>TM 4
>LS 2
>PS ON
>PL60
>SM6
>CP ON
>FO OFF
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	As you draw closer to the sound, you detect that it 
Š	is a strange vocal chant, a low ululation that sends 
Š	shivers coursing down your back. You feel that you 
Š	are very close to the source when suddenly, through 
Š	the trees ahead, you see a clearing where a large 
Š	crowd of tribal natives are gathered.  
	
	From the cover of the bordering undergrowth you watch  
	a crow-faced man in tattered black robes standing at 
Š	the centre of this crowd. He is uttering the chilling 
Š	chant. Before him, on a stone altar, there lies the 
Š	decaying remains of a body encased in rotting 
Š	swathings. Your Kai senses reveal to you that the 
	robed man is a Kitaezi Shaman, an evil necromancer 
Š	who has enslaved these natives with his power. You 
Š	sense also that it is the same power that was used to 
Š	create the creature that attacked and slayed your 
Š	horse last night.

	Suddenly the terrible sound of the chant ceases and 
Š	the Shaman shrieks with rage. He points to where you 
Š	are hiding and your heart sinks. He has detected your 
Š	presence. He pounds the altar with his fist and to 
Š	your horror, you see the decaying remains begin to 
Š	shift and stir into life. The Shaman intones a dark 
Š	spell and the grisly corpse leaves the altar and 
Š	comes stalking towards you, its fleshless arms 
Š	outstretched. Waves of psychic energy buffet your 
Š	mind. They paralyse you and keep you from escaping. 
Š	You summon your psychic Kai defences and break this 
Š	powerful spell, yet it is now too late to turn and 
Š	run from the Shaman's horror - it is almost upon you. 
Š	Instinctively you reach to your satchel for you sense 
Š	that the Moonstone is all that can save you from this 
Š	creature's ghastly embrace. You pull open the flap to 
Š	reveal the magical stone and the effect is 
Š	devastating.


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