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Using your Kai camouflage skills, you step away from the door and press yourself into a shadowy recess in the corridor wall. Then, using your improved Discipline of Assimilance, you cause a noise to occur at the far end of the corridor. The guards react immediately; they grab their weapons and rush out of the guardroom to investigate the strange rumbling sound. As soon as they pass by, you slip inside the room and retrieve your confiscated equipment (you may now erase the asterisks from your Action Chart).

As you are sheathing your Kai Weapon into your belt, you hear the guards returning along the corridor. Looking around, you see that there is one other exit from this room—a heavy oak door which is banded with strips of black iron.

Turn to 314.