</illustration>
<p>It is mid-afternoon when you catch sight of a small village on the road ahead. There are many wagons parked at the side of the highway, and a crowd has gathered in a field nearby. As you ride past, you notice a large placard nailed to one of the wagons:</p>
- <signpost>ARCHERY TOURNAMENT<br/>ENTRANCE FEE: 2 GOLD CROWNS<br/>FIRST PRIZE: THE SILVER BOW OF DUADON</signpost>
+ <signpost>
+ <line>ARCHERY TOURNAMENT</line>
+ <line>ENTRANCE FEE: 2 GOLD CROWNS</line>
+ <line>FIRST PRIZE: THE SILVER BOW OF DUADON</line>
+ </signpost>
<choice idref="sect141">If you wish to enter the tournament, <link-text>turn to 141</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect210">If you do not wish to or cannot afford to enter, continue on your way and <link-text>turn to 210</link-text>.</choice>
</data>
<p>The mist grows brighter. Once more the skull appears and speaks, its voice as comforting as a raven<ch.apos/>s croak:</p>
<blockquote>
- <p><quote>Listen to the Zakhan,
- <br />Ponder what you hear;
- <br />Give the correct answer,
- <br />For fear he sheds a tear.</quote>
+ <p>
+ <line><ch.lsquot/>>Listen to the Zakhan,</line>
+ <line>Ponder what you hear;</line>
+ <line>Give the correct answer,</line>
+ <line>For fear he sheds a tear.<ch.rsquot/></line>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The skull disappears into the misty ceiling, and you watch amazed as the dull bronze lips of the statue begin to move. A harsh voice echoes from deep within its hollow metal body:</p>
</illustration>
<blockquote>
- <p><quote>The path across defies your sight,
- <br />Find the path or stay and fight!</quote>
+ <p>
+ <line><ch.lsquot/>The path across defies your sight,</line>
+ <line>Find the path or stay and fight!<ch.rsquot/></line>
</p>
</blockquote>
<choice idref="sect39">If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Psi-screen or Divination, <link-text>turn to 39</link-text>.</choice>
</illustration>
<blockquote>
- <p><quote>The path across defies your sight;
- <br />Find the path or stay and fight.</quote>
+ <p>
+ <line><ch.lsquot/>The path across defies your sight;</line>
+ <line>Find the path or stay and fight.<ch.rsquot/></line>
</p>
</blockquote>
<choice idref="sect39">If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Psi-screen or Divination, <link-text>turn to 39</link-text>.</choice>
</illustration>
<blockquote>
- <p>Hand to take;
- <br />Spell to break;
- <br />Stir a terror
- <br />In your wake.
+ <p>
+ <line>Hand to take;</line>
+ <line>Spell to break;</line>
+ <line>Stir a terror</line>
+ <line>In your wake.</line>
</p>
</blockquote>
<choice idref="sect96">If you still wish to pick up the sword, <link-text>turn to 96</link-text>.</choice>
</illustration>
<blockquote>
- <p><quote>The path you have chosen leads to the heart of the maze,
- <br />And there you are doomed to eke out your days.</quote>
+ <p>
+ <line><ch.lsquot/>The path you have chosen leads to the heart of the maze,</line>
+ <line>And there you are doomed to eke out your days.<ch.rsquot/></line>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It is a prophecy that will be fulfilled. You have ventured too deep into Zahda<ch.apos/>s maze, and the exits are now closed off forever. It may interest you to learn that you survived at the core of the maze for three weeks, a feat that earned you the respect of Lord Zahda, but one that did not persuade him to spare you your life.</p>
<p>Shafts of sunlight break through the slate-grey cloud, and the rain eases off and finally stops. You ride across the rolling valley floor towards the River Phoen until the track stops at a ramshackle house perched precariously on the river bank. An old wooden jetty juts out from the side of the house, its platform almost submerged in the rain-swollen river. A notice board standing in front of the house reads:</p>
<signpost>
<p>FERRY HOUSE LANDING</p>
- <p>Passenger barges to Tharro<ch.emdash/>embark from this jetty.<br />Barges to Phoena<ch.emdash/>embark from opposite bank.</p>
+ <p>
+ <line>Passenger barges to Tharro<ch.emdash/>embark from this jetty.</line>
+ <line>Barges to Phoena<ch.emdash/>embark from opposite bank.</line>
+ </p>
<p>NO CATTLE, WAGONS, CARAVANS OR HERD ANIMALS UNLESS BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT</p>
</signpost>
<choice idref="sect299">If you wish to wait here for a barge to Tharro, <link-text>turn to 299</link-text>.</choice>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Notice of Death</strong></p>
<p>Kezoor the Necromancer</p>
- <p>Renegade Shaman of Mogaruith.<br />Leader of the forbidden sect of Dazudskul.</p>
+ <p>
+ <line>Renegade Shaman of Mogaruith.</line>
+ <line>Leader of the forbidden sect of Dazudskul.</line>
+ </p>
<p>It is hereby proclaimed by lawful authority that in just retribution for vile acts of black sorcery perpetrated throughout the Freelands of Talestria, a bounty of TEN THOUSAND LUNE is offered for the head of Kezoor the Necromancer.</p>
- <p class="right">By order of Queen Evaine of Talestria<br />MS 5060</p>
+ <p class="right">
+ <line>By order of Queen Evaine of Talestria</line>
+ <line>MS 5060</line>
+ </p>
</blockquote>
<p><quote>This could be our chance to make a fortune,</quote> whispers Trost. <quote>Help me take him and we<ch.apos/>ll split the reward. Agreed?</quote></p>
<choice idref="sect65">If you wish to help Trost attack the necromancer, <link-text>turn to 65</link-text>.</choice>
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