Your not actually sure what the clappers are, or how running like them will make you any faster than just running, but you decide to run anyway!
Unfortunately, with 7 brains to do the thinking, the monster has pretty good reaction speed. Before you can slam the door it leaps forward moving surprisingly quickly for something so huge.
Now, this would be the point that a sensible gamebook would have a "test your agility" attribute option to see if you can leg it quickly enough through the other door.
Sadly for you, this is just a randomly silly test gamebook created by some nutter called dark and pretty much made up as it goes along, so we don't have any attributes to test.
So, for the purposes of determining whether your entirely logical, but possibly inherently doomed fiet of cowardice succeeds we'll have to just appeal to general principles.
can your average Jo or Jane run fast enough to escape the 7 jaws of the 7 maws of a 7 foot long 7 headed horror?
On the general scientific evidence that nobody has ever reported making such a fiet of ballistic scardycattery, I'm afraid the answer is no!
Of course this could be due to a general lack of real world examples of 7 headed horrors, ---- but that's a very boring theory! I prefer to think the 7 headed horrors are out there but nobody has ever survived long enough to report their existance, and sinse it's me that's writing this, it's my word that counts! ha!
So, you die. Your death is actually rather slow, gorey and painful, sinse the 7 heads, after forming a very nice cooperative movement in order to actually catch you, can't determine which slavering maw of fanged awfulness gets which bit, resulting in something of a tug of war with you as the rope.
i could write an equally long, protracted and horrific description of your dismemberment and 7 way consumption by said monster, but in the traditions of the best horror writers, I think I'll leave it to your imagination.
Either way your dead, in fact you aren't just merely dead, your really most sincerely dead, (even more so than if a house had fallen on you).
So go and
The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom.
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