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Akuma the level 2 Ogre Cursed by elvisfate

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.5.8
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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Roguelike
SexMale
RaceOgre
ClassCursed
Level / Exp2 / 1%
Sizebig
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
/ 0

Primary Stats

Strength20 (base 15)
Dexterity9 (base 10)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic12 (base 10)
Willpower10 (base 14)
Cunning15 (base 13)

Resources

Life127/127
Hate83/100
Healing Factor0.91702268120841
Regeneration0.2292556703021

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite2

Offense: Mainhand

Damage27
Accuracy16
Crit Chance2%
APR1
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower12
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower13
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)6.3350939529706 (48.103448275862%)
Defense1
Ranged Defense1
Fatigue12
Physical Save10
Spell Save7
Mental Save8

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (2/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 7
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to teleport randomly in a range of 10.
Afterwards you stay out of phase for 5 turns. In this state all new negative status effects duration is reduced by 15%, your defense is increased by 15 and all your resistances by 15%.
Rune: Phase Door
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 100 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding

Class Talents

Cursed / Strife1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 4.5
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Turn your attention to a nearby foe, and dominate them with your overwhelming presence. If the target fails to save versus your Mindpower, it will be unable to move for 2 turns and vulnerable to attacks. They will lose 0 Armour, 1 Defense and your attacks will gain 5% resistance penetration. If the target is adjacent to you, your domination will include a melee attack.
    Effects will improve with your Willpower.
    Dominate
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your preternatural senses aid you in your hunt for the next victim. You sense foes in a radius of 0.0. You will always sense a stalked victim in a radius of 10.
    Also increases stealth detection by 0 and invisibility detection by 0.
    Stealth and invisibility detection improves with your Willpower
    Preternatural Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 4.5
    Range: 6
    Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: With blinding speed, you suddenly appear next to a target up to 6 spaces away and attack for 21% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Your sudden appearance catches everyone off-guard, giving you 2 extra Defense for 1 turn.
    The Defense boost improves with your Strength.
    Blindside
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Rather than hide from the onslaught, you face down every threat. While active you have a 2% chance of repelling a melee attack. The recklessness of your defense brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    Repel chance increases with your Strength, and when equipped with a shield.
    Repel
0/5
Cursed / Slaughter1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: You slash wildly at your target for 112% (at 0 Hate) to 140% (at 100+ Hate) damage.
    At level 3, any wound you inflict with this carries a part of your curse, reducing the effectiveness of healing by 33% for 15 turns. The effect will stack.
    The damage multiplier increases with your Strength.
    Slash
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Assault nearby foes with 4 fast attacks for 15% (at 0 Hate) to 30% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Stalked prey are always targeted if nearby.
    At level 3 the intensity of your assault overwhelms anyone who is struck, reducing their Accuracy by 12 for 3 turns.
    The damage multiplier and Accuracy reduction increase with your Strength.
    Frenzy
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Charge through your opponents, attacking anyone near your path for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 70% (at 100+ Hate) damage. Small opponents may be knocked away from your path. You can attack a maximum of 2 times, and can hit targets along your path more than once.
    Reckless Charge
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: While active, every swing of your weapon has a 12% (if one-handed) or 25% (if two-handed) chance of striking a second nearby target for 25% (at 0 Hate) to 25% (at 100+ Hate) damage (+25% for two-handed weapons). The recklessness of your attacks brings you bad luck (luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    The Cleave chance and damage increase with your Strength.
    Cleave
0/5
Cursed / Endless hunt1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: When you focus your attacks on a single foe and strike them in melee for two consecutive turns, your hatred of them overcomes you and you begin to stalk them with single-minded purpose. The effect will last for 40 turns, or until your prey is dead. Stalking gives you bonuses against your foe that grow each turn you hit them, and diminish each turn you don't.
    Bonus level 1: +2 Accuracy, +5% melee damage, +0.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 2: +3 Accuracy, +11% melee damage, +1.00 hate/turn prey was hit
    Bonus level 3: +4 Accuracy, +16% melee damage, +1.50 hate/turn prey was hit
    The accuracy bonus improves with your Willpower, and the melee damage bonus with your Strength.
    Stalk
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 2.2
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: The connection between predator and prey allows you to speak to the mind of your target and beckon them closer. For 5 turns, they will try to come to you, even pushing others aside to do so. They will move towards you instead of acting 5% of the time, but can save verses Mindpower to slow the effect. If they take significant damage, the beckoning may be overcome altogether. The effect makes concentration difficult for your target, reducing Spellpower and Mindpower by 1 until they reach you.
    The Spellpower and Mindpower reduction increases with your Willpower.
    Beckon
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Hate cost: 5.6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Harass your stalked victim with two quick attacks for 35% (at 0 Hate) to 67% (at 100+ Hate) damage each. Each attack that scores a hit disrupts one talent, rune or infusion for 3 turns. Your opponent will be unnerved by the attacks, reducing the damage they deal by 4% for 2 turns.
    Damage reduction increases with the Willpower stat.
    Harass Prey
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Let hate fuel your movements. While active, you gain 1% movement speed. The recklessness of your movement brings you bad luck (Luck -3).
    Cleave, Repel and Surge cannot be active simultaneously, and activating one will place the others in cooldown.
    The speed of your movements, combined with the balance and utility of two weapons, gives you 1 extra Defense while dual-wielding.
    Movement speed and dual-wielding Defense both increase with the Willpower stat.
    Surge
0/5
Cursed / Gloom1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: A terrible gloom surrounds you, affecting all those who approach to within radius 3. Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an 8% chance to suffer from slowness, stun or confusion for 3 turns.
    This ability is innate, and carries no cost to activate or deactivate. Each point in Gloom increases the mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +1).
    Gloom
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower, or have an -1% chance to be crippled by fear for 3 turns, reducing damage they inflict by 12%. The first time you melee strike a foe after they have been weakened will give you 2 hate.
    Each point in Weakness increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +1).
    Weakness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Each turn, those caught in your gloom must save against your Mindpower or have an -0.3% chance of becoming dismayed for 3 turns. When dismayed, the first melee attack against the foe will result in a critical hit.
    Each point in Dismay increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +1).
    Dismay
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your gloom has become a sanctuary from the outside world. Damage from any attack that originates beyond the boundary of your gloom is reduced by 0%.
    Each point in Sanctuary increases the Mindpower of all gloom effects (current: +1).
    Sanctuary
0/5

