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Your Kai Mastery warns you that another flight of Lavas are about to emerge from the Shadow Gate. You flatten yourself against the damp granite rocks and wait until this second flight passes overhead before resuming your steady advance up the mountainside towards the Shadow Gate, now less than a hundred yards distant.

When you have climbed to within thirty yards, you draw back your arm and get ready to hurl the Sun-crystal into the inky black core. At this moment, a piercing shriek rises above the throbbing hum of the Shadow Gate and, to your horror, you look up to see a Lavas diving towards your chest. Hurriedly you throw the Sun-crystal before the creature can press home its attack.

Pick a number from the Random Number Table.

If the number you have picked is 0–4, turn to 139.

If it is 5–9, turn to 233.