| 200 The instant your blade touches the strange blue light you are blinded by a silent, brilliant explosion. Where darkness prevailed there now dance hundreds of the same blue beams, crisscrossing the passageway ahead in a deadly lattice. Fortunately you have stood back far enough and have avoided being hit by any of them. Your sword was not as lucky, a full forearms length at its end sheared and scorched by its slight contact. (When the opportunity arises you will need to acquire a new weapon. Until such time you must reduce your combat value by 4 points to account for this damage.) With this deadly barrier before you, you decide to rest for a moment and determine a plan of action. (Take a meal if you need one and restore six points to your endurance level). There is no way that you can avoid the lethal blue lights and no way that you can return down the stairs. You will have to find some way to overcome this obstacle. Feeling better able to proceed you take a closer look at this strange apparition that shines across your path. Following the hair-thin beam of light along the step you find that it emanates from a small metal tube set into the opposite wall. Being careful not to come into contact with any of the beams you take the pommel of your sword and hammer the tube flat. Crushing the tube has an immediate effect, the whole deadly latticework before you disappears, evaporating back into the darkness. Taken by surprise and unsure as to why this has happened you thank the gods anyway, pick up your pack and move with haste up the stairs. You will not happy until you are well beyond the reach of this mysterious apparatus.
| Turn to section 59.
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