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It is dusk when you emerge from the woods and ride along a ridge which overlooks the eastern shoreline of Lake Vorndarol, and it is here that you catch your first glimpse of the acolyte settlement. It consists of several long huts, grouped around a great hall of stone on a hill overlooking a shingle beach. Down on the beach there is a wooden jetty where an acolyte longboat is moored. It is the same longboat that was used in the attack on Vorn quay.

Cautiously, you descend the ridge and ride towards the settlement. When you are within half a kilometre of the perimeter, you leave your horse and go forwards on foot. There are acolytes everywhere but you find it easy to avoid them and enter the encampment unseen. Under cover of the approaching darkness and aided by your Camouflage skills, you make your way towards the stone hall. You sense that something important is going on there and you resolve to find out what it is.

Turn to 137.

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