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Windhammer, Copyright Wayne Densley 2001 - 2007 All Rights Reserved
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Desperately you weave amongst the Morg, but the beast's reach is long and it clips you across the back of your right boot. It is only a glancing blow, but it is enough to throw you over the Hordim and into the underbrush some fifteen metres from the cliff's edge.
Staggering to your feet you can only watch as the beast wades into the diminutive Morg and begins a slaughter that leaves you sick at heart. In that moment of horror you realise what the beast is. It is a Dweo'gorga, a shape-shifter of the Ancient World, and a ruthless servant of whoever holds the talisman that controls it. It gives you no comfort when you realise also that someone has set this creature upon you.
From the shadows of the undergrowth you watch as the Hordim try to escape, but the Dweo'gorga hammers them down, and there is nothing they can do but turn and fight. Using their small size, the Morg dance about the huge creature, trying to confuse it, their intent to send it backwards over the cliff's deadly drop. The shape-shifter is having none of it however, methodically and ruthlessly it picks a victim, crushes it, then moves onto the next. Its preoccupation with the Hordim is your invitation to get away. Quickly checking that you have not lost any of your equipment, you turn from the scene of the battle and then run with all the speed you can muster back into the depths of the forest.
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The Dweo'gorga's blow has taken two points from your endurance. Record this on your character sheet and turn to section 348.
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Windhammer, Copyright Wayne Densley 2001 - 2007 All Rights Reserved
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