Gastin gestures.
Gastin casts into the air above his head and a rip appears in the sky!
The fissure begins to feed on the air around you!
A soft pink gown is sucked into the void striking you along the way!
... 75 points of damage!
A mighty hit turns your insides to outsides!

Kuromaku gestures at you.
CS: +1005 - TD: +114 + CvA: -21 + d100: +26 == +896
Warding failed!
You feel the magic within you suddenly tear violently at your body! You feel drained!
... and hits for 50 concussion points of damage!
... 30 points of damage!
Horrid jolt of electricity smokes your shoulder blade!
You are stunned for 7 rounds!
... 30 points of damage!
Pain penetrates your being as your left ankle shatters from the icy blast.
You are knocked to the ground!
... 30 points of damage!
Horrid jolt of electricity shatters ribs in a sickening flash of light!
... 25 points of damage!
Solid blast of ice square to the chest rocks you back on your heels!
... 30 points of damage!
Horrid jolt of electricity shatters ribs in a sickening flash of light!
... 20 points of damage!
Blast of cold air to left knee causes a polar knee cap!
... 20 points of damage!
Nasty jolt to back fuses a few vertebrae. Definitely uncomfortable.

A massive troll king claws at you!
AS: +350 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +52 + d100 roll: +84 = +516
... and hits for 66 points of damage!
Incredible slash to your neck!
Throat and vocal cords destroyed!
Zero chance of survival.

A massive troll lord swings a black falchion at you!
AS: +750 vs DS: 308 with AvD: +27 + d100 roll: +4 = +473
... and hits for 163 points of damage!
Wicked slash slices open your chest!
Heart and lungs pureed!
Sickening!

A krolvin warfarer gestures at you!
CS: +125 - TD: 76 + CvA: -11 +d100: +64 = 107
Warding failed!
... 25 points of damage!
caves your skull in, resulting in instant death!

A krolvin warrior swings a war mattock at you!
AS: +135 vs DS: +17 with AvD: +47 + d100 roll: +85 = +250
... and hits for 81 points of damage!
Your neck has been removed!
Your head quickly falls to the ground.

A zombie wails in tortured anguish!
A zombie's eyes flash bright red!
A zombie tries to bite you!
AS: +181 vs DS: 17 with AvD: +19 + d100 roll: +82 = +265
.. and hits for 125 points of damage!
A mighty hit turns your insides to outsides!

A zombie tries to bite you!
AS: +195 vs DS: +17 with AvD: +19 + d100 roll: +67 = +264
... and hits for 119 points of dmage!
Massive blow smashes thru ribs and drives your heart out the back.

A zombie tries to bite you!
AS: +195 vs DS: +17 with AvD: +19 + d100 roll: +75 = +272
... and hits for 102 points of damage!
Blast to your head destroys right eye!
Brain obliterated!
Disgusting, but painful only for a second.

A zombie tries to bite you!
AS: +195 vs DS: +42 with AvD: +19 + d100 roll: +62 = +234
... and hits for 75 points of damage!
Strike pierces temple and kills you instantly!

A tree spirit gestures at you!
The ground beneath you begins to boil violently!
You are injured!
... 35 points of damage!
Flame sets your head alight like a torch. Burned beyond recognition.

A tree spirit gestures at you!
The ground beneath you begins to boil violently!
You are injured!
... 30 points of damage!
You take a breath of super-heated air and expire gasping.

The spirit whispers a sinister voice carried on the wind!
A tree spirit gestures at you!
The ground beneath you begins to boil violently!
You are injured!
... 30 points of damage!
You take a breath of super-heated air and expire gasping.

A tree spirit gestures at you!
The ground beneath you begins to boil violently!
You are injured!
... 30 points of damage!
Head explodes in flames! Grab some marshmallows.

A tree spirit gestures at you!
The ground beneath you begins to boil violently!
You are injured!
... 30 points of damage!
Fire burns through neck and destroys carotid artery. Painfully bloody way to die.

A tree spirit gestures at you!
The ground beneath you begins to boil violently!
You are injured!
... 25 points of damage!
Fire burns through neck and destroys carotid artery. Painfully bloody way to die.

A firethorn shoot suddenly flails about wildly with surprising speed!
Several long thorns suddenly grow underneath your feet! Several of the thorns jab into you!
... hits for 5 points of damage!
... 30 points of damage!
Well aimed strike shatters bone in left arm!
You are stunned for 5 rounds!
... hits for 15 points of damage!
... 25 points of damage!
Shot knocks your head back by pushing on the inside of the skull!

