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Cautiously you approach the edge of the pit and look down into its midnight depths. No light penetrates the blackness and no sounds can be heard in this seemingly bottomless abyss.

Above you the Lorestones hang suspended in a ball of green flame, beyond reach from the ground but within a hand's breadth of the gantries which criss-cross above the pit.

If you wish to climb a gantry and attempt to retrieve the Lorestones from above, turn to 249.

If you wish to examine the crystal rods, turn to 160.

If you wish to search for a way of retrieving the Lorestones from below, turn to 201.

Text copyright © 1987 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 Brian Williams.