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Drawing on your reserves of nervous energy, you race up the last few steps and lash out at the door with the sole of your boot. The door flies wide open and slams against the wall, sending the red-headed clansman who was about to investigate the noise sprawling flat on his back.

Inside the observation room you see two men—one dressed in a flamboyant mix of bright colours and the other attired in sombre black—seated at a table with a map of the United States spread before them. A muscular clansman, his chest criss-crossed with cartridge belts, stands behind the man in black and beyond him, huddled in the corner of the room, is Kate. Clearly she has suffered at the hands of Mad Dog Michigan and the sight of her bruised face and her pained, despairing expression stirs you to a fit of rage.

For a frozen moment the room is deathly quiet, and then the man in black barks an order and the bullet-belted clansman rushes forward, drawing a wide-bladed bowie knife as he runs.

If you possess a missile weapon and wish to use it, turn to 222.

If you do not possess a missile weapon, do not have sufficient ammunition to use it, or do not wish to use it, turn to 21.