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    â€œAs a matter of fact I did,” you tell her matter-of-factly. “It’s lying up near the top of the hill, waiting to get sunstroke or be eaten by wolves.”
    â€œYou swine!” screams the mother angrily. “You’ve left my poor dear sweet little Heracles to the mercy of the Fates!” She turns to the four strapping boys. “Avenge your little brother, my sons! Slaughter this uncivilised barbarian!”
    â€œYus, Mum,” reply the boys in unison, drawing wicked looking short swords from the belts of their thin tunics.
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    The good news is you may be able to fight your way out of this. The bad news is you’re very unlikely to succeed. Each of those swords gives the boys +4 on a successful hit. Since their mother’s bringing them up to be gentlemen, they’ll attack one at a time, but the fact remains you’ll have to dispatch all four to get out of this with a whole skin. As you’ve no weapons, you’ll fight the first one empty-handed, but if miraculously you succeed, you can use his sword for subsequent fights. Each lad has a strapping 50 Life Points.
    If the boys succeed in doing what their mother told them, go to 13 . If you manage, against all odds, to make it through this early punch-up, you can turn triumphantly to 69 .
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    â€œWrong!” exclaims the guard, neatly lopping your head off with one swing of his sword.
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    Look up at him from the cobbles while consciousness dims, then go to 13 .
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    â€œSorry,” you say with an apologetic smile, “I’m afraid I’m on a mission for Zeus and I’ve no time for intellectual challenges.”
    The old boy sighs deeply. “I don’t know what’s wrong with the younger generation,” he says.
    And to your absolute amazement he, the athletic looking man and the tortoise shimmer for a moment then disappear as if they’d just been beamed up to the Enterprise.
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    Leaving you standing like a twit at 153 .
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    â€œSpecial offer! Passes to the Temple! Get your passes to the Temple. Each one signed by Zeus himself! Roll up! Roll up! Special offer!”
    Even from a distance you can hear the raucous call, although as you get closer you notice nobody seems to be taking up this special offer. You sidle up to the little man with the blue braiding on the thin, short tunic everybody seems to wear in Sparta.
    â€œHow much are your passes?” you ask cautiously.
    â€œSmall sacrifice on Zeus’s Altar,” he tells you, nodding to the broad, low, hexagonal platform behind him, covered in what look suspiciously like old bloodstains.
    â€œI hope you don’t want me to sacrifice an animal,” you warn him. “I’m a member of the Animal Rights Movement and the Anti-Vivisection League.”
    â€œNo animal sacrifice, I assure you,” he assures you. “Now, do you want to give me your Sacrifice Cup, or are you going to waste my time all day?”
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    Sacrifice Cup? This clown wants something called a Sacrifice Cup before you can perform the sacrifice that will get you the pass that will get you into Zeus’s Temple that will (hopefully) get you out of here. If you happen to have one about your person, give it to him at once and go to 17 . If not, your only hope is to get back to your map at 61 and start looking for one.
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    â€œLook at me!” you call gaily as you fling your clothing to the winds and perform a spectacular backwards double flip and corkscrew into the pool.
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    Which is so brutally cold one of your Life Points drops off.
    If this kills you, go to 13 . If it doesn’t, take a deep breath and