[<span style="font-style: italic">-I made some rolls for all of you this time, but in the future in this kind of situation you should all make your rolls to determine your alertness. Hope this doesn't feel too arbitrary, but it seemed the best way to proceed quickly with the action. I settled for very mild successes inflicted and consequences suffered, anyway-</span>]<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Salla, Alyssa, Jules:</span><br/>For some unnerving moments, there's no response - only the dancing shadow of the hanging objects and their constant clacking.<br/><br/>A strange smell strikes your nostril. It is strong, somehow sweet and definitely pungent - it's like almond and honey, and as time passes, it draws more and more of your attention on this unnatural scent.<br/><br/>Salla, you're approaching one of the biggest hanging chains to test its stability, when suddendly -<br/>-The thing appears, diving down towards you with an almost human shriek. Your glance captures a big, pale mass falling over you - and with incredible reflexes you manage not only to avoid it, but also to slash at it with your sword. It all happens too quickly, but you think you managed to hit it - before it winded up and bolted away, rolling and slithering and<span style="font-style: italic">dancing </span>in an unnaturally entincing fashion. Surely it moves with incredible speed - and after a wild and chaotic run in the middle of the chamber, before you can make another move it squirts a sticky, milky substance all around; a considerable quantity of this fluid lands on Alyssa and Jules - too surprised at the creature's quickness and bizarre behavior to dodge it in time.<br/>Now you can see the creature more distinctly:<br/><div class="inline-attachment">
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</div><br/>The thing is huge, standing taller than a human  with a head as big as a horse's. It is surprising how could such a large creature be so stealthy...<br/>Everything about this creature - the frame, the movements, the scent, the mad gaze - feels disturbing ... and at the same time perversely enticing. Salla's blow has left a little cut on its side, slowly spilling dark, dense blood. The thing stares at you, swaying, staggering, drooling - it's hard to predict what is it going to do next.<br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><br/>Alyssa, Jules:</span><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">[ <span style="font-style: italic">To have an idea of how much substance lands upon you - let's say this much:</span> <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/1fx2E.gif">http://i.imgur.com/1fx2E.gif</a><!-- m --> .] <br/>The substance covers a considerable part of your head, body and limbs, and proves sticky and rubbery; it clearly will impede a little your movements and perceptions. Its smell - the same you felt before, of both honey and almond, but much stronger - goes straight to your mind, making it difficult to think clearly<span style="font-style: italic"> and ... it feels strangely ... arousing...?</span></div></div></div><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><br/>Eilnear</span><br/>You keep walking without further interruptions for a long while. The pain is a costant company, but at least it doesn't get worse.<br/>Suddendly, you hear and smell something coming from the thick of the forest at your left - you assume it must be North - : noises distant and blurred, that might anyway sound like human voices; and the distinct smell of smoke.<br/>What will you do?