If your slugger is still there, you're too out of it to look for it, and then far too distracted by the talisman. Chances are, the car thief wouldn't just leave a weapon within your reach and took it with him.You start to use your weapon, but your foe strikes first. You feel a jarring thud at the spot where the side of your neck meets your shoulder. The blow brings you to your knees. Everything swims in front of you for a second, and then another blow hits you, and another. You collapse to the ground, barely conscious.
The hooded man stands over you for a second and then delivers one last ferocious kick. You writhe on the ground, and everything dissolves into pain ...
You come to some indefinable time later, battered and barely able to move. You lie still for a moment, gathering your strength, wondering if you're going to live through the night.
You pull yourself towards a dumpster and attempt to use it to stand up, but you can't muster enough strength. Slowly you slide back to the ground, lying helplessly on the cement. Staring up though the glare of the street light to the nearly starless sky above, you wonder what to do next.
As you lie there, you notice an unusual orange glow coming from underneath the dumpster.
Amusingly enough, the character I used to get this information then went to the dumpster and got a puppet after 10 turns