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As soon as you swallow the pills, you feel your body relax and your lungs cease to ache. Oxygen is being drawn from the water around you, absorbed by your body through the pores of your skin.

Freed from the immediate threat of drowning, you apply yourself to finding a way out of this watery tomb.

If you wish to try to open the locked door, turn to 66.

If you wish to examine the statue, turn to 168.

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