<div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dc/70/5b/dc705b7a64d47cc53124768903cde9ac.jpg)</div>Even just reaching down towards the tentacle in the thick liquid is difficult to manage with the tight confines of the crystal.  Luckily, Phelypsis is quick and strong enough to make it happen, contorting her body, pressing her breasts against the cool crystal wall, and catching hold of a tentacle.  It attempts to surge away from her, but her grip is firm and hand-over-hand begins pulling it up out of the muck and shoving it up through the hole.  At first, it seems to be just one long, thick black tentacle all dripping and wet with black goo from the bottom of the crystal, but soon Phelypsis begins gets to the body of the beast.  A thick, bulging sack of oozey blackness with a host of other tentacles hanging and wiggling off of it pops out of the liquid at Phelypsis's feet once she has most of the first tentacle out of the crystal with only a couple droplets of goo ending up on her leathers.<br/><br/>Getting the body of the monster past is another story.  For one thing, it is surging with tentacles, swiggling, moving, slurping, and sliding.  As Phelypsis stuffs her hand into the writhing mass, the tentacles begin to move around her, sliding up her leather-clad legs, wrapping around her body, clinging to the walls of the crystal, all trying to avoid being thrown out.  But Phelypsis is too much for them, shoving and pushing upwards as wet, slimey thick cords of gooey tentacle slide over the bare skin of her exposed breasts, cling to her legs and backside, writhing and pushing between her thighs obviously hungry for her.  At first, she's able to keep it away from her face, but eventually as she gets the main body of the monster past her, this becomes impossible, slimey gooey tentacles moving from clinging to her legs to instead slip between her breasts, slide over her face, and slap ineffectually at her mouth and cleavage.  Every place the tentacles touch there is a vaguely slimey, wet feeling, a faint grey goopiness left in it's place.<br/><br/>But after a brief time struggling with it, this is done.  The final tentacle slips out of the hole and Phelypsis is left, panting and nearly covered with slippery slime, but alone in the crystal.  The liquid in the bottom of the crystal has become clear now, losing much of it's viscosity.<br/><br/>At about this time, Phelypsis sees a dark, looming, unclear shape outside of the crystal, although it is relatively clear looking from the outside in, the inside-out view is cloudy.  The massive shape seems to be the vague outline of a boot coming down near the gem, but not touching it.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Outside the gem, Nuria's booted foot comes down on the little kobold statue and gives it a shove.  The rock holds steady for just a moment before being toppled back into the fountain.  She pauses for a moment, but no sound has come yet.<br/><br/>The crystal, however, is becoming slightly more noticible.  A little hole in the crystal, visible up close certainly, is beginning to spurt out a black, gooey substance.  At point, it seems almost solid, like tentacles on a squid, but for the most part it appears to be just an odd black liquid.  It drips down the side of the crystal, slowly moving towards the black water of the fountain.