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<publisher>Project Aon</publisher>
- <date class="publication"><year>2012</year><month>10</month><day>28</day></date>
+ <date class="publication"><year>2018</year><month>2</month><day>15</day></date>
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<p>You are the Wizard Grey Star, chosen hero of an ancient magical race<ch.emdash/>the Shianti. To find the Moonstone, source of all Shianti wisdom, you must venture <strong>Beyond the Nightmare Gate</strong>.</p>
<p>Dare you enter a realm of mystery, a world of gods and demons? For somewhere in this twilight region is the secret of the Moonstone. Only you can find it and with its power throw down the evil Shasarak and save mankind. Your journey will take you across the grey plains of the Neverness, past the dark enchantments of the Crystal Tower, and on towards perils undreamed of. Armed only with the Wizard<ch.apos/>s Staff and the magical spells of the Shianti, you must step into a nightmare world where only the bravest will survive!</p>
<footnote id="equipmnt-1-foot" idref="equipmnt-1"><p>If you have completed a previous adventure, you keep all equipment you had at the end of that adventure. You do not receive any new equipment, unless you have just selected Alchemy as your sixth Magical Power, in which case you receive a Herb Pouch with contents as indicated in this section.</p></footnote>
<footnote id="equipmnt-2-foot" idref="equipmnt-2"><p>If you have mastered the Lesser Magick of Alchemy and therefore have a Herb Pouch, you may choose to keep potions, vials, or ingredients in either the Herb Pouch or your Backpack. All other Backpack Items must be kept in your Backpack.</p></footnote>
<footnote id="equipmnt-3-foot" idref="equipmnt-3">
- <p>The new Mongoose Publishing editions of the gamebooks clarify that <quote>You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.</quote></p>
+ <p>The Collector<ch.apos/>s Editions of the <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> books clarify that <quote>You may only use one Weapon at a time in combat.</quote></p>
</footnote>
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<p>You take one step forward and instantly a sword drops from above, fatally skewering your head.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>The sentence is death. Before you can react, the Elessi lifts his jewelled crozier and a searing pain fills your head. The terrible noise drills into your brain, bursting your ear drums and hurling you to the floor in agony.</p>
- <p>Your life and your adventure end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your adventure end here.</deadend>
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<p>You are walking forwards when suddenly a sword falls from the ceiling and skewers you from head to toe. You keel over in an ever-widening pool of blood.</p>
- <p>Your life and your adventure end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your adventure end here.</deadend>
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<p>You have not taken more than a few steps when Tanith<ch.apos/>s scream causes you to look up. A sword hurtles towards you and slices cleanly through your chest, inflicting a fatal wound.</p>
- <p>Your life and your adventure end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your adventure end here.</deadend>
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<p>Once more you begin the arduous climb. The decorations carved upon the crystal surface of the tower wall have become more intricate and difficult to negotiate. You pray that your luck will hold but it is not enough to save you. With a cry, you slip and fall, crashing to the ground far below.</p>
- <p>Your life and quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>You reach out and pluck the jewel from the statue<ch.apos/>s mouth. Swiftly, you turn, ready to run but before you can escape, a distant sound reaches your ears. Quiet at first, it develops into a scream and begins to fill the palace. The awful sound is coming from the mouth of the statue and freezes you where you stand.</p>
<p>The ground begins to tremble and cracks appear in the glass walls. You can hear the tinkling of shattering crystal. The hideous wail grows in volume and soon you cannot block out the sound even when you cover your ears.</p>
<p>Within seconds you are crushed beneath shards of broken glass and debris. You have released the Screaming God and the Singing City is doomed.</p>
- <p>Your quest and your life end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest and your life end here.</deadend>
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<p>The Elessin guards do not attack you immediately. Several fall dead under fire of your Wizard<ch.apos/>s Staff as you move like a whirlwind among their ranks. Soon, however, they overcome their awe and many place silver pipes to their lips and blow. Suddenly, a terrible pain fills your head as the sound of the Elessin pipes tears at your mind. With an anguished cry you fall to the ground and slip into unconsciousness.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>Drear has worked a subtle magic on your mind and soon you are totally under his control. He is an insane wanderer, an astral vagrant devoted to a purposeless life of journeying. Casting aside your Staff and Backpack you trek after Drear, doomed to follow in his nomadic footsteps forever.</p>
- <p>Your quest ends here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest ends here.</deadend>
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<p>The Ethetron is thrown from the sky, flinging you and Tanith to your deaths.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>The maddening chaos surrounding you is too much to bear; your mind lacks the strength of will to resist the distorted reality. In a short time you lose control of your mind and the Ethetron plunges into the undulating hills below.</p>
- <p>Your adventure is over. Your quest and your life end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your adventure is over. Your quest and your life end here.</deadend>
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<creator>Paul Bonner</creator>
- <description><quote>Allow me to introduce Crabkey, one of our most ingenious inventors</quote></description>