A firethorn shoot suddenly flails about wildly with surprising speed!
Several long thorns suddenly grow underneath your feet! Several of the thorns jab into you!
... hits for 4 points of damage!
... 50 points of damage!
Incredible shot impales a kidney. Too painful to even scream.
You are stunned for 10 rounds!
... hits for 15 points of damage!
... 45 points of damage!
Shot shatters shoulder and severs left arm!

A firethorn shoot stabs at you with its stinger!
AS: +220 vs DS: +114 with AvD: +2 + d100 roll: +91 = +199
... and hits for 2 points of damage!
Tap to the arm pricks some interest but not much else.
As a firethorn shoot hits you, one of the thorns explodes in a ball of flame!
... 35 points of damage!
You take a breath of super-heated air and expire gasping.
The buzz of thoughts in your mind subsides.

A firethorn shoot suddenly flails about wildly with surprising speed!
Dozens of long thorns suddenly grow out from the ground underneath you! One of the thorns jabs into you!.
... hits for 5 points of damage!
... 20 points of damage!
Attack punctures the eye and connects with something really vital!

A firethorn shoot suddenly flails about wildly with surprising speed!
Several long thorns suddenly grow underneath your feet! Several of the thorns jab into you!
... hits for 8 points of damage!
... 50 points of damage!
Incredible strike pierces your heart and runs you clean through!

A siren lizard pounds at you with its fist!
AS: +275 vs DS: +99 with AvD: +75 + d100 roll: +13 = +264
... and hits for 49 points of damage!
Mighty swing separates your head from your shoulders.

A siren lizard growls deeply! Its swift tail comes sweeping towards you...
A siren lizard swings its swift tail at you!
AS: +370 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +31 + d100 roll: +36 = +467
... and hits for 111 points of damage!
Massive blow smashes through ribs and drives your heart out the back.

A spectral miner swings a mining pick at you!
AS: +232 vs DS: +48 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +55 = +268
... and hits for 100 points of damage!
Incredible smash destroys your stomach!

A night hound tries to bite you!
AS: +195 vs DS: +39 with AvD: +20 + d100 roll:+87 = +263
... and hits for 103 points of damage!
Incredible strike pierces your heart and runs you clean through!

A shadow steed hurls a powerful lightning bold at you!
AS: +246 vs DS: +121 with AvD: +39 +d100 roll: +47 = +211
... and hits for 149 points of damage!
Horrifying bolt of electricity turns chest into a smoking pulp of flesh. No life left there.

A sand devil hurls a hissing stream of acid at you!
AS: +355 vs DS: +176 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +5 = +219
... and hits for 130 points of damage!
Acid bath empties chest. It's a lot cleaner now.

A massive pyrothag swings a massive glaes club at you!
AS: +377 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +44 = +476
... and hits for 132 points of damage!
A mighty blow cleaves a swath through your back, taking the spine with it.

A massive pyrothag swings a massive glaes club at you!
AS: +377 vs DS: +20 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +62 = +444
... and hits for 129 points of damage!
A mighty blow cleaves a swath through your back, taking the spine with it.

A massive pyrothag swings a massive glaes club at you!
AS: +377 vs DS: +20 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +27 = +409
... and hits for 125 points of damage!
A mighty hit turns your insides to outsides!

A massive pyrothag swings a massive glaes club at you!
AS: +377 vs DS: +20 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +21 = +403
... and hits for 120 points of damage!
Massive blow smashes through ribs and drives your heart out the back.

A massive pyrothag swings a massive glaes club at Icerolose!
AS: +377 vs DS: +505 with AvD: +24 + d100 roll: +19 = -85
A clean miss.
A massive pyrothag smashes its massive club into a cooling flow, shattering the thin crust and spraying molten lava throughout the area!
A blob of molten lava comes flying at you, and you are just a bit too slow!
... 30 points of damage!
Right eye propelled out of socket by fiery explosion!

A massive pyrothag swings a massive glaes club at Mordlin!
AS: +377 vs DS: +482 with AvD: +19 + d100 roll: +20 = -66
A clean miss.
A massive pyrothag smashes its massive club into the ground, spraying the area with shards of razor-edged rock!
Mordlin is hit by a shard of rock!
... 30 points of damage!
Great shot penetrates thigh and shatters bone!
He is knocked to the ground!
He is stunned!
A shard of rock comes flying at you, and you are just a bit too slow!
... 20 points of damage!
Attack punctures the eye and connects with something really vital!

The river rages around the old flows, splashing small blobs of molten rock in all directions.
A blob of molten lava comes flying at you, and you are just a bit too slow.
... 30 points of damage!
Head explodes in flames! Grab some marshmallows.

