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  (94) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (95) Replaced ‘swim but’ with ‘swim, but’.

  (96) Replaced ‘rib-cage’ with ‘rib cage’.

  (97) Replaced ‘booby-trapped but’ with ‘booby-trapped, but’.

  (100) Replaced ‘semi-darkness and’ with ‘semi-darkness, and’. Replaced ‘leatherbound’ with ‘leather-bound’.

  (101) Replaced ‘Potion Alether’ with ‘Potion of Alether’. Replaced ‘Bronze Door’ with ‘bronze door’.

  (102) Replaced both occurrences of ‘Jailer' Keys’ with ‘Gaoler's Keys’.

  (103) Replaced ‘body, and’ with ‘body and’.

  (104) Replaced ‘Maouk, ‘but take him alive!’ ’ with ‘Maouk. ‘But take him alive!’ ’.

  (106) Replaced ‘combat, and’ with ‘combat and’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (107) Replaced ‘guard's’ with ‘guards'’.

  (109) Replaced ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’.

  (110) Replaced ‘strike and’ with ‘strike, and’.

  (111) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.

  (112) Moved the Animal Kinship choice into the first position. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (113) Moved the Healing choice into the first position. Replaced ‘posses’ with ‘possess’.

  (114) Replaced ‘sensitive and’ with ‘sensitive, and’. Replaced ‘corroded and’ with ‘corroded, and’.

  (116) Replaced ‘west, then’ with ‘west, and then’.

  (117) Replaced ‘houses all’ with ‘houses, all’. Replaced ‘first floor’ with ‘first-floor’. Replaced ‘Maouk, ‘or’ with ‘Maouk. ‘Or’.

  (118) Replaced ‘swell and’ with ‘swell, and’.

  (122) Replaced ‘Jailer' Keys’ with ‘Gaoler's Keys’.

  (123) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (124) Replaced ‘hall and’ with ‘hall, and’. Replaced ‘feet first’ with ‘feet-first’.

  (125) Replaced ‘slippery and’ with ‘slippery, and’.

  (126) Moved the Camouflage/Hunting choice into the first position.

  (128) Moved the Rope choice into the first position. Replaced ‘turn round’ with ‘turn around’.

  (129) Replaced ‘reenter’ with ‘re-enter’. Replaced ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’.

  (130) Replaced ‘view and’ with ‘view, and’.

  (131) Replaced ‘may, or’ with ‘may or’.

  (132) Replaced ‘corridor, and’ with ‘corridor and’. Replaced ‘distance and’ with ‘distance, and’. Replaced ‘clang’ with ‘clang’.

  (133) Replaced ‘turn round’ with ‘turn around’.

  (135) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (137) Replaced ‘strange luxuriant purple’ with ‘strange, luxuriant, purple’. Moved the Tracking/Sixth Sense choice into the first position. Replaced ‘grass, and’ with ‘grass and’.

  (138) Replaced ‘door and’ with ‘door, and’.

  (139) Replaced ‘skin, that’ with ‘skin that’.

  (140) Replaced ‘leatherbound’ with ‘leather-bound’. Replaced ‘hilts and’ with ‘hilts, and’.

  (142) Replaced ‘strange jelly-like’ with ‘strange, jelly-like’. Replaced ‘sides and’ with ‘sides, and’.

  (143) Replaced ‘chain-reaction’ with ‘chain reaction’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘Baga-darooz’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (145) Replaced ‘away and’ with ‘away, and’. Replaced ‘white or’ with ‘white, or’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘Baga-darooz’.

  (146) Replaced ‘less than 2’ with ‘2 or less’.

  (148) Replaced ‘shut and’ with ‘shut, and’.

  (151) Replaced ‘place and’ with ‘place, and’.

  (152) Replaced ‘stone, and’ with ‘stone and’. Replaced ‘pass; but’ with ‘pass, but’. Replaced ‘sunset and’ with ‘sunset, and’.

  (153) Replaced ‘water! “There he is.”’ with ‘water: “There he is!”’. Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.

  (154) Replaced ‘vials and’ with ‘vials, and’. Replaced ‘You may purchase any of the above’ with ‘You may purchase any of the above and in any quantity you desire’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (155) Replaced ‘Dahir mountains’ with ‘Dahir Mountains’. Replaced ‘south-east’ with ‘southeast’. Replaced ‘south-west’ with ‘southwest’. Replaced ‘To the north’ with ‘To the east’.

  (158) Replaced ‘gallery and’ with ‘gallery, and’.

  (159) Replaced ‘entrance, but’ with ‘entrance but’. Replaced ‘combat, and’ with ‘combat and’.

