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Soon the tunnel arrives at a junction where a wider passageway crosses it, running east to west. The sound of rushing water is louder here and you detect that it comes from a series of rusty iron gratings that are set into the floor at regular intervals, 50 feet apart. You peer through one of these gratings and see the surface of an underground river rushing away towards the east.

A smiling Hulsta beckons you to follow as he sets off along the passage. He is confident that you are on the right course and he says that you will reach the lower level of Skull-Tor in a matter of minutes. But you have taken barely a hundred paces when suddenly his hopes are dashed by the unwelcome sight of what lies ahead.

Turn to 137.