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>25, Failure!
The gnoll warlock spoke in its crude language and you could feel the simmering Fel in the air intensify. And then everything felt wrong. A pain coursed through your body as you could feel a nauseating coldness spread through your muscles, you tasted rot on your tongue and felt like your hair was withering away. Whatever this was, it had to stop.
You dashed and closed the distance with the warlock with just a couple quick steps and slashed at it with the Cinder Sword. The muddy forest floor beneath your boots felt hard and cracked under your steps. Your sword burned brightly and left embers and droplets of fire behind it as it came down at the gnoll, slashing its chest and creating a long nasty looking wound.
In near instant the rot and nauseating feeling disappeared as the warlock dropped whatever it was casting and moved its hands to check the wound. It wasn’t deep enough to kill it, but it must hurt like hell. For now the warlock had to be put aside as it wasn’t casting anymore as the gnoll chief hadn’t forgotten that you existed and pressed on you.
Pivoting on the spot back to the gnoll chief, you blocked its battle-axe again and pushed it aside. The chief looked worse for wear, the couple wounds you had inflicted were bleeding and the destroyed eye made its face a gruesome sight to look at. The flail swung past you and it wasn’t that difficult to avoid it. The cut you had managed to inflict on the left armpit was making swinging it a difficult task. Another swing with the axe got blocked by your shield and your riposte was deflected away by the shaft of the flail. Third pass came and you managed to reach the gnoll’s right pauldron strap, cutting it off and making the pauldron hang there awkwardly, but you couldn’t push through and find the flesh beneath the mail.
Whatever the spell the warlock had casted had been, it had gotten the wind out of you and you started to feel tired. The battle had kept you going and feeling energetic, but now sweat gathered on your brow and breathing had gotten heavier. This wasn’t a duel you enjoyed even if a couple good successes had been there. This was a struggle, but it looked like now the gnoll chief was struggling more than you were and now there were openings for you. The right shoulder, right side of the torso, left arm holding the flail. All weak spots for you to deal with.
>Go for the head, loss of the eye must make it hard for the gnoll to see right now.
>Right shoulder could be reached and the mail punched through. Get rid of that battle-axe.
>The already wounded side could be exploited, a deeper wound would kill the gnoll quickly.
>Disarm the flail by attempting to disarm the whole left arm.
>Other, write in.
QM: Success would have killed the gnoll warlock, but you managed to interrupt it before any long lasting damage happened and got a couple good swings at the chief too.
