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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allegro" data-source="post: 5578250" data-attributes="member: 38814">The goal of this test is to only grant the hammer onto those who put the clan above self or are too dangerous to deny the hammer.    The setup is the elders of the clan in a long winded speech talk about the ritual of clan chief StormChaser.  The player is told, the ritual consists of a staging of an epic fight where a couple dozen goblins rushed StormChaser and he defeated the lot of them.  The player is led deep into the mountains underneath and finally over a stone bridge arched over an unfathomable deep gorge.  The PC is given a wooden practice hammer which is painted to look like the historical hammer.  The player is then attacked by dwarves who are clearly dressed up to look like goblins for the reenactment.    After a couple rounds of mock battle, screams are let out as a dozen dwarves fall to a hail of goblin crossbow shafts and a horde of thousands of goblins and trolls come into to view with the sound of drums and the beet of iron shod foot.  The elder who was presiding calls for a retreat and say the dwarves with you were chosen for their skill in acting rather than fighting and the horde must be delayed for the good of the clan and either they have to be delayed with arms or the capstone of the bridge must be destroyed or the clan will surely parish.  Without siege equipment or time to prepare the capstone can only be destroyed by directly standing above it and hammering.  The PC has two options of winning, either best ten trolls in armed combat or destroy the capstone of the arch.  The dwarves have captured a dozen goblins and trolls and will compel them to attack in waves.  If the PC attempts to shatter the capstone the horde will melt into an illusion and the trolls will be dispatched with.  Alternatively, the PC could actually beat the unwinnable odds and be deemed to dangerous to be denied an hammer.  If the PC attempts to bargain or convince another Dwarf to destroy the capstone he will be denied the hammer.</blockquote>

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