<span style="font-weight: bold">Recognised by Aviana (presumably, she will swiftly inform the rest of the group): </span><br/><br/>Some fifty or so feet ahead of you, you notice what appeared a first merely to be an oddly-shaped rock, actually appears to be a woman, her lower body merging into the rock as if part of it... or is that a fungus of some kind... searching your memory, you recognise the creature as a<span style="font-style: italic">roper</span>, a dangerous predator reasonably common in the underdark. It shoots out thin, sticky strands about fifty feet to draw in its prey, coating in toxic substances that reduce its victims to quivering puddles of arousal, without the strength to resist being pulled in, molested and eventually devoured. They can be surprisingly intelligent, and although there appears to be no way around, it may be possible to negotiate passage. Vaguely plant-based, they are vulnerable to fire, and resistant to cold and electricity.<br/><br/>Behind you, you hear the skitter of claws in the darkness, just entering the tunnel some fifty or so feet behind you. You don't recognise the... whatever they are... but their black fur gleams in the mould-light as they cling to ceilings, walls and floors, crawling forward with a disturbing scuttling motion on their twin pairs of arms, and powerful back legs. They look a little like lemurs, but much larger – as large, perhaps, as  a halfling (OOC they're small-sized) their beady eyes gleam, and their razor-sharp teeth are clearly meant for meaner prey than fruit... and there are at least three of them, if not more...