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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 higher, add 2 to any ENDURANCE point losses you sustain during this combat, owing to the poisonous lash of their tentacles.

If you have not already visited Baylon’s Tomb, you may evade combat at any time by running towards it: turn to 166.

If you win the combat, turn to 133.