This encounter was rapidly becoming more and more perilous, it was dawning on Alyssa as she loosed arrow after arrow at the preternaturally-fast creature, while it somehow dodged and weaved out of the way of every shot. A determined look set on her face as she aimed her bow at the fight, only to be replaced with shocked surprise when with her third arrow the serpentine monster contorted itself backwards, avoiding both her arrow and Salla's next attack in the process, and lashed out its' long sinuous tongue straight for Alyssa. With unerring and unnerving accuracy the monstrous dripping tentacle arched through the air to reach and coil itself around her exposed neck, and she felt its wet slimy flesh pressing against her bare skin almost like a disturbing caress.<br/><br/>Immediately in her head Alyssa heard a voice, completely maddened and seductively captivating at the same time, calling to her. It could only be the voice of the creature she knew. And it sounded like it wanted to eat her.<br/><br/>"...sorry, I must decline... the invitation." Alyssa managed to gasp around the limb wrapped tightly around her throat as she dropped her bow, trying to plant her feet on the ground to resist being pulled towards the monster by its' coiling tongue. Her hands now free she tried to lunge towards one of the blackened metal cages to grab onto one of the metal bars and hold on tightly, to prevent being dragged towards the creature any further. If it came to it and it looked like the creature would overcome her grip on the cage, she would try to draw and slash its' tongue with her short-sword.<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;">Roll <a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/250952">No Nom Chompsky</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">11</span></div></div></div>