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Hurriedly you reach to your Backpack and retrieve your instrument. At first the Shom’zaa lancers view your actions with some amusement, but when you begin to play, they realize too late that the music you can make is deadly.

The frequency of the sonic attack that you launch is far beyond the range of normal hearing, yet it cuts into the lancers’ minds like a hot knife through butter. They drop their spears and begin writhing in their saddles, clawing at their skulls in a vain attempt to put an end to the agony. Then, one by one, they topple to the ground and lie there motionless.

Their Brozal steeds are also affected by your sonic attack, but to a lesser degree. They feel no pain yet they are temporarily paralysed by the sound.

If you possess Animal Mastery, turn to 169.

If you do not, turn to 4.