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Twice you attempt to lasso the outcrop without success. You are getting ready to try for a third time when an excruciating pain knifes through your lower right leg. The powerful jaws of the unseen pit beast have closed around your calf, and the creature is now trying to drag you below the surface of the mire.

You drop your Rope (erase this from your Backpack Items list) and reach for your weapon. With the scummy slime lapping at your chin, you stab at the creature’s head in a desperate attempt to cut yourself free from its agonizing grip.

Suggaz: COMBAT SKILL 40 ENDURANCE 44

If you win this fight, turn to 67.