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You instruct your Kai comrades to search the chamber’s four walls for hidden levers or secret panels, while you busy yourself with a careful examination of Baron Garrulen’s sarcophagus. You attempt to lift its heavy stone lid but without success; it is sealed tight by the grime of centuries. You are considering ways to prise it open when Black Hawk discovers something unusual about the north wall. He signals to you to come and take a closer look.

Your experienced eye immediately detects two faint hairline cracks in its granite surface. They run vertically from the floor to the ceiling and appear to reveal the outline of a secret panel.

‘Good work, Black Hawk. I’d wager the impostor escaped this way,’ you say, as you scan the entire wall for some means of opening the secret panel. When no obvious way can be found, Black Hawk volunteers to force it open.

If you decide to allow Black Hawk to attempt to force open the secret panel, turn to 41.

If you choose to try to open it yourself, turn to 286.