You are at your wits' end. The last three patients you had, died. You can only do so much without the healing magic that you so clearly remember using. You need to get out of this horrible place, if for no other reason, then to find your staff!
Every day, a mindless goblin thrall brings you food (if you can call a pile of gristlely scraps of mystery meat suspended in rancid smelling and worse tasting gritty paste - "food"). He is armed with a short sword, but he looks much less formidable then the large powerful troll that drags patients into your infirmary on occasion.
So this time, when the goblin thrall unlatches your door and enters with the heaping plate of yuck, you make your move.
"Oh no! What happened? How did you hurt yourself?" You fein concern and approach the drooling thrall.
It looks down at itself, searching for an injury that it was unaware of. As soon as you're close enough, you grab the hilt of its short sword and yank it free of its scabbard. The goblin grabs for it too, but only manages to grab the blade as you pull, slicing his hand deeply. You can't help but be creeped out by the goblin's lack of reaction to his sliced hand. You know that he is under the control of an illithid, but you hope that the controlling master is not near enough to catch you before you can make a run for it.
The goblin thrall grabs your arm with its good hand and attempts to sink its teeth into you hand. You shove the goblin off of you and bring the sword around as hard as you can. The blade catches it in the throat. Black goblin blood sprays across the room from its severed arteries. You reel back in disgust, but you are also elated with the luck of you unskilled swing.
You dash out of the open door and into the dimly-lit passage, hoping your luck continues with your choice of direction.
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