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You force yourself up the ladder and emerge on the foredeck amidst a tangle of rigging and ruined sails. As you pull yourself onto the deck, you see that the trader has lost every one of her masts and the stern is slowly submerging beneath the relentless waves. You scour the shattered main deck but you can see no sign of survivors. Then you glimpse a hand protruding from beneath a mass of debris, and you stagger across the shifting deck towards it. Suddenly the prow is struck by a cresting wave and you are catapulted off the deck and into the angry sea.

Turn to 4.