Results of round 12 are in!
1. Name a medieval siege weapon.
Catapult: 1 point (Simon, ccexplore, Akseli, Clam, LemSteven)
Battering Ram: 2/5 points (geoo, Gronkling)
2. Name a medieval weapon that can be carried around by a single person.
Sword: 1 point (Simon, ccexplore, Akseli, Clam, Gronkling, LemSteven)
Bow & Arrow: 1/6 points (geoo)
Quote by geoo: Everybody will pick archer on question 6, therefore bow is the only correct choice for question 2!
3. Name a defensive means of a medieval castle. Alternative wording of this question: Name a feature of a castle that aids in defense.
Moat: 1 point (Simon, geoo, ccexplore, Akseli, LemSteven)
Tower: 1/5 points (Clam)
Walls: 1/5 points (Gronkling)
4. Name the number of towers of such a castle.
4 towers: 1 point (geoo, Akseli, Clam, Gronkling, LemSteven)
5 towers: 1/5 points (Simon)
2 towers: 1/5 points (ccexplore)
Doesn't the keep count as another tower? :>
5. Name a special room inside a castle.
Throne Room: 1 point (Simon, ccexplore, Akseli)
Dungeon: 2/3 points (Clam, LemSteven)
Dining Room: 1/3 points (geoo)
Great Hall: 1/3 points (Gronkling)
This was very hard, Torture chamber was another good idea. I'm a bit surprised that nobody named it.
6. Name a Lemmings 2 skill associated with the Medieval tribe.
Archer: 1 point (geoo, ccexplore, Akseli, Clam, Gronkling, LemSteven)
Fencer: 1/5 points (LemSteven)
Twister: 1/5 points (Simon)
Twister is the unique skill that's explicitly named in a level name! Archer merely plays a minor Role in level 9!
7. The castle by the shore can be attacked from three sides, East, South, and West. You're a bowman and have to defend from atop the walls. See post above for scoring details.
South side: 3 bowmen of 7 (Simon, Akseli, Clam), desired ratio 1/2, difference 0.0714... = 1.1 points
West side: 3 bowmen of 7 (geoo, ccexplore, LemSteven), desired ratio 1/4, difference 0.1785... = 0.9 points
East side: 1 bowman of 7 (Gronkling), desired ratio 1/7, difference 0.1071... = 1.0 points
This question had a very minor scoring span. If this will ever get repeated, a more interesting point distribution might be called for. But it's good for now, as the next question will flip things over anyway.
8. There's a merchant caravan travelling between two castles today, which are 15 km apart. You can choose to be a highwayman and try to rob the caravan, or you can be a guard and protect it against the thieves. See post above for scoring.
1 km: Guard Akseli doesn't see any thieves, 0 points.
6 km: Highwayman Simon plunders the caravan, 1.6 points.
11 km: Guard Gronkling does great work catching Highwayman Clam at 11 km and Highwayman Lemsteven at 12 km for a total bounty of 1.2 points. No points for Clam and LemSteven.
12 km: Only an empty spot left where once the pointy robber's hat of LemSteven pointed out of the bushes.
15 km: Lazy guards geoo and ccexplore eat their doughnuts and hope that everybody else will get rid of the highwaymen. Nice try, but no cigar, 0 points.
Simon got 1.6 points.
Gronkling got 1.2 points.
All others got 0 points.
9. Fill in the blanks with usernames other than yourself: ___ catches ___. You get 0.3 points for each correct profession. Nobody made a fully true statement.
Simon: ccexplore catches geoo, 0.3 points
geoo: ccexplore catches Simon, 0.6 points
ccexplore: Simon catches Simon, 0.3 points
Akseli: Simon catches ccexplore, 0 points
Clam: Akseli catches Gronkling, 0.3 points
Gronkling: Clam catches LemSteven, 0.3 points
LemSteven: geoo catches ccexplore, 0.3 points
Very thoroughly shuffled guesses, including one safe guess by ccexplore for 0.3 points.
Final standingsSimon: 7.4 points (1 + 1 + 1 + 1/5 + 1 + 1/5 + 1.1 + 1.6 + 0.3)
Akseli: 7.1 points (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1.1 + 0 + 0)
Gronkling: 6.433 points (2/5 + 1 + 1/5 + 1 + 1/3 + 1 + 1.0 + 1.2 + 0.3)
ccexplore: 6.4 points (1 + 1 + 1 + 1/5 + 1 + 1 + 0.9 + 0 + 0.3)
Clam: 6.267 points (1 + 1 + 1/5 + 1 + 2/3 + 1 + 1.1 + 0 + 0.3)
LemSteven: 6.067 points (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2/3 + 1/5 + 0.9 + 0 + 0.3)
geoo: 5.4 points (2/5 + 1/6 + 1 + 1 + 1/3 + 1 + 0.9 + 0 + 0.6)
Here's a porcine prize to be shared as a feast by all the noble knights who participated.
Quote by geoo before sending in answers: Somehow, I always end up in first or in last place.
Akseli was the best feuder this time, scoring the full 6 points in the 6 feud questions. There was simply too much variance with the merchant caravan. You also were the single person to get unlucky in the last question.
Thanks to all participators from this round, and I'm sure geoo will soon take us to places weird and wondrous!
-- Simon