  (160) Replaced ‘construction, and’ with ‘construction and’. Replaced ‘Palace, that’ with ‘Palace that’.

  (162) Replaced ‘lungs; and’ with ‘lungs, and’. Replaced ‘horrors for’ with ‘horrors, for’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (163) Replaced ‘you, and’ with ‘you and’. Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position.

  (164) Replaced ‘mouth and’ with ‘mouth, and’.

  (167) Replaced ‘door, and’ with ‘door and’.

  (168) Replaced ‘sommersaults’ with ‘somersaults’. Replaced ‘If the fight lasts’ with ‘If you win and the fight lasts’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (171) Replaced ‘dark and’ with ‘dark, and’. Replaced ‘corridor, and’ with ‘corridor and’.

  (173) Replaced ‘north-west’ with ‘northwest’. Replaced each occurrence of ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘Baga-darooz’.

  (175) Replaced ‘Maouk who’ with ‘Maouk, who’. Replaced ‘shadows, a dart’ with ‘shadows — a dart’.

  (176) Replaced ‘head first’ with ‘head-first’. Replaced ‘Gold and’ with ‘Gold Crowns, and’. Added ‘(Make all the necessary adjustments to your Action Chart, but note your lost possessions elsewhere in case you find them again later.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (177) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (178) Replaced ‘half-way’ with ‘halfway’. Replaced ‘body, and’ with ‘body and’.

  (179) Replaced ‘potions and’ with ‘potions, and’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘Baga-darooz’.

  (181) Replaced ‘Palace and, somehow, return’ with ‘Palace, and somehow return’.

  (183) Replaced ‘legs tearing’ with ‘legs, tearing’. Replaced ‘points.In’ with ‘points. In’.

  (184) Replaced ‘emporiums’ with ‘emporia’.

  (187) Replaced ‘long curved’ with ‘long, curved’. Replaced ‘claws, its’ with ‘claws — its’. Replaced ‘damp and’ with ‘damp, and’. Replaced ‘Baga-darooz’ with ‘Baga-darooz’.

  (189) Replaced ‘falls, but’ with ‘falls but’. Replaced ‘indifference, and’ with ‘indifference and’.

  (190) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘Hammerfist The Armourer’ with ‘Hammerfist the Armourer’.

  (195) Replaced ‘bodies and’ with ‘bodies, and’. Replaced ‘chest as’ with ‘chest are as’.

  (198) Replaced ‘7–9’ with ‘7–12’.

  (198) Replaced ‘jailer’ with ‘gaoler’.

  (200) Replaced ‘gold, but’ with ‘gold but’. Replaced ‘the peril and the glory of the quest that lies ahead is distracting’ with ‘the peril and the glory of the quest that lies ahead are distracting’.

  (201) Replaced ‘Drakkar warriors’ with ‘Drakkarim warriors’ to reflect standard usage.

  (202) Replaced ‘gold, and’ with ‘gold and’. Replaced ‘street, and’ with ‘street and’. Replaced all occurrences of ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’ Replaced ‘material and’ with ‘material, and’. Replaced ‘sold and’ with ‘sold, and’.

  (203) Replaced ‘Vordak but’ with ‘Vordak, but�
��. Replaced ‘blood, and’ with ‘blood and’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (204) Replaced ‘strength, and’ with ‘strength and’.

  (206) Replaced ‘furnished and’ with ‘furnished, and’. Replaced ‘little there is either’ with ‘little is there is either’. Replaced ‘leatherbound’ with ‘leather-bound’. Replaced ‘numbers and’ with ‘numbers, and’.

  (207) Replaced ‘Crowns, and’ with ‘Crowns and’. Added ‘(The Brass Whistle is a Special Item worn on a chain around the neck.)’.

  (208) Replaced ‘yellow and’ with ‘yellow, and’. Replaced ‘By the Gods’ with ‘By the gods’. Replaced ‘Banedon, by’ with ‘Banedon by’.

  (209) Replaced ‘Drakkarim, and’ with ‘Drakkarim and’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (210) Replaced ‘sky-ship’ with ‘skyship’. Replaced ‘bang’ with ‘bang’.

  (211) Replaced ‘wine, and’ with ‘wine and’. Replaced ‘sell you a bottle’ with ‘sell you the bottle’. Replaced ‘a Bottle’ with ‘the Bottle’ as the parenthetical statement at the end of the paragraph indicates you are buying the bottle that has already been opened.

  (214) Replaced ‘Drakkar sentry’ with ‘Drakkarim sentry’ to reflect standard usage.

  (216) Replaced ‘town, and’ with ‘town and’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (217) Replaced ‘ring, and’ with ‘ring and’.

