<strong>The Yardness of Courtship</strong><br/><em>Laura, Listrata, Tera, Syra</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tera knowledge check result - other PCs don't know this unless she communicates</div><div class="spoiler_body">The closest thing Tera could think of was a <span class="bbc_u">Hangman Tree</span> (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/plants/hangman-tree/) (and all the information associated with it)... but the specimen in front of her had several important differences that threatened to invalidate whatever conclusions she could draw from the resemblance. First, instead of, well, hanging its victims, it was fucking them, and second, it looked dead and infested with tentacular parasites instead of looking alive and leafy. And of the tentacles, if they were another creature that dwelled in the husk of the tree, then they were nothing that she had encountered before in book or field.</div></div><br/><br/>Some of the braver girls like Listrata got closer to the tree and its victims. The tentacles seemed to notice their approach, and some of the appendages not busy fucking captives stretched out towards the heroines in turn, almost extending an invitation... not that any of Zettai Ryouiki were dumb enough to get close enough to be actually touched, right?<br/><br/>But their very presence seemed to have agitated the tentacles somehow, because they started pumping into their victims' holes at double the speed; if their pace was a leisurely jog before now it was a sprint. Cries of pleasure and orgasm echoed around the chamber, as much as the women being tentacled could muster through the throat-fucked or meat-gagged mouths.<br/><br/>Now if it were outdoors under the bright sun, the huge branch rapidly descending upon the adventurers below would have been comically apparent from the shadow it would have cast. But underground the only illumination came from the heroine's light spells and gear, and so the large limb appeared out of the darkness overhead only tens of feet away and dropping fast. Perhaps the whistling of the wind caused by its fall could be heard, but it would take a keen ear to filter the sound out from among the cacophony of tentacle sex slaves.<br/><br/>Laura and Syra noticed the incoming danger with enough time to step clear of the impact zone, but Listrata and Tera were a tad slow and had to dive out of the way for their lives as the falling branch crashed into the metal grate floor on top of them.<br/><br/><em>(Perception DC 28: Laura and Syra passed, Listrata and Tera failed. Make new pre-rolls!)<br/>(Listrata and Tera: take 35 bludgeoning damage, DC 25 Reflex save for half damage)</em><br/><br/>Strapped to the branch were four ex-adventurers, who unlike the other victims still wore the outfits and grasped the armament of their classes. Granted their clothes were pulled aside in strategic places to allow the tentacles to fuck them. As the tree limb hit the floor, the tentacles spurted and slithered out of their mouths and pussies and asses, and the women dropped to the floor in combat stances, poised like coiled springs ready to leap into action, but dull eyes expressionless and lips silent, and ignoring the cum leaking out of their creampied holes. One wore heavy armor and carried a greatsword, the second sported supple leathers and wicked-looking daggers, the third was dressed in a slinky gown and held a staff, and the fourth wore a vestment and bore a mace.<br/><br/><em>(Initiative result 19+ required to act before the NPCs.)</em><br/><br/><strong>The Courtship of Roots</strong><br/><em>Aetherana, Setta, Kimiko</em><br/><br/>The half of the expedition in the lower chamber could see and hear the commotion on the level above, at least as much as the metal grate above their heads would allow. But in the lower level there appeared to be nothing else happening yet... at first glance. In the ankle-deep cum, something was stirring among the roots of the tree, long and undulating like a snake.<br/><br/><em>(Perception DC 24: Aetherana passed and notices the creature and can act against it, Setta and Kimiko failed and can't act against it directly before they notice it (they can still do other things). Make new pre-rolls!)</em><br/><br/><em>(Initiative result 19+ required to act first before the creature.)</em>