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The sudden pain of the grit in your eyes makes you lose your footing and fall heavily to your knees. You struggle to recover but the wind catches your cloak and sends you tumbling headlong to the base of the gully: lose 1 ENDURANCE point.

The soft fine dust which fills the gully floor saves you from serious injury, but this dust is deep and rapidly you sink into the yellowy powder. It rises to above your waist and you find yourself unable to move your legs. Desperately you claw at the surface in an effort to dig yourself out, but the more you struggle to get free the faster you sink.

A fear of being swallowed up suddenly takes hold of you and frantically you look for some way to escape from this terrible fate. Then you notice that the walls of the steep-sided gully are studded with rocks and boulders. If you can reach the gully wall, you may be able to save yourself from drowning in this dry morass.

If you possess Kai-alchemy and wish to use it, turn to 270.

If you possess a Rope and wish to use it, turn to 133.

If you do not possess Kai-alchemy, nor a Rope, or if you do not wish to use either of them, turn instead to 52.