Midgardsaga III [Concluded]

[White_eyes:D]

6 Challenges has been made:

These are:

1. woad&fangs vs. glyphz
2. Diamondeye vs. Tratorix
3. Chaotix vs. Tratorix
4. Tratorix vs. Chaotix
5. Reenk Roink vs. Renata

One will be fought:
[roll0]

The die has chosen

1. woad&fangs vs. glyphz as today's Holmgang.

There is still time left if you have not submitted your orders.

What the....??

Did I not bold that challenge to Nightbringer or something??

I knew that Kage's wouldn't count. I am guessing that he canceled it or Nightbringer can't be dueled.....UNFUN

[Reenk Roink]

What the....??

Did I not bold that challenge to Nightbringer or something??

I knew that Kage's wouldn't count. I am guessing that he canceled it or Nightbringer can't be dueled.....UNFUN

There will be another patsy to duel, there always is...

[GeneralHankerchief]

Yeah, my challenge to Pizza was missing from that list too.

[classical_hero]

So that means we need a re roll of the dice to get that challenge i and then we see what will happen.

[Sigurd]

What the....??

Did I not bold that challenge to Nightbringer or something??

I knew that Kage's wouldn't count. I am guessing that he canceled it or Nightbringer can't be dueled.....UNFUN

You were on that list, just a copy leif.
You can see I used a 6 sided die in the roll... General's challenge was number 7, so it was not considered.

This has been an intricate night... my birthday and all. The results should be up as soon as I do the Holmgang.

[Sigurd]

Round 3

Night 3

Results Holmgang # 2

The execution of a dear and respected member of the Nordmøre camp didn’t go well with the Nørdmøre retinue. They threw wild accusations around and some minor fights ensued.
Some members of the Romsdal retinue laughed at the feeble Nordmøre efforts to share blame of the killings. A Nordmøre man took a swing at a prominent member of the Romsdal retinue and landed a hook to his jaw. The Romsdal man stumbled, but got up again with speed and swung at the Nordmøre man. The swing was so powerful that he couldn’t stop when the Nordmøre ducked. The fist took a bystander in the nose and the man went down nose bloody and broken. The bystander leaped up in seconds and felt his broken nose with surprise. Then he eyed the one who caused it. You and me, Holmgang now.
The Hovgod came rushing to the place and was about to object when he saw the injured man’s cold eyes. Blood for blood then.

The bystander drew his polished sword and attacked at once. The Romsdal man who would fight this Holmgang didn’t have time to draw his, so he grabbed a fistful of sand and threw it into the eyes of the bystander coming towards him at full speed. The bystander roared when he was temporary blinded and the Romsdal man kneed him in the groin as he passed and kicked him in the small back. The bystander went down and the Romsdal man had time to draw his sword and get ready before the bystander was back up slashing wildly around him. One of those swings did find its way home and a crimson stain erupted from the shoulder of the Romsdal man.
The Romsdal man took the next swings on his blade and cut into the forearm of the attacker, but one did get through his guard and left a red angry wound across his ribs.
The next wound was dealt by the Romsdal man though, and a series of slashes left the bystander bleeding on the ground ready to yield. But this was not the end the Romsdal man had hoped for. The bystander all though tired looking leaped to his feet with new vigour and with immense force knocked the guard of the Romsdal man aside and dealt two wounds to his arms before running him through. The Romsdal man looked incredulously at the hilt hugging his rib cage. Blood started running fast from his torso and with it his life.


Night was settling on the camp and Arnvid Torarinsson felt especially rejuvenated but tired all the same. It was time for some shut eye. Arnvid went to his resting place and started honing his fine blade, something he did every night. It was important that the tools of a warrior were well tended. While honing his sword, Arnvid heard a commotion behind him. He looked over his shoulder and was barely able to duck his head under a slash of steel that would have taken his head off. A half naked man with crazed eyes and foam around his mouth was desperately trying to kill him. Arnvid got to his feet thinking this man was not right in the head. Arnvid was already holding his perfectly balanced blade honed with razor edges. The apparently crazed man turned with incredible speed and lunged for Arnvid. Arnvid had for some reason no problems avoiding the attacks from the crazed man. The crazed man hacked and slashed wildly but with enough force should any of them hit Arnvid, he would lose a limb or worse. The attacks grew to a crescendo and Arnvid avoided them all.
The man was finally getting tired and realizing he could not finish what he had started ran into the woods, leaving a panting Arnvid. He would need to hone that blade again.

