Fire Emblem: The Crumbling Courts (Chapter 1: Clue Hunting)

[Dais]

Moving to J3, healing Seras.

Sorry, I managed to forget about the game :/.

Pillars cost Aran 3 movement to cross, so J3 is a little outside your movement range. Also remember that Seras moves after Aran.

And I can't blame you for forgetting about this, once we move to Chapter 1 I'm sure things will pick up though.

[GenetiXientist]

Ok, move to N6, heal Alera.

Unless O5 counts as a pillar, in which case move to O4, heal Seras.

This turn order is confusing, when Chap. 1 starts, can we set it ourselves?

[Dais]

Another turn, another wave of the magic healing stick. Alera gets back her missing Hp.

Aran +12 Exp, +1 Staff Mastery, -1 Heal use
Alera +10 Hp

(RN 46, 95) Alera avenges Riot by hacking the Soldier down, doing 14 damage. Poor fool thought he was gonna take out TWO PCs? Please.

Alera +30 Exp, +1 Axe Mastery, -1 Iron Axe use
Orange Soldier -4 Hp, dead

Enemy's Turn...

Not that they do anything, so...

Player's Turn!

[GenetiXientist]

K4, Healing Seras.

[snoomanwaff]

Siginak moves from L3 to I4.
I must remember to get something in soon after each update before I forget.

[Palamedes]

Looks like the leader. Come on you two, let's take this guy out!

Cline motions to Blue and Spirit, then charges towards C5 and attacks the Exit Guard.

[Red709]

: A guy in armor who looks about as strong as you Cline? Could be a... wait... is that an axe? Never mind, he'll never hit me. Ahahahahaha

Spirit to B4 - ATTACK Exit Guard w/Iron Sword!

[causticlyOptimitious]

: Even for a warmup, this is pretty weak. Ah well, let's finish this up and move on to the real action.

Blue: E4 => B6, attack Exit Guard with Iron Sword.

[Askia]

Seras waits for heal then moves to F3

[Dais]

Seras gets her wounds patched up by Aran before running off. She recovers 8 Hp.

Aran +12 Exp, +1 Staff Mastery, -1 Heal use
Seras +8 Hp

(RNs 25, 39) Blue gets to the Exit Guard first and puts his sword into the guy's armor. He hits for 4 damage.
(RNs 29, 25) The Exit Guard hacks at Blue and does 12 damage. Yeouch!
(RNs 19, 6) Blue strikes again, doing another 4 damage.

Blue +11 Exp, +2 Sword Mastery, -2 Iron Sword uses, -12 Hp
Exit Guard -8 Hp, -1 Iron Axe use

(RNs 40, 27) Spirit runs up next and quickly strikes at the Exit Guard's leg. His sword bounces off the armor

there but still does 1 damage.
(RNs 44, 96) The Guard just barely catches Spirit in the side as he tries to dodge away, and Spirit takes 12 damage.
(RNs 65, 21) Spirit lashes out again but still only does 1 damage.

Spirit +10 Exp, +2 Sword Mastery, -1 Iron Sword uses, -12 Hp
Exit Guard -2 Hp, -1 Iron Axe use

Also...

This turn order is confusing, when Chap. 1 starts, can we set it ourselves?

I missed this earlier but now that I see you said that I want to point out that I would actually prefer to let you set the turn order from now on since at this point I'm completely confident that you'll set it fairly (not that it's terrifically consequential but y'know...). Basically I was just going to reverse the turn order for chapter 1 (Cline first Aran last everyone else is interchangeable because 5 Mov) and from then on put the lowest leveled players higher on the list.

[Red709]

: Heh. Man a slow guy in armor with a giant axe. How did he expect to hit all us sword users? I mean really

[GenetiXientist]

Cline, is your CON high enough to let you rescue Blue?

If so, I suggest you do so; unless I'm missing something, Spirit has the higher chance of not getting hit.

[snoomanwaff]

Siginak moves from I3 to G5.

[FuriousSquid]

Alera ambles from I5 to F5

[Dais]

Cline, is your CON high enough to let you rescue Blue?

