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<title>Shadow on the Sand</title>
<creator class="short">Joe Dever and Gary Chalk</creator>
- <creator class="medium">Joe Dever<br />Illustrated by Gary Chalk</creator>
+ <creator class="medium">
+ <line>Joe Dever</line>
+ <line>Illustrated by Gary Chalk</line>
+ </creator>
<creator class="long">
&inclusion.joe.dever.bio.lw;
&inclusion.gary.chalk.bio.lw;
</creator>
<publisher>Project Aon</publisher>
- <date class="publication"><year>2003</year><month>1</month><day>3</day></date>
+ <date class="publication"><year>2007</year><month>11</month><day>27</day></date>
<description class="blurb">
<p>You are Lone Wolf<ch.emdash/>last of the Kai Lords of Sommerlund, and sole survivor of the massacre that destroyed them during a bitter war with your age-old enemies, the Darklords of Helgedad.</p>
<p>The Zakhan of Vassagonia, the imperial ruler of this desert empire, has sent his most trusted envoy to seek a treaty of peace between your two countries, and the king has asked you to sign the treaty on behalf of your country.</p>
<description class="publication">
<p>Internet Edition published by <a href="&link.project.website;">Project Aon</a>. This edition is intended to reflect the complete text of the original version. Where we have made minor corrections, they will be noted in the <a idref="errata">Errata</a>.</p>
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- <rights class="copyrights">Text copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Joe Dever.<br />Illustrations copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Gary Chalk.</rights>
+ <rights class="copyrights">
+ <line>Text copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Joe Dever.</line>
+ <line>Illustrations copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Gary Chalk.</line>
+ </rights>
<rights class="license-notification">
- <p>Text copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Joe Dever.<br />Illustrations copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Gary Chalk.<br />Distribution of this Internet Edition is restricted under the terms of the <a idref="license">Project Aon License</a>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <line>Text copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Joe Dever.</line>
+ <line>Illustrations copyright <ch.copy/> 1985 Gary Chalk.</line>
+ <line>Distribution of this Internet Edition is restricted under the terms of the <a idref="license">Project Aon License</a>.</line>
+ </p>
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<data>
- <p class="dedication">For Robert Alfred Dever (1917<ch.endash/>1965)<br />and William Roland Chalk</p>
+ <p class="dedication">
+ <line>For Robert Alfred Dever (1917<ch.endash/>1965)</line>
+ <line>and William Roland Chalk</line>
+ </p>
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</section>
<dl>
<dt>Transcription</dt>
- <dd>Julian Egelstaff (mainmatter)<br />Matthew Reynolds (extramatter)</dd>
+ <dd>
+ <line>Julian Egelstaff (mainmatter)</line>
+ <line>Matthew Reynolds (extramatter)</line>
+ </dd>
<dt>Illustration Transcription</dt>
- <dd>Jonathan Blake<br />Paul Haskell<br/>Simon Osborne</dd>
+ <dd>
+ <line>Jonathan Blake</line>
+ <line>Paul Haskell</line>
+ <line>Simon Osborne</line>
+ </dd>
<dt>XML</dt>
- <dd>Jonathan Blake<br />Jeff Dougan<br/>Simon Osborne</dd>
+ <dd>
+ <line>Jonathan Blake</line>
+ <line>Jeff Dougan</line>
+ <line>Simon Osborne</line>
+ </dd>
<dt>Alternate Illustrations</dt>
- <dd>JC Alvarez (action charts)<br />Jonathan Blake (extramatter charts and tables)<br />Michael Hahn (map)</dd>
+ <dd>
+ <line>JC Alvarez (action charts)</line>
+ <line>Jonathan Blake (extramatter charts and tables)</line>
+ <line>Michael Hahn (map)</line>
+ </dd>
<dt>Proofreading</dt>
- <dd>Julian Egelstaff (sections 1<ch.endash/>400)<br />Matthew Reynolds (front matter)</dd>
+ <dd>
+ <line>Julian Egelstaff (sections 1<ch.endash/>400)</line>
+ <line>Matthew Reynolds (front matter)</line>
+ </dd>
<dt>Editing</dt>
- <dd>Robert Ekblad<br />Mike Feldman<br />Scott Ferguson<br/>Ingo Kl<ch.ouml/>cker<br />Mark Laird<br />LeRoy McSwain<br/>Simon Osborne<br />Matthew Reynolds<br />Thomas Wolmer</dd>
+ <dd>
+ <line>Robert Ekblad</line>
+ <line>Mike Feldman</line>
+ <line>Scott Ferguson</line>
+ <line>Ingo Kl<ch.ouml/>cker</line>
+ <line>Mark Laird</line>
+ <line>LeRoy McSwain</line>
+ <line>Simon Osborne</line>
+ <line>Matthew Reynolds</line>
+ <line>Thomas Wolmer</line>
+ </dd>
<dt>Coordination</dt>
<dd>Jonathan Blake</dd>
<dt>Special Thanks</dt>
- <dd>Ryan Marshall</dd>
+ <dd>Ryan Marshall and Neil McGrory</dd>
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<p>You are Lone Wolf<ch.emdash/>last of the Kai Lords of Sommerlund, and sole survivor of the massacre that destroyed them during a bitter war with your age-old enemies, the Darklords of Helgedad.</p>
<p>It is midwinter in your northern homeland and a mantle of snow lies knee-deep in the streets of Holmgard<ch.emdash/>the capital<ch.emdash/>when you are summoned from your monastery in the hills by a messenger bearing a scroll, signed and sealed by the hand of King Ulnar. You are surprised to read the King<ch.apos/>s message, for it is a request for your help in solving an urgent problem of what he describes as <quote>great diplomatic importance</quote>. It seems a strange request to make of a warrior lord, whose skills are better suited to the field of battle than to parleying with foreign envoys. However, you obey the summons and upon your arrival at the capital, all is made clear.</p>
<p>The Zakhan of Vassagonia, the imperial ruler of this desert empire, has sent his most trusted envoy to seek a treaty of peace between your two countries, and you have been asked to sign the treaty on behalf of your country. The reason for this is easily apparent.</p>
- <p>Less than a year ago, a renegade noble of Vassagonia called Barraka led his army of bandits in an attack upon the Sommlending province of Ruanon. This mining town and much of the surrounding land was overrun and destroyed. Many Sommlending lost their lives, and many more were enslaved and forced to labour in the mines of the Maaken range. When the regular convoy from Ruanon failed to arrive at the capital, the king sent you to investigate. A great battle ensued in which you defeated Barraka in mortal combat. Without your courage and skill, the safety of Sommerlund and all of the Lastlands would have been placed in grave peril.</p>
+ <p>Less than a year ago, a renegade noble of Vassagonia called Barraka led his army of bandits in an attack upon the Sommlending province of Ruanon. This mining town and much of the surrounding land was overrun and destroyed. Many Sommlending lost their lives, and many more were enslaved and forced to labour in the mines of the <!--ERRTAG-RE-6220-->Maaken Range<!--/ERRTAG-RE-6220-->. When the regular convoy from Ruanon failed to arrive at the capital, the king sent you to investigate. A great battle ensued in which you defeated Barraka in mortal combat. Without your courage and skill, the safety of Sommerlund and all of the Lastlands would have been placed in grave peril.</p>
<p><quote>Your majesty, the Zakhan is gravely embarrassed by Barraka<ch.apos/>s foul treachery, and is most anxious that our friendship and trust be restored. He begs that you send the Kai warrior, Lone Wolf, to sign a treaty of peace with him at the Grand Palace in Barrakeesh,</quote> whimpers the Zakhan<ch.apos/>s emissary, as he kneels at the feet of King Ulnar.</p>
<p>The king rises from his throne, barely able to conceal his distaste for the fawning envoy. He turns his gaze to you and bids you follow him to the privacy of an antechamber.</p>
<p><quote>I have no liking for this desert realm, Lone Wolf, but I like the prospect of war even less. The Zakhan is old and frail, and has no son to claim his throne when he dies. Barraka was but one of many ruthless nobles who wait like jackals for the chance to seize power, and I fear they grow too impatient to allow the Zakhan to die a natural death. The treaty may not guarantee peace with Vassagonia once the Zakhan is dead, but it will at least buy us precious time to strengthen our southern border.</quote></p>
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<p>You keep a record of your adventure on the <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.</p>
- <p>During your training as a Kai Lord you have developed fighting prowess<ch.emdash/><typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> and physical stamina<ch.emdash/><typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ>. Before you set off on your adventure you need to measure how effective your training has been. To do this take a pencil and, with your eyes closed, point with the blunt end of it
on to the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If you pick 0 it counts as zero.</p>
+ <p>During your training as a Kai Lord you have developed fighting prowess<ch.emdash/><typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> and physical stamina<ch.emdash/><typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ>. Before you set off on your adventure you need to measure how effective your training has been. To do this take a pencil and, with your eyes closed, point with the blunt end of it
<!--ERRTAG-RE-8915-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-8915--> the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If you pick 0 it counts as zero.</p>
<p>The first number that you pick from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> in this way represents your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>. Add 10 to the number you picked and write the total in the <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. (i.e. if your pencil fell on 4 in the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> you would write in a <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> Of 14.) When you fight, your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> will be pitted against that of your enemy. A high score in this section is therefore very desirable.</p>
<p>The second number that you pick from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> represents your powers of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ>. Add 20 to this number and write the total in the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. (i.e. if your pencil fell on the number 6 on the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a> you would have 26 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.)</p>
<p>If you are wounded in combat you will lose <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. If at any time your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points fall to zero or below, you are dead and the adventure is over. Lost <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points can be regained during the course of the adventure, but your number of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points can never go above the number with which you start your adventure.</p>
- <p><strong>If you have successfully completed any of the previous adventures in the <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> series</strong>, you will already have your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>, <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points and Kai Disciplines which you can now carry over with you to Book 5. You may also carry over any Weapons and Special Items that you held at the end of your last adventure, and these should be entered on your new <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> (you are still limited to two Weapons and eight Backpack Items).</p>
+ <p><strong>If you have successfully completed any of the previous adventures in the <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> series</strong>, you will already have your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>, <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points and Kai Disciplines which you can now carry over with you to Book 5. You may also carry over any Weapons and Special Items that you held at the end of your last adventure, and these should be entered on your new <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. (You are still limited to two Weapons and eight Backpack Items.)</p>
<p>You may choose one bonus <a idref="discplnz">Kai Discipline</a> to add to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> for every <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> adventure you have successfully completed; now read the <a idref="equipmnt">section on equipment</a> for Book 5 carefully.</p>
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<creator>Gary Chalk</creator>
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<li>0 = Dagger</li>
<p>Before leaving Holmgard on your voyage to the Vassagonian capital of Barrakeesh, you are given a <a idref="map">map of the desert empire</a> and a pouch of gold. To find out how much gold is in the pouch, pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. Now add 10 to the number you have picked. The total equals the number of Gold Crowns inside the pouch, and you may now enter this number in the Gold Crowns section of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. (If you have successfully completed previous <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> adventures, you may add this sum to the total of any Crowns you may already possess. Remember you can only carry a maximum of fifty Crowns.)</p>
<p>You may take your pick of the following items (in addition to those you already possess, but remember you may only carry two weapons). You may take up to four of the following:</p>
<ul class="paragraphed">
- <li><p>Dagger (Weapons)</p></li>
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+ <p>Dagger (Weapons)</p>
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<p>Potion of Laumspur (Backpack Items). This potion restores 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to your total when swallowed after combat. There is enough for one dose.</p>
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- <li><p>Mace (Weapons)</p></li>
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<p>Shield (Special Items). This adds 2 points to your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> when used in combat.</p>
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<dt>Weapons</dt>
- <dd>The maximum number of weapons that you may carry is two.</dd>
+ <dd>The maximum number of weapons that you may carry is <em>two</em>.</dd>
<dt>Backpack Items</dt>
<dd>These must be stored in your Backpack. Because space is limited, you may only keep a maximum of eight articles, including Meals, in your Backpack at any one time.</dd>
<dt>Special Items</dt>
<dd><p>During your travels you will discover various useful items which you may wish to keep. (Remember you can only carry a maximum of eight items in your Backpack at any time.) You may exchange or discard them at any point when you are not involved in combat.</p></dd>
<dt>Special Items</dt>
<dd>
- <p>Special Items are not carried in the Backpack. When you discover a Special Item, you will be told how to carry it. If you have successfully completed previous <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> books, you may already possess Special Items. Before you begin <cite>Shadow on the Sand</cite>, you may choose to leave any or all of these items in <quote>safekeeping</quote> at your Kai Monastery in Sommerlund. Special Items in <quote>safekeeping</quote> cannot be used, but also they cannot be lost during your adventure.</p>
+ <p>Special Items are not carried in the Backpack. When you discover a Special Item, you will be told how to carry it. If you have successfully completed previous <cite>Lone Wolf</cite> books, you may already possess Special Items. Before you begin <cite>Shadow on the Sand</cite>, you may choose to leave any or all of these items in <quote>safekeeping</quote> at your Kai Monastery in Sommerlund. Special Items in <quote>safekeeping</quote> cannot be used, but <!--ERRTAG-RE-26274-->neither can they<!--/ERRTAG-RE-26274--> be lost during your adventure.</p>
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<dt>Gold Crowns</dt>
<dd><p>The currency of Sommerlund and Vassagonia is the Crown, which is a small gold coin. Whenever you kill a creature and search the body, you may take any Gold Crowns that you find and put them in your Belt Pouch.</p></dd>
<li>
<p>Subtract the <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> of your enemy from this total. The result is your Combat Ratio. Enter it on the <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.</p>
<p>Example</p>
- <p>Lone Wolf (<typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> 15) is ambushed by a Winged Devil (<typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> 20). He is not given the opportunity to evade combat, but must stand and fight as the creature swoops down on him. Lone Wolf has the Kai Discipline of Mindblast, to which the Winged Devil is not immune, so he adds 2 points to his <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>, giving a total <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> Of 17.</p>
+ <p>Lone Wolf (<typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> 15) is ambushed by a Winged Devil (<typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> 20). He is not given the opportunity to evade combat, but must stand and fight as the creature swoops down on him. Lone Wolf has the Kai Discipline of Mindblast, to which the Winged Devil is not immune, so he adds 2 points to his <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>, giving a total <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> of 17.</p>
<p>He subtracts the Winged Devil<ch.apos/>s <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> from his own, giving a Combat Ratio of <ch.minus/>3. (17 <ch.minus/> 20 = <ch.minus/>3). <ch.minus/>3 is noted on the <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> as the Combat Ratio.</p>
</li>
<li><p><a id="stage3">When you have your Combat Ratio</a>, pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless otherwise instructed, or unless you have an option to evade, the next round of combat now starts.</p></li>
<li><p>Repeat the sequence from <a idref="stage3">Stage 3</a>.</p></li>
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- <p>This process of combat continues until the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points of either the enemy or Lone Wolf are reduced to zero or below, at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead. If Lone Wolf is dead, the adventure is over. If the enemy is dead, Lone Wolf proceeds but with his <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points possibly reduced.</p>
+ <p>This process of combat continues until the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points of either the enemy or Lone Wolf are reduced to zero or below, <!--ERRTAG-RE-31271-->at which point that combatant is declared dead.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-31271--> If Lone Wolf is dead, the adventure is over. If the enemy is dead, Lone Wolf proceeds but with his <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points possibly reduced.</p>
<p>A <a idref="crsumary">summary of Combat Rules</a> appears in the back of this book.</p>
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- <p>It is early afternoon when the ramparts of the desert capital are first sighted on the horizon. You push your way through the cheering crew, and join the envoy at the prow of the ship. Beaming with pride, he hands you a telescope and invites you to view the land of his birth. The site is indeed breathtaking. You stare in fascination at the golden domes, minarets and green-tiled roofs shimmering beneath the desert sun, and marvel at the splendour of the Grand Palace, which dominates this magnificent city. Then you notice that from every golden turret of the palace flutters a long, black pennant. You ask the envoy of the meaning of the black flags. Horror floods across his face as he snatches the telescope from your hands. <quote>By the spirit of the Majhan! He is dead <ch.ellips/> The Zakhan is dead!</quote></p>
+ <p>It is early afternoon when the ramparts of the desert capital are first sighted on the horizon. You push your way through the cheering crew, and join the envoy at the prow of the ship. Beaming with pride, he hands you a telescope and invites you to view the land of his birth. The sight is indeed breathtaking. You stare in fascination at the golden domes, minarets and green-tiled roofs shimmering beneath the desert sun, and marvel at the splendour of the Grand Palace, which dominates this magnificent city. Then you notice that from every golden turret of the palace flutters a long, black pennant. You ask the envoy of the meaning of the black flags. Horror floods across his face as he snatches the telescope from your hands. <quote>By the spirit of the Majhan! He is dead <ch.ellips/> The Zakhan is dead!</quote></p>
<p>As the bad news spreads through the ship, you pray that the peace treaty will be signed and honoured by the Zakhan<ch.apos/>s successor. However, the envoy is less than hopeful.</p>
<p>The harbour of Barrakeesh is deserted save for a handful of citizens clad in black, and the only sound that greets you is the toll of a funeral bell, echoing through the harbour on this day of mourning. Then a horse-drawn carriage enters the harbour square, escorted by the cavalry of the Palace Guard. It halts, and a dour man in turquoise robes steps out to meet you.</p>
<p><quote>A thousand greetings, Lone Wolf, I am Maouk, and I welcome you to our city on behalf of my master, his most sublime magnificence, Zakhan Kimah.</quote></p>
<p>The envoy gasps upon hearing the name of the new Zakhan. He turns to speak, his eyes wild with fear. <quote>It is a trap, you must<ch.ellips/></quote></p>
- <p>His warning is cut short by the blade of Maouk<ch.apos/>s dagger. Suddenly, scores of black-clad warriors emerge from the shadows; they are Sharnazim, elite Vassagonian bodyguards. They close in, surrounding you on every side. You must act quickly if you are to survive this deadly trap.</p>
+ <p>His warning is cut short by the blade of Maouk<ch.apos/>s dagger. Suddenly, scores of black-clad warriors emerge from the shadows; they are Sharnazim, <ch.eacute/>lite Vassagonian bodyguards. They close in, surrounding you on every side. You must act quickly if you are to survive this deadly trap.</p>
<choice idref="sect36">If you wish to stand and fight against these overwhelming odds, <link-text>turn to 36</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect176">If you wish to surrender to Maouk and his warriors, <link-text>turn to 176</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect104">If you wish to run back to the galley, <link-text>turn to 104</link-text>.</choice>
<combat><enemy>Palace Gaoler</enemy><enemy-attribute class="combatskill">14</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">21</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Ignore all <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points lost by the enemy in the first round of combat, for you can only attempt to parry his blow.</p>
<choice idref="sect165">If you win and the fight lasts for 4 rounds of combat or less, <link-text>turn to 165</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect180">If the fight lasts longer than 4 rounds of combat, <link-text>turn to 180</link-text>.<a id="sect4-1" idref="sect4-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect180">If the fight lasts longer than 4 rounds of combat, <link-text>turn to 180</link-text>.<footref id="sect4-1" idref="sect4-1-foot" /></choice>