The grizzled warrior from the last Holmgang tended his wounds. It was time to change the bandages. He removed the one over his left eye. As painful as it was he calmly stripped the wound for clinging bandage without so much as a wince.
He was about to reaply with fresh bandage when he heard breaking noises in the woods just behind him. He got up and looked around. He never saw the big pine that swung into the side of his head. There was a blinding flash and he felt his body flying through the air into the woods finally hitting another pine. His broken body slammed to the ground and his head swam. It would take some time to recover from this injury was his first though. He felt the ground shake in a set interval, as if something enormous was walking towards him. A inhumanly dark voice split the night; So, you have problems keeping your eyes in this world too? The grizzled warrior turned his head and saw a large darkness towering over him, yellow eyes beaming in the darkness. I told you this was our man, the voice continued. Another shadow appeared with nearly identical beaming eyes. The grizzled man, saw the first shadow move and felt and heard a ripple in the ground. He tried to move, but his body wasn’t up to it. He felt every bone crush in his body as a boulder the size of a long ship came crashing down atop him. He was still conscious when he felt the ground burn around him turning the boulder molten. This was more than he could handle and released his hold on this world. Fresh air blew in his face as he stood staring over the Bitterfrost Bridge. It would be a while before he would be able to go back over to Midgard.

The morning came and it was apparent that another man was missing and a story of a survivor after an attempted murder told them that there were still murderers among them.
The Hovgod asked them to again find a candidate and hopefully the very someone who had performed the deeds these last few nights.

Deadline: 16:00 (4pm) US Central, 23:00 CEST, 05:00 Western Standard (AUS)


Alive:

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Andres
Askthepizzaguy
autolycus
B_Ray
Believer
Chaotix
Death is Yonder
Diamondeye
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88
GeneralHankerchief
glyphz
issaikhaan
Khazaar
Nightbringer
Reenk Roink
Renata
robbiecon
Romanic
Thefluffyone93
TheLastDays
TinCow
Tratorix
White_eyes:D
woad&fangs

Killed:

Seamus Fermanagh (N1)
Earthling (N1)
Csargo (N1)
Seon (N1)
Ironside (N2)
Captain Blackadder (N2)
classical_hero (N3)

Lynched:

Visorslash (D1)
Mr. Stuka (D2)

Holmgang:

Major Robert Dump (H1)
Kagemusha (H2)

[Reenk Roink]

So this is what I've got from skimming the thread about some of the game structure. I probably missed a lot but these were the things that stood out to me.

Jotun, this is especially for you guys since I know how much trouble you have even reading. Of course, I don't expect you to avail yourselves with this information (you'll probably mess up in writing the orders to Sigurd or something ).

B_ray: claims it is important to be alive... perhaps a champion/king or a protown role or even a god (this is doubtful unless there are a lot of gods though).

classical_hero: god (Thor), focus on this guy first, kill off his (quite public) retinue if you're worried about protections.

TinCow: something tied to classical_hero, protown perhaps, but a weak lead from in thread information (still if you kill him you'd be avenging us Vikings for his Stuka hate ).

I also thought Nightbringer had some interesting things to say about how he suspected Tratorix's PM for being too simple. Seems like he has a complex PM himself. Could be a powerful Viking, protown role, god, or even Jotun.

Oh, and if any Viking is mad at me for doing this, I'm trying to set the stage for some business partnerships with Jotun muscle (I'm obviously management, they are labor) so please bear with me...

1) It was all in thread anyway, I'm not exposing some trusted confidential information here...

2) To you, the most important thing is the KINGS and to the KINGS the most important thing is their CHAMPIONS. Now, as he was crying like a little baby after classical smoked him like a bad cigar, MRD made the good point behind all his tears, snot, and blood, that Stuka a CHAMPION was dead and so a KING was without a CHAMPION. Well, apparently he got beat so bad he forgot to note that a second CHAMPION, Captain Blackadder, was confirmed dead in the kills.

So two CHAMPIONS dead. To any other protector roles out there (and you listen especially carefully Eir), find and protect the KINGS!

[Reenk Roink]

Oh wow, classical is already killed.

Bad news is a KING seems to be exposed.

Vote: Renata

[Chaotix]

Well, glad we didn't have to kill classical.

Judging from the end of the write-up up, though:

It would be a while before he would be able to go back over to Midgard

Midgard is the land of the gods, right? Classical was a god, or so it seems.

Vote: Askthepizzaguy

For being a lying liar.

[Chaotix]

Wait a minute....

-Sigurd, glyphz should be dead in the Holmgang section, no? Not Kagemusha?
EDIT: Apparently it's not a mistake. Looks like a random bystander got dragged in. Unlucky for Kage.

-woad&fangs apparently has 10 Holmgang score or more.

[Reenk Roink]

Vote: Askthepizzaguy

For being a lying liar.

What did he lie about?

[Chaotix]

ATPG lies about everything. It's standard fare for him. I'm not sure what he lied about just yet, but by calling him out on it I'm sure I've caught him somewhere.

[woad&fangs]

Is there a Nordic version of seppuku?

