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You sense that it will be impossible to cross the quicksands before nightfall. Even if you were to find the sanctuary of firm ground and camp there overnight, there is no knowing what horrors lurk on the desolate plain. The quicksands themselves are as treacherous as the creatures they harbour. What may be firm ground at night can be transformed into a fathomless bog by morning.

If you wish to heed your senses and avoid this bog, you can return to the junction and take the west spur by turning to 175.

If you choose to risk crossing this wasteland, turn to 21.

Text copyright © 1987 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 Gary Chalk.