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You rush forward to take Kate in your arms and she yields to your embrace with a kiss that is warm and passionate. ‘I thought I’d never see you again, Cal,’ she says, her voice trembling and her wide blue eyes brimful with tears of joy. ‘They told me you were dead.’

‘Do I look dead?’ you reply, half-jokingly.

‘No … ’ she laughs. ‘You look just great.’

Then the sound of running feet alerts you both to approaching danger. Before Kate knocked him out, Mad Dog radioed his men and reported your presence in the observation block. Now a dozen of his toughest clansmen are racing along the corridor in answer to his call.

‘Let’s get outta here, Cal!’ says Kate, and she starts to run towards a fire escape door. You follow her, pausing briefly to snatch the map that the two clan leaders were studying when you burst into the room. (Record this Mad Dog Map in the margin of your Action Chart; you carry it tucked inside your jacket and therefore you need not record it as a Backpack Item.)

You race to catch up with Kate as she runs along the gantry that lies on the other side of the door. A burst of machine pistol fire echoes in your wake as the first of Mad Dog’s men enter the observation room. Bullets begin to scream past on either side of you. Twenty yards along the iron gantry you come under additional fire from clansmen in the stadium below.

Add your Stealth skill score to your current ENDURANCE points score.

If your total score is 14 or less, turn to 83.

If your total score is 15 or more, turn to 185.