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You take the gas grenade from your backpack and hold it close to your face in order to set its timer. Carefully you turn the plastic dial to the minimum time setting—four seconds—then you press the activator button and hurl the canister across the roof.

The grenade bounces against the parapet close to where the clansmen are kneeling, but then it drops into a rainwater gully and rolls away from them. There is a flash, and then a stream of cream-coloured gas billows up from the gully. Your heart sinks when you see that this cloud is being driven towards you by a faint night breeze.

As it tumbles nearer, your throat tightens and your eyes begin to water. Then a wave of dizziness hits you and you reel backwards, your feet coming dangerously close to the edge of the fire-escape platform.

Pick a number from the Random Number Table and add to it your current ENDURANCE points score.

If your total score is now 24 or less, turn to 261.

If your total score is now 25 or more, turn to 5.