“I finished the last task hours ago, I hope you got a more challenging project, or at least something better to eat this time!” You call out gruffly as approach the door with the iron spear in hand. You try to consciously ignore the adrenaline coursing through your system. You hear the latch slide and then the door swings open much too fast. There are two figures in the doorway, one is a mindflayer and the other is a troll.
“BLASTED SQUID!” You shout as you realize you are both outsmarted and outmatched. You lunge forward, thrusting the spear past the troll, straight for the mindflayer’s head…
But the troll reaches out and catches your spear in mid-thrust. You are as strong as or stronger than just about every man you have ever met, but you’re not as strong as a troll. You let go of the spear and run back toward the anvil where your smithing hammer rests. If you could throw it at the mindflayer’s head, you might be able to take on the troll…
There is a flash of light from behind your eyes and you feel the force of a maul hitting the inside of your skull. The ground comes up to smack you in the face as you fall from the illithid’s mind blast. Your last thought before you lose consciousness is that you hope they don’t take your other eye…
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