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Quickly you retrieve the Blue Vial from your tunic pocket and pull out the glass stopper. The jelly-like fluid tastes sickly sweet, but you sense that it has an immediate and beneficial effect upon your innate psychic powers.

Suddenly the shadowy form of Zorkaan comes speeding across the hall towards you. You raise your Kai Weapon and pray to Ishir for protection as this nightmarish entity swoops in for the kill.

Zorkaan the Soultaker: COMBAT SKILL 58 ENDURANCE 46

This creature is normally immune to your level of psychic attack. However, by swallowing the contents of the Blue Vial you have temporarily increased the strength of your psychic powers. If you possess Kai-surge, you may use it to full effect during this combat. If your Kai Weapon is ‘Alema’ or ‘Kaistar’, you may add the appropriate bonus gained from their unique properties. However, if you do not possess the Discipline of Kai-screen, you must reduce your COMBAT SKILL by 3 (for the duration of this combat only).

Conduct this fight in the normal way for three rounds only. If you survive these initial rounds, you may continue by turning to 209.