Well, I'm gonna dump all my interesting stories I have played around here. (Still the unregistered crappy version... for now. BTW: How much does a lifetime registration cost now? I know that the single version registration is $10 but I don't want that.)
I just had this one. The guy Jano was an escaped slave: he spawned inside a house, so he got a dagger to his small knife. He also managed to disarm a Njerpezit and get his Bastard Sword, and he collected a pair of Ring Gauntlets, but he got a lot of injuries before he could flee.
So, number one: Get food. He eventually stumbled upon a cattle herd. So let's get that dagger! He stabbed a cattle repeatedly until the angry cow horned him into submission. He lay unconscious for quite a while.
Finally, he woke up and started searching. The cattle was grazing already: so he snuck upon it and cut his head clean off with his bastard sword. Food and skin! These two thoughts flew Jano forward. He roasted ten of the meats after skinning the meats, but fell asleep. Damn! 10 cuts down the rain.
So he got another 10 (the max he could carry) and roasted it. This time he got some eatable meat. So he cut some bandages out of the skin, dropped the rest of the skin and went to the nearest lake, marking the place he was at with a cattle fat.
After a bit of healing up, he went back to do the rest. He entered and took a step towards his cattle skin.
THWACK! Wounded by Njerpezit Warrior he never regained consciousness.
Another interesting one. Kappa just managed to escape from his Njerpezit captors! From the start, he climbed up to a storehouse wall (I spawned there) and then jumped in the storehouse. He found a long mail hauberk, and a fruit pie inside! The pie will be OK for survival, but the hauberk is essential here, he thought.
Suddenly an angry Njerpezit warrior jumped in the storage! Kappa boldly grabbed his small butter-err, throwing knife and stabbed him in the head before he could turn there. This gave him a disadvantage, and Kappa won the deathmatch. He looted a few pieces of clothing and an empty skin & pot.
He looked out. Nobody saw him. So he got running.
He was running towards the border of the camp. If he could reach that, he'd be in safety, and more!
A Njerpezit attacked twice from behind his sight - no match for his hauberk. The greatest threat was when he turned around near the border - some angry red fellow used his bastardsword to swoop at his arms! YARGH! His forearm was severed!
But at the cost of one of his limbs, Kappa survived! He is going kinda alright now, though he only has a leashed ram yet, but this will change.
Another interesting one, also a challenge game where I discard everything I have.
Reich's first mission was to get a knife! This was a self-assigned mission, of course, but it would be key to survival. So he went around this by wandering around - he found a village fairly quickly.
He picked up a dropped-away throwing axe which he found, and talked to a tribesman who happened to have an excess knife on him. The blade was a fisher's knife, but this would be Reich's knife for a long time yet! Or so he thought.
Food was a difficult issue. First he tried to beg a trapper for food. He received 7 roaches. So he cooked 5 of the fish and ate the other two. He went to a food store then.
Incredibly, he managed to get a bowl of cold meal for only 4 of his fish! That was certainly a good deal for Reich: he accepted hastily before the other could change his mind. Then he walked off. He made 4-5 clubs with his knife, from thicket wood, and traded them in for essential and helpful stuff, including a fishing rod. With this, he managed to catch a pike.
Reich was no fisher though, despite the two pieces of fisher's equipment on him. A Kaumolainen warrior hunts for his food! But the only things he caught at first were: a weasel, a pine-marten, and then: a beaver! The latter gave enough food so that it could be trusted for a few days.
This was not done alone though. Reich talked to a hunter in the village, who decided that he'd join Reich in a hunting trip if he gets some drink. So Reich walked off to get a wooden tub from the sauna. Interestingly, he found a few mugs and cups there too! He only gave the tub to his companion though, and he certainly was worth the cost.
However, Kuopia - that was his name - was quite annoying at times too. At the sixth day of their adventure, after Reich leashing a bull, the hunter told him: 'I decided to leave you tomorrow... you know, lots of things to do, surely you understand?' Reich replied in an affirmative, but he clenched his fist. He would not leave him so soon, unless either of the company members die!
Reich then walked into the village, after loading his furs onto his bull. He went to a goods store, and decided to buy a shiny new raft! Many offers later, the craftsman offered to give the boat to him for his fisher's knife, again. So Reich casted a sideways glance at his companion and agreed.
First, they walked to unload the raft at a shelter Reich found. The bull could have carried it, yes, but Reich wanted the bull to fight as best as he could. So Reich beckoned to his companion and they went into the deep forest.
'Where are we going?' Kuopia inquired. 'An exciting trip, surely you will enjoy it.' Reich replied. After a wild boar ran away from them though, Reich got impatient and drew his only remaining weapon: a club.
'Watch out, behind you!' the Kaumolainen yelled. And as Kuopia turned quickly, Reich measured a powerful blow on Kuopia's legs!
What treachery! Kuopia lay helpless on the ground. However the spirits would not let an innocent man die of such a conspiracy. Reich crushed the club down on Kuopia - or tried, as the hunter quickly turned around and jumped up!
He then proceeded to kick at Reich's abdomen. He didn't expect this and so the bruise hurt quite much... Reich was already not at full health from a badger bite he gained earlier, a serious bite in his right arm that hurt well. Seeing this, the bull got enraged and horned at the hunter.
He nimbly dodged however, and kicked its side. After this, he also punched at the bull's face while Reich was busy wielding his club again that he dropped after the kick from the pain. So he charged into battle again, seeing that the bull was really seriously injured. (Yeah, two kicks and it got to serious... I wrote a punch instead of one kick for the roleplaying-storywriting part of it)
However his swipe at Kuopia's legs barely scratched the hunter. It did enrage him again though and so he decided to kick Reich in the nards. He fell down and never woke up.
