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<section name="24">
<p>
<tick codeword="5.Tomb" hidden="t"/>
This barrow contains a circular chamber at its centre - all around the walls hang decaying corpses. The fresh ones are garrotted and dangle from a hangman's noose - the skeletons grin from gibbets. You feel your own throat tighten as a dark figure emerges from the gloom, thin and tall. His magic chokes you as he draws a long pale sword. You must fight.
</p>
<fight name="Hangman" combat="13" defence="15" stamina="25"/>
<p>
<fightround pre="t">
Before each combat round,
<difficulty ability="sanctity" level="17" var="hang"/>.
Whenever you fail,
<failure var="hang">
take the amount by which you failed the roll as
<lose stamina="-hang">Stamina damage</lose>.
</failure>
</fightround>
</p>
<p>
If you lose, <goto section="7" dead="t"/>.
If you win, <tick codeword="Ectoplasm"/>, and you leave this foul place - <goto section="471"/>.
</p>
</section>