we have a ton of different ways of pulling them off, unless we count as part of Cedra's thought processes, in which case they're wondering how we thought up literally random numbers as mere subconscious personalities.

I feel a terribly written omake coming on:
Fate frowned. Another pattern had come into conflict with a hero. If it continued as it wished, the beauty of the Tapestry would be ruined.

Fate reached for Her needles, and began knitting, changing the weaving of countless threads to interfere with the rogue pattern. As She turned a successful passing of the Trail of Blood into an encounter with a Fenris wolf, She felt something enter Her eye, a small particulate, as if from the eye of an awakening sleeper: She blinked.

When Her eye settled once more on the Tapestry, She blinked again. Where once the threads had coalesced to show a rather graphic image of death for the young girl, it now showed an eviscerated wolf, poked full of holes with icy needles and scorched with elemental fire, laying on the ground at the foot of the Villain, over whom an odd night sky shown, the tiny, tiny stars actually multi-sided dice, no two showing the same number of pips.

As She scanned along the pattern leading to this current image, another oddity showed itself. Nowhere did any of the Villain's thinking appear, any indecisiveness; at certain points she just seemed to gain purpose, to act as if she was just following the steps to victory, rather than making them up as she went, before she would freeze up again for less than a second before repeating the process.

It was as if Chaos had manifested a personality for just long enough to spawn a twisted copy of Fate, Chance for lack of a better word, and made the Villain it's champion.

Well then. If the Villain was the Hero of her own story, she'd merely need to be reminded of where she resided. Fate picked up Her needles from where she had dropped them, and got to work.
It's badly written and almost certainly Non-canon, but I can see something analogous to this happening.
 
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Well, it appears that, as long as that Force roll wasn't something the wolf was doing, we have been saved by the grace of the Dice gods. But then again, the Dice gods aren't Fate; their whole shtick is randomness, so naturally they'd be the enemies of Fate. It's just that the enemy of our enemy is the enemy of our enemy, nothing more, nothing less.

This means that we're going to need to find a way to add dice to as many things as possible, to screw over Fate's plans for us and stuff. How are we supposed to lose if our plans are decided on by dice-god rolls and plan tables, hmm? It'd waste a lot of their power hard-countering every single plan we concoct if our plans haven't even been thought of yet until it becomes time to do them, and we have a ton of different ways of pulling them off, unless we count as part of Cedra's thought processes, in which case they're wondering how we thought up literally random numbers as mere subconscious personalities.

I feel a terribly written omake coming on:
Fate frowned. Another pattern had come into conflict with a hero. If it continued as it wished, the beauty of the Tapestry would be ruined.

Fate reached for Her needles, and began knitting, changing the weaving of countless threads to interfere with the rogue pattern. As She turned a successful passing of the Trail of Blood into an encounter with a Fenris wolf, She felt something enter Her eye, a small particulate, as if from the eye of an awakening sleeper: She blinked.

When Her eye settled once more on the Tapestry, She blinked again. Where once the threads had coalesced to show a rather graphic image of death for the young girl, it now showed an eviscerated wolf, poked full of holes with icy needles and scorched with elemental fire, laying on the ground at the foot of the Villain, over whom an odd night sky shown, the tiny, tiny stars actually multi-sided dice, no two showing the same number of pips.

As She scanned along the pattern leading to this current image, another oddity showed itself. Nowhere did any of the Villain's thinking appear, any indecisiveness; at certain points she just seemed to gain purpose, to act as if she was just following the steps to victory, rather than making them up as she went, before she would freeze up again for less than a second before repeating the process.

It was as if Chaos had manifested a personality for just long enough to spawn a twisted copy of Fate, Chance for lack of a better word, and made the Villain it's champion.

Well then. If the Villain was the Hero of her own story, she'd merely need to be reminded of where she resided. Fate picked up Her needles from where she had dropped them, and got to work.
It's badly written and almost certainly Non-canon, but I can see something analogous to this happening.
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It's more like:
"In the great tapestry of Fate, a single speck on a single strand of a single thread, barely capable of anything beyond simplely existing, is experiencing a very very slight, almost unregisterable, feeling of what a mortal might call confusion."

At the moment, you are completely insignificant, which is why I said you wouldn't have to worry about fate until later.

Also, it is more like Fate is the enemy of the Dice Gods (if they exist), the Dice Gods don't care either way (if they exist).
 
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Well, I figure'd that the only difference in the name's of the Gods of Fate was the colour of their names. Much easier than just naming each one differently and all.

And the Dice gods would each have to make a comprehension roll to even notice that somebody was opposing them, probably. And now I'm imagining Dice wearing glasses rolling themselves for each and every thing they do.
 