If so, I suggest you do so; unless I'm missing something, Spirit has the higher chance of not getting hit.

Let me just save a little time and say yes. Cline has 13 con and Blue has 9. Con scores are on each character's stat sheet in the third post.

EDIT:

Siginak moves from I3 to G5.

Actually, Siginak already moved this turn.

[Palamedes]

Will it really make that much of a difference? At this point, death doesn't hurt us (though it probably should - might I suggest losing 50 XP or something to discourage it?).

Oh yeah also I can't reach Blue :I.

[GenetiXientist]

...Dammit you have 4 MOV not 5, mixed myself up.

Kind of unfair to assess any penalties for "death" on this map; Riot died due to my incredibly dumb mistake, and Spirit/Blue might also pass on.

If anything, take it from me, b/c I can get XP pretty easily.

(Pala, not really, but cautious FE playing is hard to break :P .)

[Dais]

I'm not a fan of Exp penalties myself, they can lead to losing levels, and whether or not they would in the FE system it seems like it'd have downsides. If you don't lose a level, then the closer you are to 0 Exp when you die the less of a penalty it is. If you do lose a level, do you re-roll the stats when you level up again? This carries the potential of fixing crap level ups if you roll better than you did the first time.

Staying out of the rest of the level denies you future Exp, and thus the later in the level you die the less of a problem it is which at least sounds kind of fair to me. My original plan was that the unit in question would have to sit out the following level as well, but that could lead to them being seriously behind in Exp. I dunno, I'll take a second look at it.

Oh, also, since it's a practice map the only death penalty applied is being removed from the map. So any changes wouldn't apply until Chapter 1.

[Palamedes]

Hm, I was more thinking that you wouldn't be able to lose levels. Let's say you're at 35 XP and die, you drop down to 0 and lose no levels. Unfortunately, it's still an iffy concept, making death less... deadly.

Hmm, maybe you could incurr a stat penalty for the next level?

[Askia]

the shame of dying in a tutorial

[Red709]

lol
well Riot only died because GX forgot to heal him

meanwhile I'm over here staring in irritation at the RNG

it is literally refusing to let me do my job and dodge attacks like a boss

[Dais]

So guess who forgot that he wasn't waiting on g1n like he thought he was?

(RNs 42,27) Cline lumbers up and stabs the Exit Guard for a solid 6 damage.
(Rns 72, 84) The Guard hacks at Cline and does 9 damage.

Cline +10 Exp, +1 Lance Mastery, -1 Iron Lance use, -9 Hp
Exit Guard -6 Hp, -1 Iron Axe use

Enemy's turn.

Exit Guard attacks Cline

(RN 41, 30) The Exit Guard plants his axe in Cline's chest and finishes him off, taking of his remaining 9 Hp.

Cline -9 Hp, 'Dead'
Exit Guard -1 Iron Axe use

... Player's turn.

lol
well Riot only died because GX forgot to heal him

meanwhile I'm over here staring in irritation at the RNG

it is literally refusing to let me do my job and dodge attacks like a boss

To be fair your evasiveness is a bit lower than you want it to be. For example, the Exit Guard has 44 acc on you, so it's not terribly unlikely that he'd hit you again for example. In fact I'm not sure any enemy has had less than hit rates in the high 30's on Spirit. A 1/3 hit rate is still decent after all.

[Red709]

To be fair your evasiveness is a bit lower than you want it to be. For example, the Exit Guard has 44 acc on you, so it's not terribly unlikely that he'd hit you again for example. In fact I'm not sure any enemy has had less than hit rates in the high 30's on Spirit. A 1/3 hit rate is still decent after all.

Yes, but 30 is still the lowest acc any enemy has had on any of us
It's actually pretty common for enemies to miss a lot with less than 50 hit on most units in the games themselves. I won't be able to have enemies with 0 hit on me until I'm a swordmaster :P

[Red709]

hey GX, Heal one of me or Blue now and the other can retreat so that our range users can fuck up the knight

[Palamedes]

Whoops, totally forgot about the +1 to attack the weapon triangle bonus gives you.