| 25 The room is filthy, every exposed surface covered in a thick black soot, no doubt a by-product of the charcoal oven. Quickly you search the room in the hope that there may be something useful to be found. Amongst the charcoal making equipment you find nothing that will be helpful but the shelving proves to be much more interesting. Cleaning off each bottle in turn you see that one contains a familiar liquid. It is a small vial of a potion of renewal. You drink it as soon as you find it. It is sweet to taste and has an immediate effect. Even as you place the empty vial back on the shelf the room begins to spin violently, disorientation and vertigo take a hold as you stagger backwards, trying to maintain your balance. Grabbing for the nearest wall you attempt to control the strength of the potion, but it has a hold on you and takes a few minutes more to do its work. As the vertigo lessens you begin to feel an energising rush of power coursing through your bones, soaking into your muscles and releasing a flood of energy that has even the ends of your fingers tingling. Your strength has been restored in full. You feel like you have just awoken from a weeks uninterrupted sleep. (Return your endurance rating to its initial levels and restore any strength points you may have lost so far on your quest). Feeling much better you have one last look around the room, find nothing, and then move back out into the hall beyond.
| Turn to section 166.
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