+ <description><quote>Allow me to introduce Crabkey, one of our most ingenious inventors.</quote></description>
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<p>As you touch the ground, the flying machine shatters and disintegrates. The impact kills you and your torn and broken body is thrown with the other shattered fragments across the cloud plain of the Neverness.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>You call down to Tanith, who nods that she is ready. Your muscles are tired from the exertions of your climb and, panting heavily, you begin to pull on the Rope. Tanith is already overburdened by the added weight of your Backpack and her climb up the tower is made more difficult by the swinging of your Wizard<ch.apos/>s Staff. Suddenly, she gives a terrible scream and falls away from the tower. Her abrupt departure from the Rope jerks you from the ledge and you plummet to the ground after her. Neither of you survives the fall.</p>
- <p>Your quest has failed and your adventure is over.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest has failed and your adventure is over.</deadend>
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<p>Suddenly the Ethetron is torn from the air by a strange, eyeless creature. Its huge, razor-sharp teeth close around the flying machine.</p>
- <p>Your quest and your life end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest and your life end here.</deadend>
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<p>You pull the lever back as far as it will go in an attempt to bring the craft out of its dive but now you lack power and the machine continues to gain downward momentum. You are too close to the ground to save yourself and the Ethetron crashes, killing you instantly.</p>
- <p>Your quest and your adventure end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest and your adventure end here.</deadend>
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<p>A violent gust tears into the craft and, with a resounding <onomatopoeia>crack</onomatopoeia>, the mast snaps. The Ethetron flips out of control and falls at a startling speed. There is no time to save yourself before the Ethetron explodes into the ground. There are no survivors.</p>
- <p>Your life is over; your quest ends here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life is over; your quest ends here.</deadend>
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<p>The craft spins, spiralling downwards at great speed. You pull and push on the lever and the foot bar but the machine<ch.apos/>s crazy descent soon throws you from the craft into mid-air. There is no time for defensive action as you hurtle to the ground, smashing into it seconds after the Ethetron.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>You have thrown the flying machine into a spin. Despite your frantic efforts you are unable to pull the Ethetron from its spiralling fall and it smashes to the ground, sending debris and wreckage flying in all directions. You are killed instantly on impact.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest are now over.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest are now over.</deadend>
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<p>The Ethetron hits the ground, smashing into a thousand tiny pieces. You are killed on impact, a mercifully quick death, and your body is never found.</p>
- <p>Your life and your adventure end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your adventure end here.</deadend>
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<p>You swerve aside but you are seconds too late. The gigantic hand slaps you from the air like an irritating fly and you are smashed into the ground. There is no chance of survival.</p>
- <p>Your quest and your life end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest and your life end here.</deadend>
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<data>
<p>You pass through the hole into total darkness and begin to fall. You try to scream but can make no sound. You are doomed to tumble forever in eternal silence, through a realm of nothingness.</p>
- <p>Your quest ends here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your quest ends here.</deadend>
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<p>Quietly, at first, a muted scream comes from deep within the frozen figure, growing in volume until it reaches a hideous roar. The dissonant wail freezes you to the spot. You cover your ears but you cannot block out the sound. The ground begins to tremble and the palace shudders and begins to fall. Within minutes you are crushed beneath shards of falling debris. You have released the Screaming God and the Singing City is no more.</p>
- <p>Your life and your adventure end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your adventure end here.</deadend>
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<data>
<p>The shriek of the Elessi<ch.apos/>s pipe is the last sound you will ever hear. Clutching your tortured head in agony, you crumple and fall to the ground.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<data>
<p>A shape of monstrous proportions rears up and shoots a white-hot plume of dragon-fire at you, heralding your terrible and instantaneous death. In a huge and soaring ball of flame, you pass from this world, slain by the dragon that has been called to destroy you.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>Your final blow fells the Jahksa. He falls to the ground, a smile frozen on his lips, the Moonstone clenched in his hand. <quote>You think you have beaten me,</quote> his voice echoes. <quote>But I am you. You have slain yourself.</quote></p>
<p>With the Moonstone, an instrument of truth, Shasarak<ch.apos/>s mockery of you has become truth. You have killed yourself.</p>
- <p>You have failed in your quest.</p>
+ <deadend>You have failed in your quest.</deadend>
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<p>The tower wall is smooth and sheer, and the climb extremely difficult. Your progress is further hampered by the illusory nature of the tower: crevices and projections that appear to ornament the tower disappear from view when approached from a different angle.</p>
<p>Just as you reach for a projection, you slip and plummet to the ground. The impact kills you immediately.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest are over.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest are over.</deadend>