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- <p>You channel all your Kai skill into detecting the number that will open the door; it is a strenuous task, and one that demands great concentration. Gradually, the image of two numbers<ch.emdash/>six and seven<ch.emdash/>begin to form in your mind. The image is hazy, and you<ch.apos/>re not sure if the number is sixty-seven or seventy-six. You are exhausted by your efforts, and they have cost you to 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Deduct these from your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points total before choosing between the two possibilities.</p>
+ <p>You channel all your Kai skill into detecting the number that will open the door; it is a strenuous task, and one that demands great concentration. Gradually, the image of two numbers<ch.emdash/>six and seven<ch.emdash/>begin to form in your mind. The image is hazy, and you<ch.apos/>re not sure if the number is sixty-seven or seventy-six. You are exhausted by your efforts, and they have cost you 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Deduct these from your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points total before choosing between the two possibilities.</p>
<choice idref="sect67">If you decide to choose sixty-seven, <link-text>turn to 67</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect76">If you decide to choose seventy-six, <link-text>turn to 76</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The Sharnazim surround you and drag you to your feet. They take your Backpack, your Weapons, your Gold Crowns and all your Special Items.<a id="sect10-1" idref="sect10-1-foot" class="footnote" /> (Make all the necessary adjustments to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.) Your hands are tied with wire, and you are frogmarched back to the plaza. A carriage is waiting. As you are thrown in head first, Maouk climbs aboard and, gloating with triumph, gives the command: <quote>Back to the Grand Palace. The Zakhan awaits his prize.</quote></p>
+ <p>The Sharnazim surround you and drag you to your feet. They take your Backpack, your Weapons, your Gold Crowns and all your Special Items.<footref id="sect10-1" idref="sect10-1-foot" /> (Make all the necessary adjustments to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.) Your hands are tied with wire, and you are frogmarched back to the plaza. A carriage is waiting. As you are thrown in head-first, Maouk climbs aboard and, gloating with triumph, gives the command: <quote>Back to the Grand Palace. The Zakhan awaits his prize.</quote></p>
<p>You struggle to free yourself from the wire that cuts into your wrists, but Maouk is quick to see the danger. He grabs your arm and forces a dart into your skin. As sleep numbs all your senses, the last sound you hear is Maouk<ch.apos/>s wicked laughter.</p>
<choice idref="sect69"><link-text>Turn to 69</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>a deadly salt water scavenger.</line>
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- <p>You step into a perfect hemisphere. The walls of the chamber curve smoothly into the ceiling, where a small window casts a splash of light across the floor. There is a large circular dais in the centre of the room laden with incense burners, decanters, quilts, scrolls, cloaks, urns and all kinds of fruit and sweetmeats. A drawer catches your eye, protruding from beneath the lip of the dais; you recognize the contents. You have found your confiscated equipment. Restore to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> all the Backpack Items, Special Items, Weapons and Gold Crowns you lost when you were imprisoned.</p>
+ <p>You step into a perfect hemisphere. The walls of the chamber curve smoothly into the ceiling, where a small window casts a splash of light across the floor. There is a large circular dais in the centre of the room laden with incense burners, decanters, quilts, scrolls, cloaks, <!--ERRTAG-RE-50398-->urns, and all kinds of fruit<!--/ERRTAG-RE-50398--> and sweetmeats. A drawer catches your eye, protruding from beneath the lip of the dais; you recognize the contents. You have found your confiscated equipment. Restore to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> all the Backpack Items, Special Items, <!--ERRTAG-RE-50717-->Weapons, and Gold Crowns<!--/ERRTAG-RE-50717--> you lost when you were imprisoned.</p>
<p>Elated by your discovery, you resolve to escape from the Grand Palace as quickly as possible. There is only one other door, apart from the one by which you entered the chamber, which is set into the north wall.</p>
<choice idref="sect58">If you wish to leave the chamber, <link-text>turn to 58</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect131">If you wish to search the chamber for useful items, <link-text>turn to 131</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You rush into the cellar and bolt the door. Pressing your ear to the gnarled timber, you listen intently to the noise of Maouk<ch.apos/>s angry soldiers. They have entered the building and it will only be a matter of time before they notice the cellar door. You cast your eyes around the room. It is empty except for a Coil of Rope and a Tinderbox. Then you notice that there is another way out of the small stone room<ch.emdash/>an iron grille in the centre of the floor. However, the horrible stench rising from it turns your stomach.</p>
- <choice idref="sect51">If you wish to leave the cellar by the grille, <link-text>turn to 51</link-text></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect51">If you wish to leave the cellar by the grille, <link-text>turn to 51</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect123">If you decide to stay in the cellar, prepare for combat and <link-text>turn to 123</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>the hooves of his startled horse.</line>
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<choice idref="sect142">If you wish to evade combat at any time by jumping into the sea, <link-text>turn to 142</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect176">If you wish to evade combat by surrendering, <link-text>turn to 176</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect125">If you win the combat in three rounds or less, <link-text>turn to 125</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect82">If the fight lasts longer than three rounds, <link-text>turn to 82</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect161">If you lose the combat, <link-text>turn to 161</link-text>.<a id="sect20-1" idref="sect20-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
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<p>As you leave, she offers a word of advice. <quote>The guards at the north gate of the Grand Palace can be bribed.</quote> You thank her and enter the alley running along the side of her shop.</p>
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<p>As you start to climb, two Sharnazim warriors suddenly emerge from the insect-choked tunnel. They lunge at you, their hands outstretched, their fingers hooked to claw at your legs and drag you down. You kick out and strike one of the cruel-faced men beneath the jaw. He clutches at his throat and gives a gurgling cry as he falls backwards into the slimy water.</p>
<p>You reach the stone trapdoor, but the other warrior has unsheathed his scimitar and has begun to climb the ladder; he no longer intends to capture you alive. Pressing your shoulder to the cobwebbed trapdoor, you push up the heavy stone and scramble out to find yourself in a noisy alley, crowded with people and market stalls. The sewer hole itself is close to a wicker table stacked high with bundles of torches.</p>
- <choice idref="sect143">If you possess a Kalte Firesphere or a Tinderbox, <link-text>turn to 143</link-text>.<a id="sect31-1" idref="sect31-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect143">If you possess a Kalte Firesphere or a Tinderbox, <link-text>turn to 143</link-text>.<footref id="sect31-1" idref="sect31-1-foot" /></choice>
<choice idref="sect183">If you do not have either of these Items, <link-text>turn to 183</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You raise the hood of your cloak and hurry through the open doors into the dark, cool hall. The people are kneeling in front of a pulpit where a holy man, dressed in flowing robes of black and gold, reads aloud from a gem-encrusted book. Behind him, the face of the late Zakhan, immortalized in a tapestry suspended from the roof by huge silken cords, looks down on the mourners.</p>
- <p>The congregation is wrapped in prayer, and nobody sees you enter. The ceremony soon comes to an end, and you are able to slip past Maouk<ch.apos/>s men as the mourners flood into the streets.</p>
+ <p>The congregation is rapt in prayer, and nobody sees you enter. The ceremony soon comes to an end, and you are able to slip past Maouk<ch.apos/>s men as the mourners flood into the streets.</p>
<choice idref="sect169"><link-text>Turn to 169</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The great snake shudders and convulses in the throes of death. The smell of its thick brown blood is disgusting, and you have to hold your breath and grit your teeth as you lift the dead Yas away from the chest and peer inside.</p>
- <p>You discover six silver-handled maces, each beautifully carved and encrusted with rubies, emeralds and pearls. In the Northlands these weapons would fetch thousands of Crowns. At the bottom of the chest, you also discover a small Copper Key. If you wish to take either a Jewelled Mace or the Copper Key, or both, mark them on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> as Special Items.<a id="sect35-1" idref="sect35-1-foot" class="footnote" /> You carry the Copper Key in the pocket of your tunic and the Jewelled Mace tucked into your belt.</p>
+ <p>You discover six silver-handled maces, each beautifully carved and encrusted with rubies, <!--ERRTAG-RE-69812-->emeralds, and pearls<!--/ERRTAG-RE-69812-->. In the Northlands these weapons would fetch thousands of Crowns. At the bottom of the chest, you also discover a small Copper Key. If you wish to take either a Jewelled Mace or the Copper Key, or both, mark them on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> as Special Items.<footref id="sect35-1" idref="sect35-1-foot" /> You carry the Copper Key in the pocket of your tunic and the Jewelled Mace tucked into your belt.</p>
<p>The acidic smell of the snake blood is beginning to make you retch. Quickly, you climb the stone steps and leave the armoury by the north door.</p>
<choice idref="sect14"><link-text>Turn to 14</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Halfway round the small tower, a section of the sandstone ledge begins to crumble beneath your feet. Instinctively, you leap sideways and stretch out your hands in time to grasp the firm ledge beyond. The drop below is terrifying, but your terror gives you the impetus and strength you need to claw your way back on to the ledge. Your fingers are bleeding and bruised, but you are still alive. You lose 1 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point.</p>
+ <p>Halfway round the small tower, a section of the sandstone ledge begins to crumble beneath your feet. Instinctively, you leap sideways and stretch out your hands in time to grasp the firm ledge beyond. The drop below is terrifying, but your terror gives you the impetus and strength you need to claw your way back <!--ERRTAG-RE-71865-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-71865--> the ledge. Your fingers are bleeding and bruised, but you are still alive. You lose 1 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point.</p>
<choice idref="sect87"><link-text>Turn to 87</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>At the end of the corridor lies a hall full of weapons. Racks of spears and swords line the chamber walls, and a massive workbench covers the floor. It is the palace armoury. In the midst of the tools which litter the workbench, there is a large, black, leather-bound book.</p>
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<p>Impaled upon the sharp iron pole is the head of the Vassagonian envoy. To either side are the heads of all the galley crew. On each of their foreheads is freshly branded one word<ch.emdash/>TRAITOR. Fear wells up inside you; turning your face away from the sightless eyes, you run into the crowded streets of the Mikarum, the district where the spice and herb merchants live.</p>
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- <p>A search of the baskets crowding the little boat uncovers a beautifully hand-tooled leather case. You flick open the brass catch and discover that the case contains a Jakan<ch.emdash/>a hunting bow used by the coastal fishermen of Vassagonia.<a id="sect56-1" idref="sect56-1-foot" class="footnote" /> You are elated by your find but disappointed to discover that the case contains only one arrow.</p>
+ <p>A search of the baskets crowding the little boat uncovers a beautifully hand-tooled leather case. You flick open the brass catch and discover that the case contains a Jakan<ch.emdash/>a hunting bow used by the coastal fishermen of Vassagonia.<footref id="sect56-1" idref="sect56-1-foot" /> You are elated by your find but disappointed to discover that the case contains only one arrow.</p>
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<p>Across the harbour square, close to Maouk<ch.apos/>s carriage, you notice a small, white-walled shop where a row of green glass flagons line a balcony on the first floor. You draw the bowstring to your lips and take careful aim; it is a difficult shot, and you have only one chance.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If you possess the Kai Discipline of Weaponskill (any weapon), add 2 to the number you have picked.</p>
<choice idref="sect7">If your total is now 0<ch.endash/>3, <link-text>turn to 7</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct.
. If you choose the wrong section, then turn to <a idref="sect156">Section 156</a> as indicated above. You do not get a second guess.</p>
+ <p>The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct. If you choose the wrong section, then turn to <a idref="sect156">Section 156</a> as indicated above. You do not get a second guess.</p>
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<p>You follow a straight passage of pale, rose-coloured stone, which soon ends at an empty vestibule. In its north wall is set a great wooden door, covered with engraved bronze plaques and studded with bronze nails. There is a curious lock set into the middle of this door, encircled by a beautiful carving of a long-tailed scorpion. A closer look at the lock reveals a series of Vassagonian numerals, numbered 1 to 200, engraved in the lock. You recognize the design: it is a Cloeasian combination lock.</p>
- <p>If you know the correct number that will open the bronze door, turn to that section number.<a id="sect58-1" idref="sect58-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
+ <p>If you know the correct number that will open the bronze door, turn to that section number.<footref id="sect58-1" idref="sect58-1-foot" /></p>
<choice idref="sect156">If you do not know the number that will open the door, <link-text>turn to 156</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>from out of the dark.</line>
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- <p>You hear a faint click followed by a soft whirring sound; the bronze door slides open. As you hurry through, the door clicks shut behind your back, as softly as it had opened.<a id="sect67-1" idref="sect67-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
- <p>Instinct tells you that you have entered the chambers of the upper palace, the sumptuous private enclave of the Zakhan. You walk upon glistening tiles of opal and platinum, past sculptures and statues of pure gold. The door of solid amethyst ahead seems plain in comparison to the breathtaking splendour of this private world. Beyond the door lies another unique and startlingly beautiful world: the arboretum. A circular, cathedral-like arena spreads out below you, the green velvet canopy alive with the sound of bird song. Trees of every colour, shape and size flourish in the deep, dark soil of the floor. The Zakhan<ch.apos/>s arboretum houses a specimen of every tree that grows in Magnamund, and many species that are now extinct. As you walk the wrought iron balcony which encircles the arboretum, you recognize the leaves of a Sommlending oak. You feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but it does not make you despair; rather it renews your determination to escape from this hostile, sun-bleached land.</p>
+ <p>You hear a faint <onomatopoeia>click</onomatopoeia> followed by a soft whirring sound; the bronze door slides open. As you hurry through, the door clicks shut behind your back, as softly as it had opened.<footref id="sect67-1" idref="sect67-1-foot" /></p>
+ <p>Instinct tells you that you have entered the chambers of the upper palace, the sumptuous private enclave of the Zakhan. You walk upon glistening tiles of opal and platinum, past sculptures and statues of pure gold. The door of solid amethyst ahead seems plain in comparison to the breathtaking splendour of this private world. Beyond the door lies another unique and startlingly beautiful world: the arboretum. A circular, cathedral-like arena spreads out below you, the green velvet canopy alive with the sound of bird song. Trees of every colour, shape and size flourish in the deep, dark soil of the floor. The Zakhan<ch.apos/>s arboretum houses a specimen of every tree that grows in Magnamund, and many species that are <!--ERRTAG-RE-100623-->now extinct elsewhere<!--/ERRTAG-RE-100623-->. As you walk the wrought iron balcony which encircles the arboretum, you recognize the leaves of a Sommlending oak. You feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but it does not make you despair; rather it renews your determination to escape from this hostile, sun-bleached land.</p>
<p>At one of the exits from the arboretum, you discover a Quarterstaff propped against the wall. (If you wish to take this, remember to mark it on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.) The desire to escape urges you on as you leave the arboretum and hurry through a network of lavish corridors and empty, deserted vestibules. You reach a landing where a broad staircase descends to a massive room that occupies most of the lower palace.</p>
<p>From the top of the staircase, hidden by the shadow of a pilaster, you stare down on a sight that freezes your blood with terror.</p>
<choice idref="sect200"><link-text>Turn to 200</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You wake up in great discomfort;<a id="sect69-1" idref="sect69-1-foot" class="footnote" /> every muscle of your body feels knotted and bruised. You force open eyelids clogged with dried sweat, and look with dread at your wretched surroundings. You are lying on the hard stone floor of a prison cell. Over by the far wall, beneath a window criss-crossed with iron bars, is a low wooden bunk covered in filthy rags. Cockroaches, some the size of field mice, scuttle along a foul-smelling gutter that disappears into a grating in the floor.</p>
+ <p>You wake up in great discomfort;<footref id="sect69-1" idref="sect69-1-foot" /> every muscle of your body feels knotted and bruised. You force open eyelids clogged with dried sweat, and look with dread at your wretched surroundings. You are lying on the hard stone floor of a prison cell. Over by the far wall, beneath a window criss-crossed with iron bars, is a low wooden bunk covered in filthy rags. Cockroaches, some the size of field mice, scuttle along a foul-smelling gutter that disappears into a grating in the floor.</p>
<p>You discover that your hands are free and slowly pull yourself upright into a sitting position, resting your back against the cell door. A faint draught from the corridor outside provides the only relief from the stifling heat and bad air of the cell. In the distance you can hear footsteps approaching. Then there is a jangle of keys and the creak of hinges. A door closes with a dull thud. More footsteps; they are getting louder. They come to halt outside the cell door and a loud voice bellows out: <quote>Sleeping on duty, Sefrou? You<ch.apos/>ll wake up on the other side of this door if the captain catches you!</quote></p>
<p>The chair scrapes along the ground, and a startled voice, full of indignation, replies: <quote>Curse you, Hadj! The Zakhan doesn<ch.apos/>t want the Northlander taken to the Grand Hall until sunset. You<ch.apos/>ve cheated me of two hours sleep.</quote></p>
<p><quote>Shut up, Sefrou,</quote> snarls the first voice, <quote>and listen hard. I<ch.apos/>ve just come from the armoury. Some interesting trinkets were found on the Northlander, worth a great deal of gold I<ch.apos/>d say. Seems a pity to let them go to waste, eh?</quote></p>
<p>The two guards chuckle greedily and discuss at length the good time they will be able to have in the city, once they have sold your equipment.</p>
<p><quote>I<ch.apos/>ll take a peek at our friend,</quote> says one of the guards. <quote>I wonder if he<ch.apos/>s enjoying our hospitality?</quote></p>
<p>A spy-hole slides opened above your head and you hear a gasp of shock. <quote>He<ch.apos/>s gone! He<ch.apos/>s gone! By the Majhan, we<ch.apos/>ll lose our heads!</quote> You suddenly realize that you cannot be seen so close to the door.</p>
- <p><quote>Let me see,</quote> hisses the other guard, eager to see for himself. You hear the click of a key in the lock; this could be your chance to escape.</p>
+ <p><quote>Let me see,</quote> hisses the other guard, eager to see for himself. You hear the <onomatopoeia>click</onomatopoeia> of a key in the lock; this could be your chance to escape.</p>
<choice idref="sect138">If you wish to attack the guards as soon as the door opens, <link-text>turn to 138</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect85">If you wish to move away from the door and stand in the middle of the cell, <link-text>turn to 85</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You twist the handle but the gate is locked. You are about to turn and run when suddenly the gate flies open: a man stands in the doorway. <quote>Quickly Northlander, I will hide you!</quote> The man steps back to allow you to enter.</p>
+ <p>You twist the handle but the gate is locked. You are about to turn and run when suddenly the gate flies open: a man stands in the doorway. <quote><!--ERRTAG-RE-111078-->Quickly, Northlander. I<!--/ERRTAG-RE-111078--> will hide you!</quote> The man steps back to allow you to enter.</p>
<choice idref="sect24">If you wish to enter, <link-text>turn to 24</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect169">If you wish to refuse in climb the path towards the archway, <link-text>turn to 169</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect169">If you wish to refuse and climb the path towards the archway, <link-text>turn to 169</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect117">If you wish to enter the alley, <link-text>turn to 117</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You are about to discard the log when you notice a folded piece of parchment tucked into the spine. It is a list of dates and numbers with a heading in bold print: <quote><strong>The Bronze Door</strong></quote>. You scan the page and locate today<ch.apos/>s date. The number listed next to it is <quote>67</quote>. Make a note of this number in the margin of your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a><ch.emdash/>it could be of use at a later stage of your adventure.</p>
