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After tying a large knot in one end of the rope, you gather the coils and hurl the knotted end towards your target. After three failures, your fourth attempt is successful; the knot jams in a V-shaped joint, and you are able to pull yourself out of the water and swing across the vault to jump safely into the opposite tunnel. However, you cross this obstacle at the cost of your rope; it's still hangs from the metal bar, and there is no way you can rescue it. (Remember to strike this item from your Action Chart.)

The passage ahead winds and curves like a giant snake, and the foul air wafting towards you is hot and humid. Although you seem to have shaken off your pursuers, you have yet to escape from the Baga-darooz.

Turn to 55.

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