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You strike the seething water with a mighty splash and sink like a stone. The sharp tang of the lake fills your mouth, and its icy-cold embrace numbs your muscles. Your first impulse on hitting the water is to lash out with your arms and swim, but you are hampered by a mass of plant life that coils around your flailing limbs. Desperate for air, you hack blindly at the weeds that now threaten to drag you to a watery grave.

Fight the combat as normal. However, due to your lack of air, you must automatically deduct 2 ENDURANCE points for every round that you fight.

Black Lakeweed: COMBAT SKILL 10 ENDURANCE 50

If you survive the struggle, turn to 158.

Text copyright © 1986 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1986 Gary Chalk.