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A chilling numbness spreads through your body, starting at your neck and coursing rapidly to your hands and feet. You try to scream but no sound issues from your paralysed throat as your legs give way and you collapse on to the deck of your tiny cabin. You have fallen prey to the bite of a deadly Plaak, placed here by a rival Liganim in a bid to assassinate an old rival.

Tragically, your life and your mission end here.

Text copyright © 1988 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1988 Brian Williams.