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The guard roughly pushes you aside and runs out of the watchtower towards Tomb Square. There is a small room off the staircase and you decide to enter and search it before he returns. In it you discover:

- Sword
- Mace
- Quarterstaff
- Enough Food for 1 Meal
- 6 Gold Crowns
- Potion of Orange Liquid20

If you wish to take any of these items,21 mark them on your Action Chart.

As you are leaving, you collide with another guard and you both tumble down the stairs, but before he can gather his senses, you have sprinted off into the night.

Turn to 65.

[20] The Potion of Orange Liquid is probably Alether, but the text does not give you the ability to recognize it. Therefore, you should not use it as such.

[21] You have lost your Backpack and therefore cannot carry the Meal or the Orange Potion--further adding to its uselessness.

Text copyright © 1984 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1984 Gary Chalk.