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Cautiously you open the black book. The pages are made of metal, as thin and flexible as silk-weave parchment. Complex words and symbols are etched into its shiny surface with an ink that shimmers like sunlight on the sea. The strange designs are unlike any you have ever seen before, but you sense that they are wholly evil.

You are about to discard the book when you notice something tucked into the spine: it is a tiny scroll of parchment. You unfurl it and your pulse quickens, for it contains a message written in Giak, the language used by servants of the Darklords.

If you wish to keep this scroll, mark it on your Action Chart as a Special Item that you keep in your pocket.

Turn to 255.

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