<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;">Grapple check - Escape Artist (1d20 + 12): 11 + 12 = 23 -&gt; Failure</div></div></div><br/>Watching as Atoli stubbornly hangs on despite his struggles, and starts to make more progress, Teran's flailing only intensifies.  Trying every trick he knows to shake free an attacker, his only success is in forcing her down to one knee.  Although this isn't quite the first time he's been in this situation, he can count on one hand the times that it's happened, and his opponents were always much larger than he in those cases.  Wondering how she could possibly intend to attempt to completely swallow him, his doubts are quickly rendered moot as her stomach quickly begins to expand out to accommodate his tail.<br/><br/>Finding his capacity to effectively resist rapidly diminishing as more and more of his body disappears down Atoli's throat, there isn't much he can do to prevent her from working her jaws up and across his chest, her esophagus pulsing intensely around him, pulling him inexorably downward despite his efforts to the contrary.  As her jaws finally crest over his head, he can feel one final, massive rippling tug as what little light there was is cut off and he is pushed fully into her stomach.<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;">Escape Artist (1d20 + 12): 8 + 12 = 20 -&gt; Fail...I can't shake the feeling that EvilDM is taunting me with rolls just below what I need, considering that this shouldn't be <span style="font-style: italic">that</span> hard of a roll to me to make.</div></div></div><br/>Shifting around as much as he can in the tight confines of Atoli's stomach, Teran begins to feel around for what he knows is likely his only feasible chance at escape.  If he can find the sphincter leading back into her esophagus, he knows that he can use the bulk and strength of his lower body to physically force himself back up, especially considering the relative lack of friction against his now-slick scales.  However, Teran just can't move enough to free up his hands; trapped behind his back, he suspects that his own bulk is making the task significantly harder, as the tight pressure hints that Atoli's stretched like a drum around him.  Feeling the telltale tingle and slosh of acid below him, Teran knows that his time to escape is starting to run out.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>Teran stats:<br/>HP: 20/24, AC: 19 (+3 armor, +5 Dex, +1 natural)<br/>Touch AC: 15, Flatfooted AC: 19 (Uncanny Dodge)<br/>Stomach HP: 8, AC: 16