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You draw upon your Kai tracking and fieldcraft skills to help you traverse the gully, but the dust gets progressively deeper. Rapidly you sink into the yellow powder until it rises above your waist and you are no longer able to move your legs. Desperately you claw at the surface in an effort to dig yourself out, but the more you struggle to get free the faster you sink.

A fear of being swallowed by the dust suddenly takes hold of you and frantically you look for some way to escape from this terrible fate. Then you note that the walls of the steep-sided gully are pitted with rocks and boulders. If you can reach the gully wall you will be able to save yourself from drowning in this dry morass.

If you possess Kai-alchemy and wish to use it, turn to 270.

If you possess a Rope and wish to use it, turn to 133.

If you do not possess Kai-alchemy, nor a Rope, or if you should decide to use neither of them, turn instead to 52.