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dive Skydive from the Stratosphere
You have deployed your stabilization chute. Very good. You are traveling fast enough to allow the thin air to pull the chute cleanly away from your body.

You feel a very slight tug as the chute opens.

Your feet soon point straight down toward your target.

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