With a thundering roar and blinding speed, a massive lava flow sweeps in from the west. With little time to think, you scramble for higher ground.
As you glance back to see if you've cleared the flood, it crashes down upon you, instantly turning your body into a flaming torch! The only good thing about it is that the end is quick, and the pain doesn't last long.

Your smooth black glaes cools some, but is still hot enough to do damage!
... 42 points of damage!
Skin and some muscle burnt off chest.

Your full battle plate cools some, but is still hot enough to do damage!
... 21 points of damage!
Flames cook your chest. Feels about medium well.

A burst of flame leaps from an immense razor-edged greataxe etched with rough giantman runes in your right hand.
... 40 points of damage!
Flame engulfs foe's left eye, setting it ablaze. Mercifully, death follows quickly.

A burst of flame leaps from an immense razor-edged greataxe etched with rough giantman runes in your scaled weapon harness.
... 40 points of damage!
Head reduced to a charred stump.

A burst of flame leaps from an immense razor-edged greataxe etched with rough giantman runes in your scaled weapon harness.
... 35 points of damage!
You take a breath of super-heated air and expire gasping.

A red-scaled thrak tries to bite you!
AS: +330 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +47 = +439
... and hits for 202 points of damage!
A mighty hit turns your insides to outsides!

A red-scaled thrak tries to bite you!
AS: +330 vs DS: +16 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +36 = +382
... and hits for 176 points of damage!
Massive blow smashes through ribs and drives your heart out the back.

A red-scaled thrak tries to bite you!
AS: +330 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +50 + d100 roll: +22 = +432
... and hits for 112 points of damage!
A mighty hit turns your insides to outsides!

A red-scaled thrak tries to bite you!
AS: +330 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +50 + d100 roll: +98 = +508
... and hits for 95 points of damage!
Blast to your head destroys left eye!
Brain obliterated!
Disgusting, but painful only for a second.

A red-scaled thrak tries to bite you!
AS: +330 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +50 + d100 roll: +62 = +472
... and hits for 91 points of damage!
Incredible shot impales a kidney. Too painful to even scream.

A red-scaled thrak tries to bite you!
AS: +330 vs DS: +264 with AvD: +32 + d100 roll: +93 = +191
... and hits for 84 points of damage!
Blow to stomach rearranges some organs!

A red-scaled thrak claws at you!
AS: +310 vs DS: +114 with AvD: +35 + d100 roll: +62 = +293
... and hits for 79 points of damage!
Blow to eye impacts the brain.
You twitch violently, then die.

A polar bear claws at you!
AS: +301 vs DS: -30 with AvD: +52 + d100 roll: +42 = +425
... and hits for 50 points of damage!
Slash to head destroys your right eye!
Doesn't do your brain any good either.

A black forest ogre waves his elongated, clawed hands at you!
A black forest ogre hurls a powerful lightning bolt at you!
AS: +438 vs DS: +189 with AvD: +50 + d100 roll: +14 = +313
... and hits for 119 points of damage!
Horrifying bolt of electricity turns chest into a smoking pulp of flesh. No life left there.

A wind wraith claws at you!
AS: +350 vs DS: -40 with AvD: +52 + d100 roll: +26 = +468
... and hits for 58 points of damage!
Bladder impaled, what a mess!
You are stunned for 8 rounds!
CS: +300 - TD: +213 + CvA: +25 + d100: +11 - +5 == +118
Warding failed!
You feel the wraith drain some of your life force!
The last of your life force is drained from you and you die!

A soul golem pounds at you with its fist!
AS: +366 vs DS: +0 with AvD: +75 + d100 roll: +29 = +470
... and hits for 114 points of damage!
Massive blow smashes through ribs and drives your heart out the back.

A fire elemental seems to pull back into itself for a moment.
A wave of crimson ethereal ripples moves outward from a fire elemental.
You are buffeted by the crimson ethereal waves, and knocked to the ground. You are pinned in place, unable to move.
Roundtime 14 Sec.
... 30 points of damage!
Head explodes in flames! Grab some marshmallows.

Ignoring common sense, you attempt to climb the fissure.
Tentatively, you attempt to climb the fissure.  After only a few feet, you lose your grip and fall...
... 130 points of damage!
Your neck has been removed!
Your head quickly falls to the ground.

Suddenly the entire world explodes! You are blinded by intense light and deafened by a tremendous explosion! By some miracle you maintain enough of your mental faculties to realize you've been struck by lightning from that cloud!
... 50 points of damage!
Powerful blast sends most of you up in smoke!

Groaning in dreadful anticipation, you are compelled to place another 1000 silvers on Dragon's Blood.
As you lay the bet, you suddenly feel weaker!
You slump to the floor!
Ninmah exclaims, "Looks like Dracoblood couldn't handle the Dragon's Blood! Someone else care to try?"

