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You strike the fiery missile and deflect it away from your chest, saving yourself from terrible injury. Yet you do not emerge from this deadly action completely unscathed. The shock of the fireball’s impact upon your blade sends you tumbling backwards through the open panel. You scrape your head as you fall and bruise your knees and back: lose 2 ENDURANCE points.

Dazed by your fall, you drag yourself painfully to your feet and stumble away along the cobwebbed passage. In the distance, you glimpse the opening to a chamber that is crowded with objects that glitter enticingly in the half-light. When you magnify your vision, you realize with some amazement that you are approaching a secret Drodarin treasure vault.

The sound of falling masonry alerts you to a renewed danger: the creature is attempting to pursue you. Chunks of crumbling plaster are being dislodged from the walls as the creature forces its bloated body along the narrow passageway.

If you possess Grand Pathsmanship, turn to 223.

If you do not, turn to 166.