- <p>You throw the book back on to the cluttered bench and begin to search for your missing equipment.</p>
+ <p>You throw the book back <!--ERRTAG-RE-116673-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-116673--> the cluttered bench and begin to search for your missing equipment.</p>
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- <p>You dive into the putrid water, stealing yourself for the ghastly swim you have decided to make. The oily scum fills your nose and mouth and chokes in your throat. You claw your way across the vault to the opposite tunnel and struggle on to a narrow walkway. You are trembling, but it is not the shock of the swim that has made you shiver. Your arm will not function. Your shoulder, wounded when the trapdoor grille fell, stings painfully, and the whole arm below it is numb and useless. Horror engulfs you as you realize what is wrong.</p>
+ <p>You dive into the putrid water, stealing yourself for the ghastly swim you have decided to make. The oily scum fills your nose and mouth and chokes in your throat. You claw your way across the vault to the opposite tunnel and struggle <!--ERRTAG-RE-117237-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-117237--> a narrow walkway. You are trembling, but it is not the shock of the swim that has made you shiver. Your arm will not function. Your shoulder, wounded when the trapdoor grille fell, stings painfully, and the whole arm below it is numb and useless. Horror engulfs you as you realize what is wrong.</p>
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<line>in the far wall, reading a scroll.</line>
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<p><quote>By the Majhan!</quote> he cries. <quote>You smell worse than a Baknar!</quote> He hurls a towel at you and points to the door. <quote>Take my advice,</quote> he whines, his fingers pinching shut his nostrils. <quote>Don<ch.apos/>t get undressed<ch.emdash/>your clothes need the bath as much as you.</quote></p>
<combat><enemy>Palace Gaoler</enemy><enemy-attribute class="combatskill">14</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">21</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>You must deduct 4 points from your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> for the duration of this combat, as you are without a weapon.</p>
<choice idref="sect65">If you win and the fight lasts 4 rounds of combat or less, <link-text>turn to 65</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect180">If the fight lasts longer than 4 rounds of combat, <link-text>turn to 180</link-text>.<a id="sect91-1" idref="sect91-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect180">If the fight lasts longer than 4 rounds of combat, <link-text>turn to 180</link-text>.<footref id="sect91-1" idref="sect91-1-foot" /></choice>
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<p>You descend the stairs and follow the corridor eastwards, taking care to tread lightly. The bars on windows high in the wall to your right cast latticed shadows across the smooth marble floor ahead. Beneath one of these windows stands a table on which rests a pitcher of water. Your throat is parched, and you stop to take a long drink. Restore 1 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point.</p>
- <choice idref="sect155">If you wish to climb on to the table and look through the window, <link-text>turn to 155</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect155">If you wish to climb <!--ERRTAG-RE-127304-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-127304--> the table and look through the window, <link-text>turn to 155</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect182">If you wish to press on along the corridor, <link-text>turn to 182</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You fall face first into putrid water. The oily slime fills your ears and nose and chokes in your throat. You surface and struggle on to a narrow walkway, only to find that your arm no longer functions. Your wounded shoulder, injured by the falling trapdoor grille, still stings painfully, but now the whole arm below it is numb and useless. Horror overcomes you as you realize what is wrong.</p>
+ <p>You fall face first into putrid water. The oily slime fills your ears and nose and chokes in your throat. You surface and struggle <!--ERRTAG-RE-127820-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-127820--> a narrow walkway, only to find that your arm no longer functions. Your wounded shoulder, injured by the falling trapdoor grille, still stings painfully, but now the whole arm below it is numb and useless. Horror overcomes you as you realize what is wrong.</p>
<choice idref="sect81"><link-text>Turn to 81</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The water is clotted with a revolting variety of green and black muck and scum. It reaches up to your waist, and, as you force your way through the glutinous mire, the surface film breaks, releasing a vile gas. You have to cover your nose and mouth with your Kai cloak, for the stench is appalling. The sudden splash warns that Maouk<ch.apos/>s men are not far behind.</p>
+ <p>The water is clotted with a revolting variety of green and black muck and scum. It reaches up to your waist, and, as you force your way through the glutinous mire, the surface film breaks, releasing a vile gas. You have to cover your nose and mouth with your Kai cloak, for the stench is appalling. A sudden splash warns that Maouk<ch.apos/>s men are not far behind.</p>
<p>Your foot catches in something buried in the silt of the tunnel floor, and for one brief second, you are seized by total panic. You struggle to kick free but are held fast. Blindly, you stab your weapon beneath the filthy water until your foot is finally freed. As you withdraw your weapon, you half-expect to find some hideous sewer creature impaled upon it. Instead, you discover a human rib cage. You shudder and flick the bones back into the stinking mire.</p>
<p>The channel soon divides: the new tunnel heads west and the other continues southwards. The splashing has grown steadily louder<ch.emdash/>Maouk<ch.apos/>s men are gaining on you.</p>
<choice idref="sect135">If you wish to head west, <link-text>turn to 135</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p><quote>Take him!</quote> shouts Maouk, <quote>but take him alive!</quote></p>
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<p>You sprint towards the distant galley. The crew are still unaware of the desperate situation. They have not witnessed the murder of the envoy and are still oblivious to your peril. Before you can shout for help, a horseman cuts across your path, blocking your access to the ship.</p>
<choice idref="sect20">If you wish to attack the horseman, <link-text>turn to 20</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect142">If you wish to evade combat by diving into the sea, <link-text>turn to 142</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You crash on to the rider and pull him from the saddle, but you land badly and lose your grip. The courier is first to stagger to his feet; he unsheathes his sword and attacks before you have a chance to stand up.</p>
+ <p>You crash <!--ERRTAG-RE-138747-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-138747--> the rider and pull him from the saddle, but you land badly and lose your grip. The courier is first to stagger to his feet; he unsheathes his sword and attacks before you have a chance to stand up.</p>
<combat><enemy>Courier</enemy><enemy-attribute class="combatskill">16</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<p>Deduct 2 from your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> for the first 3 rounds of combat, as you are still lying on the ground. You cannot evade combat and must fight the courier to the death.</p>
<line>before you have a chance to stand up.</line>
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<choice idref="sect189">If you win the combat, <link-text>turn to 189</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You soon reach a section of tunnel where the ceiling is much higher. A stone walkway lines the left wall, with steps at regular intervals. You pull yourself on to the walkway and begin to scrape away the worst of the slime that encrusts your legs.</p>
+ <p>You soon reach a section of tunnel where the ceiling is much higher. A stone walkway lines the left wall, with steps at regular intervals. You pull yourself <!--ERRTAG-RE-144012-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-144012--> the walkway and begin to scrape away the worst of the slime that encrusts your legs.</p>
<choice idref="sect133">If you have the Kai Discipline of Animal Kinship, <link-text>turn to 133</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect64">If you wish to continue along the walkway, <link-text>turn to 64</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect116">If you wish to climb a narrow stair in the left wall, <link-text>turn to 116</link-text>.</choice>
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<choice idref="sect60">If you wish to attack the warriors, <link-text>turn to 60</link-text>.</choice>
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<choice idref="sect51">You can evade the combat at any stage by escaping through the trapdoor. <link-text>Turn to 51</link-text>.</choice>
<line>his face covered by a pad of herbs.</line>
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<choice idref="sect161">If you lose this combat, <link-text>turn to 161</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Inside, at the end of a long aisle, is a workbench, littered with spearheads, sword hilts and all manner of armourer<ch.apos/>s tools. In the midst of this tangled mess is a large, black, leather-bound book.</p>
<line>the deluge of burning filth.</line>
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<p>You run with the crowd through the sewage-stained alleys until you reach a busy market square, unpolluted by the blast. Your eye is caught by a sign hanging above the side door of a large hall:</p>
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<choice idref="sect57">If you wish to investigate the east door, <link-text>turn to 57</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You part the bead curtain that hangs across the doorway and enter the cool interior. The light is poor and the room gloomy, for the windows are obscured by sheaves of herbs and plants. You are studying a curious row of coloured bottles when a woman appears. She has piercing green eyes and her red hair is raised, bound with rings of jadin. Softly, she speaks to you.</p>
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<p><quote>Welcome, Northlander. I sense you are a warrior<ch.emdash/>or am I mistaken?</quote> As you hesitate to answer, she shrugs her shoulders and searches through a pile of parchments stacked on top of a wine casket. She blows away the dust before handing you a yellowed sheet. It is a list of merchandise, written in Sommlending:</p>
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<li>Potion of Alether (increases <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> by 2 for the duration of 1 combat)<ch.emdash/>4 Gold Crowns</li>
<li>Tincture of Graveweed (causes sickness and loss of 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points per dose)<ch.emdash/>1 Gold Crown</li>
<li>Tincture of Calacena (causes terrifying hallucinations for 1-2 hours per dose)<ch.emdash/>2 Gold Crowns</li>
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- <p>You may purchase any of the above;<a id="sect154-1" idref="sect154-1-foot" class="footnote" /> all potions, vials and tinctures are Backpack Items. You then leave the shop and continue along the street.</p>
+ <p>You may purchase any of the above;<footref id="sect154-1" idref="sect154-1-foot" /> all potions, vials and tinctures are Backpack Items. You then leave the shop and continue along the street.</p>
<choice idref="sect179"><link-text>Turn to 179</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>something crawls up your forearm.</line>
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<choice idref="sect114">If you are still alive after climbing past the nest, or if you fight the Steamspiders and win, <link-text>turn to 114</link-text>.</choice>
<p>With a tiger-like bound you are among the startled guards. The blowpipe firer raises his weapon, but a well-aimed kick to the forehead counters his move. He somersaults backwards, cracking his head against the wall with a sickening thud. A trident flashes towards your ribs; you sidestep and grab the haft with your free hand, pulling the guard off balance. He stumbles forward and falls flat on his face. You turn just in time to face the third guard<ch.emdash/>his trident is poised to stab you.</p>
<combat><enemy>Vestibule Guard</enemy><enemy-attribute class="combatskill">15</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<choice idref="sect101">If you win the combat and the fight lasts 3 rounds or less, <link-text>turn to 101</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect46">If the fight lasts longer than 3 rounds, <link-text>turn to 46</link-text>.<a id="sect168-1" idref="sect168-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect46">If the fight lasts longer than 3 rounds, <link-text>turn to 46</link-text>.<footref id="sect168-1" idref="sect168-1-foot" /></choice>
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- <p>You are stripped of your Backpack, your Weapons, your Gold and all of your Special Items.<a id="sect176-1" idref="sect176-1-foot" class="footnote" /> Your hands are tied behind your back and you are pushed head first into the waiting carriage. <quote>Back to the palace!</quote> commands Maouk as he climbs aboard and slams the door. <quote>The Zakhan awaits his prize.</quote></p>
+ <p>You are stripped of your Backpack, your Weapons, your Gold and all of your Special Items.<footref id="sect176-1" idref="sect176-1-foot" /> Your hands are tied behind your back and you are pushed head-first into the waiting carriage. <quote>Back to the palace!</quote> commands Maouk as he climbs aboard and slams the door. <quote>The Zakhan awaits his prize.</quote></p>
<p>You fight to free the cords that bind you, but Maouk is quick to see the danger. He grabs your arm and forces a dart into your skin. As sleep engulfs your senses, you hear Maouk<ch.apos/>s wicked laughter fading into the silence.</p>
<p>Make a necessary adjustments to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>, and list all the items that you have had confiscated on a separate piece of paper, for reference in case you should discover them later in your adventure.</p>
<choice idref="sect69"><link-text>Turn to 69</link-text>.</choice>
<line>sewer, naked to the waist.</line>
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<choice idref="sect60">If you wish to attack the Sharnazim, <link-text>turn to 60</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>All manner of strange and exotic plants, oils, potions and medicaments fill the shop windows, and the smell of the herb-filled street is intoxicating. There is a sudden bustle of activity at the end of the street. The crowd disperses, melting into the shops as if into thin air. A man stands before you, his face is streaked with sweat, his turquoise robes torn and heavily stained. It is Maouk<ch.emdash/>he has survived the Baga-darooz.</p>
+ <p>All manner of strange and exotic plants, oils, <!--ERRTAG-RE-211472-->potions, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-211472--> medicaments fill the shop windows, and the smell of the herb-filled street is intoxicating. There is a sudden bustle of activity at the end of the street. The crowd disperses, melting into the shops as if into thin air. A man stands before you, his face is streaked with sweat, his turquoise robes torn and heavily stained. It is Maouk<ch.emdash/>he has survived the Baga-darooz.</p>
<p><quote>Were it not for the Zakhan, I would kill you here and now,</quote> hisses Maouk, his face a mask of hate. <quote>But I will not lose my head for a cowardly Sommlending.</quote></p>
<p>His insult enrages you, but you control your anger. You sense he is not alone; eyes are watching you at every window.</p>
<choice idref="sect197">If you wish to attack Maouk, <link-text>turn to 197</link-text>.</choice>
<line>hammer and strides forward.</line>
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<p>The armourer bellows a war-cry and you react just in time. The hammer tears a chunk of stone from the wall, less than an inch above your scalp.</p>
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- <p>You grasp the frightened guard in a secure head-lock and threaten to break his neck if he does not answer your questions. He immediately promises to tell you everything he knows. He says that the new Zakhan fears that you are an assassin, sent by his enemies in the west. He claims to hate the new Zakhan himself. He is only a simple jailer, he says, and knows nothing more.</p>
+ <p>You grasp the frightened guard in a secure head-lock and threaten to break his neck if he does not answer your questions. He immediately promises to tell you everything he knows. He says that the new Zakhan fears that you are an assassin, sent by his enemies in the west. He claims to hate the new Zakhan himself. He is only a simple gaoler, he says, and knows nothing more.</p>
<choice idref="sect39">If you have the Kai Discipline of Sixth Sense, <link-text>turn to 39</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect9">If you do not possess this skill, <link-text>turn to 9</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Your heart pounds as the words echo in your head. The <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>! Suddenly, the reason why you have been enticed into a deadly trap becomes clear, and the sinister truth is revealed.</p>
<p>The <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite> is one of the oldest legends of Sommerlund. With the wisdom of the Magnakai, Sun Eagle, the first Kai Grand Master, instilled the disciplines into the warriors of the House of Ulnar, the bloodline of your king, that were to save your land from devastation at the hands of the Darklords. The <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite> was lost hundreds of years ago, but its wisdom was kept alive, handed down through generations of Sommlending warriors so that they could share the strength to resist their eternal enemies, the Darklords of Helgedad.</p>
<p>If the Darklords discover and destroy the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>, the secrets will be lost forever, and when you die, the Kai will become extinct. However, if you discover the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite> first and deny the Darklords their prize, all the wisdom of the Magnakai will be revealed to you. Through its wisdom you will become strong, strong enough to reach the ultimate achievement for a Sommlending warrior<ch.emdash/>to become a Kai Grand Master.</p>
- <p>However, the peril and the glory of the quest that lies ahead is distracting you from more immediate danger. To discover this danger and to begin the quest for the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>, turn to Part Two of Shadow on the Sand.</p>
- <choice idref="sect201"><link-text>Begin your adventure at 201.</link-text></choice>
+ <p>However, the peril and the glory of the quest that lies ahead is distracting you from more immediate danger. To discover this danger and to begin the quest for the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>, turn to Part Two of <cite>Shadow on the Sand</cite>.</p>
+ <choice idref="sect201"><link-text>Begin your adventure at 201</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You pass under an arch where two brass-gilded, conical towers gleam like gold and enter a marketplace crowded with squabbling merchants. Exotic carpets, brightly coloured material and all manner of foods are being bought, sold and haggled over. The north side of the marketplace is devoted to the auction of douggas. The sleek but noisy desert beasts are being paraded, for the benefit of the bidders, around a paddock adjoining their stables. Just past the stables, a street vanishes into the Carpet-weavers<ch.apos/> Quarter of Ikaresh.</p>
+ <p>You pass under an arch where two brass-gilded, conical towers gleam like gold and enter a marketplace crowded with squabbling merchants. Exotic carpets, brightly coloured <!--ERRTAG-RE-234455-->material, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-234455--> all manner of foods are being bought, <!--ERRTAG-RE-234550-->sold, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-234550--> haggled over. The north side of the marketplace is devoted to the auction of douggas. The sleek but noisy desert beasts are being paraded, for the benefit of the bidders, around a paddock adjoining their stables. Just past the stables, a street vanishes into the Carpet-weavers<ch.apos/> Quarter of Ikaresh.</p>
<choice idref="sect309">If you wish to investigate the stables, <link-text>turn to 309</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect248">If you wish to ask one of the merchants if they know where Tipasa lives, <link-text>turn to 248</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect386">If you wish to leave the marketplace, continue along the adjoining street and <link-text>turn to 386</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>There is a sickening and acidic smell as a great gout of green blood gushes from the Vordak<ch.apos/>s red robe. The creature screams and topples from view, its mangled corpse spiralling downwards.</p>
- <p>Sheathing your weapon, you grab the reins and fight to regain control of your injured mount. You have slain the Vordak, but the battle is not yet won. The Itikar is losing a lot of blood and could lapse into unconsciousness at any moment to drop you like a stone on to hard Lake Inrahim. Suddenly you see something in the distance<ch.emdash/>something that renews your faith in miracles.</p>
+ <p>Sheathing your weapon, you grab the reins and fight to regain control of your injured mount. You have slain the Vordak, but the battle is not yet won. The Itikar is losing a lot of blood and could lapse into unconsciousness at any moment to drop you like a stone <!--ERRTAG-RE-235358-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-235358--> hard Lake Inrahim. Suddenly you see something in the distance<ch.emdash/>something that renews your faith in miracles.</p>
<choice idref="sect221"><link-text>Turn to 221</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You reach the landing in time to see three Drakkarim warriors enter the tower. Maniacal laughter echoes from their ghoulish death-mask faces, as they form a line and creep towards you.</p>
- <p>More of their evil kind are flooding on to the bridge, some carrying crossbows. You decide it would be suicide to attack the Drakkarim and sprint quickly up the stairs to escape from them.</p>
+ <p>More of their evil kind are flooding <!--ERRTAG-RE-241305-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-241305--> the bridge, some carrying crossbows. You decide it would be suicide to attack the Drakkarim and sprint quickly up the stairs to escape from them.</p>
<choice idref="sect322"><link-text>Turn to 322</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You dive aside, your Kai skill saving you from the axe that is spinning towards the platform. Suddenly, a deafening bang rings out and the Drakkar is flung backwards, his breastplate torn open by dwarf shot. He gives a long, agonizing death-cry as he disappears from sight, tumbling into the darkness that surrounds the speeding sky-ship.</p>
