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One of the arrows grazes your left shoulder and gouges a furrow of skin from the back of your left thigh. You stifle a cry, but the intense pain that grips your injured limbs warns you at once that the tip of the arrow was tainted with poison.

Your innate healing skills counter the poison before it can do its deadly work, but your body’s defences draw heavily on your reserves of strength and the curing process leaves you feeling weak and light-headed: lose 4 ENDURANCE points.

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