You bash at the brass chest with your rolaren battle axe.
Sparks fly as you bash the lock! A stray spark flies into the lock mechanism. As the spark lands inside the lock, a strong scent of sulphur reaches your nostrils. You have enough time to gasp in shock, as two volatile substances meet and ignite into a stream of fire which issues forth from the lock! Your body is savagely immolated by the flames!

It seems you have died, my friend. Although you cannot do anything, you are keenly aware of what is going on around you...

* Dracoblood was just incinerated!

* Dracoblood just bit the dust!

Slowly the world begins to dissolve into a grainy montage of color...

[Purgatory]
You find yourself wandering amidst endless streaming light, and vast nothingness. This place feels torn between two prophecies, each vying for your loyalty.
Also in the room: All the spirits of those who could not choose.
heal
Obvious exits: light and darkness.
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Time seems to have no meaning as you wander aimlessly amidst the uncomfortable tugging for your attention. Hopelessness washes over dreams you once held like the creeping tide of doom.

In time the Goddess Lorminstra finds you wandering the endlessness of Purgatory and says, "For thy deed, my promise to intercede shall be fulfilled." Taking you by the hand, the Goddess leads you back to mortality...


Suddenly you feel an intense pain scorching your very soul! The world of your past suddenly comes rushing back into your memory. You are quite bewildered by what has transpired, but alive...

You get a sick feeling in the back of your mind as you realize that you have had the ill fortune to die in a shrine to one of the Dark Gods! You offer up a mental prayer to the Lady Lorminstra, in the hopes that she will rescue you from her eternal foe, but somehow feel that your plea will go unheard.

Slowly the world begins to dissolve in a vortex of utter blackness...

[Lornon]
You find yourself in a barren cavern of black ice, totally alien to your sensibilities. There are no exits in the seamless dark walls, and you wonder what forces have brought you here...

The Dark God Luukos appears before you in a sudden flash of stinking brimstone. Your eyes follow his tall, muscular form up to his lizardlike head, and meeting his cold, slitted eyes you begin to fear for your very soul.

Luukos looks at you with displeasure. "You seek to honor me with a sacrifice?", he hisses angrily.
"Perhaps if you were not so weakened from such a recent death, you would present a more appetizing picture."
Luukos reaches into your soul and tears it out by the roots, flinging you away from himself when he is finished consuming it.
To your surprise, you find yourself with a tenuous grasp on the universe, and your sole thought as you fall seemingly forever is that of amazement that you still live . . .

Your fall is broken by the hard earth beneath you as you awaken, dazed and bewildered, but alive nonetheless...

The following are simply some fun 'captures' of my experience with DF Redux

(both shots taken at 52 trainings)

A banshee claws at you!
AS: +270 vs DS: -115 with AvD: +7 + d100 roll: +32 = +424
... and hits for 22 points of damage!
Minor puncture to the right leg.

A Vvrael witch swings a blackened falchion at you!
AS: +555 vs DS: +115 with AvD: +21 + d100 roll: +65 = +526
... and hits for 33 points of damage!
Grazing blow to your stomach.

(Following shots taken at 58 trainings.  This was well before breakage was re-implemented; I suppose Kuromaku was helping to test its return)

Kuromaku swings a finely-crafted katana at you!
AS: +493 vs DS: +341 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +85 = +262
... and hits for 8 points of damage!
Light slash to your abdomen!
Barely nicked.
Finely-crafted katana clashes with full battle plate!
[STR/BF: -1/-417 vs. 99/590, d100(Open) = 63]
The finely-crafted katana shatters and lies scattered in utter ruin!

Kuromaku swings a glaes falchion at you!
AS: +1108 vs DS: -5 with AvD: +21 + d100 roll: +5 = +1139
... and hits for 63 points of damage!
Hard slash to belly severs a few nerve endings.
You are stunned for 3 rounds!
Glaes falchion clashes with full battle plate!
[STR/BF: 99/225 vs. 3/918, d100(Open) = 22]

Kuromaku swings a glaes falchion at you!
AS: +1608 vs DS: -5 with AvD: +21 + d100 roll: +58 = +1692
... and hits for 118 points of damage!
Hard slash to your side opens your spleen!
You are stunned for 6 rounds!

(Both shots taken at 76 trainings)

Burbel swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +2005 vs DS: +55 with AvD: -23 + d100 roll: +71 = +1998
... and hits for 17 points of damage!
Whiplash!

Burbel swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +10004 vs DS: +55 with AvD: -23 + d100 roll: +8 = +9934
... and hits for 94 points of damage!
Your weapon arm is mangled horribly.
You are stunned for 3 rounds!