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You dive straight and true, avoiding the bodies that float on the surface, and enter the water at a perfect angle. Unfortunately, the water is scalding hot--fissures of molten lava have erupted through the brittle crust of the shallows. You scream all the way the surface, but the shock paralyses your limbs and you sink like a stone shortly afterwards.

Tragically, your life and your mission end here.

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