The cold tentacle around Elise's ankle pulls hard on her, jerking her along the slick ground. A bubbling, roiling begins in the water as more tentacles flick out, catching onto nearby trees and slapping wetly into the mud. As Krampus moves ahead of the dear cleric, sliding her bag down to catch her, she disturbs the nectar as well, the liquid sticky wet on her feet.  Elise is snatched into the bag and Krampus quickly pulls it over her shoulder, but there's still an issue. The tentacle, wrapped so tightly around Elise's ankle in the constrained space, is still held on.  A burbled screech, sharp enough to pierce even the separation between air and liquid comes out and the bag is pulled, hard back towards the water.  Krampus is in a tug of water now, the creature in the nectar attempting to pull it's catch even though the catch itself is netted.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5b/e2/25/5be2256e4053b8ad5bab120aa8782eb6.jpg)</div>When Aeryn's shout goes out, there is another ripple, the tentacle pulling at Elise as it worms it's way up her thigh inside the magical bag.  But the Delvers get quite a different sight. Rising up from the water, held up on tentacles flicking out and latching onto trees and some simply strong enough to lift it's body is a truly alien sight. With a smooth face and only vaguely humanoid form, a swirl of purple finned tentacles raises from the nectar, dripping thick amber goo back into the swampy liquid.  It turns it's faceless face towards Aeryn and it's head ticks to the side for a moment before it surges forward.  The movement drags Krampus's bag hard, immediately pulling her back a step and threatening her footing, but the monster's attention is on the shouting slayer.<br/><br/>It's tentacles flick out towards the shore of the swamp, slicking just barely past where Valderina tested the water, slashing and swinging at the Delvers as it attempts to catch more of them.  The creature is enormous, easily 18 feet tall if it were shaped more like a human and spread all around it like a cape and a crown are tentacles of all sizes. It has two arms which ball into fists as a screech is let out towards the intruders.<br/><br/><strong>Delvers! What do you do?<br/><br/>Krampus!  Give me a Defy Danger to resist the pull of the monster!</strong>