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You are washed out of the chamber and deposited on the floor of a corridor at the bottom of a steep ramp. Blinking the water from your eyes, you gaze with trepidation at your surroundings. The walls of the corridor, festooned with what appear to be gigantic cocoons, stretch into the distance as far as you can see. The oval door clicks shut and the click reverberates down the corridor, growing louder and louder. In the gloomy corridor ahead you see that something is moving.

A huge worm-like creature with great black eyes and horny mandibles is slithering towards you, a purple froth bubbling from its mouth as it fastens on your scent.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Invisibility, turn to 86.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Animal Control and you have reached the Kai rank of Primate, turn to 130.

If you have a Silver Whistle, turn to 347.

If you have neither these skills nor the Special Item, turn to 233.

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