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You retrieve the flare from your Backpack and carefully examine the instructions printed along its side. It is an aerial flare, designed to shoot a burning core of red fire 300 feet into the sky. If you intend to use it to distract the sniper, you will need to fire it straight at him.

The sniper’s position is etched clearly in your mind. Nervously you grasp the signal flare tube and take hold of its pull-cord; then you spring to your feet and fire. It recoils in your hand, sending a blaze of red fire surging towards the assassin’s position. The moment you see it strike the scrub, you discard the smouldering tube and race up the steps. As you clear the crater you try to make out your destination through the swirling curtain of red smoke now masking the pines.

Add together your Stealth and Perception skill totals. Pick a number from the Random Number Table and add it to your score.

If your total score is now 9 or less, turn to 249.

If your total score is 10 or more, turn to 210.