Re: Cookery fumbles

From: Meirion Hopkins <Meirion_at_...>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:20:21 +0100


> > Jane Williams
> > It was a bog-standard medieval pudding I'd cooked several times
> > before. No roll needed. But I was doing three or four other dishes
> > at once, and ran out of hands to stir with. So the honey didn't get
> > stirred in, so it boiled, and I turned back to it... ouch. No
> > effect on the end result, in fact.
>
> Tim
> So thats a fumble made during an extended contest that you went on to
> win. This sort of demonstrates why this discussion is a little
> tricky, You might fumble 5% of the time, but since you aren't making
> simple rolls most of the time you can still win the extended contest -
> (Just sometimes you need to augment with "Work through Lunch time",
> give yourself an edge with "Read the Manual or Recipe in this
> case...) or borrow some AP's off your colleagues using the "Ask for
> advice" ritual, or whatever)
>
> > Pudding rescued (Ignore Pain roll made),
>
> Oooh! is that a final action then?
>
> > nothing else burnt. Scar gone after a couple of weeks.
>
>I bet you didn't even notice it until the end of the contest either ;)

Surely this is 7AP traded for a wound on the part of the pudding (or was the grievous wound option in effect)!

Meirion

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