<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">&lt;Nurkisi's tent&gt;</span></span><br/>The shrinking potion Geno unwittingly ingested quickly spreads throughout his body and starts to siphon away his height and mass. Within scarce seconds it dwindles him down to the size of a strawberry, leaving him stranded naked in the roomy interior of his normal-sized armor.<br/><br/>--or, that's what<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="text-decoration: underline">would have</span></span>happened, had Geno succumbed to the potion. But luckily for our Borygan hero, the hostile magic is slowed and weakened by the abjuration woven into his heirloom cloak. With a grunt of stubborn resilience, Geno is just barely able to absorb the toxin without being affected.<br/><span style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 116%;">[The DC for a 5th level spell effect is <span style="font-style: italic">exactly</span> 17. If Geno didn't own a cloak of +4 resistance, he'd be bite-sized right now.]</span><br/><br/>Nurkisi hands her cup to Wu and watches the sickened dragonfolk, waiting. And waiting. When her meal fails to shrink, her grin sags.<br/>"Huh...tough little bugger, aren't you..." she scowls.<br/>She shifts to a combat-ready stance. "Guess we'll doing this the hard way then."<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">&lt;outside the Jolly Barbazu&gt;</span></span><br/>A very unhappy squirrelgirl is returned to the land of the living. At first she is just dazed, too overwhelmed by the experience of being fox-chow to speak.<br/>"@_____@;;;"<br/><br/>When she does regain enough composure to speak, her words are loud and sharp.<br/>"You ate me!" she screeches. "You maniac!!" The slime-soaked youth tries to wriggle out from under her captor's grip. "You<span style="font-style: italic">ate</span>me!"<br/><span style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 116%;">[Lin escape attempt: 1d20(2)-5=-3, fail by <span style="font-weight: bold">43</span>. Kahmori can effortlessly pin her with one hand.]</span><br/><br/>Kahmori observes that although Lin is weak of body, she has quite the strong spirit. Many youths would simply break down in terrified tears in this situation, but this girl has fire in her eyes; she looks like she'd love nothing more than to give this fox a black eye right now.