I feel flesh shred and a sharp pain spread ay left side. I failed to protect myself with my buckler from a ter attack. I yank hard, and pull my gau out from the goblin's abdomen, and take a few steps baow that I'm close to it, and get a good look, the goblin's nails are still sharp and poihey aren't nearly as big as my talons, but it was enough to tear off a buny skin. Before I get a further look at it, the goblin charges at me with a very angry look on its face.
I ready myself by taking a lowered stance. As the goblin reaches out with one arm, I aim to intercept it with my buckler. The goblin smashes into the buckler, and it takes everything i to just get blown bapletely by the hit. As I go tain my posture, there is already another fist being thrown at me. I make the quick judgement that I won't be able to dodge this hit, so instead I throw another punch with the gau. In an unfortuwist of fate for the goblin, his blow hit just after mine, and he knocks me sideways, with the gau's spikes tearing at his innards before breaking off.
I'm in real bad shape now. One of my legs is definitely broken, and I 't stand up. The goblin is also looking quite bad. The puncture wounds from before have been bleeding quite heavily, and the new wound looks even mruesome. The goblin begins unsteadily moving towards me while using one hand to hold the new wound. The gau is basically useless now, so I throw it at the goblin with all my strength. The gau hits the goblin in the shoulder, and the goblin stumbles a few steps, but then tinues limping towards my prone form.
Not good, very not good. I look around the room in a panic. A little ways away is the knife I've been using for butchering. If I crawl over to it, I might stand a ce. As dangerous as it is to turn my ba someorying to kill me, I don't have much of a choice here. I turn and start crawling towards my knife. My entire body aches as I crawl across the stone floor, and my flesh wound stings as the rock's abrasive texture drags across it. If I reach it, I don't think I'll have the opportunity to actually get a good stab on the goblin, but given its dition, I don't think I'll o.
I'm almost at the knife now. I hear the goblin's bored breathiing closer behind me. I reach out and grab the knife, and turn my body to face the goblin. It's only about two steps away, and it already has both it's arms raised over its head. It seems like it also knows this will probably be each of our st ces to survive. I prepare myself for its strike as it closes in. When it finally gets in ra lurches with its whole body, to try to sm me with both fists.
Based on the way it approached, this is exactly what I hoped it would do. My injuries, while extensive, aren't as severe as the goblin's. I roll to the side just enough to dodge its sm. Previously, the goblin would have been able to quickly regain its posture from this, but now I have an opening. From where I am, I only reae of its legs. I reach out with the knife, and start hag and slig at its leg before crawling away.
After crawling outside of the goblin's reach, I turn back to face it. The goblin first attempts to stand up, but quickly finds that it's leg, much like mine, won't support it's weight any longer. So , it attempts to crawl after me. After it attempts to crawl though, it winces, and stops. It's abdominal wounds are clearly too severe to allow it to crawl, so it rolls onto it's back, and begins just looking around the room. I don't know if it noticed when it ran in, but if it didn't notice before, it clearly notiow, that the walls of this room have multiple dead imps hanging from them. It looks at each imp, theually touches its own wound, and stares at me.
I'm not sure exactly how long we maintained eye tact. It felt like hours, but it robably only a miil the goblin stopped breathing. I just id on the floor for a little while, my own wounds being quite severe. Eventually though, I was certain that the goblin was dead. Now, I had an even bigger problem though. I am severely injured and the cavern is open. How injured I don't know yet, but I 't walk. I begin slowly crawling towards the cavern, with the io close it off. While I crawl, I check my status.
I'm severely injured alright. I keep watg my status as I crawl towards the entrance. 25. 24. 23. 22. I'm still steadily losing hp as I crawl. I know that moving in this iate is a bad idea. If I don't y sub-cave off though, I'm probably just as likely to die as doing this, so I'd rather die on my own terms. I finally make it to the entryway. 20 hp. I start building up a wall to close off the space again. I brace myself up against the wall to keep building. 19. 18. 17. I'm about half the gap now. 16. 15. 14.
I've closed it off. I slowly lower myself back down onto the ground. 13. I carefully position myself on my back, trying to put my injuries in the best position I . I lie there for a little bit, and just watch my hp. After a mi ticks down to 12. I just sit there and watch. 11. 10. 9. The time between the hp ticks is slowing down. I just hope it's enough. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. I'm really worried now. It's going to be very close. After a very long time, it ticks down to 2. I just lie there, motionless. I don't want any actal movement to cause any wounds to reopen. I'm really really exhausted now too, but I'm also afraid that if I move in my sleep, that could be it, so I just lie there, and wait. Many minutes pass, and my HP moves up to 3, so I keep waiting.
I keep waiting. Miurn to hours as I lie there motionless, just behind the sealed entrao the sub-cave. After those hours, I'm finally back up to 15 hp. I'm still terrified of opening an injury up though, so I only move a little bit at a time. First my arms, which were retively uninjured in the fight. They ache as I move, but at least I'm not losing any hp. If that is the case, then I do something to help myself here. I only reay upper thigh, but I begin stone shaping a shackle over each thigh, then I repeat for each shoulder. With that, I hope that I at least sleep. It's not perfect, but I shouldn't roll over, and it should stop me from kig my leg from pain.
Finally, despite all the pain I'm in, my exhaustion overwhelms me and I fall asleep. It's not a good sleep though. I'm stantly waking up from pain, only to fade bato sleep.
I don't know how long I stayed like that. I noticed at some point that I started to feel hunger pain in addition to my other paiually though, I awoke enough to evaluate my situation, and I check my status.
I've noticed before that I was gaining about one level a day, so I'm going to work on the assumption that it's been almost two days. I look down at myself. The surface flesh wound has some nasty scarring going on, and my broken leg is clearly messed up. If I had to guess, my l has a full break, because half way down it ges dire slightly. Fht now then, I should work on it. I'm by no means a doctor, but I also know that if I just leave it like this, the results will be very bad. It's going to hurt a lot, but I o re-align my leg. sidering what I just went through, I think 71 hp should be more than enough.
I remove my shoulder restraints, lean over my broken leg, and ch my jaw. I feel sharp pain from my broken leg as I move it so that it's straight. It's toone for me to actually attach the boogether at this point, especially without any medical equipment, but what I do is make a stone cast to support the leg. I form a circur tube around the leg to keep it from moving, and then tighteone down through various points to keep it all in pce from foot to knee. I'll have to make adjustments as I see fit for circution. I'm still in a lot of pain, but this should be manageable. I check my hp just in case, and while it's slowly dropping now, I'm still at 40, so I should be good for now.