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<section name="218">
<p>
You react too late to the threat. Before you can move, clammy blue hands with long, strong digits are clasped around your throat. The troll you outwitted earlier is a tenacious and vengeful foe - he has picked up your trail far from where you first saw through his illusion. The strangling hands tighten their grip as the troll's fetid breath washes over you.
</p>
<p>
<difficulty ability="combat" level="12"/>.
<failure>If you fail,
<lose stamina="3">lose 3 Stamina points</lose>
and
<while var="free">
<difficulty ability="combat" level="12">try again</difficulty>.
<failure>
Each time you fail, <lose stamina="3">lose another 3 Stamina points</lose> as you choke in the troll's merciless hold.
</failure>
<success>
<set var="free" value="1"/>
If you succeed, whether through skill or luck, you manage to wriggle free and prepare yourself for a fight.
</success>
</while>
</failure>
</p>
<fight name="Troll" combat="6" defence="11" stamina="15"/>
<p>
If you win, <goto section="307"/>.
If you lose, <goto section="7" dead="t"/>.
</p>
</section>