-Losing-

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You quickly calculate the winner in your head and your eyes grow wide with disappointment. You have clearly lost. Dejected, you hand the woman her winnings. “Thank you very much,” she says with a grin and then makes a sweeping gesture to ask you to leave her table and you do as she says.

Subtract your stake from your coin count.

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If you want to indulge in another game of chance, choose between the following sections:

- If you want to join the first woman, do so in section 267.

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- If you prefer to join woman number two, then go to her in section 275.

- If you'd like to join a wizard of sorts, go to one of the men in section 293.

- A puzzle game awaits you with the last person in section 316.

If you want to leave the arcade again, go to one of the following sections:

- If you want to go to the forge, do so in section 265.

- If you prefer to try the inn, go to section 332.

- If you go to the harbor instead, expose yourself to the unpleasant smell in section 350.

- If you want to take a closer look at the glass house, do so in section 351.

- If you go directly to the craftsman, speak to him in section 352.