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While making your way through the back streets of the poor quarter you are set upon a knife-wielding thug, who is intent of relieving you of your purse.

If you don’t want to fight him, you can try a CHARISMA roll at a Difficulty of 8 to try to talk your way out of this unpleasant situation. If you succeed, the thug leaves, confused by your rhetoric (turn to 10 and choose again.) Otherwise, you must fight him.

Thug, COMBAT 4, Defence 7, Stamina 6

If you defeat him, you find 15 Shards on his body. If you are defeated, you are stunned into unconsciousness. You come round with 1 Stamina point, and he has robbed you of 50 Shards (or of all your money if you have less than 50 Shards). Turn to 10.