Vampirium (28 page)

1. Add your
   COMBAT SKILL
   to any bonus points given to you by your Kai Weapon, Special Items, or Grand Master Disciplines.
   
2. Subtract the
   COMBAT SKILL
   of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.
   
3. Pick a number from the
   Random Number Table
   .
   
4. Turn to the
   Combat Results Table
   .
   
5. Find your Combat Ratio along the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to Enemy. GM indicates loss of
   ENDURANCE
   points to yourself.)
   
6. Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when the
   ENDURANCE
   points of either character falls to 0 or below.
   

1. You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.
   
2. You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only you lose the
   ENDURANCE
   points.
   
3. If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first or any subsequent round (unless specifically stated otherwise).
   

We have taken our unique opportunity to correct errors and to enforce a standard of English usage. We list our changes here. If you see anything that needs correction, please
contact
the Project Aon Staff.

(
Title Page
) Replaced ‘
VAMPIRIUM
’ with ‘
Vampirium
’. Replaced ‘
Claw of Naar
’ with ‘Claw of Naar’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘
Claw
’ with ‘Claw’.

(
The Story so Far …
) Replaced ‘MS5084’ with ‘MS 5085’. Replaced both occurrences of ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘Kai monastery’ with ‘Kai Monastery’. Replaced ‘Free Alliance’ with ‘Freeland Alliance’. Replaced ‘monastery of the Kai’ with ‘Monastery of the Kai’. Replaced ‘the Monastery’ with ‘the monastery’. Replaced ‘autocracy of Bhanar’ with ‘Autocracy of Bhanar’. Replaced ‘Southern Dammerdon mountains’ with ‘Southern Dammerdon Mountains’. Replaced ‘despatched’ with ‘dispatched’. Replaced ‘Darklord armies’ with ‘Darkland armies’. Replaced ‘the First Order of the Kai were’ with ‘the First Order of the Kai was’. Replaced ‘Spring’ with ‘spring’. Replaced ‘my Lord’ with ‘my lord’. Replaced ‘MS5063’ with ‘MS 5063’. Replaced ‘MS5077’ with ‘MS 5077’. Replaced ‘Twenty-five years later’ with ‘Twenty years later’ in harmony with what is stated in the
Lone Wolf Grand Master
series.

(
The Game Rules
) Removed ‘that you will find in the front of this book. For ease of use, and for further adventuring, it is recommended that you photocopy these pages’. Removed ‘on the last page of this book’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘ie’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced ‘fall to zero’ with ‘fall to zero or below’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘weapons and’ with ‘weapons, and’. Replaced ‘normal weapons’ with ‘normal Weapons’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’ with ‘
Lone Wolf New Order
series’. Replaced ‘New Order adventure’ with ‘
New Order
adventure’.

(
Your Kai Name
) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Deleted ‘You can record your personal Kai name on the book plate which appears on the inside front cover of this book.’.

(
New Order Disciplines
) Replaced ‘venoms and’ with ‘venoms, and’. Replaced ‘symbols and’ with ‘symbols, and’. Replaced ‘
COMBAT SKILL
is reduced’ with ‘
ENDURANCE
is reduced’. Replaced ‘Magi-Magic’ with ‘Magi-magic’. Replaced ‘Old Kingdom battle magic’ with ‘Old Kingdom battle-magic’. Replaced ‘magi-magic spells’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spells’. Replaced ‘individual (or combinations of) elements that are available,’ with ‘individual elements that are available, or combinations thereof,’. Replaced ‘remove or’ with ‘remove, or’. Replaced ‘eg’ with ‘e.g.’. Replaced ‘dialect and’ with ‘dialect, and’. Replaced ‘Weapon and’ with ‘Weapon, and’. Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’. Replaced ‘1 to 3’ with ‘one to three’. Replaced ‘guild of magicians’ with ‘Guild of Magicians’. Replaced ‘For every adventure that you complete successfully in the New Order series, you will gain proficiency with one additional weapon.’ with ‘For every adventure that you complete successfully in the
New Order
series while possessing the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery, you will gain proficiency with one additional weapon.’. Replaced ‘battle wounds’ with ‘battle-wounds’. Added ‘ If you have chosen the Discipline of Grand Huntmastery as one of your skills, you will not need to tick off a Meal when instructed to eat.’ to the section on Grand Huntmastery. Replaced ‘fortresses increases’ with ‘fortresses increase’. Replaced ‘Duration of the spirit-walk, and the protection afforded to his inanimate body, increases’ with ‘Duration of the spirit-walk and the protection afforded to his in animate body increase’. Replaced ‘predictions increases’ with ‘predictions increase’. Replaced ‘will be of use’ with ‘may be of use’. Added ‘If you have the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 5 points to any number you pick from the
Random Number Table
, when using the Bow.’ from the
Equipment
section. Replaced ‘EQUIPMENT’ with ‘Equipment’. Replaced ‘undertaken then’ with ‘undertaken, then’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf (New Order) series’ with ‘
Lone Wolf New Order
series’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘New Order series’ with ‘
New Order
series’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘New Order adventure’ with ‘
New Order
adventure’. Replaced ‘any other Special Items that’ with ‘any other Special Items and Backpack Items that’.

