### 316

You sprint across the narrow bridge and leap over the central gap, but your jump is poorly timed and you collide with the edge of the lowered drawbridge. You are winded and bruised by the impact (lose 2 ENDURANCE points), but you cling desperately by your fingertips to the swinging drawbridge and manage to prevent yourself from tumbling backwards to the avenue below.

Gasping for breath, you pull yourself slowly onto the bridge and then scramble to the safety of the citadel platform. Here you pause for a few moments to regain your composure; then you check that the coast is clear before entering the citadel of Gazad Helkona.

Turn to 200.