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You take up the Spear and notice three notches cut along the shaft where the guard has recorded the lives he has taken with this crudely made weapon. (If you wish to keep this spear, remember to record it on your Weapons List.)

You push open the heavy door carefully and glimpse the Drakkar striding along a corridor. He reaches the end and starts to descend a staircase to the ground floor. You enter and move stealthily towards the stairs. As you draw nearer, you see a gallery which overlooks the cavernous lower level. To your right, set flush to the wall, is a black oak door.

Slowly you approach the gallery's railed parapet where you look down at an unnerving sight.

Turn to 47.

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