*Beach-Shack Beatdown By The Bay...*

You swing with your club, hard, and the Quill-Brute goes down, blood dripping from the gash your splintery chunk of the boat's former hull just put into its head...

You think you might be sick, you've never killed anything catlike before, then, to your horror, it stands up, face still dripping blood, and yeowls in enraged agony. The other Quill-Brute charges in now, and you realize that you have to END this, and quickly!

You duck and roll away from the second Quill-Brute's attack, then, taking your rough club in a two-pawed grip, rush forward, leap, and slam it down against the crown of the already-wounded one's skull. There is a sickening crunch and a spray of blood, as you dodge away from the second Quill-Brute's attack again, and you turn back around already knowing that the first quill brute will never rise from the slowly spreading patch of redness where it lies in the sand...

You rush in again and the second Quill-Brute gets much the same treatment as the first, save that it seems to have learned from its partners demise and blocks your slam-dunk swing with one arm. It doesn't die just then, but its right arm is rendered useless by a shattered Ulna. However, it's counter-stroke with the other arm leaves you with a muzzle full of its quills, and your eyes water in pain!

"Careful pawtner! You're not strong enough to take more than one or two like that yet!" Spiry calls out, as you stumble back in agony. The Quill-Brute senses advantage and charges you, but you just barely have the presence of mind to sidestep-and-swing, catching the monster across the solar plexus with your club. It goes down, gasping for air, and you don't give it a chance to recover, whaling on it with a rain of blows through the sheen of tears that clouds your vision till Spiry calls out, "Pawtner, that's enough! It's Done!", and you collapse back, crying and gasping for air after overusing muscle groups fishercats generally don't call on that much...

Spiry let's you just sit there rocking back and forth and sobbing for a few minutes, then says...