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<p>Staff raised in readiness for battle, you turn to attack the lizard. But one chilling glance from its cold and deadly eye transforms you to stone where you stand.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>Bravely you stand your ground, ready to receive the lizard<ch.apos/>s charge. But a single chilling glance from the lizard<ch.apos/>s deadly eye transforms your flesh to stone.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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<p>Gently, you move forward, but as your foot steps onto the flagstone, a great broadsword falls from the ceiling, killing you instantly.</p>
- <p>Your life and your quest end here.</p>
+ <deadend>Your life and your quest end here.</deadend>
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+ <!--Dagorlan [so: Please do not delete; this fixes a false-positive in checkerrata.pl.]-->
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<creator>Paul Bonner</creator>
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- <creator>JC Alvarez /Jonathan Blake</creator>
+ <creator>JC Alvarez / Jonathan Blake</creator>
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<p>(<a idref="sect94">94</a>) Replaced each occurrence of <quote>Chaos-Master</quote> with <quote>Chaos-master</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption. Replaced <quote>beasts and</quote> with <quote>beasts, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect99">99</a>) Replaced <quote>elessin</quote> with <quote>Elessin</quote>. Replaced <quote>guards but</quote> with <quote>guards, but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect100">100</a>) Replaced <quote>west and</quote> with <quote>west, and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect105">105</a>) Replaced <quote>Crabkey, is</quote> with <quote>Crabkey is</quote>. Replaced <quote>embarassed</quote> with <quote>embarrassed</quote>. Replaced <quote>aren<ch.apos/>t you Crabkey</quote> with <quote>aren<ch.apos/>t you, Crabkey</quote>. Replaced <quote>well<ch.ellips/>.</quote> with <quote>well<ch.ellips/></quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect105">105</a>) Replaced <quote>Crabkey, is</quote> with <quote>Crabkey is</quote>. Replaced <quote>embarassed</quote> with <quote>embarrassed</quote>. Replaced <quote>aren<ch.apos/>t you Crabkey</quote> with <quote>aren<ch.apos/>t you, Crabkey</quote>. Replaced <quote>well<ch.ellips/>.</quote> with <quote>well<ch.ellips/></quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect109">109</a>) Replaced <quote>cloud plane</quote> with <quote>cloud plain</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect112">112</a>) Replaced <quote>strength and</quote> with <quote>strength, and</quote>. Replaced <quote>cloud plane</quote> with <quote>cloud plain</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect115">115</a>) Replaced <quote>statue</quote> with <quote>Guardian</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect218">218</a>) Replaced <quote>it.!</quote> with <quote>it!</quote>. Replaced <quote>Jahksa, as</quote> with <quote>Jahksa as</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect220">220</a>) Replaced <quote>the Elessi</quote> with <quote>only one Elessi</quote>. Replaced each occurrence of <quote>Pipe</quote> with <quote>pipe</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect223">223</a>) Replaced <quote>hinge or</quote> with <quote>hinge, or</quote>. Replaced <quote>cloud plane</quote> with <quote>cloud plain</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect226">26</a> Replaced <quote>Staff, and have</quote> with <quote>Staff and have</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect234">234</a>) Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect235">235</a>) Replaced <quote>throat its</quote> with <quote>throat, its</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect237">237</a>) Replaced <quote>laughter; but</quote> with <quote>laughter<ch.emdash/>but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect327">327</a>) Replaced <quote>eternity you</quote> with <quote>eternity, you</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect330">330</a>) Replaced <quote>honorary</quote> with <quote>honoured</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect331">331</a>) Replaced <quote>city and</quote> with <quote>city, and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect334">334</a>) Replaced <quote>horror, there</quote> with <quote>horror. There</quote>. Replaced <quote>Staff, and have</quote> with <quote>Staff and have</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect334">334</a>) Replaced <quote>horror, there</quote> with <quote>horror. There</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect338">338</a>) Replaced <quote>Moonstone and</quote> with <quote>Moonstone, and</quote>. Replaced <quote>surface it</quote> with <quote>surface, it</quote>. Replaced <quote>you, but</quote> with <quote>you but</quote>. Replaced <quote>instruct and, with</quote> with <quote>instruct, and with</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect339">339</a>) Replaced <quote>cloud plane</quote> with <quote>cloud plain</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect340">340</a>) Replaced <quote>agility you</quote> with <quote>agility, you</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect349">349</a>) Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect350">350</a>) Replaced <quote>anticipation you</quote> with <quote>anticipation, you</quote>. Replaced <quote>recognition at</quote> with <quote>recognition, at</quote>. Replaced <quote>titled</quote> with <quote>entitled</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="map">Map</a>) Added label <quote>Dagorlan</quote> to the nameless village in harmony with recent maps of Magnamund.</p>
<p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Added a fourth step <quote>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</quote> in the first step list. Replaced <quote>Turn to <!--a idref="crtable"-->Combat</quote> with <quote>Turn to the <!--a idref="crtable"-->Combat</quote>. Replaced <quote>cross reference</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>.</p>
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