<span style="font-style: italic">Since it's rather unlikely Mirelle is going to escape and she only has a tiny handful of HP left, the battle is now officially over. Salana and Marrok will suffer from stuffing penalties until they get the chance to digest, which will take 3 or 6 hours for Marrok and 1 or 2 hours for Salana (due to her feat). Although another encounter is imminent, I'll go ahead and count out the XP. However, the only real 'treasure' is nutrion-based, and not immediately available.<br/><br/>Besides their other uses, the party's NPC followers serve as a mobile 'town' of sorts - they will buy magic items, either with coin on hand or by getting an advance on their monthly pay, and they have a few items of their own to offer in return. When the party comes across a large windfall with the NPC's assistance, they will expect shares, though much smaller than what the PCs will take. This game will have larger treasure rewards than the baseline, but also more things to spend it on. Also I'll only be using the standard 'treasure parcels' as a rough guide, so expect to find extra low-level items sometimes.<br/><br/>First, the XP. There were 975 xp worth of enemies and 475 xp worth of allies. 975 - 475 = a nice even 500... which is then divided by three into <span style="font-weight: bold">167 xp.</span>. Salana gets a <span style="font-weight: bold">+50 xp</span> bonus for a nice vore scene and general good roleplay. Saraphina gets <span style="font-weight: bold">+50 xp</span> for being ruthless and terrifying, in a good way. Marrok gets <span style="font-weight: bold">+60 xp</span> for an excellent vore. </span><br/><br/>The tiger-striped shifter inside Marrok felt her heart swell with hope as she was pressed upward towards the esophagus... only to be squeezed back down into a prison that had grown even more tight and acidic than before. A cry of surprise mingled with despair reaches his ears.<br/><br/>In spite of Belle having stolen a breath of fresh air before being swallowed down again, the squirms in Marrok's powerful gut soften and gradually cease, the satisfying meal within too weak to fight back any further. Soft moans can be faintly heard over the noisy gurgling, but she allowed the stomach to compress her into a tight ball without resistance. She'd last a little longer, but it was over.<br/><br/>Without even looking him in the eyes, Sophia grabs the half-roasted lizardman by the neck and drags him to his feet. He starts to ask for clemency, but Sophia's gaping maw descends over his head from behind before he gets the chance. The slender green-scaled male struggles pitifully as Sophia lifts him up off the ground effortlessly and slides him down to his final destination as quickly as possible. By the time Saraphina even has time to explain her motivations for not feasting right now, there's nothing but two frantically wriggling three-toed feet and ten inches of tail sticking out of Sophia's mouth. Her throat doesn't even need to expand all that much to gulp him down: her powerful muscles compact Marutok's form nicely.<br/><br/>She sucks in the last parts of him to remain on the outside world and smiles at Saraphina almost sheepishly. "Sorry, Saraphina. Couldn't help *URP* myself. I can handle it, though." She pats her bulging belly and sighs. "I hate to speak ill of the soon-to-be-dead, my scaly friend, but you were a so-so meal a best. Decent flavor, but too dry and not very filling." Her protruding belly jiggles and bulges as Marutok desperately claws at the walls surrounding him. "Aww, stop that would you? I'm ticklish in there." the tiefling says with a casual innocence that belies her stomach's sinister intentions regarding its prisoner. The agonized lizardman only manages a brief struggle before succumbing to the hellish acids bathing him.<br/><br/>Mirelle, for her part, was finally realizing that the deceptively soft prison of flesh surrounding her would be her end. Too exhausted to kick with her full force, she squirms uncomfortably, trying to avoid the acids pooling at the bottom of the stomach which burned her ass and thighs. It was useless, though; the acid was everywhere, and the itching sensation covered her body, turning her creamy skin a livid red. It was obvious that the deceptively gentle-looking human who'd eaten her wasn't interested in anything she had to say, only trapping her efficiently and digesting her as quickly as possible. Her skill, her cunning, her gorgeous body... all of them were now nothing more than a nutritious meal for the human girl. Mirelle pulls her sensitive ears close to her body and tries to shield them with her hands as she stops kicking and curls up in the fetal position. Not only does the acid sting her ears (along with the rest of her), but the gurgles and groans of the active stomach are almost deafening. Before long, Salana notes with satisfaction that the wiggles in her swollen stomach have decreased to almost nothing.<br/><br/>If he was indifferent to the final moments of his friends before, the human is now utterly oblivious to their doom. The consolation that he'd at least get some pleasure out of his doom at Saraphina's hands suddenly vanished. He screams helplessly as Saraphina expertly inflicts agony with the promise of much worse to come.<br/><br/>"Tell... I'll tell you everyting!" he stammers, the manly barbarian's eyes watering as he gazes at the cruel dagger in his tormentor's hand. "We are- er, were protecting the priestess Yula, a she-wolf whose wisdom is matched only by her ferocity. In the early hours before the dawn, we came upon some bandits who were resting after a successful raid on a merchant foolish enough to brave the roads. Those greedy drow and their friends were unwilling to abandon the loot and fought rather than fleeing. They all became breakfast, of course."<br/><br/>"Yula said that the gold and silver coins would make good 'bait' for summoning a certain breed of earth elemental. I swear, I don't know anything about the elemental, only that it apparently eats precious metals and dislikes being under the open sky - that's why Yula decided to perform the ritual inside this abandoned building. She has a few worshippers with her, but they aren't skilled combatants like Belle or Mirelle." He looks away uncomfortably at the mention of his soon-to-be-digested friends. "Yula said the elemental had already arrived, but she wasn't finished binding it to service yet."<br/><br/>He rubs his wounded ear with one hand, wincing. "That's all I know. Now if you aren't going to eat me, in the name of the Gods, give me a swift death and be done with it."