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Gritting your teeth against the pain, you stagger to your feet and fumble for a weapon with numbed fingers. Suddenly, a huge shape explodes from the crevasse, rising at such a speed that its features are a blur. It emits a deafening screech, and then dives towards your head, its coal-black tendril whipping the air wildly as it attempts to coil it around your neck.

Ictakko: COMBAT SKILL 25 ENDURANCE 35

Unless you possess the Magnakai Discipline of Nexus and have reached the Kai rank of Archmaster, you must lose an extra 1 ENDURANCE point every time this creature inflicts a wound during the combat, owing to the numbing effect of its electrical attack.

If you win the combat, turn to 343.