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You twist aside and the liquid passes over your right shoulder to splash, with a sizzling hiss, across the chamber floor. Droplets of the fluid spray your face and cloak, but your mastery of Grand Nexus saves you from being burned by this highly corrosive acid, an acid which would have instantly sealed the doom of a lesser mortal.

Shaken but undeterred, you scramble to your feet and face the octopoid once more, determined to defeat it in combat.

If you have a Bow and wish to use it, turn to 243.

If you do not, turn to 192.

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