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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 powers of Grand Nexus, you cause a torch at the far end of the corridor to topple out of its wall bracket. The guards react immediately; they grab their weapons and rush out of the guardroom to investigate the noise. 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 come walking back 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.