+ <p>You dive aside, your Kai skill saving you from the axe that is spinning towards the platform. Suddenly, a deafening bang rings out and the Drakkar is flung backwards, his breastplate torn open by dwarf shot. He gives a long, agonizing death-cry as he disappears from sight, tumbling into the darkness that surrounds the speeding skyship.</p>
<p>As if in answer to the shot, a menacing roll of thunder rumbles across the darkening plain from Barrakeesh. It is as if the city itself were cursing your escape.</p>
<p>Banedon appears at your side, his face lined with concern. As he offers a shaky hand to help you to your feet, you notice that the makeshift bandage which binds his wound is soaked with blood. He is pale and weak and close to collapse.</p>
<choice idref="sect377">If you have the Kai Discipline of Healing, <link-text>turn to 377</link-text>.</choice>
<line>crowd to fever pitch.</line>
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<choice idref="sect284">If you want to try to reason with the crowd of screaming fanatics that are now running towards you with their swords drawn, <link-text>turn to 284</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Emerging from a bank of cloud on the skyline is a flying ship. It is a small craft, no bigger than an Unoram river barge, with two triangular sails swept back either side of its curving prow. In the fading twilight you can make out a long pennant that flutters from its mast. A faint humming reaches your ears. Your first reaction is disbelief; what you are seeing must be a trick of the light or some fiendish illusion created by the Darklords. However as the ship floats nearer, your senses tell you that it is indeed quite real.</p>
- <choice idref="sect336">If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant, <link-text>turn to 336</link-text>.<a id="sect221-1" idref="sect221-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <p>Emerging from a bank of cloud on the skyline is a flying ship. It is a small craft, no bigger than an Unoram river barge, with two triangular sails swept back either side of its curving prow. In the fading twilight you can make out a long pennant that flutters from its mast. A faint humming reaches your ears. Your first reaction is disbelief; what you are seeing must be a trick of the light or some fiendish illusion created by the Darklords. However, as the ship floats nearer, your senses tell you that it is indeed quite real.</p>
+ <choice idref="sect336">If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant, <link-text>turn to 336</link-text>.<footref id="sect221-1" idref="sect221-1-foot" /></choice>
<choice idref="sect275">If you do not have this Special Item, <link-text>turn to 275</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>A deadly flood of horror hurtles from his hand.</line>
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<p>In a complete daze you tumble and spin, totally unaware of whether you are falling head or feet first. The warm wind tears at your face, forcing your eyelids and mouth open. You can barely breathe. You scream with terror until you hit the upper branches of a toa tree; in the next instant you hit water. You rapidly surface again, and instinctively begin to pump your legs.</p>
- <p>You have no idea in which direction you are swimming, but in three strokes you find yourself at the side of this deep, sculptured pool of clear water. Still shaking from the shock of impact, you crawl your way out on to a mossy bank. Miraculously, you have escaped injury, but your ordeal is far from over. The Drakkarim and the palace guards watched you fall and at this very moment are racing down from the tower and the bridge to the palace gardens.</p>
+ <p>You have no idea in which direction you are swimming, but in three strokes you find yourself at the side of this deep, sculptured pool of clear water. Still shaking from the shock of impact, you crawl your way out <!--ERRTAG-RE-263537-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-263537--> a mossy bank. Miraculously, you have escaped injury, but your ordeal is far from over. The Drakkarim and the palace guards watched you fall and at this very moment are racing down from the tower and the bridge to the palace gardens.</p>
<p>Ahead of you, beyond a tree-lined colonnade, a flight of steps ascends to a small portal in the wall of the upper palace. To your right, a leafy tunnel winds away into the trees and shrubs.</p>
<choice idref="sect220">If you have the Kai Discipline of Tracking, <link-text>turn to 220</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect352">If you wish to climb the stairs to the small portal, <link-text>turn to 352</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Rows of stalactites hang from the roof of the cave, like the fangs of some incredible monster, and the bubbling of a distant geyser echoes eerily through the unknown depths.</p>
- <p>You begin to explore and eventually reach a place were a natural bridge of rock arches over a steaming course of water, red with ore. Huddled beneath the bridge is a pathetic figure, its body bent and emaciated. A tattered blanket covers his face, and in his withered hands he clutches a crude fishing rod. A small catch of lavacrabs lie on the bank, their claws twitching as they slowly die. As you move nearer, the figure raises his face to stare at you. It is a man, but the sight of his face shocks you to the core.</p>
+ <p>You begin to explore and eventually reach a place were a natural bridge of rock arches over a steaming course of water, red with ore. Huddled beneath the bridge is a pathetic figure, its body bent and emaciated. A tattered blanket covers his face, and in his withered hands he clutches a crude fishing rod. A small <!--ERRTAG-RE-265622-->catch of lavacrabs lies<!--/ERRTAG-RE-265622--> on the bank, their claws twitching as they slowly die. As you move nearer, the figure raises his face to stare at you. It is a man, but the sight of his face shocks you to the core.</p>
<choice idref="sect344">If you have the Kai Discipline of Healing, <link-text>turn to 344</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect208">If you do not possess this Kai Discipline, <link-text>turn to 208</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>If you are to get inside the tomb, you must either distract or silence the Drakkar sentry.</p>
- <choice idref="sect260">If you possess a Tincture of Graveweed, <link-text>turn to 260</link-text>.<a id="sect239-1" idref="sect239-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect260">If you possess a Tincture of Graveweed, <link-text>turn to 260</link-text>.<footref id="sect239-1" idref="sect239-1-foot" /></choice>
<p>If you do not possess this item, you will have to creep up and overpower him as quickly and silently as you can. Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If you possess the Kai Disciplines of Hunting, Tracking and Camouflage, add 2 to the number you have picked. If you have reached the Kai rank of Guardian, add 3 to the number.</p>
<choice idref="sect324">If your total is now 0<ch.endash/>4, <link-text>turn to 324</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect303">If it is 5 or more, <link-text>turn to 303</link-text>.</choice>
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<choice idref="sect365">If you have the Kai Discipline of Sixth Sense, <link-text>turn to 365</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p><quote>Ikaresh,</quote> says Banedon pensively. <quote><quote>The Eagle<ch.apos/>s Lair</quote>. That is where we will find Tipasa the Wanderer. It is the place of his birth and the home of his family. He roams the Dry Main, but he always returns to Ikaresh.</quote></p>
+ <p><quote>Ikaresh,</quote> says Banedon pensively. <quote><ch.thinspace/><quote>The Eagle<ch.apos/>s Lair</quote>. That is where we will find Tipasa the Wanderer. It is the place of his birth and the home of his family. He roams the Dry Main, but he always returns to Ikaresh.</quote></p>
<p>It is late afternoon when you reach the hills beyond the Koos that overlook the town of Ikaresh. Banedon moors the <cite>Skyrider</cite> to a pinnacle of stone, and a rope ladder is lowered to the ground. It has been decided that you and he will enter Ikaresh on foot and locate Tipasa, while Nolrim and the crew wait in hiding for you to return<ch.emdash/>the sight of the <cite>Skyrider</cite> hovering above the mountain town would be sure to arouse unwanted interest in your arrival.</p>
<p>You and Banedon prepare yourselves for your mission by staining your skins with brown copalla berries and dressing in the grey and white robes commonly worn by the mountain people of this region. You bid farewell to Nolrim and set off across the barren hills.</p>
<p>Pick in number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<line>serpent-like monster.</line>
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<choice idref="sect335">If you win the combat, <link-text>turn to 335</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The chill air whips past your face as you tumble towards Lake Inrahim. The Kraan-riders, the sky-ship and the distant horizon all melt into a kaleidoscope of shapes and images. You fear these will be the last things you will ever see.</p>
+ <p>The chill air whips past your face as you tumble towards Lake Inrahim. The Kraan-riders, the <!--ERRTAG-RE-286002-->skyship, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-286002--> the distant horizon all melt into a kaleidoscope of shapes and images. You fear these will be the last things you will ever see.</p>
<p>You have prepared yourself for death and feel calm and relaxed. Suddenly, you feel your body engulfed by a mass of sticky fibres. There is a terrific jolt, which leaves you breathless and stunned. (Lose 2 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.) The impossible is happening<ch.emdash/>you are no longer falling but rising!</p>
- <p>You have to been caught by a net of sticky strands like a fly in a Web. You rise into the sky towards the flying ship as quickly as you fell. Three bearded dwarves clad in bright, padded battle-jerkins pull you aboard an outrigger that runs the length of the hull. There<ch.apos/>s no time to express your gratitude, for the small sky-ship is under attack from the Kraan-riders.</p>
+ <p>You have to been caught by a net of sticky strands like a fly in a web. You rise into the sky towards the flying ship as quickly as you fell. Three bearded dwarves clad in bright, padded battle-jerkins pull you aboard an outrigger that runs the length of the hull. There<ch.apos/>s no time to express your gratitude, for the small skyship is under attack from the Kraan-riders.</p>
<p>At the end of the outrigger, a dwarf is in hand-to-hand combat with a snarling Drakkar. He is losing the battle. As you rush to help him, another of the evil warriors lands in the centre of the craft, on top of the fortified platform.</p>
<choice idref="sect280">If you wish to help the dwarf, <link-text>turn to 280</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect361">If you wish to leap from the outrigger on to the fortified platform, <link-text>turn to 361</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect361">If you wish to leap from the outrigger <!--ERRTAG-RE-286671-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-286671--> the fortified platform, <link-text>turn to 361</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>259</title></meta>
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- <p>Two bolts whistle through the air and slam into your back. As the pain tears through your body, you faint and fall on to the poison-tipped spikes. As your life<ch.apos/>s blood drains away, the last sound you hear is the hideous gloating laughter of Darklord Haakon rising above the ghoulish howl of his evil Drakkarim warriors.</p>
+ <p>Two bolts whistle through the air and slam into your back. As the pain tears through your body, you faint and fall <!--ERRTAG-RE-289598-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-289598--> the poison-tipped spikes. As your life<ch.apos/>s blood drains away, the last sound you hear is the hideous gloating laughter of Darklord Haakon rising above the ghoulish howl of his evil Drakkarim warriors.</p>
<choice>Your life and the hopes of Sommerlund end here.</choice>
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- <p>You tumble earthwards, blurred colours flashing before your eyes. The Kraan-riders, the sky-ship and the distant horizon all melt into a kaleidoscope of shapes, the last images you see before smashing into the hard and barren salt-plain of Lake Inrahim.</p>
+ <p>You tumble earthwards, blurred colours flashing before your eyes. The Kraan-riders, the skyship and the distant horizon all melt into a kaleidoscope of shapes, the last images you see before smashing into the hard and barren salt-plain of Lake Inrahim.</p>
<choice>Your life and the hopes of Sommerlund end here.</choice>
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<line>mount<ch.apos/>s feathered flesh.</line>
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<choice idref="sect315">If you possess the Sommerswerd, <link-text>turn to 315</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You recognize the flag that flies above a fortified platform in the centre of the strange craft: it is the crescent and crystal star ensign of the Magicians<ch.apos/> Guild of Toran, a city in northern Sommerlund. The sky-ship is commanded by a Sommlending wizard<ch.emdash/>one of your own countrymen. He is a blond-haired young man dressed in long, dark blue robes.</p>
+ <p>You recognize the flag that flies above a fortified platform in the centre of the strange craft: it is the crescent and crystal star ensign of the Magicians<ch.apos/> Guild of Toran, a city in northern Sommerlund. The skyship is commanded by a Sommlending wizard<ch.emdash/>one of your own countrymen. He is a blond-haired young man dressed in long, dark blue robes.</p>
<p>You are so stunned by the fateful appearance of the craft that you fail to notice the blood seeping from the Itikar<ch.apos/>s mouth: the creature is near to death. Suddenly, the great bird lets out a pitiful and agonizing caw. Its wings stiffen, and its head falls limply forward as the last flicker of life escapes from its torn body. You are pitched forward, and your stomach heaves as you plummet towards Lake Inrahim.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect374">If the number you have picked is 0<ch.endash/>4, <link-text>turn to 374</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>A narrow corridor faces you, which is lit by the orange light of the setting sun filtering down from small open windows set high above in the patterned walls. The air is filled with the sound of running feet, for the Grand Palace is now on full alert. The palace guards and the evil Drakkarim are bent on finding and killing you, for their own lives will be forfeit if they fail.</p>
- <p>You reach a door that opens on to an outside balcony. A stair descends to a bridge that connects a needle-like tower of white marble to the main palace. The stair itself continues past the bridge, disappearing down towards the palace gardens far below. You see no soldiers, either on the bridge or in the gardens.</p>
+ <p>You reach a door that opens <!--ERRTAG-RE-307019-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-307019--> an outside balcony. A stair descends to a bridge that connects a needle-like tower of white marble to the main palace. The stair itself continues past the bridge, disappearing down towards the palace gardens far below. You see no soldiers, either on the bridge or in the gardens.</p>
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<choice idref="sect396">If you wish to descend to the bridge and enter the marble tower, <link-text>turn to 396</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The dwarves are not offended by your refusal. They have seen men stirred to fury or laid unconscious by a jug of Bor-brew. Nolrim grasps the tankard and downs the draft with one awesome gulp, removing the froth from his ginger beard with a practised flick of his forefinger.</p>
+ <p>The dwarves are not offended by your refusal. They have seen men stirred to fury or laid unconscious by a jug of Bor-brew. Nolrim grasps the tankard and downs the draught with one awesome gulp, removing the froth from his ginger beard with a practised flick of his forefinger.</p>
<choice idref="sect291">If you wish to ask the dwarves how they came to be under Banedon<ch.apos/>s command, <link-text>turn to 291</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect359">If you wish to bid them goodnight, <link-text>turn to 359</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>In a flash of light the Drakkar is gone.</line>
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<p>At the end of the balcony is another arch and a staircase.</p>
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<p>The Drakkar curses you with his dying breath, his cry fading as he falls from the platform. You rush to aid your wounded countryman, but the battle is not yet over. A Kraan-rider is swooping towards you, a crossbow levelled at your head; he fires and the bolt shoots towards your face. Then a shrill, metallic whine rings in your ears as the bolt miraculously ricochets away, deflected by an invisible shield.</p>
- <choice idref="sect399">If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant, <link-text>turn to 399</link-text>.<a id="sect288-1" idref="sect288-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect399">If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant, <link-text>turn to 399</link-text>.<footref id="sect288-1" idref="sect288-1-foot" /></choice>
<choice idref="sect294">If you do not have this Special Item, <link-text>turn to 294</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You learn that the dwarves were once the crew of a more conventional vessel, a merchantman that sailed the Tentarias of southern Magnamund. The Tentarias are a vast expanse of lakes and land-locked seas, which connect to form a continuous canal stretching over a thousand miles. They were created, as was the Rymerift of Durenor, by a massive landslide. Three years ago, the dwarves<ch.apos/> former captain, a dwarf named Quan, lost his ship, cargo and crew whilst gambling at cards; it seems the unfortunate captain was unaware of Banedon<ch.apos/>s true profession until it was far too late. As a result Banedon became the dwarves<ch.apos/> captain, and ever since they have adventured with him across the lands and skies of Southern Magnamund. The <cite>Skyrider</cite> itself was given to Banedon by the Magicians of Dessi, in return for his help in defeating the Gagadoth<ch.emdash/>a monstrous creature that terrorized their land, over which their own sorcery could not prevail.</p>
+ <p>You learn that the dwarves were once the crew of a more conventional vessel, a merchantman that sailed the Tentarias of southern Magnamund. The <!--ERRTAG-RE-320024-->Tentarias is<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320024--> a vast expanse of lakes and land-locked seas, which connect to form a continuous canal stretching <!--ERRTAG-RE-320190-->nearly three thousand miles<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320190-->. They were created, as was the Rymerift of Durenor, by a massive landslide. Three years ago, the dwarves<ch.apos/> former captain, a dwarf named Quan, lost his ship, <!--ERRTAG-RE-320419-->cargo, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320419--> crew whilst gambling at cards; it seems the unfortunate captain was unaware of Banedon<ch.apos/>s true profession until it was far too late. As a <!--ERRTAG-RE-320628-->result, Banedon<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320628--> became the dwarves<ch.apos/> captain, and ever since they have adventured with him across the lands and skies of Southern Magnamund. The <cite>Skyrider</cite> itself was given to Banedon by the Magicians of Dessi, in return for his help in defeating the Gagadoth<ch.emdash/>a monstrous creature that terrorized their land, over which their own sorcery could not prevail.</p>
<p>The <cite>Skyrider</cite> was travelling from Dessi on its way to Barrakeesh when you appeared. The dwarves have overheard your talk with Banedon and are excited by the prospects of a new adventure. They seem undaunted by the deadly dangers that it will certainly involve.</p>
<choice idref="sect359"><link-text>Turn to 359</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You see the young magician lower his staff, a trace of a smile on his pain-racked face.</p>
<p><quote>Alas, I was too slow to shield myself,</quote> he says wryly, as you kneel at his side and free the spear that pins him to the floor. The wound is serious, and you hastily staunch the bleeding with strips of cloth from his dark blue robes.</p>
- <p>The wizard then introduces himself. <quote>I am Banedon, Journeymaster to the Guild of the Crystal Star,</quote> he says, his voice weak and shaky. <quote>However, you need not introduce yourself, Lone Wolf, for only you would attract such company this far from home.</quote> He glances at the Kraan-riders swooping past the sky-ship on every side. <quote>Help me to my feet<ch.emdash/>we must escape before they drag us from the sky.</quote></p>
+ <p>The wizard then introduces himself. <quote>I am Banedon, Journeymaster to the Guild of the Crystal Star,</quote> he says, his voice weak and shaky. <quote>However, you need not introduce yourself, Lone Wolf, for only you would attract such company this far from home.</quote> He glances at the Kraan-riders swooping past the skyship on every side. <quote>Help me to my feet<ch.emdash/>we must escape before they drag us from the sky.</quote></p>
<p>You support the wizard as he grasps the ship<ch.apos/>s helm<ch.emdash/>a radiant crystal sphere with hundreds of glowing facets set upon a slim silver rod.</p>
<p>No sooner has his hand closed around the crystal than there is a tremendous explosion.</p>
<choice idref="sect323"><link-text>Turn to 323</link-text>.</choice>
<line>to the fighting dwarves.</line>
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<p><quote>Pirate roll!</quote> he shouts to his fighting dwarves, and jerks the helm to the left. The <cite>Skyrider</cite> responds to his touch, swerving violently as the deck swings from a horizontal to a near-vertical angle. The dwarves heed his cry and throw themselves to the deck, clutching the boards like limpets to a galleon<ch.apos/>s keel.</p>
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- <p>Below the bell-tower you see a line of Itikar pens, each with its own circular landing platform. Itikar are a breed of huge black birds that nest in eyries high in the peaks of the Dahir and Vakar Mountains. The Vassagonians have long since tamed these giants of the skies, using them as winged mounts for their army leaders, their scouts, couriers and envoys.</p>
+ <p>Below the bell-tower you see a line of Itikar pens, each with its own circular landing platform. Itikar are a breed of huge black birds that nest in eyries high in the peaks of the Dahir and Vakar Mountains. The Vassagonians have long since tamed these giants of the skies, using them as winged mounts for their army leaders, their scouts, <!--ERRTAG-RE-341826-->couriers, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-341826--> envoys.</p>
<p>An Itikar and rider swoop down out of the reddening sky and alight upon the platform nearest to the bell-tower. Slaves hurl a rope to the rider, who in turn fixes it to a saddle ring before he jumps to the ground. The Itikar caws and beats its huge wings as it is slowly winched into the pen by a hidden capstan.</p>
