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You have fallen over thirty feet but have landed safely in a deep snow drift. Clawing the cold snow from your eyes, you are astounded by the sight that greets you. A vast cavern spreads out as far as your eyes can see: huge stalactites of crystal hang from the icy ceiling and the constant dripping of melted snow fills the air with a strangely musical sound.

You are looking upon an uncharted world that few Sommlending have ever seen, for you are stating upon the caverns of Kalte. This massive underground labyrinth was built by the Ancients many ages before the Sommlending, or even the Darklords, set foot in Magnamund. Its wide avenues, temples and halls once echoed to the sounds of a race of creatures for whom the ice was a natural home. M'lare bowls still hang from the roof, shedding an eerie, eternal light.

You follow a wide melt-water channel for over two miles until it disappears beneath a wall of shimmering ice. An ice bridge leads to a tunnel that soon splits in two.

If you have the Kai Discipline of Tracking, turn to 255.

If you wish to take the left tunnel, turn to 125.

If you wish to take the right tunnel, turn to 184.

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