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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 8183641" data-attributes="member: 1282">Hoo, boy. Yeah, my notes here are not stupendous, and I don’t have great facility with recalling specific details, but I’ll give it a go.When the albino choker ape (reskinned choker) was revealed, reaching out to squeeze the life out of the source of its misery, rather than Hack & Slash, the Ranger chose to step back and attack via bow from range (Volley). But since the choker has reach, I asked her to Defy Danger first. I don’t have notes on PC HP ablation and her next action was Volley, so I assume she succeeded, dodging the creature’s grasping meathook. She did 8 HP damage (taking the choker down to 9 HP after its armor) but it was on a 7-9 roll and she opted to move to get the shot, placing her in danger (taking some damage on a 7-9 Defy Danger roll; this may have been an error on my part, more a hard move than simply “a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice”?) and commanded her animal companion to Do Their Thing, which was to charge the choker, grab its leg in its maw, and pull it down off the stalactite.This too was a success, but I can’t recall if it was an unmitigated 10+ or a 7-9 at which the choker inflicted damage upon the animal companion. I do recall that the canine’s teeth were unable to penetrate the ape’s thick hide (2 damage, 2 armor is a wash). Regardless, I narrated that the choker and animal companion were now embroiled in a vicious scrum on the tunnel floor, the choker having wrapped the animal companion in its legs. (This makes me think there may have been some damage involved and thus a 7-9 roll.)What do you do?Rather than fire into the melee via Volley and put her animal companion at risk (I’m unsure of her thought process here beyond following the fiction), the Ranger decided to Hack & Slash with her pick. Here things get even fuzzier. I have notations of that H&S and Defy Danger (STR) and memory of the choker taking damage and inflicting it, which I narrated as grasping in its uninjured hand, the one not previously damaged and hanging limp from the arrow it took earlier, the Ranger by the throat until her vision begins to dim at the periphery as she struggles for breath, but beyond that …? I do remember narrating her losing her pick (I need to come up with a better “worse outcome, hard bargain (which I think was in play here), or ugly choice”).The combat ended on an unfortunate series of dice rolls, the animal companion suffering lethal damage on a 6- roll for Do Their Thing, and the Ranger suffering a similar fate on the return damage from a 7-9 roll on Hack & Slash with a rock (which I adjudicated as w(2d8) as an improvised weapon), while delivering a mortal blow in return.Anyhoo, additional feedback is encouraged!</blockquote>

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