Meanwhile...
- Hmph, in this form people are much lighter and more compact, - Hatarait sighed heavily as he finished gathering the remains of Zlyuka's husband and son, - the merciless winds of time, I suppose.
- Maybe we could still have won. - A few minutes earlier, Trafaret had smashed his head against one of the stones, but Lyazhka brought him back to life. - Are you sure we had to abandon Mech? He's the strongest of us. And our leader, at that.
- I'm sure.
- But we had numerical superiority.
- Where? Your arrows are like toothpicks to the horned ones, Lyazhka deals no damage, I might have hit, might have missed — were we supposed to surrender our lives to the whim of luck?
- But...
- Besides, we came here on business. The fact that we took down the dog and a couple of swords on top of that is a bonus. By the way.
- What?
- On the way back, let's finally check out those strange gates.
- Maybe we shouldn't? I have a bad feeling. And Mech was against it...
After some time, Hatarait forces Trafaret to go through the Great Divide, arguing his candidacy on the grounds that he was the most useless of their group.
Number of skips: 4.
Number of mind ailments: 0; number of body ailments: 3; number of mutations: 0; -1 to 1 characteristics (vigor).
[Fragility] [Breathing difficulties] [Excess weight]
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Trafaret receives a one-time skip through the savage's trial.
7 -> 1
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1 to 5 characteristics; non-standard skill or improvement of an existing one (determined randomly) to 3 -> 1 characters.
Destruction of 24 items of equipment and inventory.
2 artifacts.
Each character may use one of the following effects: 1. Partially remove one of the Great Divide's effects -> hermit's trial. 2. Remove one mind ailment. 3. Remove one body ailment. 4. Forget any number of known skills. Gain +3 to a characteristic of choice.
(-1 skip) Trafaret finds a chest, but cannot open it. Having finished exploring the location, he returns down (-1 skip) and reports to Pervert and Lyazhka what he saw. Pervert forces him to hand over the artifacts he found, then tries to cut him down, but the archer retreats to the other side (-1 skip) of the gates, and the attacker does not dare to pursue him. He and Lyazhka leave, while the desperate, fear-shaken Trafaret awaits who knows what surrounded by gold and other treasures... Then, in a panic, he accidentally disables the beacon.