{{Nnn, thanks for offering your thoughts in answer to my concerns. It really helps to know what you're all thinking. :D I was less concerned about 'having less fun' than whether it'd be, ah, counterproductive to have somebody of his mindset in the party, but some levelheadedness from Praexon and some thinking have done a fair job clearing that up for me. x3 In short, Chrrou's probably not going anywhere (of his or my volition at least ;P) in the immediate future. Thanks again!}}<br/><br/><span style="text-decoration: underline">&lt;&lt;stables&gt;&gt;</span><br/><br/>Were Heshaar merely an adventurer's pet or mount, Nocke's instinctual fears might be unfortunately well-founded; eyes narrowed, her towering visage filling the small bird's field of view, Heshaar almost visibly mulls over the likely flavor of the minute creature... but she's been with the druid and his often edible-looking companions for long enough to know that the druid's accepting someone into his company takes them off the menu until further notice. Moreover, she's got a whole sled full of more filling if less-wiggly potential food to content herself with, should the digesting mass of ex-Heodo gurgling in her midsection cease to satisfy.<br/><br/>(( ... A suddenly less-valuable sled of food now that nutrions are so eminently perishable, but such is life. :D ))<br/><br/><span style="text-decoration: underline">&lt;&lt;inn&gt;&gt;</span><br/><br/>[Purely for amusement value, Chrrou's grapple check: 1d20(4) -4 str -8 size +6 BAB = -2; failure by 34 points]<br/><br/>Chrrou, unlike Nocke, isn't dealing with the possibility of<span style="font-style: italic">maybe</span>being a canid's intended snack; one moment he's gauging the leap from the table, crouching with his tail quivering in balance... and the next, he's suddenly scooped into an ominously hot and squishingly slimy space, giving a squeak of reflexive surprise as he's swished about! He doesn't remain a passively-wriggling cheekbulge for long, though; the druid knows as well as anyone that a small creature in a larger's jaws has scant hope of 'escaping' in any direction but down, and the thought of waiting for his companions to set the predatory girl straight doesn't occur to him before reflex kicks in. The idea of remaining stealthy for Kahmori's sake becomes by comparison a very low priority.<br/><br/>[<span style="font-style: italic">Wild Shape</span>, 3rd use today: Polar Bear]<br/><br/>The conveniently snack-sized rodent's body surges and ripples with sudden change, and Jess's previously-tiny hors d'œuvre gets about one ton more filling, granting a new menace to the druid's throaty snarling. "<span style="font-style: italic">Open back up.</span>"<br/><br/>{{Post assumes that's a valid use of the ability. I couldn't find anything to suggest that it isn't, seeing as we've determined that there's nothing to stop a Medium pred from ingesting a Large prey (hi Geno!), but I couldn't argue against a ruling to the contrary.}}