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You are expecting the sudden chill of cold water, so it comes as a great shock when you slam down upon the moving steel deck of the Darkland ironclad. Your legs buckle and your knees hit your chest, forcing the air from your lungs and leaving you gasping like a fish out of water: lose 3 ENDURANCE points. You have barely recovered when a Drakkar sailor, armed with a billhook, looms out of the smoke and lunges at your head.

Drakkar Sailor: COMBAT SKILL 19 ENDURANCE 24

Unless you possess the Magnakai Discipline of Huntmastery, reduce your COMBAT SKILL by 4 points for the first two rounds of this fight, owing to the shock of your landing and the surprise of your enemy's attack.

If you win the combat, turn to 243

Text copyright © 1988 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1988 Brian Williams.