(
Equipment
) Replaced each occurrence of ‘Lone Wolf’ with ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘eg,’ with ‘e.g.’. Replaced ‘combat, therefore’ with ‘combat; therefore’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘arrows’ with ‘Arrows’. Deleted ‘(see the inside front cover of this book)’. Added a paragraph about Gold Crowns to the section ‘Equipment — How to use it’. Replaced ‘Grand Weaponmastery with a Bow’ with ‘Grand Weaponmastery with Bow’. Replaced ‘a sword or an axe’ with ‘a Sword or an Axe’. Replaced ‘weapons’ with ‘Weapons’. Replaced ‘weapon’ with ‘Weapon’. Deleted ‘If you have the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery with Bow, you may add 3 points to any number you pick from the
Random Number Table
, when using the Bow.’. Replaced ‘record these on your
Weapons List
’ with ‘record these on your
Action Chart
’ for clarity. Replaced ‘the total sum of’ with ‘the number of’. Replaced ‘Disciplines then’ with ‘Disciplines, then’. Replaced ‘normal weapons’ with ‘normal Weapons’. Replaced ‘New Order adventures’ with ‘
New Order
adventures’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘weapon’ with ‘Weapon’ in the ‘Equipment — How to Use It’ section. Added ‘You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

(
Kai Weapons
) Replaced ‘elite’ with ‘élite’. Replaced ‘new-found’ with ‘newfound’. Deleted ‘at the front of the book’. Replaced ‘magical Axe, Sword or Broadsword’ with ‘magical Axe, Sword, or Broadsword’. Replaced ‘axe “Alema”’ with ‘Axe “Alema”’.

(
Rules for Combat
) Removed ‘on the inside back cover of this book’. Replaced ‘on the page after the
Random Number Table
’ with ‘in the back of this book’. Replaced ‘points reduced’ with ‘points possibly reduced’. Replaced ‘to zero’ with ‘to zero or below’. Replaced ‘at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead’ with ‘at which point that combatant is declared dead’.

(
Levels of New Order Grand Mastership
) Removed parentheses from around ‘
You begin the New Order adventures at this level of Kai Grand Mastery
’. Replaced ‘rank and titles’ with ‘ranks and titles’. Replaced ‘New Order series’ with ‘
New Order
series’. Replaced ‘New Order adventures’ with ‘
New Order
adventures’.

(
Improved Grand Master Disciplines
) Replaced each occurrence of ‘eg’ with ‘e.g.’. Replaced ‘rushes etc,’ with ‘rushes,’. Replaced ‘ie’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Kai Blast’ with ‘Kai-blast’. Replaced ‘Psi-surge or’ with ‘Psi-surge, or’. Replaced ‘lava and’ with ‘lava, and’. Replaced ‘Brotherhood spell’ with ‘Brotherhood Spell’. Replaced ‘flasks etc,’ with ‘flasks,’. Replaced ‘ ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’ ’ with ‘Improved Grand Master Disciplines’. Inserted ‘A Kai Sun Lord using Kai-blast determines the damage inflicted on an enemy by picking two numbers from the
Random Number Table
. These numbers should be added together (a “0” = 1) and the resultant total equals the damage inflicted.’ into the description of the Kai-blast, taken from
Lone Wolf Club Newsletter No.24
. Replaced ‘arrow, or arrow-like’ with ‘Arrow, or Arrow-like’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf New Order series’ with ‘
Lone Wolf New Order
series’. Replaced ‘Time duration, and degree of surface difficulty, increases’ with ‘Time duration — and degree of surface difficulty — increases’. Replaced ‘Lone Wolf New Order books’ with ‘
Lone Wolf New Order
books’. Replaced ‘a weapon’ with ‘a Weapon’. Replaced ‘wooden weapon’ with ‘wooden Weapon’. Replaced ‘quarterstaff’ with ‘Quarterstaff’.

(
New Order Wisdom
) Replaced ‘gods Kai and Ishir’ with ‘Gods Kai and Ishir’. Italicised ‘
Lone Wolf
’ when referring to the series. Replaced ‘New Order adventure’ with ‘
New Order
adventure’. Replaced ‘
Claw of Naar
’ with ‘Claw of Naar’.

(
1
) Replaced ‘south-easterly’ with ‘southeasterly’. Replaced ‘bo'sun, then’ with ‘bo'sun, and then’. Replaced ‘the Captain's’ with ‘the captain's’.

(
3
) Replaced ‘the shine has’ with ‘the shrine has’.

(
4
) Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’.

