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<section name="412">
<p><tick codeword="Expunge"/>.</p>
<p>
You manage to cut down the last vampire. Quickly, you cut off their heads to make sure they stay dead.
</p>
<p>
In the morning, your COMBAT rating
<lose curse="Vampire's Kiss">returns to normal</lose>
(if it was reduced in the fight) and the bodies of the vampires have dissolved in the sunlight. They have left <gain shards="150"/> and a book called the <b>Black Diptych</b>. It is a map of the tombs in the Crags of the Long Homes. Note the
<item name="Black Diptych">
<effect type="use" verb="Read" text="Court of Hidden Faces 410">
<desc><i>Court of Hidden Faces</i> <b>410</b></desc>
<goto book="5" section="410" hidden="t"/>
</effect>
</item>.
Whenever you want to consult the book, note the paragraph you are at and <goto section="410" force="f"/>.
</p>
<p>
When you are ready, you journey on. <goto section="393"/>.
</p>
</section>