RE: Re: After Demo Dust Settles

From: Weihe, David <Weihe_at_...>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:07:33 -0400


> From: Michael Cule [mailto:mikec_at_...]
> All right, next confusing question. We have a Healer with a
> Self Defense
> skill. We have a nasty evil Badguy with a spear who attacks the Healer
> and her friends. They engage in an Extended Contest. At the end the
> Healer has won. How has she triumphed over the Badguy? Since
> the Badguy
> isn't actually hurt at all at the end of the contest can he go off and
> attack the Healer's friends despite being 'defeated'?

Unless she disarms him somehow (eg, makes him stick the spear in a door so that he cannot remove it). As she has defeated him she can try to use her Intimidate Patient to make him run away as her parting blow.

I'd be rather thoroughly humiliated in his shoes, and would require a bit of time nursing my grudges. See Karate Kid I, where Miyagi finishes his opponent by squeezing his nostrils and honking, ala the Marx Brothers. The bad guy doesn't return until the midpoint of the sequel to the sequel.

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