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You rejoin your physical body barely seconds before the creature attacks, but the shock of such a swift transition leaves you temporarily paralysed and unable to move: lose 3 ENDURANCE points.

As the numbness fades, the boar-thing slams into your chest and sends you reeling backwards across the glassy floor towards the moat. Its great curved tusks deeply gouge your arm and shoulder (lose a further 5 ENDURANCE points). Unsteadily you rise to your feet and draw your weapon as the beast attacks once more, this time with its head down, in an attempt to butt you into the fiery moat.

Gnagusk: COMBAT SKILL 41 ENDURANCE 45

If you win this combat, turn to 325.

Text copyright © 1991 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1991 Brian Williams.