[Mr. Stuka]

TinCow: something tied to classical_hero, protown perhaps, but a weak lead from in thread information (still if you kill him you'd be avenging us Vikings for his Stuka hate ).

Stuka-hate is baaad

[Reenk Roink]

On second read, it seems that Kagemusha wasn't a Champion at all, and rather he was just some guy who got drawn into a fight, meaning glyphz is not the exposed king. Anyone else reading it like this? Kage, were you a champion?

Oh and unvote, vote: Atpg

[Reenk Roink]

Stuka-hate is baaad

Unvote, vote: TinCow

[Reenk Roink]

K, I'm going to wait for some Per help.

Unvote

[White_eyes:D]

Wait a minute....

-Sigurd, glyphz should be dead in the Holmgang section, no? Not Kagemusha?
EDIT: Apparently it's not a mistake. Looks like a random bystander got dragged in. Unlucky for Kage.

-woad&fangs apparently has 10 Holmgang score or more.

It looks like if you go past the six Challenger limit, you have a good chance of dieing. Kagemusha was 8th and GH was 7th...lucky GH.

The highest I can tell that woad&fangs rolled was a 6. Unless, you know something I don't.

I am going to vote at the start of the round this time, since DE is complaining about me not voting in just one day round.

Where is Khazaar? He is being too quiet lately. Vote:Khazaar

[Believer]

Vote: n0rg3 Roink

I can't see what you're getting at with that wall of text, we should help the Jotun? Get lynched.

[B-Wing]

I think it's clear from the write-up that classical_hero was Odin. The jotun taunted him by saying, "So, you have problems keeping your eyes in this world too?" which is a dead giveaway. I'm not extremely familiar with Norse mythology, but I know that Odin gave up one of his eyes in exchange for knowledge.

So there was only one murder last night? Interesting. And I'm not clear why Kagemusha died from the holmgang. I assumed the accidental blow to the bystander was just the intro to the duel, but did the bystander actually take the place of one the participants? That's quite odd.

[Reenk Roink]

w&f why are you so strong?

Vote: n0rg3 Roink

I can't see what you're getting at with that wall of text, we should help the Jotun? Get lynched.

Haters gon' hate.

[Renata]

I've missed you, Reenk.

I thought I did. At the moment though I'd rather drop-kick him off a cliff.

[Reenk Roink]

I thought I did. At the moment though I'd rather drop-kick him off a cliff.

I'm sorry, but the center of your protown network was not only exposed early in a most unnecessary fashion, you also proved unable to even protect him from what was surely coming.

[Chaotix]

The highest I can tell that woad&fangs rolled was a 6. Unless, you know something I don't.

That's not how the Holmgang scores work.

Everybody can roll 1-6, it's a normal die.

Holmgang score tells you how many hits you can take before you die, as well as how many dice you throw every round (up to a max of 3).

If you get hit enough that you have less than 3 points left, you can only throw 1 or 2 dice per round, and by that point you're pretty much dead. Woad got hit 7 times and at that point was still rolling three dice at a time. That means his Holmgang score was at least 7 + 3 = 10.

[White_eyes:D]

So...he's either a god or a Jotun.

But maybe Kage was taking all the hits like a meat shield.

[Reenk Roink]

Waiting on woad to tell us which type of tough guy he is. By the way, don't worry about losing Aesir, they are replaceable. There is some light of Aesir in all of us (except those with Holmgang scores less than 5).

[Renata]

There is no pro-town network, Reenk, at least not that I'm aware of. If there had been, I doubt that CH would be dead. Whoever has the protection abilities around here dropped the ball.

On woad I only counted five hits but may have misread: regardless, a minimum of 8 vs a minimum of 10, it all says approximately the same thing.

If Kage's death wasn't his own doing, the next question is whether it was glyphz'.

[TinCow]

I thought I did. At the moment though I'd rather drop-kick him off a cliff.

He makes games interesting, and what is the point of all this if not entertainment?

w&f needs to role claim. He clearly has a Holmgang score of 10+. In Midgard 2, no human had a score over 8. I have not seen anything to make me thing Sigurd has inflated the scores this time around, so that means w&f is either a God or a Jotun. If he's a God, the Jotun will know he's not one of them so revealing will not harm him any further than his silly Holmganging already has. Better to reveal and tell us what he knows. If he's a Jotun, he'll have to fabricate a God role PM very quickly to get himself out of this mess.

[B-Wing]

I still don't get the holmgang system, but that's alright.

Vote: issaikhaan
You've been too quiet.

EDIT: I guess Kagemusha could have been glyphz's champion?

[Reenk Roink]

There is no pro-town network, Reenk, at least not that I'm aware of. If there had been, I doubt that CH would be dead. Whoever has the protection abilities around here dropped the ball.

Eir... Taking Gyda's place as most hated woman in Norway. But I don't share the same sorrow of classical's death as you do. It is about time that some NEW gods show up.