Your pack and everything on you is soaked, fortunately your comfy bed roll is saved by a rain resistant beast skin bag.
You strip nude setting out you clothes flat to try and dry and place your bedroll and lamp next to that. You shake your self dry like a dog and wring out your braids as best you can. Once your as dry as you can manage the days excursions hit you, you manage to bandage the light gashes you got during your fall and wrap yourself in your bag setting the lamp out after siting your flint next to that. Sleep takes you quickly as wind howls by the opening of the cave.
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A soft shuffling causes you to stir and suddenly you're awake, adrenaline fueled panic launches you into the land of the waking as something grabs your ankle. Instinctively you grab your nearby spear and thrust it's point towards the thing in the dark. A hideous chattering scream is let out. Your eyes are adjusted to the dark but you cant make out much but a small dark body.
You know that noise though, "Goblins" you whisper to yourself. How could the be here? Your tribe was brutal in its extermination of these monsters near the mountain. Your confident though the little monsters were pathetic, even nude and unarmored your sure you could take a dozen of them.
Taking the offensive you stab deeply into the wounded screaming gob and definitely end its life this time. Growing increasingly alert you begin to realize there are several more dark forms in the cave with you. Rolling and launching at the next goblin you end another just as fast. No longer stunned by your skill the rest move at you as a swarm. Twirling backwards you gab and maim while keeping there short weapons and arms easily out of reach of your bare skin.
Quickly the hoard is beginning to lose steam and your attacks begin to take control of the fight, stepping forward you lunge trough what you think is the last goblin stepping over his comrades. Suddenly a sharp pain in your calf alerts you to the fact on gob you thought was dead wasn't quite. Angrily raising your spear to take retribution on the half dead goblin your part way into the raise when a wave a dizziness hits you.
You stumble to the side barely catching your balance, when suddenly a numbness in your wounded calf brings to you knees. The numbness spreads quickly through the rest of your body causing muscle weakness. "the little monsters must have poisoned their weapons, but such a potent poison, where could they have gotten something so strong"
Soon your arms give out too and your face down on the cold stone as a fog sets in over your senses, you lose consciousness.
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