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You barely have time to catch a breath before a tentacle coils around your legs and drags you down.

Pick a number from the Random Number Table, and note this number down in the margin of your Action Chart. (In this instance. 0 = 10.) This number represents the number of combat rounds you can survive underwater before you begin to lose ENDURANCE points due to lack of oxygen. If you have the Kai Discipline of Mind Over Matter, you can add 2 to the number you have picked.

Giant Meresquid: COMBAT SKILL 16 ENDURANCE 37

Fight this combat as normal. If it lasts longer than the number of rounds that you can endure safely underwater, you must deduct an additional 2 ENDURANCE points for every round thereafter, due to lack of oxygen.

If you win the combat, turn to 32.

Text copyright © 1985 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1985 Gary Chalk.