THE END
THE STORY OF HELOI THE SARTOLAINEN, aka the Great Hunt
This story is different to the previous ones. It writes how Heloi fought a villain, a glutton and a lynx in a row. Interesting battles indeed...
Heloi sheathed his battlesword and put his northern bow on his back, along with a few battles. ~A crimewave? They will see ME as their savior! I hope~ he thought as he heard the bad news. He decided to put himself up to a honorable fight. 'Timo, could you wait here? I've got some job to do. I'll be back in an hour or two!' 'Sure,' the hunter replied. 'Just tell me when we can go again, I'll carve something while you are away.' 'Excellent. Farewell!' And with these words, Heloi jumped over the fence that hid his shelter and walked off.
After a short trip, Heloi sighted something in the distance! It was a cloaked figure. Heloi sneaked closer. And the evil one was there! The villain was cutting off a tree but suddenly a branch snapped under Heloi's shoes. Hearing that, the criminal turned out, and quickly put away his handaxe... only to pull out a big, mean looking maul! He then proceeded to swing it wildly as he charged Heloi.
The Sartolainen drew his battlesword, the generous... um, gift of an elder tribesman of a faraway hostile village, or now more of ruins, and took up a defensive posture. And as his opponent was running at him, he attempted a slash towards the enemy's arms. He knew that his enemy wouldn't run, and so he went in for the kill, but it would have been a mistake to strike at his chest as the cuirass protected it. However the villain managed to block and made a swing.
The blow was quite poor, but it still caused a light bruise in Heloi's skull. He now redoubled his efforts and decided to attack the legs of his enemy, to make him fall and be a practice target. And his plan worked - he surprised the criminal and thus he fell down.
However this was not the end. Heloi took a casual swing down at the villain, thinking of victory, and he did manage to cause a bleeding wound to the abdomen. However he stood up despite the wound! Have you ever seen an NPC standing up after getting a bleeding injury? Now I have! And full of rage, he crushed his weapon down on Heloi's head.
This one bruise was severe! But other than the injury, it did nothing - and from the bleeding, the evil criminal finally fell down and Heloi watched him struggle as he died a death probably worse than what he could have dealt. His loot was a badly damaged but still usable cuirass and a maul, plus some things that he decided to give to Timo after returning to camp. This would be a great story!
But Mother Nature was with the villain. As he was returning to the peninsula where he had his punt - to sail to his island shelter - the only entrance was trapped by a little critter - well, not exactly trapped, but he did hear a snort. A glutton, Heloi thought. ~At least we'll also have a dinner!~ was his next thought. So he drew his bow and loaded it, and with the readied weapon in hand, he marched forward to the source of the noise.
He managed to let loose an arrow at the little animal. The glutton's response though was only a dodge and a furious snarl as it jumped towards Heloi! The Sartolainen hid behind a tree and loaded the bow again.
So he hid behind the trees and started sneaking up to shoot again. However as he walked out, he got a nasty surprise from behind. The nasty thing jumped up on his neck and gave him a nice little fracture! (If I recall correctly, it was a fracture... It might have been a deep cut, but at any rate it was a severe wound)
Heloi howled in rage as he turned, shaking off the glutton. Then he spun around to face the beast and quickly dropping his bow to grab his sword, he slashed at the cursed critter once, twice, thrice, until it was a mere mangled corpse covered in blood. No-one shall mess with Heloi! Even though he got a fracture, he also got a good quality fur and a few days' worth of meat.
'That's one nasty fracture. Are you sure you want to hunt?' Timo asked. 'Well, the two of us can handle anything that comes in the-' *meow*
'Um, I'm not sure if we could handle the king of the forest.' Heloi's companion replied. 'Well, what do you mean? Bears do carry nice furs and are quite clumsy to be honest.' Heloi answered. 'No, it's not a bear. It's a lynx.' *meow, snarl*
'WATCH OUT! BEHIND YOU!' Heloi yelled. Timo turned and struck into empty air with his handaxe as the kitty jumped back. 'Alright, load your bow, I'll wear him down until then!' the hunter cried out and he charged at the lynx. They proceeded to circle each other and take occasional jumps but did no damage.
Whoosh! The arrow flew away. The cat noticed it, a bit too late, but it did, and so it only got a light wound in its paws. However it did function to anger him quite a bit. So the feline turned and leapt towards Heloi.
Heloi had little time to draw his sword and the lynx got the initiative. He clawed at the Sartolainen's arm and the pain made him drop the sword.
As Heloi picked up his weapon, the lynx managed to attack again, and this time he only caused a light wound. Thus he still managed to get in a swing. The attack caused a nice hit to the lynx.
But now he'd been doomed were it not for Timo! The hunter finally managed to slash successfully at the cat's legs. This got the lynx's attention to him again though. And now frenzied from rage, the feline actually pawed at Timo's head! The hunter fell down immediately and the lynx jumped upon him to tear him apart. Heloi's futile strikes did nothing to stop the cat.
'Then I shall die with him, you accursed animal!' he cried, and dropped his sword to draw a crueler weapon: the villain's maul. He blunted the feline in the head and this finally got the thing to stop eating and get back to work. But the lynx only managed to get in one hit before dying... unfortunately this was a bleeding wound. And Heloi had no luck, so he bled away without managing to stop the bleeding.