(
5
) Replaced ‘potion’ with ‘Poghlam’. Added a period after ‘turn to 48’. Replaced ‘your backpack’ with ‘your Backpack’.

(
6
) Replaced ‘Old Kingdom spell’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spell’. Replaced ‘
Whoomph!
,’ with ‘
Whoomph!
’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘arrow's’ with ‘Arrow's’.

(
8
) Replaced ‘the Sergeant’ with ‘the sergeant’.

(
9
) Replaced ‘your backpack’ with ‘your Backpack’.

(
11
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘compass’ with ‘Siyenese Compass’. Replaced ‘soldier's mess hall’ with ‘soldiers' mess hall’. Replaced ‘Peering round’ with ‘Peering around’ in the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘Nexus, and’ with ‘Nexus and’. Replaced ‘Assimilance, and’ with ‘Assimilance and’. Replaced ‘Elementalism, and’ with ‘Elementalism and’.

(
12
) Replaced ‘drawbolt’ with ‘bolt’. Replaced ‘inside, then’ with ‘inside, and then’.

(
13
) Replaced ‘Gildas, ‘I’ with ‘Gildas. ‘I’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Removed quotation marks from around the italicised fourth paragraph.

(
14
) Replaced ‘pathsmanship’ with ‘Pathsmanship’. Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

(
15
) Replaced ‘suggestion, then’ with ‘suggestion, and then’.

(
17
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’.

(
19
) Replaced ‘the Sergeant’ with ‘the sergeant’.

(
22
) Replaced ‘metres’ with ‘yards’. Replaced ‘Grand Guardian’ with ‘Grand Guardian or higher’. Replaced ‘Herbmastery, and’ with ‘Herbmastery and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’.

(
23
) Replaced ‘quiver’ with ‘Quiver’. Replaced ‘bow’ with ‘Bow’. Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’.

(
25
) Replaced ‘agonising’ with ‘agonizing’.

(
26
) Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’.

(
27
) Replaced ‘Kai mastery’ with ‘Kai Mastery’. Added a period after ‘turn to 130’.

(
29
) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’.

(
30
) Replaced ‘leader, then’ with ‘leader; then’. Replaced ‘mound of rocks that now block’ with ‘mound of rocks that now blocks’.

(
31
) Replaced ‘out-running’ with ‘outrunning’. Replaced ‘in a wooded hillside’ with ‘on a wooded hillside’.

(
32
) Replaced ‘skills, or if you choose not to use them, or a Bow’ with ‘skills, nor a Bow, or if you choose not to use them’. Replaced ‘Bow, and’ with ‘Bow and’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘Elementalism, and’ with ‘Elementalism and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’.

(
33
) Replaced ‘battle cry’ with ‘battle-cry’.

(
34
) Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’.

(
35
) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘The Captain's’ with ‘The captain'’.

(
36
) Replaced ‘erect, then’ with ‘erect; then’.

(
38
) Replaced ‘lead, then’ with ‘lead, and then’.

(
39
) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

(
40
) Replaced ‘sixth sense’ with ‘Sixth Sense’.

(
41
) Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Magi-magic, and’ with ‘Magi-magic and’. Replaced ‘Elementalism, and’ with ‘Elementalism and’.

(
46
) Replaced ‘Special Items list’ with ‘
list of Special Items
’.

(
47
) Replaced ‘fleeting’ with ‘fleeing’.

(
48
) Replaced ‘your backpack’ with ‘your Backpack’.

(
49
) Replaced ‘sight yet’ with ‘sight, yet’.

(
52
) Replaced ‘your backpack’ with ‘your Backpack’.

(
53
) Replaced ‘Old Kingdom spell’ with ‘Old Kingdom Spell’. Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’.

(
54
) Replaced ‘arrow’ with ‘Arrow’. Replaced ‘add 3’ with ‘remember to add 3’.

(
55
) Replaced ‘Kai-alchemy, and’ with ‘Kai-alchemy and’. Replaced ‘Kai-surge, and’ with ‘Kai-surge and’.

(
56
) Replaced ‘the Captain's’ with ‘the captain's’. Replaced ‘Conda’ with ‘conda’.

(
57
) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘loud peeling’ with ‘loud pealing’.

(
60
) Added a period after ‘turn to 247’. Added a period after ‘turn to 28’.

(
62
) Replaced ‘Siyenese compass’ with ‘Siyenese Compass’. Replaced ‘military quarter’ with ‘Military Quarter’. Replaced ‘compass, and your Kai sixth sense, both’ with ‘Siyenese Compass and your Kai Sixth Sense both’.

(
63
) Replaced ‘out-run’ with ‘outrun’. Replaced ‘it is a terrifying’ with ‘it is the terrifying’.

(
64
) Replaced both occurrences of ‘ie,’ with ‘i.e.’. Replaced ‘0, 2, 4, 6, or 8’ with ‘2, 4, 6, 8, or 0’.