<p>The rider and the slaves leave the platform; there is now only one sentry on guard at the pen. If you can overpower him, you can make your escape on the back of the giant bird.</p>
<choice idref="sect325">If you possess a Blowpipe and Sleep Dart, <link-text>turn to 325</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect282">If you do not have these Items, <link-text>turn to 282</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect282">If you do not have <!--ERRTAG-RE-342580-->these items<!--/ERRTAG-RE-342580-->, <link-text>turn to 282</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>You stagger to your feet to see the <cite>Skyrider</cite> being engulfed by Drakkarim; they leap from their shrieking Kraan and crash on to the decks and outriggers, their black swords already drawn from their scabbards. The dwarves are caught by surprise; their weapons have been unloaded and stored below deck. Even so, they are quick to rally and fight with skill and fury. Above the din you hear Nolrim<ch.apos/>s joyous battle-cry, <quote>Blood for blood!</quote></p>
+ <p>You stagger to your feet to see the <cite>Skyrider</cite> being engulfed by Drakkarim; they leap from their shrieking Kraan and crash <!--ERRTAG-RE-343815-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-343815--> the decks and outriggers, their black swords already drawn from their scabbards. The dwarves are caught by surprise; their weapons have been unloaded and stored below deck. Even so, they are quick to rally and fight with skill and fury. Above the din you hear Nolrim<ch.apos/>s joyous battle-cry, <quote>Blood for blood!</quote></p>
<p>An unexpected blow catches you squarely on the back, knocking you from the platform to the deck below. You have risen to one knee when your assailant attacks again. You cannot evade him.</p>
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<p>Due to the surprise of the attack, reduce your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> by 2 for the first 3 rounds of combat.</p>
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- <p>Dawn is breaking on the horizon of a low hill, blurred and dotted with small tufted trees. Swiftly the <cite>Skyrider</cite> has voyaged through the night to arrive at the foothills of the Koneshi Mountains, in whose folds the sky-ship is safely tucked away from watchful eyes. Twenty-five miles to the north, across a landscape of barren rock and dry brush, lies the Tomb of the Majhan.</p>
+ <p>Dawn is breaking on the horizon of a low hill, blurred and dotted with small tufted trees. Swiftly the <cite>Skyrider</cite> has voyaged through the night to arrive at the foothills of the Koneshi Mountains, in whose folds the skyship is safely tucked away from watchful eyes. Twenty-five miles to the north, across a landscape of barren rock and dry brush, lies the Tomb of the Majhan.</p>
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<p>You and Banedon set off before the dawn, anxious not to waste either time or the protective cover of darkness. Now, as the great golden disc of the sun rises in the sky, for the first time you can see your goal. A massive excavation has exposed the heart of this scorched land, delving deep around the tombs of its forgotten ancestors. Thousands of Giaks, spiteful and malicious servants of the Darklords, labour unceasingly to remove rock and sand from this quarry, forced by Drakkarim to drag their backbreaking loads up ramps to the rim of the crater.</p>
<p>Close to the edge of the crater, an encampment of black tents surrounds a large domed canopy. Lying in the shade of this construction is a huge flying creature<ch.emdash/>an Imperial Zlanbeast. Its presence here can only mean one thing: Darklord Haakon has arrived. The thought chills your blood, but you draw comfort from the labour of his slaves. That they continue to labour is a sign that their mission has yet to be completed: the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite> has yet to be found.</p>
<p>It is impossible to approach the crater unseen; you will have to wait for darkness before you attempt to enter the Tomb. During the long wait, it is agreed that Banedon should attempt to find Tipasa. It is likely that he is being held captive inside the encampment<ch.emdash/>the Darklords would be unlikely to kill him before discovering the treasure they seek.</p>
- <p>During the day, you must eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Make the necessary adjustments to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.<a id="sect320-1" idref="sect320-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
+ <p>During the day, you must eat a Meal or lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points. Make the necessary adjustments to your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>.<footref id="sect320-1" idref="sect320-1-foot" /></p>
<choice idref="sect286"><link-text>Turn to 286</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>The stairs are high and steep. You gasp for breath and force your aching legs to climb, for the Drakkarim are less than a dozen steps behind you. At the top of the tower, an open arch leads out on to a platform where a huge kettledrum stands. This is used by the tower guard to send messages to the other palace towers. A bleached hide is stretched across its surface and a black wooden beater hangs from the side.</p>
+ <p>The stairs are high and steep. You gasp for breath and force your aching legs to climb, for the Drakkarim are less than a dozen steps behind you. At the top of the tower, an open arch leads out <!--ERRTAG-RE-351155-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-351155--> a platform where a huge kettledrum stands. This is used by the tower guard to send messages to the other palace towers. A bleached hide is stretched across its surface and a black wooden beater hangs from the side.</p>
<choice idref="sect329">If you wish to push the drum down the tower stairs, <link-text>turn to 329</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect387">If you prefer to ignore the drum and escape out on to the platform, <link-text>turn to 387</link-text>.</choice>
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<line>face of a dwarf at the cabin window.</line>
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<p>The smoke clears to reveal the grinning face of a dwarf at the cabin window. A smear of soot blackens his rosy cheeks and exaggerates the whiteness of his crooked teeth. He is holding a tube of smoking steel that you assume to be a magic staff, until you notice that each of the dwarf crew carry identical staves. As they point them at the swooping Kraan, gouts of smoke and flame bellow from their tips. Suddenly you recognize the weapons and their wielders<ch.emdash/>they are dwarves from the mountain kingdom of Bor, armed with one of the inventions for which these ingenious artisans are justly famous throughout Magnamund.</p>
- <p>The Kraan are terrified by the noise; they turn their leathery tails and fly away, their Drakkar riders powerless to stop them. The primitive guns have claimed only one victim, but nevertheless, they have driven off the enemy and saved the sky-ship from disaster.</p>
+ <p>The Kraan are terrified by the noise; they turn their leathery tails and fly away, their Drakkar riders powerless to stop them. The primitive guns have claimed only one victim, but nevertheless, they have driven off the enemy and saved the skyship from disaster.</p>
<p>Banedon steers the craft about, banking steeply until the ship faces the darkening peaks of the southern mountains and the distinct V-shaped cleft of the Dahir Pass.</p>
<p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</p>
<choice idref="sect250">If the number you have picked is 0<ch.endash/>2, <link-text>turn to 250</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Your blow has opened a wide gash in both the Drakkar and his mount. The Kraan spins uncontrollably, discarding its black-clad rider as it spirals earthwards. With the terrible cries of the doomed Drakkar fading below, you wheel to the south to avoid being caught between the two converging squadrons of Kraan-riders.</p>
- <p>The quick change of direction increases the distance between you and your pursuers, but the Itikar is badly wounded and you are close to despair; your mount is losing so much blood that it could lapse into unconsciousness at any moment, dropping you like a stone on to Lake Inrahim.</p>
+ <p>The quick change of direction increases the distance between you and your pursuers, but the Itikar is badly wounded and you are close to despair; your mount is losing so much blood that it could lapse into unconsciousness at any moment, dropping you like a stone <!--ERRTAG-RE-356599-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-356599--> Lake Inrahim.</p>
<p>Suddenly, you spot something in the distance. It is a sight that renews your faith in miracles.</p>
<choice idref="sect221"><link-text>Turn to 221</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>You have little sleep that night as you lie thinking about the quest that lies before you, haunted by the fear that the Darklords may already have found the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>.</p>
<p>You rise before dawn and breakfast on a meal of sheep<ch.apos/>s butter and dried milk cake, before bidding farewell to Tipasa<ch.apos/>s wife. The trek back to the <cite>Skyrider</cite> passes uneventfully, and by noon you have reached the rocky crag where the craft is moored. Nolrim is the first to greet you, but he cannot hide his disappointment that you have returned unaccompanied.</p>
<p><quote>Do not worry<ch.emdash/>the answer lies here,</quote> says Banedon, holding up Tipasa<ch.apos/>s diary. <quote>Prepare to set sail.</quote></p>
- <p>As the <cite>Skyrider</cite> rises into the clear blue sky, Banedon hands over the helm to Nolrim and bids you follow him to his quarters at the prow. For three hours he pores over his charts, making calculations, checking instrument readings and racking his brain for the solution that will pinpoint the Tomb of the Majhan.</p>
+ <p>As the <cite>Skyrider</cite> rises into the clear blue sky, Banedon hands over the helm to Nolrim and bids you follow him to his quarters at the prow. For three hours he pores over his charts, making calculations, checking instrument <!--ERRTAG-RE-361973-->readings, and<!--/ERRTAG-RE-361973--> racking his brain for the solution that will pinpoint the Tomb of the Majhan.</p>
<p><quote>It<ch.apos/>s no use,</quote> he says, tired and exasperated. <quote>I cannot fathom these numbers.</quote></p>
<p>As you peer at the pages of Tipasa<ch.apos/>s diary, suddenly you realize that they are written in code. What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars is a code to three numbers that give the precise location of the Tomb.</p>
<p>Consult the <a idref="map">map</a> to help you discover the location of the Tomb of the Majhan.</p>
<p>The first of the three numbers is equal to the number of oases on the trail between Ikaresh and Bir Rabalou. The second number is equal to the number of cities in Vassagonia. The third number is equal to the number of islands off the coast of Cape Kabar.</p>
- <p>When you have broken the code, write the numbers in order and turn to the entry number that they indicate.<a id="sect331-1" idref="sect331-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
+ <p>When you have broken the code, write the numbers in order and turn to the entry number that they indicate.<footref id="sect331-1" idref="sect331-1-foot" /></p>
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<choice idref="sect365">If you have the Kai Discipline of Sixth Sense, <link-text>turn to 365</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Two dwarves clamber on to the platform and hurry to their young captain<ch.apos/>s side. One flicks open a red velvet satchel strapped to his barrel-like chest, and removes a glass vial and a clean linen bandage. They attend to the wound, and, as his strength returns, Banedon listens intently to your account of the terrifying events that have led up to this meeting. As you conclude your woeful tale, Banedon speaks, his voice full of grim determination.</p>
+ <p>Two dwarves clamber <!--ERRTAG-RE-368529-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-368529--> the platform and hurry to their young captain<ch.apos/>s side. One flicks open a red velvet satchel strapped to his barrel-like chest, and removes a glass vial and a clean linen bandage. They attend to the wound, and, as his strength returns, Banedon listens intently to your account of the terrifying events that have led up to this meeting. As you conclude your woeful tale, Banedon speaks, his voice full of grim determination.</p>
<p><quote>The future of Sommerlund rests in our hands, Lone Wolf. We must stop Darklord Haakon from destroying the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>. I have heard tell of the Tomb of the Majhan from the nomads of the Dry Main. They say it is a terrible place, a place of horror and death<ch.emdash/>for what little there is left to die there. It lies beyond the Dahir, near the oasis of Bal-loftan. That is all I know, for the Majhan hid their tombs well and what few traces remained have long since disappeared beneath the shifting sands of the Dry Main.</quote></p>
<p>Your face conveys the disappointment you feel upon hearing these words.</p>
<p><quote>However, all is not lost,</quote> says Banedon, undaunted. <quote>There is a man who can guide us there. His name is Tipasa Edarouk<ch.emdash/></quote>Tipasa the Wanderer<quote>. It is he who we must seek, for he is the only man who has ever entered the Tomb of the Majhan and lived to tell the tale.</quote></p>
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<p>The golden domes of the Grand Palace grow smaller as the Itikar gathers speed. Soon, you have passed over the city wall and are heading out towards the shimmering salt-flats of Lake Inrahim. The land below is bathed in beautiful orange twilight, as the sun slowly sinks behind the Dahir Mountains to the west. Elated by your escape, you throw back your head and give voice to a triumphant yell that is carried away on the chill evening wind.</p>
<p>As if in answer to your cry, an echoing chorus of shrieks pierce the sky. Fear returns to your heart as you catch sight of a flock of Kraan, hideous leathery-winged fliers. Each carries a Drakkar warrior on its back. They are over a mile behind you, but they are quickly closing the gap. Less than an hour of light remains; if you can evade them a little longer, you may be able to lose them when night falls.</p>
- <p>You must decide in which direction to fly, for you are now above the centre of Lake Inrahim<ch.emdash/>consult the <a idref="map">map</a> at the front of this book before making your decision.</p>
- <choice idref="sect264">If you wish to steer the Itikar south towards the Dahir pass, <link-text>turn to 264</link-text>.</choice>
+ <p>You must decide in which direction to fly, for you are now above the centre of Lake Inrahim<ch.emdash/>consult the <a idref="map">map</a> <!--ERRTAG-DE-375915/-->before making your decision.</p>
+ <choice idref="sect264">If you wish to steer the Itikar south towards the <!--ERRTAG-RE-376027-->Dahir Pass<!--/ERRTAG-RE-376027-->, <link-text>turn to 264</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect244">If you wish to head east towards the town of Chula, <link-text>turn to 244</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Wincing from the pain of your wound, you snatch the reins back and urge the Itikar to climb higher. The Drakkar is now over a hundred feet below, but he is bringing the shrieking Kraan around for another attack.</p>
- <p>You wheel to the south to avoid being caught between the two converging squadrons of Kraan-riders. Your sudden change of direction increases the distance between you and your pursuers, but your feathered mount is badly wounded and you are close to despair; the Itikar is losing so much blood that it could become unconscious at any moment, and drop you like a stone on to the distant surface of Lake Inrahim below.</p>
+ <p>You wheel to the south to avoid being caught between the two converging squadrons of Kraan-riders. Your sudden change of direction increases the distance between you and your pursuers, but your feathered mount is badly wounded and you are close to despair; the Itikar is losing so much blood that it could become unconscious at any moment, and drop you like a stone <!--ERRTAG-RE-379025-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-379025--> the distant surface of Lake Inrahim below.</p>
<p>Suddenly you spot something in the distance. It is a sight that renews your faith in miracles.</p>
<choice idref="sect221"><link-text>Turn to 221</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>As you break cover, another burst of energy leaps from the Darklord<ch.apos/>s fist. It explodes into the base of the pillar, severing it from the floor, and the roof above caves in with a tremendous roar.<a id="sect350-1" idref="sect350-1-foot" class="footnote" /> The shock wave throws you to the floor, flattening you against the cold marble flagstones. You lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
+ <p>As you break cover, another burst of energy leaps from the Darklord<ch.apos/>s fist. It explodes into the base of the pillar, severing it from the floor, and the roof above caves in with a tremendous roar.<footref id="sect350-1" idref="sect350-1-foot" /> The shock wave throws you to the floor, flattening you against the cold marble flagstones. You lose 3 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
<p>Haakon<ch.apos/>s laugh can still be heard above the crash of falling stone. In rises in pitch until it fills your head with agonizing pain.</p>
<choice idref="sect253">If you have the Kai Discipline of Mindshield, <link-text>turn to 253</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect369">If you do not possess this Kai Discipline, <link-text>turn to 369</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Haakon utters a terrible laugh that shakes the floor. A beam of blue flame is growing from the stone in his hand, forming a fiery blade that crackles and spits as it cuts through the dust-choked air. The stench of death and decay fills your nostrils as the Darklord prepares to attack.</p>
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- <p>Ducking beneath the boom-sail, you clamber on to the platform in time to witness a desperate struggle. The blond-haired magician is pinned to the deck, his left arm skewered by a spear. With a staff in his right hand, he is trying to fend off the dismounted Kraan-rider. The Drakkar senses your presence; he whirls round and draws a twisted black scimitar from its scabbard.</p>
+ <p>Ducking beneath the boom-sail, you clamber <!--ERRTAG-RE-393714-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-393714--> the platform in time to witness a desperate struggle. The blond-haired magician is pinned to the deck, his left arm skewered by a spear. With a staff in his right hand, he is trying to fend off the dismounted Kraan-rider. The Drakkar senses your presence; he whirls round and draws a twisted black scimitar from its scabbard.</p>
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<choice idref="sect288">If you win and the fight lasts 3 rounds of combat or less, <link-text>turn to 288</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect382">If the fight continues to a fourth round of combat, do not resolve it. Instead, <link-text>turn immediately to 382</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The axe howls through the dark; you sidestep, guided only by instinct, for you cannot see the lethal axe-blade, which hurtles towards you. Black steel bites into your side, the sudden pain making you gasp in shocked surprise. You clutch at your wounded ribs to feel warm blood oozing through your fingers. Lose 4 <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</p>
- <p>A deafening bang rings out and the Drakkar is flung backwards, his breastplate torn open by dwarf shot. He screams a long, agonizing death-cry as he disappears from sight, tumbling into the darkness, which surrounds the speeding sky-ship. From Barrakeesh, a roll of thunder rumbles across the dark plain, full of brooding menace, as if the city itself were cursing your escape.</p>
+ <p>A deafening bang rings out and the Drakkar is flung backwards, his breastplate torn open by dwarf shot. He screams a long, agonizing death-cry as he disappears from sight, tumbling into the darkness, which surrounds the speeding skyship. From Barrakeesh, a roll of thunder rumbles across the dark plain, full of brooding menace, as if the city itself were cursing your escape.</p>
<p>Banedon appears at your side, his face lined with concern. As he offers a shaky hand to help you to your feet, you notice that the makeshift bandage which binds his wound is soaked with blood. He is weak and pale, and close to collapse.</p>
<choice idref="sect377">If you have the Kai Discipline of Healing, <link-text>turn to 377</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect339">If you do not possess this skill, <link-text>turn to 339</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p><quote>That<ch.apos/>s it!</quote> exclaims Banedon, stabbing his finger at a map of the Dry Main that covers his chart table. <quote>One hundred and fifteen miles due west of Bir Rabalou; one hundred and fifteen miles due south of the oasis of Bal-loftan.</quote> He picks up a quill pen and marks the spot. <quote>The Tomb of the Majhan.</quote><a id="sect373-1" idref="sect373-1-foot" class="footnote" /></p>
+ <p><quote>That<ch.apos/>s it!</quote> exclaims Banedon, stabbing his finger at a map of the Dry Main that covers his chart table. <quote>One hundred and fifteen miles due west of Bir Rabalou; one hundred and fifteen miles due south of the oasis of Bal-loftan.</quote> He picks up a quill pen and marks the spot. <quote>The Tomb of the Majhan.</quote><footref id="sect373-1" idref="sect373-1-foot" /></p>
<p>You study the map and ponder the miles of desolation separating you from your goal. Banedon notices your look of dismay and quickly tries to put your mind at ease.</p>
<p><quote>Fear not, Lone Wolf<ch.emdash/>we<ch.apos/>ll be there before the dawn.</quote></p>
<p>You smile at his confidence, but it is not the actual journey that worries you<ch.emdash/>your concern is what you may or may not find upon your arrival.</p>
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- <p>As you tumble earthwards, a blur of colour flashes before your eyes as the Kraan-riders, the sky-ship and the distant horizon all melt into a kaleidoscope of shapes and images, which you fear will be the last things you will ever see.</p>
+ <p>As you tumble earthwards, a blur of colour flashes before your eyes as the Kraan-riders, the skyship and the distant horizon all melt into a kaleidoscope of shapes and images, which you fear will be the last things you will ever see.</p>
<p>You have prepared yourself for death and are calm and relaxed, when suddenly you feel your body entwined by a mass of sticky fibres. There is a terrific jolt, which leaves you breathless and stunned. The impossible is happening; you are no longer falling, but rising!</p>
- <p>A net of clinging strands has caught you like a fly in a web. You rise up into the sky towards the flying ship as quickly as you fell. Three bearded dwarves clad in bright, padded battle-jerkins pull you aboard an outrigger that runs the length of the hull. However, there is no time to express your gratitude, for the small sky-ship is under attack from the Kraan-riders.</p>
