### 25

You shrug aside the warnings of your Sixth Sense, assuming incorrectly that they relate to the danger posed to your safety by the advancing skeletal warriors. Unfortunately, you make a costly mistake. As your hand closes around the silvery rod, it discharges a second blast of energy which hits you squarely in the stomach and lifts you bodily off the floor with the numbing force of its impact: lose 10 ENDURANCE points.

If you survive this severe wounding, turn to 306.