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come up at 60 .
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    â€œHere, that’s not on!” calls one of the workers in the field. “That was supposed to have been a friendly fight and you’ve been and gone and killed him!”
    At which all the workers begin to move menacingly towards you.
    There are five of them altogether, all armed with farm implements capable of doing you +2 damage. None of them is particularly healthy - you can take the average Life Points to be just 15 - but they’ll all pile in at once and do their level best to kill you.
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    You’re welcome to take on this mass of angry rustics if you wish. Should they kill you, go to 13 . Should you dispatch all five of them, turn to 25 But another possibility is to run blindly, shrieking and screaming in panic, in which case you’ll end up at 61
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    You can see more of the dreaded dappled sunlight as you approach, but before it becomes all too, too depressing, the sound of voices reaches you across the balmy air.
    There are definitely more than one and they sound female. They also sound as if they’re arguing.
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    Do you really want to get involved in this? There’s nothing worse than being caught up in somebody else’s hassle - especially when you’ve got more urgent things to do. Nobody’s spotted you yet so there’s nothing to stop you slipping back west to 153 . But if you’ve forgotten what curiosity did to the cat, you can investigate further (and take your chances) at 12 .
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    After a moment of disorientation, you find yourself on a plain outside a remarkable walled city characterised by scores of tall, well-built towers. To the east of you some distance away, you can see the tents and stables of a vast army camp. It looks as if the famous siege of Troy is well and truly under way.
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    And if you’re going to cut it short, you’ve got a quick decision to make. Are you going to try to get into Troy at 59 . Or make your way to that great army camp at 86 .
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    You hold your breath, turning slowly purple in the face. The Pythia, by contrast, is inhaling like a woman possessed, which may be exactly what she is since she’s now making the most peculiar grunting and gurgling noises.
    â€œIs she all right?” you gasp out of the corner of your mouth, trying desperately not to breathe in.
    â€œNever better,” says the priest who doesn’t seem bothered by the smoke either. “That’s just Apollo talking through her. As we priests know, the gods always speak in a mysterious tongue that has to be interpreted (by us) for the hoi-polloi.”
    You don’t recall Zeus speaking anything but plain English, but you don’t bother to contradict him.
    â€œI shall interpret the oracle for you now!” he exclaims and promptly lets rip with the following verse:
    A questioner sent here by Zeus
    Asked of matters both vain and abstruse.
    But in giving replies
    It would be most unwise
    For Pythia to play fast and loose!
    You frown. “Very creative, but what does it mean?”
    â€œAh,” says the priest, “that’s why you need me to interpret. It means you have five possible approaches to the task set you by Zeus. One leads to glorious victory, the other four to ignominious death.”
    â€œYou got all this from that little poem?”
    The priest nods and smiles. “That and much more. Us priests are able to make extensive interpretations of the smallest material, which is why we get so many tips, of course. Now your five possibilities are sections 5, 19, 28, 32, 72. Which one will you chose?”
    â€œBut how do I know which one leads to victory?” you protest. “I’ve got a five to one chance of getting killed - this isn’t