<span style="font-weight: bold">I'm going to go ahead and resolve Marrok's AoO, since Belle has a decent chance to escape even though she's swallowed for now. Unfortunately, Marrok rolls a nat. 2 on it and misses. Marrok swallows the tigress shifter and gains a 'Flavor', a special short-term bonus for swallowing an enemy in combat. Different enemies give different flavors: Belle's is a common but useful one. Until the end of the encounter, Marrok gets a +2 bonus to melee damage rolls.<br/><br/>Gahru moves to D-4 to help restrict Mirelle's movement and readies an action to shoot her as soon as another ally moves adjacent to her, because he wants to use 'Pack Attack'.</span><br/><br/>"Ah ha ha!" Gahru laughs aloud as he nocks another arrow in his well-worn longbow. "Shoot the rabbit! That's a good one!" He pauses as he takes aim. "Hey halfling! Get over here and engage her! NOW!" he says, counting on the adept's submissive nature to motivate him.<br/><br/>Sighing and readying himself, Tolren makes a run for it, trying to get around the raging human barbarian three times his size by ducking his head and running as low to the ground as possible. The heavy greatsword slams into the ground right in front of Tolren, and the nimble halfling leaps right over it, giving the human a painful jab in the thigh with his small spear as he passes. "I'll kill you!" screams Kelso, who is apparently not terrible creative when it comes to taunts. "Oh dear, that looks like a nasty headwound." he says as he glances across the field to Marrok again. "For the second time... Healing light!"<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Unfortuantely, Tolren doesn't get that bonus to DR until he reaches G-5. He doesn't need it though, since Kelso rolls a natural 1 on his AoO. Tolren makes a spear attack on Kelso, hits and deals 6 damage. He uses emergency healing (DAMN that's a nice power) to give Marrok another 5 points of healing and another free save. Unfortunately, the free saving throw fails too. Gahru shoots and, thanks to Salana's power, just barely hits, dealing 15 damage.</span><br/><br/>"Good work, runt!" Gahru chuckles as he lets fly. This time, it's well aimed and flies right towards the distracted bunnygirl's back... and sure enough, it strikes true and elicits a wince from the target. However, it didn't penetrate nearly as deeply as one might expect on an unarmored target, not burying itself deep enough in her flesh to stick, but falling to the ground as soon as she whirls around. "Bah, I hate force armor." the gnoll mutters.<br/><br/>"I'm gonna enjoy watching Mirelle eat you, you little bastard." Kelso's long, uncombed hair sticks to the side of his face, his muscular body becoming slick with sweat from the exertion of battle, but still showing no signs of slowing down. Growing confident, the Tolren turns and, feeling playful, sticks out his tongue.<br/><br/>The tip of the greatsword skewers the halfling so quickly and smoothly that there's hardly any blood-spray, even though a good eighteen inches of steel are protruding out of his back. A half-second after the blade is pulled free, Tolren collapses wordlessly to his knees, blood dripping from his mouth and hands shaking as he tries to muster the strength to mend the wound before losing consciousness from the pain.<br/><br/>Gahru suddenly looks guilty... and angry. "Hey! Human! Leave him alone, damn it! Your ass is mine!"<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">This is a shockingly brutal attack: most combatants deal at least some of their damage as non-lethal even if armed with slashing or piercing weapons.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Kelso shifts to H-5 and uses his bloodied ability on Tolren. ANOTHER DAMNED NATURAL 20. I've noticed that EvilDM seems to roll an unnatural number of natural 20s... I may need to consider finding a different diceroller, but where else am I gonna find the Email confirmation? Anyway. This just happens to be an attack that does EXTRA damage on a critical, even more than normal. Tolren takes 24 damage and is hit with ongoing 5 damage, meaning he's going to drop unconscious within two rounds unless he saves.</span><br/><br/>While the battle is far from over, Marrok can't help but take a few moments to savor the experience of devouring prey. When he takes hold of her, Belle starts to toss another insult at him, but the sight of his jaws opening wide right before her eyes causes her to pale with fear. For a moment, she stares into that hot, slick tunnel to her fate silently. Belle takes a deep breath to scream, but the wolf's muzzle slides down around her head and the cry is muffled by his mouth. She shakes her head defensively as the long pink tongue runs over her face... and the tongue demands more.