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You buy a paper from the shop opposite the hotel and sit in your car to read it.

It is the local paper and the front-page story tells of the Mayor's concern about the efficiency of the local police following a spate of recent crimes that have gone unsolved. These incidents, he goes on to say, are possibly connected.

The first is of several reports of gunshots being fired at a small farm, on investigation nothing was found to be amiss. The next incident was a number of sightings by people on the harbour at night who claim to have seen lights moving about on the island of Minalu, where human presence is strictly controlled.

Another couple of reports were more serious. One of the local cafes was destroyed by gunfire from sophisticated, automatic weaponry, and a scuba-diving outfit was found on the beach with bloodstains on it. On the same night the body of a man was found drifting in a boat out at sea.

The story ends "POLICE OFFICERS REFUSED TO COMMENT ON THESE REPORTS."

You put down the paper and decide to visit the harbour.

Turn to (541).