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As you draw closer you can make out the gruesome features of the shadow. It is a ghoul, similar to those you encountered at the lake, but this creature looks even less human. Its swollen skull is set lopsided on its withered frame and its tongue drips with a sticky black venom. It raises a wasted hand and launches a whirl of mist towards your chest, but your psychic defence disperses this evil swirling cloud. The creature howls with frustration. Maniacally it hurls itself at your throat, a pitted iron spike clenched in its fist.

Psi-ghoul: COMBAT SKILL 20 ENDURANCE 30

Owing to your mastery of the psychic disciplines, add 2 points to your COMBAT SKILL for the duration of the fight. If you wield the Sommerswerd in this combat, you may double this undead creature’s ENDURANCE point loss.

If you win the combat, turn to 87.