Against all odds, the vines and branches started to move when Al'Rhayel started leaving. Two creatures seemingly made entirely of tangled vines emerged, blocking the exit while the tree itself started to move. As if reacting to them, all the plants started to wiggle and coil, attempting to wrap around the legs of the two women to stop them from leaving. Alyssa was strong enough to snap the vines that tried to immobilize her initially, but the druid wasn't so fortunate.<br/>One of the vine-creatures wrapped around the fighter however, constricting and squeezing her, stopping her movement after the initial attempt to keep her failed. The air left her lungs and she felt being crushed in the strong grip of the vines!<br/>The druidess could feel something akin to fear and anger come from the plants when they tried to abandon them. With a sound of wood cracking, the 'tree' reached with a hand-like branch and attempted to grab her, but the scanlty-clad redhead managed to slip out of its grasp for now.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Surprise round</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Al'Rhayel is restrained by vines (dc 12 strength check as an action to escape).<br/>Alyssa takes 13 damage and is grappled and restrained by a vine creature's constrict and remains so until she escapes the grapple (by making a contested athletics or acrobatics check against the creature and beating it as an action).<br/><br/>A restrained creature has a speed of 0, has disadvantage on attacks and dexterity saves, and attacks made against it have advantage.<br/><br/>It's the girls turn now.<br/><br/>Creatures: <br/>Alchemically Altered Tree<br/>Alchemically Altered Vines x2<br/></div></div>