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You are less than twenty yards from the west tunnel when an agonizing pain tears through your back and explodes from your chest in a gout of blood and flame. You stagger and fall, your body virtually torn in two by a powerful bolt of destructive energy, and you die within seconds of hitting the hard stone floor.

Slain by a Dhax power-staff, your life and your quest end here.

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