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As soon as your hand closes around the fruit, it splits wide open, its red skin forming a star-shaped cluster of tentacles that wrap themselves around your wrist to prevent you from casting it away. Needle-like spines shoot from its core into your palm, injecting a powerful anaesthetic that paralyses your arm.

If you have a dagger, turn to 97.

If you do not possess this weapon, turn to 132.

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