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The three creatures bellow and growl as your blows find their way between their plates of armour, and they retaliate by lashing you with their suckered tentacles. Their attacks are ill-aimed and clumsy, but wherever one of their rubbery limbs touches your body it leaves an angry red weal.

Octagtah: COMBAT SKILL 12 ENDURANCE 43

Unless you possess the Magnakai Discipline of Curing and have reached the Kai rank of Mentora or more, add 2 to any ENDURANCE point losses you sustain during this combat, owing to the poisonous lash of their tentacles.

You can evade combat at any time by running towards Baylon's tomb: turn to 166.13

If you win the combat, turn to 133.

[13] You may not evade combat if you have already visited Baylon's Tomb. If so, you must stay and fight.

Text copyright © 1987 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 Brian Williams.