Legend

It's very faint and if you weren't such a versatile adventurer, you would've missed it. But you find a small piece of treated bark. This almost looks like armor an elf would use. You begin searching for clues elsewhere and sure enough you notice some very faint tracks near the back of one of the vandalized shops. You start following in until it leads into the wilderness and soon a small woods.

You haven't gone far in it when you hear the click of somethingÂ… you've triggered a trap and a large loaded branch of spikes swings into you at chest level!

To avoid the trap, test your SKILL and add 3 (Rogues don't need to add 3)

If you fail it's probably really bad.

If you have any kind of shield you may quickly use it to block the trap, however the spikes embed themselves right through the shield and the force throws you back altogether. You must cross your shield off as it's now uselessly stuck to the trap.

If you're wearing a chain mail vest or another type of metal chest protection you'll survive the impact which still throws you back, but not without damage. Lose 5 STAMINA points.

If you don't have any of these things your vital organs are severely impaled as you're carried by the trap and slammed into the nearby tree and your adventure ends here.

Assuming you survive (or pass and avoid the trap), you recover just in time to face the one you were hunting.

You have 1 choice: