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As you mount the slippery stone steps, a roll of distant thunder rumbles across the lake, and a few drops of rain spatter the hood of your Kai cloak. A great storm is brewing. By the time you have climbed all the way to the cave mouth, a fierce wind lashes the rock wall, and the ground vibrates with every clap of thunder that follows flashes of awful green lightning. Foul air greets your arrival. You are anxious to be out of the storm, but the sweet stench of decay that assails your nostrils makes you hesitate at the entrance of the cave.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Pathsmanship, turn to 65.

If you wish to enter the cave, turn to 277.

If you decide not to enter, you have no other option but to descend the stairs to the beach below; turn to 30.

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