the sudden changes in the inertia, I felt neither the blow from the cliff racer nor my collision with the ground at the time. I do now though - very bruised left knee. I pulled the door shut behind me and scrambled to find one of the teleport scrolls I brought from the Mages' Guild.
The one I found first was anchored in Fort Moonmoth, so I trudged back to Balmora, delivered the guild's half of the back dues to Ranis, and got paid for recruiting the necromancer.
I am back in a room in the South Wall Corner Club, clean from a bath in the Odai River, full of stew, with my bruises slowly shrinking from a cheap healing potion.