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Your passage along Brooker Court is hampered by the companies of militiamen that march to and from the centre of the city. The majority of them are oafish peasants, hastily armed with spear and sword, and bullied into a semblance of soldierly order by guardsmen from the Tahou garrison. You wait in shadowy doorways and allow them to pass before continuing on your way towards the city’s North District.

You are nearing the end of Brooker Court when a man dressed in an ill-fitting tunic staggers drunkenly out of a tavern and collides with you. ‘Shorry!’ he hiccups, and wanders off along an alley to your left.

If you have the Magnakai Discipline of Divination or Huntmastery, turn to 201.

If you do not possess either of these skills, turn to 273.