Just as you are about to release your shield and throw it over the pit, it slips from your fingers and rolls away.  You are unable to catch it before it falls over the edge of the pit, clattering down its sides to the bottom.  Cursing your own clumsiness, you step forward, leap across the pit and land safely on the other side.  You waste no time but head off east.<br/><br/><em>The loss of your shield reduces your fighting ability - you lose 1 Skill point.</em><br/><br/>The tunnel makes a sudden left turn and continues north for as far as you can see.  You soon arrived at a closed wooden door in the left-hand wall.<br/><br/><em>Your choices are to open the door, or to keep going north.</em>