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Description
Carry through the momentum of your killing blow to strike another target.
Mechanics
If you slay a creature with a two-handed weapon attack while in this stance, you have a chance to maintain your momentum and continue the attack onto another foe in the room. This chance is 5% + 15% per rank. The secondary attack will have an AS penalty of -25 and cannot occur more than once per attack.
If you fail to maintain your momentum into a second attack and you have 3 more ranks of
Staggering Blow, you will still have a chance to knock the corpse of your slain foe into another foe in the room. If you are successful, that foe will suffer a
RT penalty.
Additional Information
Messaging
Activating:
You swing a bronze-tipped kelyn claidhmore at a snowy cockatrice!
AS: +139 vs DS: +13 with AvD: +31 + d100 roll: +45 = +202
... and hit for 94 points of damage!
Left leg ripped from socket at the knee!
A snowy cockatrice writhes around, screeching!
The snowy cockatrice screams evilly one last time and goes still.
Barely breaking your momentum, you continue on to attack a greater ice spider!
You swing a bronze-tipped kelyn claidhmore at a greater ice spider!
AS: +114 vs DS: +47 with AvD: +31 + d100 roll: +89 = +187
... and hit for 79 points of damage!
Hard slash to the greater ice spider's side!
Right arm no longer available for use.
A greater ice spider flails in agony, cradling its mangled right foreleg.
The greater ice spider collapses to the ground and dies.
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