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Your heart pounding, you run as fast as you can towards the shelter of the rocky base of Kazan-Oud. Panting for breath, you reach the glistening black stone wall, where you discover a ragged fissure that splits its sheer surface. You are about to step in, when the rustle and slither of unseen things, echoing from the inky darkness, make you hesitate.

If you wish to enter the fissure, turn to 16.

If you wish to press on along the beach, turn to 173.