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normal Weapons. If you possess the Discipline of Grand Weaponmastery for a weapon type which is the same as your unique Kai Weapon, you may add the Grand Weaponmastery bonus of +5 to your COMBAT SKILL . This is in addition to the bonus gained when you use your Kai Weapon in combat.
Food
Food is carried in your Backpack. Each Meal counts as one item. You will need to eat regularly during your adventure. If you do not have any food when you are instructed to eat a Meal, you will lose 3 ENDURANCE points. However, if you have chosen Grand Huntmastery as one of your four Disciplines, then you will not need to tick off a Meal when instructed to eat.
Potion of Laumspur
This is a healing potion that can restore 4 ENDURANCE points to your total when swallowed after combat. It cannot be used to increase ENDURANCE points immediately prior to a combat. There is enough for one dose only. If you discover any other potion during the adventure, you will be informed of its effect. All potions are Backpack Items.
Gold Crowns
The currency of Chai is the Ren, though Gold Crowns are readily accepted. These coins are always carried in the Belt Pouch. It will hold a maximum of fifty Crowns (or 500 Ren).
    [6] During the adventure, the story will assume that you possess a Bow when you may not. If it is important to you to avoid this story continuity problem, you should ensure that you obtain a Bow.
    [7] If you have completed any of the previous
Lone Wolf New Order
adventures (Books 21+), you already possess a Kai Weapon.
    [8] These bonuses are
not
cumulative.
    [9] ‘Valiance’ is also effective against magical creatures.

Rules for Combat
    There will be occasions during your adventure when you will have to fight an enemy. The enemy's COMBAT SKILL and ENDURANCE points are given in the text. Your aim in the combat is to kill the enemy by reducing his ENDURANCE points to zero while losing as few ENDURANCE points as possible yourself.
    At the start of a combat, enter your own and the enemy's ENDURANCE points in the appropriate boxes on the Combat Record section of your Action Chart .
    The sequence for combat is as follows:
Add any extra points gained through your Grand Master Disciplines and Special Items to your current COMBAT SKILL total.
Subtract the COMBAT SKILL of your enemy from this total. The result is your Combat Ratio. Enter it on the Action Chart .

Example

You, Grand Master ( COMBAT SKILL 32), are attacked in a forest by a pack of Wild Dogs ( COMBAT SKILL 31). You are taken by surprise and are not given the opportunity of evading their attack. You possess the Grand Master Discipline of Kai-surge to which the Wild Dogs are not immune, so you add 8 points to your COMBAT SKILL . You also possess the Kai Weapon ‘Ulnarias’, so you add an additional 5 points to your COMBAT SKILL . This gives you a total COMBAT SKILL of 45.

You now subtract the Wild Dogs' COMBAT SKILL from your own, giving a Combat Ratio of +14 (45−31=+14). +14 is noted on your Action Chart as the Combat Ratio.
When you have your Combat Ratio , pick a number from the Random Number Table .
Turn to the Combat Results Table . Along the top of the chart are shown the Combat Ratio numbers. Find the number that is the same as your Combat Ratio and cross-reference it with the random number that you have picked (the random numbers appear on the side of the chart). You now have the number of ENDURANCE points lost by both yourself and your enemy in this round of combat. (E represents points lost by the enemy; GM represents points lost by yourself — Grand Master.)

Example

The Combat Ratio between you and the Wild Dogs has been established as +14. If the number picked from the Random Number Table is 1, then the result of the first round of combat is:

You (GM) lose 3 ENDURANCE points (plus an additional 1 point for using Kai-surge. This loss is in addition to the loss suffered as a result of combat).
Wild Dogs lose 9 ENDURANCE points.
On the Action Chart , mark the changes in