(Gurgle, etc)<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;">She can sense the stomach's reaction almost as soon as she touches the enfolding wall. First, there's an unearthly beautiful sound coming from all around her, filling her world with a hypnotic, enchanting tune that somehow drowns out the hungry stomach's increased gurgling when it senses fresher, less digested meat inside it. There's a press of a hand- Xarces', of course- and suddenly the belly walls squeeze in with vicious force. They secrete fresh gouts of burning acid at the same time, eagerly coating her bare flesh and leaving an overload of tingling, burning pleasure and pain over Alizome's entire body as Xarces' stomach does more to her in a few seconds than the mermaid could accomplish in a few minutes. She's crushed back down into the liquefying puddle of mermaid even as it starts to drain into her devourer's eager body, the wet, bubbling sounds of the mermaid's existence draining away somehow synchronizing with the song outside. Alizome doesn't react, enchanted by the song and abruptly at peace with joining the mermaid inside the body of someone with that beautiful a voice. She can already picture herself flowing away, the bulge in Xarces' belly being sung away as she becomes part of him, and the picture is such a beautiful one that she can't bring herself to have any feelings other than raw bliss at the acidic pain eating away her tough hide.<br/><br/>When Xarces stops, though, her mind snaps back into her head with a nearly audible clang. She hadn't heard Xarces' crooning to the mermaid, or at least not enough of it to realize the mistaken identity. No- rather, as he begins to talk to another, Alizome decides that Xarces intended to digest <span style="font-style: italic">her</span>. Not unexpected, even from one who shared her fascination with the pleasures of a predator's innards. As she had well found out, being on the other side of a full belly could be almost as fun. Still... this wasn't when she intended to die. Shutting her eyes securely to protect from the acid, Alizome quickly half-backflips in the thick, slimy mass of digesting mermaid so her head is pointing upwards- lashing out with both hands, she unerrantly finds the sphincter and starts to haul herself out of the chyme. Not talking- after all, if he knew what he was doing, why would he relent on hearing her voice- she starts grimly making her way out of Xarces, hoping that her skills would save her and that Xarces wouldn't simply swallow her again immediately.</div></div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/>[[The numbers: Alizome is down to 29 HP.<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/227614">Will roll</a>:<span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+5</span><span style="font-weight: bold">21</span>avoids fascination,<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/227615">Escape Attempt</a>:<span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+17</span><span style="font-weight: bold">34</span>, escape attempt, is now in Xarces' throat! Dicebot maaay have other plans for elffood.]]