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Anxiety is giving way to desperation when you fail to find your precious weapon among the heaped and mouldering remains. (On your Special Items List, place an asterisk [*] beside your Kai Weapon to indicate that it is no longer in your possession. Should you be able to find it at a later stage of your adventure, you may then erase this mark.)

You are still scrabbling through the foul detritus when suddenly you become aware of the arrival of a new and powerful evil in this hall. Instinctively you clamber to your feet and look to the crystal sphere. Your hopes of recovering your Kai Weapon sink deeper when you see that the swirling black vapours of the sphere are now oozing through the glassy surface. These sinister wisps of darkness draw together and swirl around the throne of bones like a small tornado. Then, from the core of this whirlwind, there issues a loud and hideous shriek that makes your blood run cold.

If you have ever visited the city of Duadon in a previous Lone Wolf New Order adventure, turn to 255.

If you have not, turn to 136.