Re: Subject: Re: Agressiveness of Walls

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:58:07 -0700

> How are falls handled because the further the climber is up the
wall&#92;mountain&#92;hill the less likely
> he is to be hurt due to the fact the obstacle has less points to bid.

You wouldn't fall until defeated by the wall/cliff - and then it would (normally) be judged by how badly you were defeated. Of course, the narrator can just say "you fall 350 feet onto sharp rocks and go splat, time to write up a new character" or "you slide down the cliffside scrabbling at rocks and grabbing exposed roots. At the bottom of the cliff you are bruised and bleeding (take a hurt)" depending on the story, the cliff, what you had described already, any precautions you might have taken, etc.

Those little falls that make mountain-climbing scenes exciting (the hero reaches for the outcrop, and it crumbles in his hand - he falls 50 feet straight down before the rope catches him) are the result of bad losses on high bids. He isn't out of the contest, but he has to "make up" the lost altitude (and AP).

RR

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