<br/><br/>By now, the shifter had begun struggling, and though she was very strong for her size, Marrok had the advantage of leverage. *GULP!* her shoulders were pulled into the tight, wet passage and the tongue took a moment to savor the taste of her firm, bouncy cleavage, poorly covered by a tattered piece of cloth. Perhaps hunger was the best spice, but in the heat of the moment, Marrok couldn't imagine a more delicious meal than the one currently sliding into his throat.<br/><br/>A moment later, there was another hearty gulp, and those beautiful breasts were now bulges in Marrok's neckfur as she slid in up to her hips. Feet lifted off of the ground, Belle flailed her legs helplessly, trying to throw him off-balance or at least kick him in the stomach before she arrived there, but his strong hands were in complete control. When his tongue pressed against her crotch, covered as it was by such flimsy cloth that the folds of her sex had been visible every time she crouched, an indignant squeal echoed from the huge bulge in his throat. As much as she wished that she were the one slurping down Marrok instead of vice-versa, Belle couldn't help but shiver in response to the stiumulation. She paused in her struggles for a moment, embarrassment overwhelmed by pragmatism: maybe if he liked it enough, he'd release her in the hopes of getting a REAL taste? That would give her another chance to put him back on the end of the food-chain that he belonged...<br/><br/>Alas, Belle's hopes were for naught, as the wolf tilted his head back and gave another massive gulp, soft orange-and-black striped hips and thighs sliding effortlessly into his throat, leaving just her feet and her tail, and after another gulp, only the twitching tip of her tail. Too late, Belle resumed her struggle, but by then she was already curling up in the hot, humid prison of the wolf's stomach. Although the belly that surrounded her was soft and stretchy, almost pleasurable when her skin first pressed against it, the stomach muscles were strong, and the shifter was forced to curl up in an uncomfortable position. Belle was resting upside down with her shapely legs bent backwards behind her, the heels of her feet pressed against her lower back.<br/><br/>As Belle futilely pushed against the velvety walls surrounding her, a shapely bulge appeared Marrok's swollen belly. Two handprints and the soft mounds of Belle's chest could be seen from the outside. She shouts for help, but all that Marrok or anyone else can hear with her face pressed against the stomach wall is "Mmmmph!" The massive bulging belly bounces from side to side with its unfortunate occupants energetic struggles, but she doesn't do herself much good: in reply to the squirms of a live meal, Marrok's belly gurgles loudly and steps up the production of the acids and enzymes necessary to make her change of occupation to 'wolf chow' permanent.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Belle's first escape attempt is a panicked strength-based attempt and fails miserably by over 10 points. This is kind of a 'gimmie', a poor tactical choice but in-character. Her second attempt is acrobatics-based and much more likely to be successful, though she still suffers the -2 bloodied penalty. Luckily for Marrok, she only rolls a 5, but even that gets her all too close to escaping. Marrok can make a 'digestion of opportunity' attack on her for free, dealing standard digestion damage (I'll let you roll this one).<br/><br/>Since nobody dealt damage to Saraphina, her hellish rebuke effect dissipates. It is now her turn again.</span><br/><br/><img alt="Image" src="http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2484/enc1round33.png"/><br/><br/>Status scroll:<br/>Mirelle - HP: 32/70. AC: 20 Fortitude: 18 Reflex: 19 Will: 17 (bloodied: All defenses -2 vs. grappling and vore)<br/><br/>Belle - HP: 31/63. AC: 16 Fortitude: 15 Reflex: 17 Will: 15 (bloodied, shifting. All defenses -2 vs. grappling and vore. Digesting in Marrok's belly.)<br/><br/>Marutok: HP: 36/36. AC: 17 Fortitude: 14 Reflex: 15 Will: 13<br/><br/>Kelso: HP: 17/54. AC: 18 Fortitude: 17 Reflex: 16 Will: 16 (bloodied, cursed, hellish rebuke)<br/><br/>Wolf 1: Defeated.<br/>Wolf 2: Defeated.<br/><br/>Players and Allies<br/><br/>Saraphina: 36/45. AC: 16 Fort, Ref and Will: 15<br/><br/>Salana: 42/42. AC: 21 Fort: 19 Ref: 15 Will: 16 (Rune of protection)<br/><br/>Marrok: 23/46. AC: 21 Fort: 19 Ref: 16 Will: 16 (-2 to all defenses, save ends. bloodied)<br/><br/>Gahru: 34/38. AC: 17 Fort: 14 Ref: 15 Will: 12<br/><br/>Sophia: 38/45. AC: 17 Fort: 15 Ref: 16 Will: 15<br/><br/>Tolren: 7/39. AC: 17 Fort: 16 Ref: 16 Will: 18 (ongoing 5 damage, save to end)<br/><br/><br/>Saraphina: 21<br/>Mirelle: 19<br/>Sophia: 14<br/>Marutok: 11<br/>Marrok: 10+<br/>Salana: 10-<br/>Gahru: 9+<br/>Tolren: 9-<br/>Kelso: 7<br/>Belle: 6