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Your Kai Mastery alerts you to a trap set immediately ahead. The surface of one of the stairs is thin and conceals a shallow box lined with barbed hooks. If you were to tread on the stair, your foot would shatter the cover and become ensnared among the hooks, incapacitating you and injuring your foot severely. Carefully you step over this trap before continuing down the stairs.

Suddenly you are bathed in a white light that emanates from holes in the stone ceiling, and at once you see the bottom of the staircase twenty yards ahead. There is a door at the foot of the stairs and it is slightly ajar.

If you have a Mirror, turn to 237.

If you wish to push open this door and continue, turn to 324.

If you wish to push open the door and flatten yourself to the floor in case the reptilians have prepared an ambush for you, turn to 46.