+ <p>A net of clinging strands has caught you like a fly in a web. You rise up into the sky towards the flying ship as quickly as you fell. Three bearded dwarves clad in bright, padded battle-jerkins pull you aboard an outrigger that runs the length of the hull. However, there is no time to express your gratitude, for the small skyship is under attack from the Kraan-riders.</p>
<p>At the end of the outrigger, a dwarf is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a snarling Drakkar. He is obviously losing. As you rush to his aid, another of the evil warriors lands in the centre of the craft, on top of the fortified platform.</p>
<choice idref="sect280">If you wish to help the dwarf, <link-text>turn to 280</link-text>.</choice>
- <choice idref="sect361">If you wish to leap from the outrigger on to the platform, <link-text>turn to 361</link-text>.</choice>
+ <choice idref="sect361">If you wish to leap from the outrigger <!--ERRTAG-RE-407869-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-407869--> the platform, <link-text>turn to 361</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>Suddenly the Drakkar screams, his limbs outstretched, his gloved hands clawing the air. He is in the grip of some invisible power which is crushing him to death inside his armour.</p>
<p>You step back as the ghastly sound of cracking bones rises above the screech of the swooping Kraan-riders. The Drakkar crumples to the deck and topples over the edge of the platform.</p>
- <choice idref="sect399">If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant, <link-text>turn to 399</link-text>.<a id="sect382-1" idref="sect382-1-foot" class="footnote" /></choice>
+ <choice idref="sect399">If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant, <link-text>turn to 399</link-text>.<footref id="sect382-1" idref="sect382-1-foot" /></choice>
<choice idref="sect294">If you do not have this Special Item, <link-text>turn to 294</link-text>.</choice>
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- <p>Unfortunately, you misjudged how hard you need to blow to make the dart reach its intended target. The sleep dart falls short, accidentally hitting a seagull that has alighted on the edge of the landing platform. The unfortunate bird takes a few shaky steps before keeling over on to its back, its splayed legs pointing stiffly at the sky.</p>
+ <p>Unfortunately, you misjudged how hard you need to blow to make the dart reach its intended target. The sleep dart falls short, accidentally hitting a seagull that has alighted on the edge of the landing platform. The unfortunate bird takes a few shaky steps before keeling over <!--ERRTAG-RE-417920-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-417920--> its back, its splayed legs pointing stiffly at the sky.</p>
<p>The guard walks over to the bird and with the toe of his boot, casually flicks it over the edge of the platform. He watches as it spirals down towards the palace gardens far below, unaware that he has only just escaped a similar fate.</p>
<choice idref="sect282"><link-text>Turn to 282</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>389</title></meta>
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- <p>As you leap from the gangplank on to landing platform, the sentry wheels round to confront you. He snatches up his spear in preparation for attack. He now stands between you and the Itikar<ch.apos/>s pen; combat is unavoidable.</p>
+ <p>As you leap from the gangplank <!--ERRTAG-RE-421720-->onto<!--/ERRTAG-RE-421720--> landing platform, the sentry wheels round to confront you. He snatches up his spear in preparation for attack. He now stands between you and the Itikar<ch.apos/>s pen; combat is unavoidable.</p>
<combat><enemy>Sentry</enemy><enemy-attribute class="combatskill">15</enemy-attribute><enemy-attribute class="endurance">23</enemy-attribute></combat>
<choice idref="sect207">If you win the combat and wish to search the sentry<ch.apos/>s body, <link-text>turn to 207</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect224">If you wish to ignore the body and hurry into the Itikar<ch.apos/>s pen, <link-text>turn to 224</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>The ale is thick and creamy, with a taste like malted apples. You lower the half-empty tankard and wipe away the froth from your lips with your sleeve.</p>
- <p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point total is less than 15, deduct 2 from this number. If your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point total is above 25, add 2 to this number. If you have reached the Kai rank of Savant add 3 to this number.</p>
+ <p>Pick a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>. If your current <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point total is less than 15, deduct 2 from this number. If your <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> point total is above 25, add 2 to this number. If you have reached the Kai rank of <!--ERRTAG-RE-425661-->Savant, add<!--/ERRTAG-RE-425661--> 3 to this number.</p>
<choice idref="sect364">If your total score is now below 7, <link-text>turn to 364</link-text>.</choice>
<choice idref="sect218">If your total score is now 7 or above, <link-text>turn to 218</link-text>.</choice>
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<meta><title>394</title></meta>
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- <p>The Drakkar shrieks a cry of horror and lets the broadsword slip from his fingers. He claws at his death-mask, fumbling for the latch which opens the black steel visor. As it clicks open, a mass of writhing insects tumble from the helmet. The Drakkar screams like a madman as the creatures slither and crawl around inside his armour, stinging and biting his skin. In his crazed panic, he topples over the parapet and falls to his doom thousands of feet below.</p>
+ <p>The Drakkar shrieks a cry of horror and lets the broadsword slip from his fingers. He claws at his death-mask, fumbling for the latch which opens the black steel visor. As it clicks open, a <!--ERRTAG-RE-426277-->mass of writhing insects tumbles<!--/ERRTAG-RE-426277--> from the helmet. The Drakkar screams like a madman as the creatures slither and crawl around inside his armour, stinging and biting his skin. In his crazed panic, he topples over the parapet and falls to his doom thousands of feet below.</p>
<choice idref="sect306"><link-text>Turn to 306</link-text>.</choice>
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<p>As far as the eye can see, a long, straight, sandstone corridor slopes away into the distance. Torches crackle and splutter on the walls, illuminating the pictograms engraved in the yellow stone.</p>
- <p>At regular intervals, rough-edged slabs protrude into the main corridor. You stop to take a close look at one of these slabs and the floor beneath it and come to a frightening conclusion. They are obviously traps, no doubt set off by the Giaks when they cleared this corridor of sand. Rather than instructing the Giaks to avoid them, the Darklords must have deliberately used their slaves to set them off. Once the traps had been sprung, the squashed bodies were cleared away and the slabs chiselled through to the next section. Pit traps in the floors seem to have been neutralized in the same way. Set off by luckless Giaks, they would have been filled in with the dead bodies and levelled off with sand. The thought of this heartless barbarity fills you with revulsion.</p>
+ <p>At regular intervals, rough-edged slabs protrude into the main corridor. You stop to take a close look at one of these slabs and the floor <!--ERRTAG-RE-428231-->beneath it and come<!--/ERRTAG-RE-428231--> to a frightening conclusion. They are obviously traps, no doubt set off by the Giaks when they cleared this corridor of sand. Rather than instructing the Giaks to avoid them, the Darklords must have deliberately used their slaves to set them off. Once the traps had been sprung, the squashed bodies were cleared away and the slabs chiselled through to the next section. Pit traps in the floors seem to have been neutralized in the same way. Set off by luckless Giaks, they would have been filled in with the dead bodies and levelled off with sand. The thought of this heartless barbarity fills you with revulsion.</p>
<p>Just over a mile along the corridor, you eventually arrive at a large stone door. The stone surround bears evidence of chisel-work, but the door itself is rock solid.</p>
<p>You notice a faint beam of light descending from a hole in the ceiling. It creates a small circular pool of light, a little to one side of a similar hole in the floor. In the wall near to the door there is a triangular indentation, no larger than a Gold Crown.</p>
<choice idref="sect233">If you possess a Prism, <link-text>turn to 233</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>399</title></meta>
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- <p>Banedon lowers his staff, the trace of a wry smile on his pain-racked face. <quote>Alas I was too slow to protect myself, Lone Wolf,</quote> he says, glancing at his arm. You kneel at his side and free the spear that pins him to the floor. The wound is serious; hastily you staunch the bleeding with strips of cloth torn from his dark blue robes. You recognize the robes, for they are the attire of a Journeymaster. It seems that young Banedon has achieved distinction among his brother magicians since last you met.</p>
+ <p>Banedon lowers his staff, the trace of a wry smile on his pain-racked face. <quote><!--ERRTAG-RE-431974-->Alas, I<!--/ERRTAG-RE-431974--> was too slow to protect myself, Lone Wolf,</quote> he says, glancing at his arm. You kneel at his side and free the spear that pins him to the floor. The wound is serious; hastily you staunch the bleeding with strips of cloth torn from his dark blue robes. You recognize the robes, for they are the attire of a Journeymaster. It seems that young Banedon has achieved distinction among his brother magicians since last you met.</p>
<p><quote>It appears that we are fated to meet in their company,</quote> he says, still watching the Kraan-riders anxiously. <quote>Help me to my feet, we must escape before they drag us from the sky.</quote></p>
<p>You support the magician as he grasps the ship<ch.apos/>s helm<ch.emdash/>a radiant crystal sphere with hundreds of glowing facets set on a slim silver rod. No sooner has his hand closed around the crystal than there is a tremendous explosion.</p>
<choice idref="sect323"><link-text>Turn to 323</link-text>.</choice>
<meta><title>400</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>You examine the floor where Darklord Haakon fell, but there are no signs of his body. The atmosphere is strangely calm and peaceful as if a great and evil shadow has been lifted.</p>
+ <p>You examine the floor where Darklord Haakon fell, but there are no signs of his body. The atmosphere is strangely calm and <!--ERRTAG-RE-433271-->peaceful, as<!--/ERRTAG-RE-433271--> if a great and evil shadow has been lifted.</p>
<p>You turn and walk to the throne where Haakon sat, waiting for you to appear. Beyond it lies a portal, an ancient inscription carved deep into the blood-red stone. Below the carving is set the impression of a human hand. Instinct and intuition guide your hand to the door; the carving fits around it like a glove.</p>
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<p>Silently the portal slides back to reveal your destiny<ch.emdash/>the <cite>Book of the Magnakai</cite>. Set on a pedestal, the book lies open, its secrets revealed to your eyes alone. As you lift the sacred book, the very air throbs with the vibration of the force locked within its sun-gold cover. With a pounding heart you close the book and hurry from the chamber.</p>
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+ <p>The Empire of Vassagonia is a vast desert realm. The northern coast runs roughly east for several hundred miles before it turns in a lazy, rugged arc to the south. Roughly at the apex of this arc is the city of Barrakeesh, the capitol of Vassagonia. The six other cities of this vast arid country are mainly to be found in the thin coastal strip, such as Ferufezan in the northwest, and Bisutan in the south. Barrakeesh is cut off from most of the rest of Vassagonia by the semicircle of the Kabar Range. These mountains meet the sea on the eastern coast at Cape Kabar, which overlooks a trio of islands. For all its magnificent coastline, Vassagonia lacks fresh water, with only six major oases in the entire realm, half of which line the trail to the south of the Dahir Mountains between Ikaresh and Bir Rabalou.</p>
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<li>Add your <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> to any extra points given to you by your Kai Disciplines.</li>
<li>Subtract the <typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ> of your enemy from this total. This number = Combat Ratio.</li>
- <li>Pick
number from <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</li>
- <li>Turn to <a idref="crtable">Combat Results Table</a>.</li>
- <li>Find your Combat Ratio on the top of the chart and cross-reference to random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to Enemy. LW indicates loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to Lone Wolf.)</li>
- <li>Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points of either character fall to 0 or below.</li>
+ <li>Pick
a number from the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a>.</li>
+ <li>Turn to
the <a idref="crtable">Combat Results Table</a>.</li>
+ <li>Find your Combat Ratio on the top of the chart and cross-reference to the random number you have picked. (E indicates loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to Enemy. LW indicates loss of <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points to Lone Wolf.)</li>
+ <li>Continue the combat from Stage 3 until one character is dead. This is when the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points of either character falls to 0 or below.</li>
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<section class="backmatter" id="smevazn">
<ol>
<li>You may only do this when the text of the adventure offers you the opportunity.</li>
- <li>You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored, only Lone Wolf loses the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</li>
+ <li>You undertake one round of combat in the usual way. All points lost by the enemy are ignored; only Lone Wolf loses the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points.</li>
<li>If the book offers the chance of taking evasive action in place of combat, it can be taken in the first round of combat or any subsequent round.</li>
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- <meta><title>Random Number Table</title></meta>
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- <creator>Jonathan Blake</creator>
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- <table>
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- <td>2</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>1</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>9</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>7</td>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>9</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>5</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>3</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>7</td>
- <td>9</td>
- <td>6</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>3</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>7</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>7</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>3</td>
- <td>1</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>8</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>9</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>0</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>9</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>7</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>3</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>7</td>
- <td>9</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>6</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>3</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>7</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>8</td>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>0</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>4</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>3</td>
- <td>1</td>
- <td>7</td>
- <td>5</td>
- <td>6</td>
- <td>2</td>
- <td>0</td>
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+ <meta><title>Random Number Table</title></meta>
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+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>9</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>9</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>3</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ <td>9</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>3</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>7</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>3</td>
+ <td>1</td>
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+ <tr>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>9</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>0</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>9</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>3</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ <td>9</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>3</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>8</td>
+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>0</td>
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+ <td>4</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>3</td>
+ <td>1</td>
+ <td>7</td>
+ <td>5</td>
+ <td>6</td>
+ <td>2</td>
+ <td>0</td>
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<meta><title>Errata List</title></meta>
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- <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far<ch.ellips/></a>) Replaced <quote>mid-winter</quote> with <quote>midwinter</quote>, <quote>king<ch.apos/>s</quote> with <quote>King<ch.apos/>s</quote>, and all occurrences of <quote>king</quote> with <quote>King</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="tssf">The Story So Far<ch.ellips/></a>) Replaced <quote>mid-winter</quote> with <quote>midwinter</quote>, <quote>king<ch.apos/>s</quote> with <quote>King<ch.apos/>s</quote>, and all occurrences of <quote>king</quote> with <quote>King</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-6220-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Maaken range</quote> with <quote>Maaken Range</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-6220-ITEM--></p>
- <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Removed <quote> that you will find in the front of this book. For further adventuring you can copy out the chart yourself or get it photocopied</quote> and <quote> on the last page of this book</quote>. Replaced <quote>Combat Skill, Endurance Points</quote> with <quote><typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>, <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points</quote>. Placed <quote>or below</quote> after <quote>fall to zero</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="gamerulz">The Game Rules</a>) Removed <quote> that you will find in the front of this book. For further adventuring you can copy out the chart yourself or get it photocopied</quote> and <quote> on the last page of this book</quote>. Replaced <quote>Combat Skill, Endurance Points</quote> with <quote><typ class="attribute">COMBAT SKILL</typ>, <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points</quote>. Placed <quote>or below</quote> after <quote>fall to zero</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-8915-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-8915-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Chart (you</quote> with <quote>Chart. (You</quote>, and <quote>Items).</quote> with <quote>Items.)</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="discplnz">Kai Disciplines</a>) Replaced <quote>Kai Discipline section</quote> with <quote>Kai Disciplines section</quote>. Replaced all occurrences of <quote>discipline(s)</quote> with <quote>Discipline(s)</quote>. Set the Weapons list in initial capital letters instead of all capitals. Replaced <quote>Kai monastery</quote> with <quote>Kai Monastery</quote>. Replaced all occurrences of <quote>Lone Wolf</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite></quote> when referring to the series.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="equipmnt">Equipment</a>) Removed <quote> (see the front of this book)</quote>. Capitalized the items in the list rather than setting them in all capitals. Replaced both occurrences of <quote>Safe Keeping</quote> with <quote>safekeeping</quote>. Replaced <quote>Kai monastery</quote> with <quote>Kai Monastery</quote>. Replaced <quote>Lone Wolf</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite></quote> when referring to the series.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="equipmnt">Equipment</a>) Removed <quote> (see the front of this book)</quote>. Capitalized the items in the list rather than setting them in all capitals. Replaced both occurrences of <quote>Safe Keeping</quote> with <quote>safekeeping</quote>. Replaced <quote>Kai monastery</quote> with <quote>Kai Monastery</quote>. Replaced <quote>Lone Wolf</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite></quote> when referring to the series.<!--ERRTAG-RE-26274-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>also they cannot</quote> with <quote>neither can they</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-26274-ITEM--></p>
- <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Rules for Combat</a>) Removed <quote> on the inside back cover of the book</quote>. Replaced <quote>on the page after the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a></quote> with <quote>in the back of this book</quote>. Placed <quote>or below</quote> after <quote>reduced to zero</quote>. Replaced <quote>reduced</quote> with <quote>possibly reduced</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="cmbtrulz">Rules for Combat</a>) Removed <quote> on the inside back cover of the book</quote>. Replaced <quote>on the page after the <a idref="random">Random Number Table</a></quote> with <quote>in the back of this book</quote>. Placed <quote>or below</quote> after <quote>reduced to zero</quote>. Replaced <quote>reduced</quote> with <quote>possibly reduced</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-31271-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>at which point the one with the zero score is declared dead.</quote> with <quote>at which point that combatant is declared dead.</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-31271-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="levels">Levels of Kai Training</a>) Replaced <quote>LONE WOLF</quote> with <quote>Lone Wolf</quote>. Replaced all occurrences of <quote>Lone Wolf</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite></quote> when referring to the series.</p>
