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Your efforts to escape are rewarded but only after immense exertion: lose 3 ENDURANCE points. You catch hold of the archway and pull yourself to safety, yet your submersion has cost you your money pouch and one item from your Backpack, lost when you first fell into the dusty pool. Erase all your Gold Crowns, and the first item recorded on your Backpack Items list.

As the effects of the spell wear off, you leave this sinister chamber and head off along the tunnel.

Turn to 82.

Text copyright © 1991 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1991 Brian Williams.