Writhing Mass / Discussion

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Vholes 18 Feb 2010 04:11

"The writhing mass grabs you with its tentacles, but you manage to fight them back."

Even though I used hammer strike and not an evasion technique…

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Vholes 04 Aug 2010 01:17

but light of the eye doesn't seem to stop the grabberage.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Magnifico 23 May 2012 17:35

I ran out of offensive techniques fighting two of these and tried to run away and got this message:

You cannot escape! The mass's grip is too tight.

This was with 8 (10) Reflexes. I wasn't logging the fight, but I assume it had grabbed me with a tentacle.

bigalphillips 01 Aug 2014 04:32

Huh, so looking into Arkaim's neat discovery about the Reflexcoil pants… did some experimenting with running away from writhing masses. Up until five minutes ago, I thought that if a mass grabs you, you are held on to until you either win or lose the fight (no running away ever).

But, it turns out — evasion can "release" the hold the mass has. Eg. if mass uses Drag to Maw which isn't avoided — can't run away anymore — but then later that fight, you use evasion vs. the drag to maw, it gives the "avoiding its grasp" message and you can now run away again.

(I have often wished for this but it somehow took five years to figure this out…)

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