<br/><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mimics</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>HP: </strong>15<br/><br/><strong>Damage:</strong>    <br/><br/><strong>Armor:</strong><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Abilities</span><br/><strong>Mimicry: </strong>It looks just like a treasure chest. But if you listen closely, you can hear its heartbeat. When you interact with a mimic unawares of its true nature, roll+DEX. On a 10+, you avoid the mimic's jaws. On a 7-9, you evade getting eaten and simply take damage. On a miss, you take no damage but the mimic stretches its elastic body and swallows you whole. When you're inside a mimic, take -1 forward from the mimic's digestive juices and don't get too comfortable. Mimics digest anything. When you try to escape a mimic, roll+CON. On a miss, the mimic deals damage to you and some of your stuff gets ruined. On a 10+, pick two. On a 7-9, pick one: <br/>*You get out <br/>*Deal your damage to the mimic <br/>*None of your stuff is ruined.<br/></div></div></div>(https://i.imgur.com/tXeIowP.jpg)<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/P6f5iBZ.jpg)<br/><br/></div><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">- Who's Where? -</div><div class="spoiler_body">Juro: Room 215<br/>Valna: Room 215<br/>Katra: Room 215<br/>Mercy: Room 215<br/>Grella: Room 215</div></div></div><br/>"Wait don't!" the mimic exclaimed as Valna leapt from the window, though it was far too slow to do anything about it. In the blink of an eye the thief was gone. Not wanting a repeat of the crazy action, the window would suddenly slam closed again on it's own accord. That wasn't all, however, as part of the wall started to melt and drip over the window, sealing it shut and smoothing down until it looked like there had never been a window there at all.<br/><br/>"Oh no this is...I didn't...please just..." the mimic started to panic as it's attention was pulled between everyone's comments and accusations, until eventually the maid stepped forward, "I must apologize Masters. I've been trying to keep everything hidden from you until now, but it's become clear that all this confusion is only making everything worse." she said, bowing apologetically, "So if you would allow it, I'd like to explain myself in full before going forward" she said, however her voice didn't come from her own body, but the mimic's. Suddenly the feminine mimic shifted again, this time becoming not a bed or a bottle, but another slime maid, "The truth is there are no slimes, nor are there multiple mimics here. The Slimy Stop, and all of it's staff, are all one person....me" she explained, the two slime maids shifting slightly, looking mostly the same, but allowing their mimic traits to poke through more clearly than they had before. Suddenly the strange traits Juro had noticed and commented on earlier made a lot more sense. The reason they didn't have normal looking cores was because they weren't slimes at all.<br/><br/>"It all started a few years ago..." she started, a nostalgic look on both their faces, and the gang could swear they heard some kind of soft, wistful flashback music playing in the background, "I had been a hunter all my life, devouring stray animals, travelers, adventurers especially. I never really questioned my life, nor the things I did, I just followed my instincts. As I got bigger and smarter, I started to come up with more elaborate ways to lure in prey, and it almost became a game of sorts trying to figure out ways to one up myself. Eventually I came up with my most brilliant plan yet. If I wanted to draw in a large amount of prey, why not pose as an inn?" she said, smiling unconsciously, apparently still rather proud of the idea all things considered, "I put a lot of research and preparation into it, sneaking into other taverns to observe the ins and outs of the business. Once I was confident enough, I set up shop here, and I can proudly say my imitation of an entire building was spot on, even now I put a lot of thought into polishing all the little details. Though I did have one problem. I could become a building, but I didn't have any staff to actually serve customers with. I was able to split off smaller chunks of myself and move them independently, but I can't actually mimic a proper humanoid's appearance. The closest I could get was what you see now" she said, one of the slimy bodies doing a twirl to show off, "it's a rather poor imitation of a human, but as it turns out it<em>is</em>a pretty good imitation of a slime. That's how I came up with the concept for the "Slimy Stop", an inn run entirely by slime girls. That way I could run the inn all by myself, with my little extensions all working in plain sight, completely unquestioned" she said. As her explanation went on they could all see her getting more and more confident and eager. This was probably the first time she had told another soul about her scheme, and it was clear she was very proud of what she had achieved.<br/><br/>"When I first opened I was tempted to just start eating whoever wandered in, but I realized that was too short sighted. If I wanted to be effective I had to sell the idea that I was an actual inn that did good business, that way people would keep coming even if one or two people went missing here and there. So I planned to spend the first six months operating normally, building a reputation and lulling everyone into a false sense of security. However that's when everything went wrong, when I discovered that...that..." she said, building up tension, "That I love being an inn!" she announced, as though admitting something she had been bottling up for a long time, "I realized that serving guests, taking care of them after a long day on the road, keeping them safe and warm at night...it was all so much more peaceful and fulfilling than my life up until then. Not only that, but when I started actually talking with people, rather than just eating them right away, I discovered how fun it was to interact with others: playing games with them, hearing their interesting stories, being...intimate..." she blushed, looking at Grella, "And it only got worse as people started coming more and more often. Strangers became regulars, and regulars became friends, and the thought of eating any of them made my stomach crawl. So that's why I decided I didn't just want to pretend to be a proper inn, I wanted to become an inn for real, and not just any inn, the best inn in the entire world!"<br/><br/>However her enthusiasm died down considerably as she got closer and closer to the present, "That's how things were supposed to be at least, until recently...I just want to make it clear, after I resolved to become a true inn I never intended to eat anyone ever again, and I was able to get by without a single incident for several years. After the first few months I realized that acting as an inn was actually a sustainable life style. While I wasn't eating full sized people any more, I could eat their food scraps, their garbage, their, uh,<em>various secretions</em>" she said, harkening back to the spa service she had given Valna, absorbing her sweat, skin cells, and even her pussy juices for nutrients, "Obviously one person couldn't provide enough trace nutrients for someone my size, but with hundreds of customers coming through every month? I was more than capable of sustaining myself with some harmless skimming" she explained, trying not to go into<em>too much</em>detail on what it all entailed, but needless to say nothing went to waste, "I was content, happy, sure I may have felt the odd craving here and there, but I was able to stay well fed enough that I was never truly tempted. That was, at least, until<em>he</em>showed up..." she muttered darkly.<br/><br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/qJsz4CI.jpg)</div>VALNA<br/><br/>Valna had launched herself out of the window, escaping both the mimics' clutches and the long exposition that followed. However for as commendable as it was to make such a split second decision, that didn't necessarily make it a smart one, considering the window she jumped out of was on the second floor of a rather tall building. Fortunately Valna was as swift and nimble as a cat, and was already prepared to get her feet under her and absorb the impact of the fall. Unfortunately the trajectory of her fall sent her through a nearby tree, her body dropping through the branches before the back of her armor snagged on one of them, leaving her hanging awkwardly, "Master Valna wait!" a familiar voice called out as a nearby window was thrown open. It was the maid from before, the one who had given her the spa treatment, or at least it looked like her, "Please don't jump like that, it's dangerous. Please just come back inside. I promise you aren't in any danger. I'm not going to hurt you" she assured, and as she did a thick tentacle would extend out from the side of the inn, trying to reach out for her.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Valna</strong>used Defy Danger to leap from the window, but got snagged on the way down and is faced with a hard choice if she wants to escape.<br/>-Slip out of her armor to drop the rest of the way down, losing her top in the process.<br/>-Use a dagger on the branch to cut herself free, leading to a damaging (though not serious) fall.<br/>-Allow the mimic to grab her and pull her to "safety".