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	Painfully you stagger to your feet and try to focus Š	on your surroundings. Through a pall of smoke you Š	hear the groans of wounded crewmen and the crackling Š	buzz of electrical arcing. Steam rises from a gaping Š	hole in the stern deck and a fire rages around the Š	base of the mainmast. Prince Karvas emerges unscathed Š	from the rope locker and quickly he helps you to Š	smother this fire. Then he gives first aid to a Š	crewman who is lying nearby, nursing a broken knee. Š	Acraban comes staggering out of the smoke. His robes Š	are torn and a trickle of blood runs from a cut above Š	his right ear. You use your Kai curing skills to heal Š	the wizard's wound and then together you help Š	evacuate the injured crewmen from the crippled Š	skyship. Acraban orders Bo'sun Gora to go and assess Š	the state of the crew. He returns shortly and reports Š	that from the ship's original compliment of ten men, Š	three are now missing, three are wounded, and one is Š	dead. The remaining three crewmen, himself included, Š	have survived the crash with only minor injuries. 

	Using your Kai curing skills, you ease the pain of Š	the badly injured crewmen before helping Karvas and Š	Gora to bury the dead man - Kuo the helmsman. The Š	area surrounding the crashed skyship is thickly Š	wooded and, with night fast approaching and a sky Š	heavy with clouds, it is impossible for you to Š	determine your exact location. Acraban proposes to Š	contact Lord Zinair and inform him of the disaster by Š	means of his seeing stone. But, to his dismay, he Š	soon discovers that the magical artefact has been Š	lost in the crash. 
	
	As the darkness of night envelops the smouldering Š	wreck of the éStarstrideré, you find it hard to Š	suppress a growing sense of despair. It is a mood Š	shared by the other survivors, and few words are Š	exchanged as you work together to erect a makeshift Š	shelter for the wounded beside the ship's battered Š	keel. When the shelter is finished, you each look for Š	a place nearby where you can lie down and attempt to Š	recover from the fatigue of your terrible ordeal. 

	Before you try to get some sleep, unless you possess Š	the discipline of Grand Huntmastery you must now eat Š	a Meal or lose 3 ENDURANCE points.


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