With the bulge in the priestess's stomach visibly shrinking, and the flailing of Ambrosia against her prison's walls making progressively less impression on the priestess, time is clearly short. Responding to Kaheksa's frantic pleas, Gorun picks the redhead up and bodily carries her away from the altar down towards the door; though the ooze flails angrily in his wake, it doesn't seem inclined to do anything to the last person in its range. Kaheksa grabs one of the tendrils and just... holds it, staring at it with a thin-lipped scowl. The others don't have time to pay attention to the byplay, however, as the situation is desperate enough to demand their full attention. Continuing his bombing runs, Xarithe slashes again and again at the bare shoulders of the struggling priestess with flames to cauterize the wounds he makes as he makes them. Another set of shallow scars scores across her back, but when he goes in to bite the woman her skin is hard enough that he can't get through it. Eiyre finds something similar- channeling her power into the woman, it is as though the priestess were a black hole of mana- what she sends in seems to vanish<span style="font-style: italic">almost</span>without a trace, only a shudder and a thin trickle of blood resulting from something that should have put most humans into agony. The priestess merely twitched.<br/><br/>Inside, Ambrosia can feel herself weakening, the victorious stomach easily pressing into her eager to finish absorbing her very soul into the soft, slimy flesh around her. She continues to fight of course, the fairy not willing to submit to someone who didn't even do a good job seducing her first, but the draining has sapped the strength from her limbs. This time, the stomach simply ripples around her blows, not tearing, not ripping. A shudder runs through the stomach, and the first hints of a fresh acid trickle start to drip down her back-<br/><br/>Stepping up, Albali sends her still tangled hair straight at the priestess's face. She's shaken the blindness clear just in time to see the witch coming for her, and reflexively she opens her mouth to yell some defiance. That, it turns out, is exactly the wrong move. With precise accuracy, the tendril of hair hits the back of the priestess's mouth and shoves itself down her throat. She gags, and starts reflexively swallowing, but with something already in her stomach and only a fibrous strand of hair to grip on there isn't even enough strength behind the pull to make Albali lose her balance. The priestess is trying to keep things in, and muscles doing that don't have a prayer of keeping things<span style="font-style: italic">out</span>. The tip reaches the stomach, feeling the burn of acids, and soon hits Ambrosia's head; it's softer than it should be... much softer. Coiling around the fairy's neck, Albali braces and begins pulling with all her might. The sphincter holds for a few seconds, the priestess straining to keep its prey inside, but in the end held by Gorun, shaken, and battered halfway into a pulp, the priestess can't hold. Ambrosia's hauled up into the priestess's throat; gagging, but unable to bring her hands up to try to shove her back down manually, the priestess horks Ambrosia up at Gorun's feet. The fairy's in obviously wretched shape, skin thin, melted in spots, and loose on her bones with her pretty wings in tatters, but... she's still alive.<br/><br/>[[Actions!<span style="font-style: italic">OK, there aren't *actually* any rules for 'trying to pull someone out of someone else's stomach' even in the VSRD, but I think it clearly falls under the "Doing Things That Are Awesome" subrule that is printed on page -1 of every rulebook ever invented. I'll let Albali make... god, how am I going to do this... Call it a melee touch attack with the hair, followed by a CMB check against the priestess with a -5 penalty as though Ambrosia were making an escape attempt on her own and an extra -5 because, well, this should be really freakin' hard. </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 moves and readies a cast.<br/>Eiyre makes her touch attack, SR, and deals... well, some damage, at least, since the will save fails.<br/>Ambrosia makes a series of attacks. They're not very effective...<br/>Albali makes a melee touch attack with hair; 13+2=15, hits the priestess's touch AC. CMB check, including the hair bonus, and burning one hero point to give a +8 to the roll preemptively, 13+9+8-10=20. With all the penalties she's got stacked on, priestes's CMD is 19. Kind of a marginal success, so I'll say that Ambrosia's pulled partway out (to Partially Swallowed). <br/>Xarithe's bite misses, but the talon+burning damage lands. <br/>Ain caws.<br/>Gorun drags the priestess away.<br/>Kaheksa does nothing. Probably.<br/>Ooze tendrils flail angrily!<br/>Priestess rolls a 22 on save; no longer blinded! Attempts to reswallow Ambrosia, rolls a 14 after mods; Ambrosia's CMD against grapples is currently 15. Ambrosia breaks free!</div></div></div><br/>Init<br/>All PCs, Kaheksa<span style="font-style: italic">Currently Up</span><br/>Holy Ooze, Priestess<br/><br/>Status:<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;">Xarithe is an eagle. 27/35 HP<br/>Ambrosia is Weakened (-6 Strength) and has 2 negative levels. 8/35 HP<br/>Gorun is grappling the Priestess and Chaos-Touched.<br/>Albali is 20/20 HP.<br/>Ain is 3/10 HP<br/>Eiyre is 24/31 HP<br/>Turilia is 23/27 HP ('Excruciating' Deformation, swallowed magi, 14 nonlethal damage)<br/>Priestess is seriously damaged and grappled by Gorun. Has taken damage to stomach.</div></div></div><br/>Map:<a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/oIbr5Wk.png">http://i.imgur.com/oIbr5Wk.png</a>]]