  (218) Replaced ‘tongues and’ with ‘tongues, and’.

  (221) Replaced ‘If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant’ with ‘If you have ever been given a Crystal Star Pendant’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (223) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (224) Replaced ‘razor sharp’ with ‘razor-sharp’.

  (225) Replaced ‘found, and’ with ‘found and’.

  (226) Replaced ‘you, by’ with ‘you by’.

  (229) Replaced ‘Dahir mountains’ with ‘Dahir Mountains’.

  (232) Replaced ‘eyes and’ with ‘eyes, and’. Replaced ‘knees and’ with ‘knees, and’. Replaced ‘move but’ with ‘move, but’.

  (233) Replaced ‘lit but’ with ‘lit, but’.

  (234) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘head or feet first’ with ‘head- or feet-first’.

  (235) Replaced ‘explore, and’ with ‘explore and’. Replaced ‘face and’ with ‘face, and’. Replaced ‘catch of lavacrabs lie’ with ‘catch of lavacrabs lies’.

  (236) Deleted the second sentence ‘When you strike, the guard is still on his knees, picking up his scattered gold.’ (See the erratum for section 295.) Replaced ‘pen, and’ with ‘pen and’.

  (237) Replaced ‘smells, and after’ with ‘smells and, after’. Replaced ‘Jala’ with ‘jala’.

  (238) Replaced ‘crack and’ with ‘crack, and’. Replaced ‘hand, and’ with ‘hand and’.

  (239) Replaced ‘Tracking and’ with ‘Tracking, and’. Replaced ‘Guardian’ with ‘Guardian or higher’. Replaced ‘Drakkar sentry’ with ‘Drakkarim sentry’ to reflect standard usage.

  (240) Replaced ‘one but, once’ with ‘one, but once’. Replaced ‘falls to zero’ with ‘falls to zero or below’. Replaced ‘points to 0’ with ‘points to zero or below’.

  (241) Moved the Sixth Sense choice into the first position.

  (244) Replaced ‘high, and’ with ‘high and’. Replaced ‘pain and’ with ‘pain, and’. Replaced ‘Drakkar rider’ with ‘Drakkarim rider’. Replaced ‘Drakkar Kraan-rider’ with ‘Drakkarim Kraan-rider’ to reflect standard usage.

  (246) Moved the Tracking choice into the first position.

  (247) Replaced ‘sky but’ with ‘sky, but’. Replaced ‘Main but’ with ‘Main, but’.

  (248) Replaced ‘small beady’ with ‘small, beady’. Replaced ‘belt pouch’ with ‘Belt Pouch’. Replaced ‘Crowns, and’ with ‘Crowns and’. Replaced ‘waistcoat, or’ with ‘waistcoat or’.

  (250) Replaced ‘blood and’ with ‘blood, and’.

  (253) Replaced ‘subsides; but’ with ‘subsides, but’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (254) Replaced ‘battle-jerkins, pull’ with ‘battle-jerkins pull’. Replaced ‘gratitude for’ with ‘gratitude, for’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘sky-ship and’ with ‘skyship, and’. Replaced ‘sky-ship’ with ‘skyship’.

  (256) Added ‘(only if you have heard that name before)’ since you will not have heard the name Soushilla unless you cured the vaxeler in Section 356.

  (258) Replaced ‘noise, and’ with ‘noise and’. Replaced ‘terror but’ with ‘terror, but’.

  (259) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (261) Replaced ‘sky-ship and’ with ‘skyship, and’.

  (264) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (265) Replaced ‘Action Chart, and’ with ‘Action Chart and’.

  (269) Replaced both occurrences of ‘drawbolt’ with ‘bolt’.

  (270) Replaced ‘two Items’ with ‘two items’.

  (271) Replaced ‘below, but’ with ‘below but’. Replaced ‘blood, and’ with ‘blood and’.

  (274) Replaced ‘market place’ with ‘marketplace’.

  (275) Replaced ‘forward and’ with ‘forward, and’. Replaced ‘Magician's Guild’ with ‘Magicians' Guild’. Replaced ‘sky-ship’ with ‘skyship’. Replaced ‘stiffen and’ with ‘stiffen, and’.

  (276) Replaced ‘Crowns, or’ with ‘Crowns or’.

  (277) Replaced ‘drawbolt’ with ‘bolt’.

  (279) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (280) Replaced ‘face sending’ with ‘face, sending’.

  (282) Replaced ‘However for’ with ‘However, for’.

  (285) Replaced ‘hand, and’ with ‘hand and’. Replaced ‘muzzle-first’ with ‘muzzle first’. Replaced ‘death blow’ with ‘death-blow’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘is another arch and a staircase’ with ‘are another arch and a staircase’.