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The wolf's end
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    • You quickly hit the wolf on the nose with the flat of your sword. It whines and is disoriented, giving you time to get behind a tree to your right and fire ice bolts at it joints, with shouts of "Nova Glaciem!" It works very well, the shouts keep it off balance, and while this wouldn't last for long, you manage to freeze it's joints and lock it down before it can attack. Then, with it, well, not helpless, but at least less dangerous then it was, you cast one more spell. This time, you do not rush It as much, and you focus, taking the time to aim and give the spell a little more power. You aim for the right eye once more, but since you are much closer, this shot should be easy. "NOVA GLACIEM!" With your shout, the hard of ice flies out of your hand and stricks the wolf so hard that pierces into it's brain and kills it. Admittly, you did aim for one of it's weak points that you had already pierced, so it wasn't that unlikely.

    With the wolf dead, you take the spoils, namely it's pelt. Your father did show you how to skin an animal, sometimes hunters would just give you both a dead animal, not bothering to skin it themselves. Although, this is the biggest thing you have ever attempted to skin, and you have to use your short sword instead of a knife. You do manage it though, and you place some of the pelt in your pack. You can't take all of it, it would be too heavy and weigh you down, but you can still take some.

    There is one more thing as well, it's heart. You are following the old stories in even going on this trial, and one of the old sayings is that you gain the s power of the enemies you kill and consume the hearts of. By routing around in the fresh corpse, you can easily find it soon, so that part is not a problem.

    [] Eat the heart
    [] Don't eat the heart

    There is one more question as well, should you continue?

    [] You fought a Fenric Wolf and won, something few can boast (even if it was young), that is plenty, return to the city.
    [] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
     
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    • [x] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
     
    [x] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.

    Is eat everything an option?
     
    [X] You fought a Fenric Wolf and won, something few can boast (even if it was young), that is plenty, return to the city.
     
    [x] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.

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    [X] If we haven't eaten it already, check the heart for parasites and then, only if our mediocre check comes up clean, do we consume it. Also wrap some more of the meat in some of the hide, so we have rations for extra-questing time; we can cook with magic and a pointy stick to place the meat on, when next we hunger for something that isn't the hearts of our enemies.
     
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    [x] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.

    We haven't leveled up yet! /kidding
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
    [X] If we haven't eaten it already, check the heart for parasites and then, only if our mediocre check comes up clean, do we consume it. Also wrap some more of the meat in some of the hide, so we have rations for extra-questing time; we can cook with magic and a pointy stick to place the meat on, when next we hunger for something that isn't the hearts of our enemies.
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.

    [X]Eat the heart, pack the meat up for rations, and make sure to take the teeth and claws as well. They might come in handy, or even be valuable to the right person.
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
    -[X] But don't hesitate to snag advantages that come another way. That would be silly.

    [X] If we haven't eaten it already, check the heart for parasites and then, only if our mediocre check comes up clean, do we consume it. Also wrap some more of the meat in some of the hide, so we have rations for extra-questing time; we can cook with magic and a pointy stick to place the meat on, when next we hunger for something that isn't the hearts of our enemies.
    -[X] Make sure to take the teeth and claws as well. They might come in handy, or even be valuable to the right person.
     
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    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
    -[X] But don't hesitate to snag advantages that come another way. That would be silly.

    [X] If we haven't eaten it already, check the heart for parasites and then, only if our mediocre check comes up clean, do we consume it. Also wrap some more of the meat in some of the hide, so we have rations for extra-questing time; we can cook with magic and a pointy stick to place the meat on, when next we hunger for something that isn't the hearts of our enemies.
    -[X] Make sure to take the teeth and claws as well. They might come in handy, or even be valuable to the right person.
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
    -[X] But don't hesitate to snag advantages that come another way. That would be silly.

    [X] If we haven't eaten it already, check the heart for parasites and then, only if our mediocre check comes up clean, do we consume it. Also wrap some more of the meat in some of the hide, so we have rations for extra-questing time; we can cook with magic and a pointy stick to place the meat on, when next we hunger for something that isn't the hearts of our enemies.
    -[X] Make sure to take the teeth and claws as well. They might come in handy, or even be valuable to the right person.
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
    -[X] But don't hesitate to snag advantages that come another way. That would be silly.

    [X] If we haven't eaten it already, check the heart for parasites and then, only if our mediocre check comes up clean, do we consume it. Also wrap some more of the meat in some of the hide, so we have rations for extra-questing time; we can cook with magic and a pointy stick to place the meat on, when next we hunger for something that isn't the hearts of our enemies.
    -[X] Make sure to take the teeth and claws as well. They might come in handy, or even be valuable to the right person.
     
    [X] You aren't strong enough, good enough, even if you win a thousand battles, it doesn't matter if you don't gain more power. So, keep going until you do so.
     
    Well, I see a lot of you voted for this already, but this was supposed to be above the keep going or not vote (that's what I get for writing while half asleep).
    [] Eat the heart
    [] Don't eat the heart
     
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