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The room is getting colder. You gradually notice the smell of sulphur in the air. You can hear chanting in the distance. It sounds as if it is somewhere in another part of this cave. A slit in the stone wall opens, and the end of a black staff begins to appear. Suddenly a bolt of blue lightning leaps from the staff and hits you in the chest.

As your life slowly drains away, the last thing you see is an old man dressed in black robes raising a dagger above your throat.

Your life and your mission end here.