<strong>The Yardness of Courtship</strong><br/><em>Laura, Listrata, Tera, Syra</em><br/><br/><strong>The Courtship of Roots</strong><br/><em>Aetherana, Setta, Kimiko</em><br/><br/>The Zettai Ryouiki expedition split up into two parties more or less evenly. Laura, Listrata, Tera, and Syra opted for the main passage sloping upwards while Aetherana, Setta, and Kimiko braved the cum pipe.<br/><br/>In the confines of the pipe, the horrible stench was amplified to the point that it threatened to make them physically sick. Perhaps some of them had adventured in a sewer dungeon before? Well, this smell was worse, but at least there were no rats.<br/><br/><em>(Pipe explorers: Make a Fort save, DC 22 if wading through the muck, DC 20 if flying / wallclimbing / etc that avoids contact with the muck. Failure means being <strong>sickened</strong> until further notice.</em>)<br/><br/>The other party going up the main passage seemed to be having an easier time. Eventually it leveled off and opened up into yet another underground chamber. In the darkness, the party's light revealed an old, dead tree. Its hollowed trunk was now host to a writhing mass of tentacles that slithered out through holes and cracks in the bark. Worst of all, all over the tree - strapped to the trunk, hanging from the branches - were captive women who might have been adventurers once but were now living bodies and warm hole for the tentacles to ravish. Every once in a while, a tentacle would start spurting cum into the orifice it was fucking, which would overflow until the sticky spunk dripped down to the metal grate that was the floor and then through the grate into the lower chamber below. The exit was at the far side of the room.<br/><br/>The lower chamber, separated from the upper chamber by the grate that allowed liquids to flow through, was where the cum pipe led the other party to, and indeed the rancid gunk in the pipe came from this chamber. Though the tentacle cum dripping down from above was not the sole source, as most of the cum entering the lower chamber was coming from another pipe at the far side of the room. At least the disgusting stuff only came up to the ankle in the room thanks to its width compared to the pipe. But that came with its own hazards, because the opaque semen hid the tree roots that snaked throughout the floor of the lower chamber, slowing down movement lest they trip and fall.<em>(Difficult terrain, movement cost x2)</em><br/><br/>For the tree spanned both the upper and lower chambers, its roots on the floor of the lower chamber, its trunk rising up through the grate and into the upper chamber, captives in the upper half only. The upper and lower parties were separated by the metal grate but able to shout through it at least.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Some visual inspiration (sorry Blinkin!)</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.imgur.com/Yey5CkA.jpg)</div></div>