As the first rat leaps, you strike with your blade!

Giant Rat: Skill 5 Stamina 4 Damage 1d6 Armour 0

If you win:

Blood sprays as you gut it, its intestines spilling out to join the other filthy debris that choke the floor of the well. Its companions shrink back, unwilling to share its fate.

Breathing a little heavily, you glance around. Amidst the rubbish, some pale bones catch your eye - human bones...

Keeping a wary eye on the rats, you can search them. You find a leather pouch with 5 gp, 4 sp and 8 cp, and a small silver statuette, only about 4 inches high. It appears to be a representation of a ferocious and powerfully built tiger-like creature, armoured in intricately patterned plates of tarnished silver. An eerie light seems to glow behind its eyes and gaping maw. Or perhaps you're imagining things.

You may take the pouch and statuette if you wish.

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