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After several minutes spent surveying the gloomy chasm, you note two promising features. One is situated fifty feet or so directly above your head. At first it merely looks like a narrow ledge of rock with a grey semicircular shadow poised above it, but when you look closely, you see that it is the mouth of a passageway.

The second feature lies far below you. It is a large, brick-lined tunnel situated at the eastern edge of the chasm floor, through which the waters of the dark river flow away. This, too, may offer a way out of this subterranean prison.

If you wish to attempt to climb the chasm wall and enter the passageway above, turn to 224.

If you wish to attempt to descend to the floor of the chasm and escape via the river tunnel, turn to 193.

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