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Hey, derpy! I'm obviously not the creator, so this is just how I chose to play it. Your successes block damage from all enemies, and when you take damage you take from all enemies as well.

With your 5 successes, you blocked all damage that round. If you had only 3 successes, you would have taken 2 damage (1 from each enemy).

I'm not sure if this breaks the balance too much, but it worked for me.

Let's see if Roll responds!

Good question, it is a little ambiguous.

When I wrote the rule, how you've described it was the intention. Fighting two foes with a strength of 4 each is essentially fighting one foe with a strength of 8. While their strength is combined, their HP pools aren't, so as soon you reduce one foe to 0HP, the foe side has 4 strength. But yes, running into two foes without a certain level of strength and/or HP pretty much guarantees a bad time. Mirroring the Dark Souls inspiration, it's intentionally brutal and stacked against the player.

All that said, I think I prefer the way Jake Zemeckis handles this! It remains punishing on a bad roll, but it isn't guaranteed to hurt you a lot even if you roll well. IMO Jake's version is probably the more fun way to handle double enemies using furtive grasp rules.