  (287) Replaced ‘saddle ring and’ with ‘saddle ring, and’.

  (288) Replaced ‘If you possess a Crystal Star Pendant’ with ‘If you have ever been given a Crystal Star Pendant’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (289) Replaced ‘surface and’ with ‘surface, and’. Replaced ‘gutteral’ with ‘guttural’. Italicised ‘crack’.

  (290) Replaced ‘Drakkar leader’ with ‘Drakkarim leader’ to reflect standard usage.

  (291) Replaced ‘Tentarias are’ with ‘Tentarias is’. Replaced ‘over a thousand miles’ with ‘nearly three thousand miles’. Replaced ‘cargo and’ with ‘cargo, and’. Replaced ‘result Banedon’ with ‘result, Banedon’.

  (294) Replaced ‘sky-ship’ with ‘skyship’.

  (295) Added the sentences, ‘When you strike, the guard is still on his knees, picking up his scattered gold. Your attack is silent and deadly.’ These are copied from 236. ‘Turn to 236’ is now replaced with ‘If you wish to search the guard's body, turn to 207. If you decide to ignore the body, hurry into the Itikar's pen and turn to 224.’ This retains the text for the Mind Over Matter option, while fixing the out-of-place wording if you never untied the guard's money pouch. (See also the errata for sections 236, 357, and 389.) Perhaps Joe Dever originally intended for there to be a Random Number pick even when you used Mind Over Matter and then made Mind Over Matter an automatic victory against the sentry but he seems to have forgotten to change the wording for the Random Number pick.

  (296) Replaced ‘Zakhan, others’ with ‘Zakhan. Others’. Replaced ‘brute and’ with ‘brute, and’. Replaced ‘avenue, and’ with ‘avenue and’.

  (297) Replaced ‘alive, and’ with ‘alive and’.

  (298) Replaced ‘lit but’ with ‘lit, but’.

  (300) Replaced ‘boomsail’ with ‘boom-sail’. Replaced ‘bo'sun’ with ‘Bo'sun’.
Replaced ‘Drakkar riders’ with ‘Drakkarim riders’ to reflect standard usage.

  (301) Replaced ‘below 4’ with ‘4 or less’.

  (302) Replaced ‘strong, that’ with ‘strong that’. Replaced ‘The Captain’ with ‘The captain’.

  (303) Replaced ‘behind, and’ with ‘behind and’.

  (304) Replaced ‘out but’ with ‘out, but’. Replaced ‘battle cry’ with ‘battle-cry’.

  (305) Replaced ‘half-way’ with ‘halfway’.

  (306) Replaced ‘obey, and’ with ‘obey and’. Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption.

  (312) Replaced ‘boomsail’ with ‘boom-sail’.

  (313) Replaced ‘couriers and’ with ‘couriers, and’. Replaced ‘these Items’ with ‘these items’. Replaced ‘Vakar mountains’ with ‘Vakar Mountains’.

  (314) Replaced ‘cringes thew woman’ with ‘says the woman cringingly’ as ‘cringes’ is not considered a mode of speech.

  (315) Replaced ‘collar bone’ with ‘collarbone’.

  (316) Replaced ‘surprise, their weapons’ with ‘surprise; their weapons’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (320) Replaced ‘blood but’ with ‘blood, but’. Replaced ‘back-breaking’ with ‘backbreaking’. Replaced ‘Koneshi mountains’ with ‘Koneshi Mountains’. Replaced ‘sky-ship’ with ‘skyship’. Added ‘(You may not use Hunting if required to eat a Meal in the middle of this wasteland.)’ in harmony with the Collector's Edition.

  (322) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’. Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (323) Added a period to the end of the illustration's caption. Replaced ‘sky-ship’ with ‘skyship’. Replaced ‘Drakkar riders’ with ‘Drakkarim riders’ to reflect standard usage.

  (324) Replaced ‘Drakkar Sentry’ with ‘Drakkarim Sentry’ to reflect standard usage.

  (326) Replaced ‘belt pouch’ with ‘Belt Pouch’.

  (327) Replaced ‘on to’ with ‘onto’.

  (328) Replaced ‘market-place’ with ‘marketplace’.

  (329) Replaced ‘Drakkarim but’ with ‘Drakkarim, but’.

  (330) Replaced ‘turn to 394’ with ‘do not continue the combat but turn immediately to 394’.

  (331) Removed ‘ at the front of this book’. Replaced ‘pours over’ with ‘pores over’. Replaced ‘What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars are a code’ with ‘What Banedon had assumed to be positions of stars is a code’. Replaced ‘readings and’ with ‘readings, and’.