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	You retrieve the Iron Skull from your pocket and 
Š	offer it to the elder. He refuses to touch it and he 
Š	indicates that you should toss it to the ground. You 
Š	comply and it thuds into the soft earth near his 
Š	feet. With one startlingly swift blow he strikes the 
Š	iron skull with his staff and instantly it is 
Š	transformed into a noisome grey gas that rapidly 
Š	dissipates in the warm, damp air.

	The natives on the palisade take up their bows and 
Š	train them on you. Quickly you protest your innocence 
Š	to the elder, saying that you had no idea the skull 
Š	was an evil artifact. For a few seconds he stares 
Š	unnervingly into your eyes, then he turns to his 
Š	kinsmen and says one word: "Truth!"
	
	The Vakeros lower their bows and the elder indicates 
Š	that you are now free to enter their village.


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