<p>(<a idref="kaiwisdm">Kai Wisdom</a>) Replaced both occurrences of <quote>LONE WOLF</quote> with <quote>Lone Wolf</quote>. Replaced all occurrences of <quote>Lone Wolf</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite></quote> when referring to the series.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect1">1</a>) Replaced <quote>you must<ch.emdash/></quote> with <quote>you must<ch.ellips/></quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect1">1</a>) Replaced <quote>you must<ch.emdash/></quote> with <quote>you must<ch.ellips/></quote> and <quote>elite</quote> with <quote><ch.eacute/>lite</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect2">2</a>) Replaced <quote>fades; and</quote> with <quote>fades, and</quote>, <quote>diseases, or</quote> with <quote>diseases or</quote>, and <quote>entered, and</quote> with <quote>entered and</quote>. Replaced <quote>Gold Chain and Key</quote> with <quote>Gold Key on a chain</quote>. Replaced <quote>the Key</quote> with <quote>the Gold Key</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect4">4</a>) Replaced <quote>Palace Jailer</quote> with <quote>Palace Gaoler</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect5">5</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>half-way</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect5">5</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>halfway</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect7">7</a>) Replaced <quote>bowstring and</quote> with <quote>bowstring, and</quote>, <quote>range and</quote> with <quote>range, and</quote>, and <quote>surrounded and</quote> with <quote>surrounded, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect8">8</a>) Replaced <quote>efforts and</quote> with <quote>efforts, and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect10">10</a>) Replaced <quote>wire and</quote> with <quote>wire, and</quote> and <quote>head first</quote> with <quote>head-first</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect12">12</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect10">10</a>) Replaced <quote>wire and</quote> with <quote>wire, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect13">13</a>) Replaced <quote>appalling, and</quote> with <quote>appalling; and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect14">14</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-50398-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>urns and all kinds of fruit</quote> with <quote>urns, and all kinds of fruit</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-50398-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-50717-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Weapons and Gold Crowns</quote> with <quote>Weapons, and Gold Crowns</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-50717-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect17">17</a>) Replaced <quote>subside but</quote> with <quote>subside, but</quote>. Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect18">18</a>) Replaced <quote>Dahir mountains</quote> with <quote>Dahir Mountains</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect19">19</a>) Replaced <quote>suspiciously, but</quote> with <quote>suspiciously but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect27">27</a>) Replaced <quote>oil</quote> with <quote>Oil</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect29">29</a>) Replaced <quote>joint and</quote> with <quote>joint, and</quote>, <quote>water, and</quote> with <quote>water and</quote>, and <quote>bar and</quote> with <quote>bar, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect30">30</a>) Replaced <quote>wall, and</quote> with <quote>wall and</quote>, <quote>action, when</quote> with <quote>action when (awkward)</quote>, and <quote>narrow and</quote> with <quote>narrow, and</quote>. Moved the Guardian choice into the first position.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect32">32</a>) Replaced <quote>prayer and</quote> with <quote>prayer, and</quote> and <quote>end and</quote> with <quote>end, and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect32">32</a>) Replaced <quote>prayer and</quote> with <quote>prayer, and</quote> and <quote>end and</quote> with <quote>end, and</quote>. Replaced <quote>wrapped in</quote> with <quote>rapt in</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect33">33</a>) Replaced <quote>corroded but</quote> with <quote>corroded, but</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect35">35</a>) Replaced <quote>disgusting and</quote> with <quote>disgusting, and</quote>, <quote>six, silver-handled</quote> with <quote>six silver-handled</quote>, and <quote>tunic, and</quote> with <quote>tunic and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect38">38</a>) Replaced <quote>Half-way</quote> with <quote>Halfway</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect35">35</a>) Replaced <quote>disgusting and</quote> with <quote>disgusting, and</quote>, <quote>six, silver-handled</quote> with <quote>six silver-handled</quote>, and <quote>tunic, and</quote> with <quote>tunic and</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-69812-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>emeralds and pearls</quote> with <quote>emeralds, and pearls</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-69812-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect38">38</a>) Replaced <quote>Half-way</quote> with <quote>Halfway</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-71865-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-71865-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect40">40</a>) Replaced <quote>retch, and</quote> with <quote>retch and</quote> and <quote>tunnel and</quote> with <quote>tunnel, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect44">44</a>) Replaced <quote>leatherbound</quote> with <quote>leather-bound</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect49">49</a>) Replaced <quote>climb; and</quote> with <quote>climb, and</quote>, and <quote>troops you</quote> with <quote>troops, you (awkward)</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect61">61</a>) Replaced <quote>open and</quote> with <quote>open, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect64">64</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect66">66</a>) Replaced <quote>guard, and</quote> with <quote>guard and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect67">67</a>) Replaced <quote>deep dark</quote> with <quote>deep, dark</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect67">67</a>) Replaced <quote>deep dark</quote> with <quote>deep, dark</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-100623-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>now extinct</quote> with <quote>now extinct elsewhere</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-100623-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect69">69</a>) Replaced <quote>crisscrossed</quote> with <quote>criss-crossed</quote>, <quote>free, and</quote> with <quote>free and</quote>, and <quote>greedily, and</quote> with <quote>greedily and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect73">73</a>) Replaced <quote>something and</quote> with <quote>something, and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect75">75</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-111078-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Quickly Northlander, I</quote> with <quote>Quickly, Northlander. I</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-111078-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect79">79</a>) Moved the Camouflage/Hunting choice into the first position.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect80">80</a>) Replaced <quote><ch.thinspace/><ch.lsquot/>click<ch.rsquot/><ch.thinspace/></quote> with <quote><onomatopoeia>click</onomatopoeia></quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect82">82</a>) Replaced <quote>courage but</quote> with <quote>courage, but</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect83">83</a>) Replaced <quote>Vakar mountains</quote> with <quote>Vakar Mountains</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect83">83</a>) Replaced <quote>Vakar mountains</quote> with <quote>Vakar Mountains</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-116673-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-116673-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect84">84</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-117237-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-117237-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect86">86</a>) Replaced <quote>settling; and</quote> with <quote>settling, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect87">87</a>) Replaced <quote>Zakhans, and</quote> with <quote>Zakhans and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect88">88</a>) Replaced <quote>overturned and</quote> with <quote>overturned, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect89">89</a>) Replaced <quote>equipment, and</quote> with <quote>equipment and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect90">90</a>) Replaced <quote>advice, and</quote> with <quote>advice and</quote>. Replaced <quote>water keeping</quote> with <quote>water, keeping</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect93">93</a>) Replaced <quote>parched and</quote> with <quote>parched, and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect93">93</a>) Replaced <quote>parched and</quote> with <quote>parched, and</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-127304-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-127304-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect94">94</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-127820-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-127820-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect95">95</a>) Replaced <quote>swim but</quote> with <quote>swim, but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect96">96</a>) Replaced <quote>rib-cage</quote> with <quote>rib cage</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect97">97</a>) Replaced <quote>booby-trapped but</quote> with <quote>booby-trapped, but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect101">101</a>) Replaced <quote>Potion Alether</quote> with <quote>Potion of Alether</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect102">102</a>) Replaced both occurrences of <quote>Jailer<ch.apos/> Keys</quote> with <quote>Gaoler<ch.apos/>s Keys</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect103">103</a>) Replaced <quote>body, and</quote> with <quote>body and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect106">106</a>) Replaced <quote>combat, and</quote> with <quote>combat and</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect104">104</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-137743-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Maouk, <ch.lsquot/>but take him alive!<ch.rsquot/></quote> with <quote>Maouk. <ch.lsquot/>But take him alive!<ch.rsquot/></quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-137743-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect106">106</a>) Replaced <quote>combat, and</quote> with <quote>combat and</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.<!--ERRTAG-RE-138747-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-138747-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect107">107</a>) Replaced <quote>guard<ch.apos/>s</quote> with <quote>guards<ch.apos/></quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect109">109</a>) Replaced <quote>market-place</quote> with <quote>marketplace</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect110">110</a>) Replaced <quote>strike and</quote> with <quote>strike, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect111">111</a>) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect112">112</a>) Moved the Animal Kinship choice into the first position.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect112">112</a>) Moved the Animal Kinship choice into the first position.<!--ERRTAG-RE-144012-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-144012-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect113">113</a>) Moved the Healing choice into the first position. Replaced <quote>posses</quote> with <quote>possess</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect114">114</a>) Replaced <quote>sensitive and</quote> with <quote>sensitive, and</quote> and <quote>corroded and</quote> with <quote>corroded, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect117">117</a>) Replaced <quote>houses all</quote> with <quote>houses, all</quote> and <quote>first floor</quote> with <quote>first-floor</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect168">168</a>) Replaced <quote>sommersaults</quote> with <quote>somersaults</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect173">173</a>) Replaced <quote>north-west</quote> with <quote>northwest</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect175">175</a>) Replaced <quote>Maouk who</quote> with <quote>Maouk, who</quote> and <quote>shadows, a dart</quote> with <quote>shadows<ch.emdash/>a dart</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect176">176</a>) Replaced <quote>head first</quote> with <quote>head-first</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect177">177</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect178">178</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>half-way</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect178">178</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>halfway</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect179">179</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-211472-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>potions and</quote> with <quote>potions, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-211472-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect183">183</a>) Replaced <quote>legs tearing</quote> with <quote>legs, tearing</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect187">187</a>) Replaced <quote>long curved</quote> with <quote>long, curved</quote> and <quote>claws, its</quote> with <quote>claws<ch.emdash/>its</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect189">189</a>) Replaced <quote>falls, but</quote> with <quote>falls but</quote> and <quote>indifference, and</quote> with <quote>indifference and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect190">190</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect195">195</a>) Replaced <quote>bodies and</quote> with <quote>bodies, and</quote> and <quote>chest as</quote> with <quote>chest are as</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect198">198</a>) Replaced <quote>7-9</quote> with <quote>7-12</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect198">198</a>) Replaced <quote>7<ch.endash/>9</quote> with <quote>7<ch.endash/>12</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect199">198</a>) Replaced <quote>jailer</quote> with <quote>gaoler</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect200">200</a>) Replaced <quote>gold, but</quote> with <quote>gold but</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect202">202</a>) Replaced <quote>gold, and</quote> with <quote>gold and</quote> and <quote>street, and</quote> with <quote>street and</quote>. Replaced all occurrences of <quote>market-place</quote> with <quote>marketplace</quote></p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect203">203</a>) Replaced <quote>Vordak but</quote> with <quote>Vordak, but</quote> and <quote>blood, and</quote> with <quote>blood and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect202">202</a>) Replaced <quote>gold, and</quote> with <quote>gold and</quote> and <quote>street, and</quote> with <quote>street and</quote>. Replaced all occurrences of <quote>market-place</quote> with <quote>marketplace</quote><!--ERRTAG-RE-234455-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>material and</quote> with <quote>material, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-234455-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-234550-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>sold and</quote> with <quote>sold, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-234550-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect203">203</a>) Replaced <quote>Vordak but</quote> with <quote>Vordak, but</quote> and <quote>blood, and</quote> with <quote>blood and</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-235358-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-235358-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect204">204</a>) Replaced <quote>strength, and</quote> with <quote>strength and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect206">206</a>) Replaced <quote>furnished and</quote> with <quote>furnished, and</quote>, <quote>little there is either</quote> with <quote>little is there is either</quote> and <quote>leatherbound</quote> with <quote>leather-bound</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect207">207</a>) Replaced <quote>Crowns, and</quote> with <quote>Crowns and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect208">208</a>) Replaced <quote>yellow and</quote> with <quote>yellow, and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect209">209</a>) Replaced <quote>Drakkarim, and</quote> with <quote>Drakkarim and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect209">209</a>) Replaced <quote>Drakkarim, and</quote> with <quote>Drakkarim and</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-241305-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-241305-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect210">210</a>) Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect211">211</a>) Replaced <quote>wine, and</quote> with <quote>wine and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect213">213</a>) Replaced <quote>Vakar mountains</quote> with <quote>Vakar Mountains</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect216">216</a>) Replaced <quote>town, and</quote> with <quote>town and</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect229">229</a>) Replaced <quote>Dahir mountains</quote> with <quote>Dahir Mountains</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect232">232</a>) Replaced <quote>eyes and</quote> with <quote>eyes, and</quote>, <quote>knees and</quote> with <quote>knees, and</quote> and <quote>move but</quote> with <quote>move, but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect233">233</a>) Replaced <quote>lit but</quote> with <quote>lit, but</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect234">234</a>) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect235">235</a>) Replaced <quote>explore, and</quote> with <quote>explore and</quote> and <quote>face and</quote> with <quote>face, and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect234">234</a>) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.<!--ERRTAG-RE-263537-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-263537-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect235">235</a>) Replaced <quote>explore, and</quote> with <quote>explore and</quote> and <quote>face and</quote> with <quote>face, and</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-265622-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>catch of lavacrabs lie</quote> with <quote>catch of lavacrabs lies</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-265622-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a id="err236" idref="sect236">236</a>) Deleted the second sentence <quote>When you strike, the guard is still on his knees, picking up his scattered gold.</quote> (See the <a idref="err295">erratum for section 295</a>.)</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect237">237</a>) Replaced <quote>smells, and after</quote> with <quote>smells and, after</quote>. Replaced <quote>Jala</quote> with <quote>jala</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect238">238</a>) Replaced <quote>crack and</quote> with <quote>crack, and</quote> and <quote>hand, and</quote> with <quote>hand and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect248">248</a>) Replaced <quote>small beady</quote> with <quote>small, beady</quote>. Replaced <quote>belt pouch</quote> with <quote>Belt Pouch</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect250">250</a>) Replaced <quote>blood and</quote> with <quote>blood, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect253">253</a>) Replaced <quote>subsides; but</quote> with <quote>subsides, but</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect254">254</a>) Replaced <quote>battle-jerkins, pull</quote> with <quote>battle-jerkins pull</quote> and <quote>gratitude for</quote> with <quote>gratitude, for</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect254">254</a>) Replaced <quote>battle-jerkins, pull</quote> with <quote>battle-jerkins pull</quote> and <quote>gratitude for</quote> with <quote>gratitude, for</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-286671-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-286671-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-286002-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>sky-ship and</quote> with <quote>skyship, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-286002-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect258">258</a>) Replaced <quote>noise, and</quote> with <quote>noise and</quote>, <quote>death blow</quote> with <quote>death-blow</quote>, and <quote>terror but</quote> with <quote>terror, but</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect259">259</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-289598-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-289598-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect261">261</a>) Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect264">264</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect269">269</a>) Replaced both occurrences of <quote>drawbolt</quote> with <quote>bolt</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect271">271</a>) Replaced <quote>below, but</quote> with <quote>below but</quote>, <quote>blood, and</quote> with <quote>blood and</quote> and <quote>stiffen and</quote> with <quote>stiffen, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect274">274</a>) Replaced <quote>market place</quote> with <quote>marketplace</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect275">275</a>) Replaced <quote>forward and</quote> with <quote>forward, and</quote>. Replaced <quote>Magician<ch.apos/>s Guild</quote> with <quote>Magicians<ch.apos/> Guild</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect275">275</a>) Replaced <quote>forward and</quote> with <quote>forward, and</quote>. Replaced <quote>Magician<ch.apos/>s Guild</quote> with <quote>Magicians<ch.apos/> Guild</quote>. Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect277">277</a>) Replaced <quote>drawbolt</quote> with <quote>bolt</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect279">279</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-307019-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-307019-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect280">280</a>) Replaced <quote>face sending</quote> with <quote>face, sending</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect282">282</a>) Replaced <quote>However for</quote> with <quote>However, for</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect285">285</a>) Replaced <quote>hand, and</quote> with <quote>hand and</quote> and <quote>muzzle-first</quote> with <quote>muzzle first</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect289">289</a>) Replaced <quote>surface and</quote> with <quote>surface, and</quote> and <quote>gutteral</quote> with <quote>guttural</quote>. Italicised <quote><onomatopoeia>crack</onomatopoeia></quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect291">291</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-320024-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Tentarias are</quote> with <quote>Tentarias is</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320024-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-320190-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>over a thousand miles</quote> with <quote>nearly three thousand miles</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320190-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-320419-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>cargo and</quote> with <quote>cargo, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320419-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-320628-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>result Banedon</quote> with <quote>result, Banedon</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-320628-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect294">294</a>) Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a id="err295" idref="sect295">295</a>) Added the sentences, <quote>When you strike, the guard is still on his knees, picking up his scattered gold. Your attack is silent and deadly.