The Fall of Blood Mountain

Joe Dever and Brian Williams

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You leap across the slab, but the heel of your boot grazes the stone as you land and it triggers the trap. A panel in the ceiling ahead falls away to reveal a line of sharpened bone arrow-tips, angled to fire along the passage. You hear a sudden whoosh of escaping gas; then a volley of deadly shafts come streaking through the dusty air. Hurriedly you dive to the ground in an attempt to avoid being skewered by this salvo of ivory arrows.

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