Understanding the risk, but also knowing that food and water could likely be found in a grotto like this, Zerxel began to explore the plant life in the underground grotto.  Her left hand over her nose, her right hand holding her bared blade, she began exploring.  When she must, she tried to take short shallow breaths, but even then felt her skin growing warm as the warm moist air in the cave entered her lungs.  It was nothing unmanageable, and certainly she felt no overriding desire to throw her naked body into the nearest cluster of rapevines.  But she did find those clusters as she explored, slowly writhing masses of green slime covered tentacles that rose up like snakes when she approached.  They even moved towards her, though she was careful to give them a wide berth.  Her training told her that while they were moving slowly, they could strike quickly when needed.<br/><br/>She resisted the urge to cry out for joy when she spotted the fruit tree deep in the grotto.  To do so would mean taking in a deep lungful of the air, which was laden with the scent of the vines.  But the tree, no more than ten feet high, bore large orange fruit, several of which hung within easy reach.  She sliced just above one and risked taking her hand away from her nose to catch the fruit as it fell.  The large fruit was strange to the drow, who'd only seen pictures of them previously.  But she knew that this fruit was called a 'blood orange' and was not only nutritious, but also supposed to be quite delicious.  As a contestant in the dungeon, she knew that the mutated fruit, which was about the same size as both of her balled fists, could not only provide her with an excellent meal but also quench her thirsts with it's prodigious juices.<br/><br/>She took the large fruit and touched it to a gemstone on her shoulder, storing it for later, before harvesting a second.  As she stored that fruit in the gem on her opposite shoulder, suddenly she heard a rustle.  She looked down just in time to see a green slick vine whip forwards and wrap about her ankle.  A rape vine had caught her!  She reacted instinctively and slashed out with her scimitar parting the plant's flesh easily and pulling her ankle away.  The slimy vine slid from her boot, and she was glad of the boot's leather, for if that slime touched her skin, she knew she'd have an almost impossible time resisting the call of the rape vines.<br/><br/>Two large oranges, maybe she should get out now before the air in this place began to slow her even further?  Yet there were other trees to be harvested, and certainly she could find more than two meals if she spent more time here.  Or was such a thought the calming effect of the rape vine's tainted air?<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">The blood oranges are very large meals, and if time is taken to eat them can easily sustain a contestant comfortably for most of a day.  Once the skin is broken however the meal must be consumed, and there is no way to save the fruit.  The fruit can be shared with one other person, though obviously it will not be as filling then.<br/><br/>Ok, if Zerxel simply wants to exit the grotto quickly through either the cave she entered or the one on the other end of the grotto, you just need to make a willpower roll.  If you roll a 15 or higher, you get to the other side with no ill effects at all.  If you roll a 14 to 6, you gain some lust, but are otherwise safe.  If however your willpower roll is a 5 or less, the rape vine's air is overwhelming and zerxel gives into temptation, finding her desire to simply walk into the mass of squiggling vines too great to resist.<br/><br/>If Zerxel wants to continue exploring the grotto looking for food or water, she can, but the willpower roll still applies, and it's going to be even more difficult to resist next time.  Of course she can always head back the way she came, or maybe you think of something else to do?<br/><br/>After spending time in the grotto, <strong>Zerxel now has an arousal rating of 4.</strong>  This is barely any at all and easily ignored, no need to roll a second roll, since you'll be rolling for willpower anyways.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Zerxel's stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u">Cliches:</span><br/>Swordswoman  (3); Rogue  (3); Dark elf  (2); Seductress  (2); Mage (1)<br/>Willpower  (3); Purity  (3);<br/>Minimum lust; 2<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Current items of note;</span><br/>Two uses of 'vampiric blood' (burn one to gain a +1d6 on any roll)<br/>Leather boots<br/>Two plain but sturdy scimitars<br/>Zerxel's Enchanted Lingerie<br/>Black leather boots that strap to below her knee<br/>unknown nipple rings<br/>Two large blood oranges (These delicious and nutritious fruit count as a very filling meal and drink)</div></div>