In this part, I'll explain battle a little more detailed.  No, a lot
more detailed.  I'll describe how it starts, what happens during, and
how it ends.  So pay attention because it can move very fast.
    The first battle I'll describe is for the ones who use swords.  The
sword user is the brute force, the one who stands in the front line and
holds off the majority of the enemy.  He depends on his courage, skill
with a sword, and in N.E.R.O., his ability to speak quikly and clearly.
In battle when you use a weapon, you must call the damage you do with
your weapon.  For instince if you are using a long sword, you'd call "2"
every time you swing, that way if you hit, your oppenent knows how many
points to take off.  If you have weapon proficiency +1, then you'd call
"3" damage with a long sword.  (The skill +1 applies to damage, it
doesn't allow you to hit creatures needing magical +'s to hit)
    Next is magic fighting.  For those of you using magic, I'll do my
best.  (I don't use magic but I have a strong grip on how it's used)
For my example, I'll asume the role of a first level Celestial Magic
(Attack Spells) schalor with no weapons, 3 first level spells, 2 second
level, 1 third level.  At the beggining of the weekend and at 6:00p.m.
the next day, you chose the spells you want to memorize, say I memorize:
2 Magic Missle and 1 Disarm as my 1st level spells: 1 armor and 1
lightning bolt as my second level spells: and 1 Ice Bolt as my 3rd
level spell.  After getting my spells from the rules commitee at the
beggining of the game, and the next day at 6-7 p.m., I can cast
them whenever I want to.  So lets say I go ahead and cast Armor
on myself.  I would say "I draw upon the forces of the earth
to grant me armor to protect me."  There, that gives me an
extra 4 armor points giving me a total of 7 points.  (I'm not wearing
any other armor so I just add it to my body points which are 3)  So now
feeling a little safer, I decide to go adventureing.  I join up with a
group of 2 fighters, 1 Earth Magic (Healing Spells) templar, and another
Celestial schalor.  We decide that we should go check out the goblin
caves.
    On our way there, we run into an ogre and 2 goblins.  The
goblins are relativly easy with 8 body points, and using a long sword
calling 2 damage.  The ogre on the other hand is a lot harder with 15
points, and calling 6 damage with a two handed sword.  So the fighters
decide to take out the goblins, while the spell casters take out the
ogre.  I prepare to cast an Ice Bolt, my most powerful spell.  I recall
the incantation, and say in the loudest, clear voice I have, "I stike you
with an Ice Bolt!", and throw my bean bag.  For those of you who can't
memorize well, don't worry because you don't HAVE to memorize it.
I COULD look it up right before I cast it, but that would not be good
in battle as when I go to look it up, I could be killed.  It hits
the ogre square in the chest doing 12 damage.  But that didn't kill
him and he charges after me.  He hits me as I turn and does 6 damage,
reducing me to 1 point. Lucky I had the Armor spell.  The other schalor
readies his Magic Missle spell and yells the incantation to make it
sound more fearsome.  "I SMITE YOU WITH A MAGIC MISSLE!!!!" he screams
at the top of his lungs.  It hits the ogre on the back and does 4
damage, enough to drop him.  We go up to him and put our hands on his
shoulder and say "Killing blow one, killing blow 2, killing blow 3."
That prevents him from getting healed and coming back.  Then we look to
the fighters and see they finished off the goblins and are searching
them.
    So we search the ogre.  There is no actual searching, you just
say, "I search you."  If they have things hidden on them, they just say
"Do a detail search."  Then you would go through the process of what you
do to search them.  For example. "I remove your shoes, or I slit you
stomach and search inside."  (Sometimes there will be jewls inside if
it's a monster.)  The ogre has 4 experience points, and 2 copper.  I
split the copper and experience with the other schalor for helping me
with the kill and saving my life.
    Then the templar asks how bad I'm hurt.  I say, "Down to my life
ticket."  That means I have 1 point left. He says he'll heal me.  So
I stand still and he casts Cure Light Wounds which gives me 2 points.
I'm back up to my maximum body points.  To bad I don't have another
Armor spell.
    Now if I had been hit one more time, I would have been at -1 bodu
points.  And if I was either killing blowed, or hit again, I would have
died and needed reserection.  But if that didn't happen, then the Earth
magic templar could have First Aided me in 30 seconds for 30 seconds and
I would have been at 1 body point again.  That is he would put his hand
on my shoulder and called First Aid, and counted to 30.  If it took him
longer than 30 seconds, I would have need a Life spell.  After 5
minutes and 30 seconds, I would need a reserection spell.
    I think that pretty much covers battle.

                        SEE YA'
                                Walter Berry