Generic Talents

Cursed / Cursed aura1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 0
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your defiling touch permeates everything around you, permanently imparting a random curse on each item you find. When you equip a cursed item, you gain the effects of that curse (shown as a beneficial effect). Each item with the same curse that is equipped increases the curse's power. Initially curses are harmful, but powerful benefits accumulate as the power of the curse increases.
    The Dark Gifts talent unlocks higher level curse effects and increases their power.
    Your aura permeates your equipment more thoroughly with talent level and can affect items as follows:
    Level 1 -- weapons
    Level 2 -- body armor and cloaks
    Level 3 -- shields and helmets
    Level 4 -- gloves, boots and belts
    Level 6 -- rings
    Level 7 -- amulets/necklaces
    Level 8 -- lites
    Level 9 -- tools/totems/torques/wands
    level 10 -- ammunition
    At level 5, you can activate this talent to surround yourself with an aura that adds 2 levels to a curse of your choosing. (None chosen)
    Also, talent levels above 5 reduce the negative effects of your curses (currently 0% reduction).
    Defiling Touch
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your curses bring you dark gifts. Unlocks bonus level 0 effects on all of your curses, allowing you to gain that effect when the power level of your curse reaches that level. At talent level 5, the luck penalty of cursed effects is reduced to 1.
    Talent levels above 5 add bonus power levels to your curses, increasing their effects (currently 0.2).
    Dark Gifts
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Curse the earth around you in a radius of 2 for 3 turns. Any who stand upon it are weakened, reducing the damage they inflict by -1%
    Ruined Earth
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 5
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Mind (100% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Instill a part of your living curse into a weapon in your inventory, and toss it nearby. This nearly impervious sentry will attack all nearby enemies for 3 turns. When the curse ends, the weapon will drop to the ground.
    Cursed Sentry attack speed (currently 16%) will improve with talent level.
    When you first select a weapon, it will be remembered and used as long as it's in your inventory. Use Choose Cursed Sentry talent to alter your selection.
    At talent level 3, you get the ability to afflict powerful mundane objects (greater egos).
    At talent level 5, you can corrupt artifacts.
    Cursed Sentry
0/5
Cursed / Cursed form1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your body's strength is fed by your hatred. This causes most forms of healing to be between 50% effective (at 0 Hate) to 100% effective (at 100+ Hate). In addition, after each kill, you store the waning life force to invigorate yourself, restoring 7 life (limited by the foe's maximum life, up to a maximum of 15 at any time). You can heal no more than 6.4 life per turn this way, and it is not affected by your hatred level or other effects.
    Healing from kills improves with your Willpower.
    Unnatural Body
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your thirst for blood drives your movements. You gain +-1% confusion, fear, knockback and stun immunity.
    Relentless
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have learned to hold onto your hate and use your suffering to fuel your body's rage. Every turn you take damage, the damage you inflict increases, until it reaches a maximum of +7% after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus.
    Seethe
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You rise to meet the pain that others would inflict on you. Every turn you take damage, your Strength and Willpower increase until they reach a maximum of +1 after 5 turns. Any turn in which you do not take damage will reduce the bonus. While in effect, your body also has a 6% chance to overcome poisons and diseases each turn.
    Grim Resolve
0/5
Race / Ogre1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 48
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You enter an ogric wrath for 6 turns, increasing your stun and pinning resistances by 20% and all damage done by 10%.
    In addition, whenever you use an infusion or rune, miss a melee attack or any damage you deal is reduced by a damage shield or similar effect you gain a charge of Ogre Fury(up to 5 charges, each lasts 7 turns).
    Each charge grants 20% critical damage power and 5% critical strike chance.
    You lose a charge each time you deal a critical strike.
    The duration will increase with your Strength.
    Ogric Wrath
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: An ogre's body is acclimated to spells and inscriptions.
    Increases spell save by 0 and improves the contribution of primary stats on infusions and runes by 7%.
    At level 5 your body is so strong you can use a two handed weapon in your main hand while still using an offhand item.
    When using a two handed weapon this way you suffer a 20% accuracy, physical power, spellpower and mindpower penalty, decreasing by 5% per size category above     big; also all damage procs from your weapons are reduced by 50%.
    Grisly Constitution
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: When you crit you have a 11% chance to reduce by 1 the remaining cooldown of one of your inscriptions and of any saturations effects.
    This effect can only happen once per turn.
    Scar-Scripted Flesh
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 52
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Instantly removes runic and infusion saturations.
    For 2 turns your inscriptions cooldown twice as fast.
    At level 5 your command over inscriptions is so good that you can use one more (you still need a category point to unlock it; you need to exit the levelup screen to validate it).
    Writ Large
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.1%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 2, Armour hardiness by 18%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 3% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    Heavy Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 0% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 13, and increases weapon damage by 25% when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases Physical Power by 0, and increases weapon damage by 0% when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

