Even as the number of those still fighting decreases, the stakes rise. One cheetah is unconscious and perhaps dead in the dirt, another safely within Gorun's already-churning stomach; one cultist being menaced by a snake large enough to devour him in a bite, the other in the pitiless grip of Ambrosia's jaws with drool already running down his chest. The giant mantis, though it has Turilia bound, only snaps at her halfheartedly. It makes no attempt to devour her, aside from perhaps one bite at a time though when its fanged jaws close on her shoulder it pulls back without tearing anything out. It keeps looking around, especially back to the druid engaged in her own fight. If anything, the beast seems... confused, though it seems to take no notice as its prize sends more shocks of negative energy rumbling up its exoskeleton with purplish sparks of foul-smelling light. Both of those who Eiyre had stunned begin trying to get free of their respective devourers. All the cheetah does is very briefly distract Gorun with the pleasant feeling of something large moving around inside his stomach, the cat not yet realizing it could use its claws. As for the cultist... he's brave, if not bright. He wraps his arms around the fairy in a tight hug clutching her to his body, trying to pull his head from her mouth. Ambrosia recognizes the stance; the man's actually trying to reverse their positions, to get the fairy on his tongue rather than he on hers. Bold, but unsuccessful; having gotten his head in her mouth, Ambrosia is hardly willing to let him out for a second try.<br/><br/>Nor is the female druid willing to let Xarithe have another go, no matter how pleasing his fidgeting at the back of her mouth may be.<span style="font-style: italic">More soft vore</span><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;">Without a further word to Xarithe, the woman slightly opens her mouth.. but lest Xarithe try to escape, within an eyeblink her tongue's pushing up between the man's legs, forcing him backward and deeper into her body with irresistable force. Her throat widens under him, letting him in, and closes on his back to give her throat a firm grip on the druid's body. Whether or not his taste pleased her, Xarithe couldn't say; she certainly didn't waste time shoveling him into her stomach getting a better taste. Once her throat has him gripped, it pulls him quickly downward; the bulge everyone else sees in her throat passes below her collarbone and under her robe with indecent haste, settling in a distressingly small bulge tenting out her clothes slightly, that small bulge the only remaining physical evidence of the druid's existence. Her stomach, Xarithe's new prison, is a dark place, and hotter than a stomach should be. Furnacelike, slippery walls contract in all around him to hold him fast, leaving less room than a stomach this size should to contort. The acids haven't begun to flow yet, and for a few precious seconds the muscular stomach walls rippling around him have yet to seize and begin crushing him to aid the acid's burn. From the stomach, he can hear very faintly the tumult outside.</div></div></div><br/><br/>Sira's advancing with open mouth when the druid swallows her companion. Whether it's the cultist's timely pirouette out of the way or a serpentine dismay at seeing the druid eaten, fangs whirr through the air inches from being able to get a grip on the orc's cloak. "Sister!" the cultist calls, moving to the left to try to get around the snake, eying Albali worriedly as she tries and fails to knock out the massive woman behind him. "This fight is lost! Get into the woods, warn the others- I will hold here!" He charges back almost into the snake's embrace, fangs and sword going for the less well protected flesh of a barely-exposed underside. This time, the weapons cut through scales, wounding Sira badly. The cultist, looking at the fights with swiveling head, calls out- with the first, mournful emotion in her voice- "You will live on with the Master. I swear it-" before turning on one heel and beginning to slowly make her way into the forest. Though still visible both through the trees and above them, should she shrink and get deeper she could rapidly become quite difficult to see- though if she did so too soon, Xarithe would of course weigh her down... for however long he lasts inside the insectile elf's stomach.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Mechanics</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;">Turilia's attack succeeds. Fort save also succeeds though, so no strength damage. <br/>Sira's bite attack misses by exactly 1. <img alt=":(" src="./images/smilies/sad.gif" title="Sad"/><br/>Xarithe transforms.<br/>Albali... oh for pity's sake. "Priest Cultist rolls 11 for a Will save and gets 18." Hex fails.<br/><br/>Cheetah #1 wakes up and struggles to escape. Its CMB is an 8. This is exactly as useless as it seems.<br/>Southern Cultist attempts to reverse the grapple. It rolls a 15; insufficient to reverse.<br/>Northern Cultist takes a step to one side and attacks Sira defensively; through a pair of good rolls, both sword and bite hit for a total of 15 damage. Ouch.<br/>Mantis's grapple check succeeds. Mantis bites Turilia for another 4 damage. <br/>Druid's vore check succeeds, and Xarithe is completely Swallowed. <br/><br/><br/>Sira, Turilia, Xarithe, Albali, Ain <br/>All Enemies<br/>Gorun, Ambrosia, Eiyre <span style="font-weight: bold">At Bat</span><br/><br/>Status: Gorun and Ambrosia are in Difficult Terrain.<br/>Gorun: 11/31 HP, Not-Quite-Stuffed with Cheetah #1<br/>Turilia: 15/31 HP, Grappled by Mantis<br/>Ambrosia: 27/33 HP<br/>Eiyre: 25/31 HP<br/>Xarithe: 27/35 HP, Swallowed by the female cultist</div></div></div><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">New Map!</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;"><img alt="Image" src="http://i.imgur.com/TnY3GDc.png"/><br/>Let's Play: Where's Xarithe?</div></div></div>