Let's Play: Lone Wolf 1 "Flight from the Dark"

Join the army - I hear they have great benefits.

Lone wolf having grown up surrounded by men, is probably getting a little lonely for some totally hetero man-cuddling, which we all know can be found in the army as long as no one tells...

So into the Army with him!

To truly become the Lone Wolf, you must first become an army of one.

That doesn't help though, does it?

They're not asking and I'm not telling!

That was abrupt. I join the army and am immediately trust into a battle? What happened to the training montage where at first I can't even run through a field of tires but gradually through the song I get better and better until I'm scaling walls and crawling under wires and all sorts of tire running?



I have no desire to return to that forest. I'M COMING MY LEIGE!

I'm going to ditch this puny Warhammer and claim myself a sword finally. I just can't bare to give up this dagger. We've been through so much together, you see.

YEARGHHHHH!!!



COMBAT RATIO: 16 - 20 = -4

Round 1

I randomly pick 6. The sound of our weapons clashing rings across the battlefield. The jolt of the impact radiates through the lizard's puny arms and does to him 6 shake damage. My arms are made of more durable man-meat and so I only take 3. Down to 26 endurance.

Round 2

I grope the number chart and come up with a 4. We both manage to cut each others arm off at the same time and each take 4 flesh wound damage. Down to 22 endurance.

Round 3

I randomly caress a 1. While he's hacking away at me, dealing 6 damage, my high pitched screams of pain deal 1 inner ear damage to him. Wait... doe lizards even have ears? Anyway, down to 16 endurance.

Round 4

This time the chart shows me some love and I flick a 9. Sally here strikes at me with his axe but it bounces harmlessly off my manly chin. Meanwhile, I've managed to pierce his duodenum with the Prince's sword. REVENGE! He takes 9 damage and I remain at 16 endurance.

Round 5

The love continues! I stabbed an 8! The lizard flicks his tongue out at a passing fly. Missing it completely, he manages to lick my eyeball. I take 1 poke-your-eye-out damage. Never one to take an eye licking sitting down I retaliate by slamming the swords hilt into his face dealing 8 I'll-never-be-pretty-again damage. I'm down to 15 endurance.

Round 6

Bad times. I touched a 2. The lizard advances on me, swinging his axe over his head. I'm so scared that I take 5 wet pants damage. In one last desperate move I throw the sword at him. Of course it goes wild and just barely nicks his shoulder. But still it does the 2 damage I need to kill him. Standing over his corpse, one foot planted squarely in his skill, I declare victory.

I'm going to name this horse after my favorite movie.

"Away, Dirty Dancing, we must warn the king!"

This leaves me with just one meal left of healing laumspur, in case you weren't paying attention.

I always adhere to that old adage: "When in doubt, go left."

Well, my healing has only brought me back up to 13 endurance. On the other hand I now have this big ol' sword and Dirty Dancing here, so I'm not so bad off.

What shall it be, Talking Time. SHOULD I PRESS MY LUCK?

NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY NO WHAMMY FIGHT!

Um, as I recall the Prince said to take a message to his father, not play with monsters in the woods. Unless you're the type of ingrate who would jack a dying man's sword and then run off with it while denying his final wishes, get thee to page 176.

When we got Dirty Dancing, so lets go ahead and take on 3 wolf riders on a horse... we can totally take them

That fucking Gourgaz. I have died to him so many times. If you don't take Healing, and you run into ANY kind of combat before him, you're almost always doomed. 30 Endurance? MADNESS.

Given how often the book suggests you hide in the undergrowth or forest or whatever, there's obviously something there.

Go, Bravely Hide!

There's no reason Lone Wolf can't do both. As evidence I present



EDIT: I love how completely this book presents a kingdom in flames. Does anyone know if Enemy Within came before or after this was published?

Who did the art in the book itself?

I think it's time for Sir Robin to bravely run away. Mostly because of a childhood fear of dogs/wolves.

Gary Chalk did the early books (including the covers for the original 1-5 UK editions, but those were redone for NA publishing and later Red Fox redid all their UK covers with yet another artist); starting with Cauldron of Fear (#9) it switched over to Brian Williams. He's got a very distinct and interesting style.

For a brief second, I thought that Optimus Primal was the artist.

Imagine my disappointment.

There has been a sad lack of brain explosions recently.

You must rectify this. Now. Fight!

Fight narrowly wins. Let's beat up some more orcs!

...I mean Giaks.

Hi-Ho, Dirty Dancing! Charge!



Combat Ratio: 16 + 2 - 14 = 4

Round 1

I randomly stabbed a 4. Good thing for the high combat ratio because I'm hurting for endurance here. Dirty Dancing runs down that dirty Giak, leaving little cartoon hoof prints all over him and dealing 8 damage. It's a bumpy ride though and I take 2 damage to my crotch leaving me with 11 endurance.

Round 2

4 again. I circle around the wolf slashing with the Prince Sword (it has a funky symbol on its hilt). This is bad news for the Giak who losses another 8 endurance but even worse news for my balls. 2 crush damage leaves me at 9 endurance.

Round 3

4 AGAIN. A great sweep from my blade takes off the Giak's head. And just for good measure I brain explode the wolf. I've won the battle but I don't think I'll ever be able to father children. I win with 7 endurance.

Victory!

This scroll looks important. I with I had the Kai discipline of literacy. I'm pretty weak right now and those Giaks look tough. The forest is awfully tempting...

But as always, Talking Time, the choice is yours. SHOULD I STAY AND FIGHT OR SHOULD I STAY ALIVE?

It looks like cowardice is the better part of valor here.

Poor Lone Wolf's Balls! Rest well, little soldiers...

Take the scroll and run like hell.

Run, run, run away, and live to see another day!

Very small nitpick: You drew a halberd, not a scimitar.

also known as heroically fleeing!

So much for a grand master plan of fathering more Kai Lords...

I mean, uh, you've fought well! Now flee!

i was totally coming here to say that.

Yeah well I drew the Giak jumping over the children holding a scimitar and not a battle axe and you guy's didn't freak out over that.

Without experience points, I guess there's no reason to grind. So, uh, valiantly head away to fulfill the prince's wishes!

The art is awesome! and as an artist you are allowed "artistic freedom" to interpret scimitar however you want to. Ignore the nay-sayers and nit-pickers

it doesn't matter anyway. the kid hopping on his horse is more than enough to win the battle =)

Always go left. Except the light's fading and I get confused easily. I went ahead by accident. Sorry, guys.

Alright, finally a chance to use a skill I have. I Spiderman the geriatric and find out he's up to no good.



That is one evil aura.

Dang. There's a lot of page flipping in this part of the book. I guess that's good for me. Each time I thumb through the book I regain some Endurance.

While it's tempting to fight the thing it's also more tempting to hide like a coward. ZWOOP!



It's strange that I'm given a choice here. I've ridden through plenty of innocent clearings on my adventure. Something smells fishy...

What's the word, Talking Time. AM I AFRAID OF A CLEARING?

Camouflage was worth picking up for that picture alone. The upside-down horse is just perfect.

For once, I'm going to advise caution here and say you should avoid the clearing.

This doesn't sound like a trap at all. I know, I've been in traps before. Lots of them. And I've barely found any!

I can't see how going into a clearing of all things is dangerous. Unless... those worm things drop from the sky again.