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You leap swiftly over the bodies of the slain gaolers and rush into the guardroom to retrieve your confiscated equipment (you may now erase the asterisks from your Action Chart).
As you are sheathing your Kai Weapon into your belt, you hear the sound of footsteps descending a flight of stone steps at the far end of the corridor. More gaolers are approaching; they have been drawn to investigate by the dying cries of their brother guards.
Desperately you scan the walls of the guardroom for some means of escape and suddenly you see that there is one other exit from this room—a heavy oak door which is banded with strips of black iron.
