Hello Mates,
I’m new to Burning Wheel, and we are playing the Twilight in the Duchy Verdoben adventure as a tutorial for all of us to learn the system.
As we played, we had two doubts:
Context:
The group did not set a watch at night at Marten’s house, so they were gently awakened with knives at their throats. Daniel failed the Steel test and was kidnapped. Gunter and Theoden won a couple of Bloody Bersus and captured a cultist (Daniel had set a belief about liking a girl in the village, and this cultist was her father). After interrogation, they went after Daniel in the icy field. There, the cultists, tying Daniel to the stake, rebelled against the knight and the priest. But after the fight began, the bear appeared. The cultists fled, though some were mauled to death by the bear as Gunter released Daniel. Then, the players engaged the bear.
First doubt: In the fight with the bear, after the first exchange, the bear was injured. I then tried to Disengage from him, but the rules, as it says on page 437 of BWG, “Test Speed at…” were not clear to me. Is this test a Versus test?
How we proceeded: I tested versus Speed from the bear, winning against Gunter but losing against Daniel (Theoden was in the Eye of the Storm). Based on this, I considered that the bear could not disengage and let the fight continue. Was this correct?
Second doubt: In the second exchange, Gunter made an Avoid/Great Strike/Block against the bear’s Push (then) Strike/Avoid/Counter Strike. My doubt is about the Great Strike part, as it is a two-action maneuver. The only way to “avoid” it in this volley was to script two avoids, right? Like, one avoid has to match with the second part of the Great Strike (not just the first).
How we proceeded: Since the Avoid was the first action in Volley 2, the bear avoided only Daniel’s knife (instead of both Daniel’s and Gunter’s), and then Gunter landed the Sword Great Strike for free on the bear (changing the tides in their favor and eventually leading to the bear’s death). Was this correct?
Oh, taking this opportunity, can someone post an invite to the Discord server? (All the other links I found were expired.)