beneficial effect
Mayhem and destruction seem to follow you.
Penalty : Lost Fortune: You seem to find less gold in your journeys.
Power 1+: Missed Opportunities: +2 Defense, +1 Ranged Defense
Power 2+: -1 Luck, +3 Cunning
Power 3+: Devious Mind: You have an affinity for seeing the devious plans of others (+35% chance to avoid traps).
Power 4+: Unfortunate End: There is a 30% chance that the damage you deal will increase by 30% if the increase would be enough to kill your opponent.
Curse of Misfortune (power 1.2)

Quests

You have heard that within the scintillating caves lie strange crystals imbued with Spellblaze energies.

There are also rumours of a renegade Shaloren camp to the west.

* You must explore the scintillating caves.
* You must explore the renegade Shaloren camp.
Echoes of the Spellblaze		active
You successfully escorted the lost sun paladin to the recall portal on level 2 of Trollmire.
As a reward you improved Strength by +2.
Escort: lost sun paladin (level 2 of Trollmire)		done

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +2


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Main armor
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 14
- Talent Heavy Armour Training

14.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / heavy ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue: +12%


A suit of armour made of mail.
iron mail armour (2 def, 4 armour)
In main hand
iron greatmaul of massacre (Misfortune) (24.5-36.75 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

Crafted by a master
5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / greatmaul ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 24.5 - 36.8
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.1% dam / acc
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +0.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Misfortune


Massive two-handed mauls.
iron greatmaul of massacre (Misfortune) (24.5-36.75 power, 1 apr)

Inventory

iron battleaxe (Nightmares) (14.5-21.75 power, 1 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / battleaxe ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 14.5 - 21.8
Uses stat: 120% Str
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit / acc
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +4.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Curse of Nightmares


Massive two-handed battleaxes.
iron battleaxe (Nightmares) (14.5-21.75 power, 1 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
pair of iron boots (0 def, 3 armour)
Requires:
- Talent Heavy Armour Training

3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +3
Fatigue: +2%


Heavy boots, with metal strips at the toes, heels and other vulnerable parts, to better protect the wearer's feet from harm.
pair of iron boots (0 def, 3 armour)
agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / black ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
When used to imbue an object:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
Latent Damage Type: Acid


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
agate
Scrying Orb
Powered by unknown forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: orb / orb

When carried:


This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level), costing 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
citrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +1
Infravision radius: +2
When used to imbue an object:
Light radius: +1
Infravision radius: +2
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
citrine

Achievements

Log

Akuma hits White worm mass for 36 physical damage.
Akuma killed White worm mass!

Akuma receives 6 healing from Unnatural Body.
Akuma hits White worm mass for 31 physical damage.
Akuma killed White worm mass!

Akuma receives 6 healing from Unnatural Body.

Akuma receives 1 healing from Unnatural Body.
Resting starts...
Rested for 0 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).
Akuma picks up (b.): pair of iron boots (0 def, 3 armour).
Ran for 9 turns (stop reason: hostile spotted to the east (wolf)).

Akuma hits Wolf for 32 physical damage.
Wolf hits Akuma for 2 physical damage.

Welcome to level 2 [Akuma].
Akuma has 3 stat point(s), 3 class talent point(s), 2 generic talent point(s) to spend. Press p to use them.
Akuma hits Wolf for 27 physical damage.
Akuma killed Wolf!

Akuma receives 6 healing from Unnatural Body.

Resting starts...
Rested for 0 turns (stop reason: all resources and life at maximum).
You pickup 0.50 gold pieces.
Ran for 2 turns (stop reason: hostile spotted to the northwest (copperhead snake)).