### 87

Instinct and years of Kai training make you throw yourself to the ground. The blowpipe dart passes within inches of your scalp and then embeds itself in the stem of a broad-leaved plant. Black fluid oozes from the puncture hole made by its tip and you watch aghast as the plant rapidly shrivels and dies.

If you possess a Bow and wish to use it to return fire at the sniper in the tree, turn to 343.

If you do not possess a Bow, or if you choose not to use it, turn to 255.