Lang's prey struggles as he is shoved into the dragontaur's mouth and swallowed.  Midway down, though, the plant-man manages to stop himself by pressing against Lang's esophagus.  After a few seconds of bracing, the plant-man then slowly pushes himself back out of the mouth.  While he does nothing about Lang's grip on him, it's a start.<br/><br/>The attacks by the other characters managed land.  The mermaid's tail lands with a loud crack.  Once the tail moved back, the plant-man had been flattened, dead.  Celara's knife then digs into another, which causes the plant-man to stagger just a little more.<br/><br/>Cadrick moved to attack, but then he heard Abylus's suggestion.  He looks back at the plant-men, then over at Celara, back to Abylus, then back to Celara.  "Don't wait up," he said.  He then turned and dashed for the back.  One of the creatures catches him in the back with its vines, which makes him stagger mid-dash.  Still, he managed to make his way to the back of the line.<br/><br/>Now only two plant-men were left free.  The one on the right attempted to attack Celara, but his vines simply couldn't hit hard enough.  The other made an attack on Lang, but it was so laughably pathetic that  it could barely be felt.<br/><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;">Well, plant-man two is dead and plant-man one is simply grappled.  Plant-men three and four are bloodied.</div></div></div>