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Old 07-23-2009, 02:20 PM   #1
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Default Crawling hand/pets

Hi all! New to the game, love it. I think I've got it mostly figured out, except in a few cases of out-of-the-ordinary occurances. For example:

The Crawling Hand. My foe was going to do battle with the crawling hand thinking it'd be an easy defeat, so I added a mate to it. At this point he decided the battle looked forboding and decided to bribe it (and, I guess it's mate). My question is, 1) can this be done? 2) can you bribe one and fight it's mate? 3) if you bribe both of them, do you pay double, hence 4) do you get two crawling hand pets, effectively giving you two extra hands?

I'm actually not sure if a similar circumstance could apply to other pets as well. I'm guessing they are a rule in the expansion, which I don't have. YET.

On a side note, I read and appreciate an earlier post dealing with pets, particulary this idea of keeping the standie on the board.

http://http://forums.sjgames.com/sho...02&postcount=9

Thanks in advance for your thoughts. I'm sure I'll have further questionsin the future!
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Old 07-23-2009, 07:38 PM   #2
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I don't have the card infront of me, but doesn't it state something along the lines of "Instead of fighting the Crawling Hand you can bribe it . . . "

I would think then that if he decided to fight the Crawling Hand, at that point he has foregone his ability to bribe it. Kind of like coming across a monster that will ignore anyone of level 3 or below, but then you state that you are going to fight it anyway, so someone throws down a buff. You can't then say, "Oh well, I'll just let him ignore me now." It's too late, you've already initiated combat.

But without the Crawling Hand card infront of me to confirm that, I'm not 100% sure.
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Old 07-24-2009, 08:31 AM   #3
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Looking at the card it says "If you give the Crawling Hand a Wishing Ring or 500 gold peices instead of fighting it, it will be your little friend..."

It seems the simplest answer should have been the most obvious, but I missed it. Of COURSE you can't change your mind about fighting a monster if it becomes stronger, don't know why I thought it would be legal in this case. Thanks for the help!
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Old 07-24-2009, 08:57 AM   #4
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I don't have the card infront of me, but doesn't it state something along the lines of "Instead of fighting the Crawling Hand you can bribe it . . . "

I would think then that if he decided to fight the Crawling Hand, at that point he has foregone his ability to bribe it. Kind of like coming across a monster that will ignore anyone of level 3 or below, but then you state that you are going to fight it anyway, so someone throws down a buff. You can't then say, "Oh well, I'll just let him ignore me now." It's too late, you've already initiated combat.

But without the Crawling Hand card infront of me to confirm that, I'm not 100% sure.
You can choose, at any time, to bribe the Crawling Hand. There is absolutely no restriction on when you can do the special action on that card and choosing to fight it when you could beat it doesn't change its desire to accept 500 GP or a Wishing Ring when suddenly you can't.
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Old 07-25-2009, 09:01 AM   #5
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hmm. Okay. What then does this do to a mate for the Crawling Hand? (See my op).

BTW, I just tried the link I left in my op, it doesn't seem to work, so I musta done somthin' wrong. Never mind that part of the post. ;(

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Old 07-25-2009, 09:29 AM   #6
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In that case the Mate is bribed and he still fights the original monster.
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Old 07-26-2009, 12:58 AM   #7
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In that case the Mate is bribed and he still fights the original monster.
So can you pay 1000 GP and then have *two* pets, each giving you an extra hand?
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Old 07-26-2009, 01:02 AM   #8
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BTW, this is the correct quote for the first post. There was an extra http:// at the beginning :)
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