The Ravages Of Fate

herbology can be used for poison, but doesn't seem worth it since getting the poison means giving up Steelfang;

swordsmanship is nowhere near enough in terms of raw firepower to kill Ravager without some lucky dice-rolls;

thaumatology provides a special power that should scare trolls, but I never found out how to use it; :-(

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You see the view in front of you suddenly tilt, and feel something hit your side. Things are growing dim as you slowly realise that you have fallen over. You try to move, but sharp pain makes you give up at once. The Ravager is stalking towards you, but you aren't afraid. You know you are escaping, and once your eyes close you hear only silence.
THE END

just sleep

Around ref 45 can get Energy to 0 and still keep subtracting from it (though if that happens, you'll surely fall not long after anyway.)

Gouge is protected by his breastplate from getting crushed, yet your own breastplate does not protect your ribs at all when he is hurled at you? Does the breastplate actually make it more likely you get hit? Or is it simply irrelevant vs. the troll, much like the shield and helmet appear to be? After a few runs, including four victories, it felt like only the lantern actually made any real difference, and the other item could be literally anything?

Also still not sure about the box's relevance. My only guess is that it makes you more likely to get attacked first, but that could just be how the dice rolled behind the scenes that time.

I was going to say that it felt like you could keep "hanging back for now" to regenerate your energy with no seemingly no ill consequence - neither the risk of one of the companions getting killed, nor the risk of The Ravager regenerating a bit more. Then I tried it again, and noticed that it could lead to The Ravager just attacking you first, and potentially instakilling you.

BEYOND THE JAW

Sometimes uses "nondescript" and sometimes "non-descript" + "Will you talk to :"

INTO THE PIT

"The soot covered ground" + "The pit is a large crater" + "within the pit" (capitalization?) + "and find a ravine stones that ends in a large cave." (?)

8

"you never forget that you are could at any moment"

9

light the cast iron stove. + "Just anything that can help us. (missing quotation mark.) + You also see a rude path leading up to a hilltop. (rude or crude?)

11

"red cheeked and bright eyed." (hyphen?)

15

"Glad for a few moments rest."

21

"you say, slightly embarrassed" (missing period.) + "says absentmindedly" (hyphen?) + "sombrely." (somberly?)

23

"that are the gristly work" (grisly?) + " until their hair faces and skin" (comma?) + "another broad flat stone covered in dark bloodstains a table;" (?) + "You can see only his legs" (only see?) + " but a intelligent being" (an?) + "all he meant to do was distract you." (to distract?) + " Dark grimed in armour" (?)

30

"it is been eaten on the spot." (being?)

35

"with one claw fingered hand" (hyphen?)

46

"to avoid breathing in ashes" (the?)

59

"Do you want to :"

64

"coming to seeing the smudged sky rippling above you"

66

"Do you want to :"

70

"As the sword comes free a agonising roar "

75

"Do you want to :"

80

"cold and careless his eyes" ("his" should probably be the first word here?)

87

"turn and stark to quietly follow"

90

" only a moments warning"

100

"a normal sized troll" + "seemed to be in earnest."

101

"will you choose :"

105

"The sword seems well made" + "will you choose :"