
The flicker of flint and steel is your only warning. As you lunge, the hunched figure reacts with surprising speed, its glowing red eyes narrowing.
Your short sword scrapes against what feels like thick, brittle hide rather than flesh. The grinding, metallic hiss intensifies as the creature whirls, its spindly arms flailing. You feel a sharp, tearing pain in your side as one of its appendages, tipped with something sharp and jagged, rakes across your ribs.
The brief moment of illumination is gone, replaced by the oppressive gloom of the workshop. The creature's unsettling hum seems to vibrate through the very floor, and the stench of ozone and decay fills your nostrils.
[FLASH NOTIFICATION: Negative]Wounded! You took 4 damage from the creature's attack.
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