Twisting around in the soldier's grasp like an angry, redheaded eel, Mona growls, "Thanks- and I'll take you up on that. Maybe even let you have a free preview without any burning- inside or outside." Her opponent finally seems to get a good grip on her, opening his mouth wide to get another taste of the mostly-human sorceress. For a second, it seems like Mona's being pulled right back in... and then she sits down, dragging herself down and away from the impending chomp. Their center of gravity shifted, the soldier staggers a little forward giving Xarius a clean shot at the soldier that the hasted neko doesn't waste. lashing out with a quick barrage of thrusts with the struggling Imperial mage's sword. All three thrusts land, poking through empty places and seams of armor. It's deceptively little damage, but the soldier is holed through-and-through in three different places. The shock of it is enough to get him to let go of Mona and slump back against the wooden wall of the cargo hold, sliding down to a seated position leaving three narrow streaks of blood on the wood behind him.<br/><br/>Not paying any attention to the soldier once he's off of her, Mona scrapes some slime from her face and spits. Drool still coats her upper body, plastering red hair to her skull and making the top of her prisoner's garb cling warm and wet to her body, her face shiny with the unfortunate human's saliva. She keeps grinning, or at least showing teeth, as she springs back up to her feet. "There we go. Much better. Mages are supposed to be a good ways away from the fighting. Now, let me see if I can soften up the other one for the two of you," Mona says with a strange look in her eye. "Probably a little bit of indulgence won't burn the ship down-" and before anyone can stop her, she thrusts both hands out at the half-armored elven officer still in the middle of the hold. Two lances of eyewateringly bright fire blast towards the lieutenant, flash-heating the air in the hold a few degrees instantly. Lurching backwards, the soldier gets out of the way of one bolt, taking the other on his armored chest with a startled yelp of surprise. As a few molten drops of armor drip and land on the wood under him, he turns towards Mona, Chira, and Xarces, attention thoroughly diverted from the rabbit and Delia. Behind him, luckily, the barrel that was hit by the errant fire bolt was one with sour wine, vaporizing a chunk of the contents. Enough was left to quickly douse the smoldering wood, and lend a festive, alcoholic scent to the fight.<br/><br/>Chira goes lumbering forward next, also aiming for the lieutenant standing between her and a rabbit. As she moves, the centaur's stomach sways underneath her weighed down by two soldiers. She still seems unhindered by even that rich a meal, moving with the same slow grace she'd had as soon as her ankle was healed. It's barely tight enough for anyone to see or hear the struggles of the soldier she'd gulped down alive- barely any extra bulge comes as he pushes against the strong stomach walls that had broken down so many soldiers before him, and his panicked screams are muffled almost to inaudibility by her hide. As she walks forward, though, even those cries are silenced by a spasm of Chira's stomach, and the soldier lapses into a merciful unconsciousness shared by the slowly softening other soldier as the stomach begins kneading the two together, each helping break the other down. It seems the centaur isn't done yet, though, as she moves steadily towards the elven lieutenant. He doesn't wait, though- darting in and out, he slashes at Chira's front, scoring a single not-too-impressive wound before leaping backwards out of the way of a quick response. There's simply not enough room for him to fully escape, though, and one metal-shod hoof lashes out and catches him in the already-damaged chestpiece of his armor. The force of the blow sends him reeling backwards a few more feet, taking him further towards the wall and almost cutting off the avenue of retreat of both him and his lapine 'friend'.<br/><br/>Watching with her firm grip on Garth, the rabbit muses, "Well, at this point, probably wouldn't matter too much if we'd finished-" glancing back at Delia, who still has a pair of glistening arms trying to push their way out of her mouth to give her mage leverage to pull herself entirely free, she adds, "Eh, soldiers, am I right? Lemme get this one down in me and there won't be any left on either side, yeah?" She smirks, ready to dart out of the way of a magical attack that could come in response to her sass.<br/><br/>((NOTE: Sorry this took so long! Happy I could get this up before I move, but it may be another week or two before I can post again once I'm settled in my new place. Now:<br/>Xarces goes maximum stabby and KOs Soldier2, then five foot steps.<br/>Mona fires Scorching Ray at the elven lieutenant. Two are shot, and one hits.<br/>Elven Lieutenant uses Lunge and delivers a full attack to Chira. One attack hits. Elven lieutenant steps back.<br/>Chira moves and hoof-kicks the elven lieutenant, and hits. Digestion damage knocks out Soldier #3.<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/vKiMRMr.png">Map Here</a><br/><br/>Legend:<br/>Black circles are barriers (stacks of boxes, etc) that are impassible<br/>Gray circles are barrels or a few scattered boxes that count as Difficult Terrain<br/>The purple stars are rope ladders (DC 5 climb check to get up/down with two move actions, or DC 10 to climb/descend in 1 move action); the forward one goes down, the middle one goes up to the top deck. Can be cut with an attack from a sharp weapon.<br/>The yellow box is the area that's open to the sky; you can see a ramp raised up on the top deck that'll need to be lowered for Chira to climb to the top deck when you're done here.<br/>Red S's are soldiers like what you already fought, Cs are crewmen, and the red M seems to be<a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/kkehRHo.jpg">the lady in charge</a>.<br/>The Red E is an<a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/9PBzpEa.jpg">elven army lieutenant.</a><br/>The Red B is a<a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/GNYy4OZ.jpg">rabbit-girl second-in-command</a>of the ship. They were apparently enjoying each other when you so rudely interrupted.<br/>Dark Green letters are friendly NPCs (C-hira, M-ona, G-arth), light green are you (D-elia, X-arius).<span style="font-weight: bold">Bold</span>letters are stuffed.<br/>Each square is 5 feet.<br/><br/>Init-<br/>Delia 22 (34/52 HP, has mage partially swallowed)<span style="font-style: italic">&lt;-Here</span><br/>Rabbit 21 (Grappling Garth)<br/>Mage 16 (Partially swallowed by Delia, Lightly Wounded)<br/>Garth 13 (Severely Wounded, grappled by Rabbit)<br/>Xarius 12<br/>Mona 11 (Lightly Wounded)<br/>Soldiers 7 (#1: Unconscious, #2 Unconscious, #3: Unconscious, swallowed by Chira )<br/>Crewmen 6 (#3: Unconscious)<br/>Lieutenant 5 (Wounded)<br/>Chira 4 (Wounded, 2 medium meals (not stuffed yet))<br/><br/>Globals:<br/>Glitterdust: Basically the entire cargo hold is glittery now (1 more rounds)))<br/>Haste (6 more rounds)