</quote> These are copied from 236. <quote>Turn to 236</quote> is now replaced with <quote>If you wish to search the guard<ch.apos/>s body, turn to 207. If you decide to ignore the body, hurry into the Itikar<ch.apos/>s pen and turn to 224.</quote> This retains the text for the Mind Over Matter option, while fixing the out-of-place wording if you never untied the guard<ch.apos/>s money pouch. (See also the <a idref="err236">errata for sections 236</a>, <a idref="err357">357</a>, and <a idref="err389">389</a>.) Perhaps Joe Dever originally intended for there to be a Random Number pick even when you used Mind Over Matter and then made Mind Over Matter an automatic victory against the sentry but he seems to have forgotten to change the wording for the Random Number pick.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect296">296</a>) Replaced <quote>Zakhan, others</quote> with <quote>Zakhan. Others</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect297">297</a>) Replaced <quote>alive, and</quote> with <quote>alive and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect302">302</a>) Replaced <quote>strong, that</quote> with <quote>strong that</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect303">303</a>) Replaced <quote>behind, and</quote> with <quote>behind and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect304">304</a>) Replaced <quote>out but</quote> with <quote>out, but</quote> and <quote>battle cry</quote> with <quote>battle-cry</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect305">305</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>half-way</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect305">305</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>halfway</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect306">306</a>) Replaced <quote>obey, and</quote> with <quote>obey and</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect312">312</a>) Replaced <quote>boomsail</quote> with <quote>boom-sail</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect313">313</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-341826-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>couriers and</quote> with <quote>couriers, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-341826-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-342580-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>these Items</quote> with <quote>these items</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-342580-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect315">315</a>) Replaced <quote>collar bone</quote> with <quote>collarbone</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect316">316</a>) Replaced <quote>surprise, their weapons</quote> with <quote>surprise; their weapons</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect320">320</a>) Replaced <quote>blood but</quote> with <quote>blood, but</quote> and <quote>back-breaking</quote> with <quote>backbreaking</quote>. Replaced <quote>Koneshi mountains</quote> with <quote>Koneshi Mountains</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect323">323</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect316">316</a>) Replaced <quote>surprise, their weapons</quote> with <quote>surprise; their weapons</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-343815-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-343815-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect320">320</a>) Replaced <quote>blood but</quote> with <quote>blood, but</quote> and <quote>back-breaking</quote> with <quote>backbreaking</quote>. Replaced <quote>Koneshi mountains</quote> with <quote>Koneshi Mountains</quote>. Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect322">322</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-351155-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-351155-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-351631-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-351631-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect323">323</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption. Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect326">326</a>) Replaced <quote>belt pouch</quote> with <quote>Belt Pouch</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect327">327</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-356599-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-356599-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect329">329</a>) Replaced <quote>Drakkarim but</quote> with <quote>Drakkarim, but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect328">328</a>) Replaced <quote>market-place</quote> with <quote>marketplace</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect330">330</a>) Replaced <quote>combat and</quote> with <quote>combat, and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect331">331</a>) Removed <quote> at the front of this book</quote>. Replaced <quote>pours over</quote> with <quote>pores over</quote>. Replaced <quote>What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars are a code</quote> with <quote>What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars is a code</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect332">332</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>half-way</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect331">331</a>) Removed <quote> at the front of this book</quote>. Replaced <quote>pours over</quote> with <quote>pores over</quote>. Replaced <quote>What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars are a code</quote> with <quote>What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars is a code</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-361973-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>readings and</quote> with <quote>readings, and</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-361973-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect332">332</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>halfway</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect333">333</a>) Replaced <quote>flash and</quote> with <quote>flash, and</quote> and <quote>blood-stained</quote> with <quote>bloodstained</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect335">335</a>) Replaced <quote>death blow</quote> with <quote>death-blow</quote>. Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect336">336</a>) Replaced <quote>craft, is</quote> with <quote>craft is</quote> and <quote>forward and</quote> with <quote>forward, and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect337">337</a>) Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect342">342</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>half-way</quote> and <quote>Jala</quote> with <quote>jala</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect343">343</a>) Replaced <quote>behind you but</quote> with <quote>behind you, but</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption. Replaced <quote>Dahir mountains</quote> with <quote>Dahir Mountains</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect339">339</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-368529-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-368529-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect342">342</a>) Replaced <quote>half-way</quote> with <quote>halfway</quote> and <quote>Jala</quote> with <quote>jala</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect343">343</a>) Replaced <quote>behind you but</quote> with <quote>behind you, but</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption. Replaced <quote>Dahir mountains</quote> with <quote>Dahir Mountains</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-DE-375915-ITEM--> Deleted <quote>at the front of this book </quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-DE-375915-ITEM--><!--ERRTAG-RE-376027-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Dahir pass</quote> with <quote>Dahir Pass</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-376027-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect344">344</a>) Replaced <quote>yellow and</quote> with <quote>yellow, and</quote> and <quote>herb, and</quote> with <quote>herb and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect345">345</a>) Replaced <quote>hand, and</quote> with <quote>hand and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect347">347</a>) Replaced <quote>below but</quote> with <quote>below, but</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect347">347</a>) Replaced <quote>below but</quote> with <quote>below, but</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-379025-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-379025-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect351">351</a>) Replaced <quote>semi-circle</quote> with <quote>semicircle</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect352">352</a>) Replaced <quote>place, and</quote> with <quote>place and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect353">353</a>) Replaced <quote>Cryptspawn</quote> with <quote>Crypt Spawn</quote> and <quote>fire but</quote> with <quote>fire, but</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect354">354</a>) Replaced <quote>deck but</quote> with <quote>deck, but</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a id="err357" idref="sect357">357</a>) Deleted the words <quote>forgets about his scattered gold and</quote> from the third sentence. (See the <a idref="err295">erratum for section 295</a>.) Replaced <quote>combat, and</quote> with <quote>combat and</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect361">361</a>) Replaced <quote>boomsail</quote> with <quote>boom-sail</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect361">361</a>) Replaced <quote>boomsail</quote> with <quote>boom-sail</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-393714-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-393714-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect362">362</a>) Replaced both occurrences of <quote>Jala</quote> with <quote>jala</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect366">366</a>) Replaced <quote>drawbolt</quote> with <quote>bolt</quote> and <quote>death blow</quote> with <quote>death-blow</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect370">370</a>) Replaced <quote>stranger, and</quote> with <quote>stranger and</quote>. Replaced <quote>falls to zero</quote> with <quote>falls to zero or below</quote>. Replaced <quote>points to zero</quote> with <quote>points to zero or below</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect371">371</a>) Replaced <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect372">372</a>) Replaced <quote>drawbolt</quote> with <quote>bolt</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect374">374</a>) Replaced <quote>happening, you</quote> with <quote>happening; you</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect374">374</a>) Replaced <quote>happening, you</quote> with <quote>happening; you</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-407869-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-407869-ITEM--> Replaced each occurrence of <quote>sky-ship</quote> with <quote>skyship</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect375">375</a>) Replaced <quote>blow, and</quote> with <quote>blow and</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect376">376</a>) Replaced <quote>white-washed</quote> with <quote>whitewashed</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect380">380</a>) Replaced <quote>helm but</quote> with <quote>helm, but</quote> and <quote>bo<ch.apos/>sun</quote> with <quote>Bo<ch.apos/>sun</quote>. Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect382">382</a>) Replaced the choice at the end of this section to match those in <a idref="sect288">Section 288</a>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect384">384</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-417920-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-417920-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect385">385</a>) Replaced <quote>seering</quote> with <quote>searing</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a id="err389" idref="sect389">389</a>) Deleted the words <quote>forgets about his gold and</quote> from the second sentence. (See the <a idref="err295">erratum for section 295</a>.) Replaced <quote>pen, combat</quote> with <quote>pen; combat</quote> and <quote>combat, and</quote> with <quote>combat and</quote>.</p>
<p>(<a idref="sect386">386</a>) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect389">389</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-421720-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>on to</quote> with <quote>onto</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-421720-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect390">390</a>) Replaced <quote>flame, is</quote> with <quote>flame is</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect392">392</a>) Replaced the last choice to read <quote>7 or above</quote> instead of <quote>above 7</quote> in order to avoid the ambiguous situation of having picked 7.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect394">394</a>) Replaced <quote>madman, as</quote> with <quote>madman as</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect395">395</a>) Replaced <quote>it, and</quote> with <quote>it and</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect392">392</a>) Replaced the last choice to read <quote>7 or above</quote> instead of <quote>above 7</quote> in order to avoid the ambiguous situation of having picked 7.<!--ERRTAG-RE-425661-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Savant add</quote> with <quote>Savant, add</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-425661-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect394">394</a>) Replaced <quote>madman, as</quote> with <quote>madman as</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-426277-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>mass of writhing insects tumble</quote> with <quote>mass of writhing insects tumbles</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-426277-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect395">395</a>) Replaced <quote>it, and</quote> with <quote>it and</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-428231-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>beneath it, and come</quote> with <quote>beneath it and come</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-428231-ITEM--></p>
<p>(<a idref="sect396">396</a>) Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position. Replaced <quote>spirals stairs</quote> with <quote>spiral stairs</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect400">400</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption. Replaced <quote>Lone Wolf series</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite> series</quote>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Replaced <quote>cross reference</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>, <quote>top of chart</quote> with <quote>top of the chart</quote> and <quote>fall to 0</quote> with <quote>falls to 0 or below</quote>.</p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect399">399</a>)<!--ERRTAG-RE-431974-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>Alas I</quote> with <quote>Alas, I</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-431974-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="sect400">400</a>) Added a period to the end of the illustration<ch.apos/>s caption. Replaced <quote>Lone Wolf series</quote> with <quote><cite>Lone Wolf</cite> series</quote>.<!--ERRTAG-RE-433271-ITEM--> Replaced <quote>peaceful as</quote> with <quote>peaceful, as</quote>.<!--/ERRTAG-RE-433271-ITEM--></p>
+ <p>(<a idref="crsumary">Combat Rules Summary</a>) Replaced <quote>cross reference</quote> with <quote>cross-reference</quote>, <quote>top of chart</quote> with <quote>top of the chart</quote>, and <quote>fall to 0</quote> with <quote>falls to 0 or below</quote>. Replaced <quote>Pick number from</quote> with <quote>Pick a number from the</quote>. Replaced <quote>Turn to Combat</quote> with <quote>Turn to the Combat</quote>. Replaced <quote>to random number</quote> with <quote>to the random number</quote>. Replaced <quote>when ENDURANCE</quote> with <quote>when the ENDURANCE</quote>. Replaced <quote>ignored, only</quote> with <quote>ignored; only</quote>.</p>
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<meta><title>Footnotes</title></meta>
- <data>
- <p>(<a idref="sect4">4</a>) If the fight lasts longer than 4 rounds, you must still win before turning to <a idref="sect180">Section 180</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect10">10</a>) Make sure you note your possessions elsewhere in case you should find them later.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect20">20</a>) It may be reasonable to restore half the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points that you lose in this combat if you win (note what happens if you lose).</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect31">31</a>) Note that you do not need any of your own Torches to use the Tinderbox in this case.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect35">35</a>) The Jewelled Mace is a weapon-like Special Item.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect56">56</a>) You may record the Jakan on your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> as a Weapon. Although you may not use it in this adventure, it may be of use to you in the future.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect58">58</a>) The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct. If you choose the wrong section, then turn to <a idref="sect156">Section 156</a> as indicated above. You do not get a second guess.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect67">67</a>) This section is the correct answer for the Cloeasian combination lock from <a idref="sect58">Section 58</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect69">69</a>) Erase from your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> all Weapons, Special Items, Gold Crowns, and your Backpack but note them elsewhere in case you should find them later.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect91">91</a>) If the fight lasts longer than 4 rounds, you must still win before turning to <a idref="sect180">Section 180</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect135">135</a>) It may be reasonable to restore half the <typ class="attribute">ENDURANCE</typ> points you lose if you win the combat (note what happens if you lose).</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect154">154</a>) Though you may purchase any of the above, it is likely that you are limited to one of each potion.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect168">168</a>) If the fight lasts longer than 3 rounds, you must still win before turning to <a idref="sect46">Section 46</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect176">176</a>) Erase from your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a> all Weapons, Special Items, Gold Crowns, and your Backpack but note them elsewhere, in case you should find them later.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect221">221</a>) Turn to <a idref="sect336">Section 336</a> if you have ever received the Crystal Star Pendant, regardless of whether or not you possess it now.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect239">239</a>) You may only use Graveweed in its Tincture form, in this case (you may not use a concentrated potion if you have one).</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect288">288</a>) Turn to <a idref="sect399">Section 399</a> if you have ever received the Crystal Star Pendant, regardless of whether or not you possess it now.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect320">320</a>) Since you are in the middle of a wasteland, you may not use Hunting to get out of the Meal requirement here.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect331">331</a>) To solve this puzzle you will need to use the <a idref="map">Map of the Empire of Vassagonia</a> with the code instructions in mind before coming back to this section. The section corresponding to the correct answer will have a footnote confirming that it is indeed correct. If you do not see this footnote at the bottom, you have chosen the wrong section. Come back to this section, reconsider the code and make your selection again, repeating the process until you turn to the correct section. There is no alternate way to proceed through the adventure.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect350">350</a>) Erase the Sommerswerd from your <a idref="action">Action Chart</a>. You may restore it to your inventory once the adventure is over.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect373">373</a>) This section is the correct answer to the code in <a idref="sect331">Section 331</a>.</p>
- <p>(<a idref="sect382">382</a>) Turn to <a idref="sect399">Section 399</a> if you have ever received the Crystal Star Pendant, regardless of whether or not you possess it now.</p>
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+ <data/>
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<section class="backmatter" id="illstrat">
<meta><title>Secondary Illustrations</title></meta>
<data>
- <p>Only the first occurrence of each secondary illustration is cited.</p>
-
<ul class="unbulleted">
<li><a idref="equipmnt">Equipment</a></li>
<li><a idref="discplnz">Kai Disciplines</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect1">Section 1</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect24">Section 24</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect27">Section 27</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect44">Section 44</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect56">Section 56</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect83">Section 83</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect88">Section 88</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect99">Section 99</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect121">Section 121</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect140">Section 140</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect149">Section 149</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect154">Section 154</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect206">Section 206</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect241">Section 241</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect247">Section 247</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect279">Section 279</a></li>
<li><a idref="sect320">Section 320</a></li>
+ <li><a idref="sect337">Section 337</a></li>
</ul>
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