Long Sword Skill

Description: This skill allows for the use of an ULTRA long sword. A strike must be called by naming the body location before the attempted hit. If the location is struck, then that body part is useless until the next game day or until it is healed by specific means. Every successful Death Fury blow landed will reduce its target to –1 body for the time noted after this call. IE. Death Fury(15) will reduce the target for 15 seconds, Death Fury(30) will do so for 30 seconds and so on. Casting and killing blows will end a death fury, but spells or any actions to disarm will not… they will only reduce the death fury duration. Arcane damage may only be accounted for by body points (magical or non-magical).

Visual Effects: Character knows how to use a long sword.

Out-of-Game Calls: Normal Weapon Damage “x Normal; Called Strike ; Death Fury 1… Death Fury 2… Death Fury 3… etc.

Examples: Sluggo has level five long sword. Sluggo calls six (6) when trying to deliver a blow. Sluggo wants to perform a called strike. If Sluggo said “called strike ankle” and if he would hi This target in the shoulder, the target still takes damage but there is no further effect, had Sluggo hit the targets ankle the ankle would have been unusable until healed or the next game day. If Sluggo calls Death Fury (15) all creatures are reduced to –1 body from any legal strike for the duration of the fury.

Notes: A character without this skill must carry the weapon by the blade and account for any damage done to that weapon through the ordinary means of accounting damage. There are no pre-requisites for this skill.