<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315940.msg15271988#msg15271988">Quote from: redkitsune on 10-02-2020, 13:19:59</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>"Why do I feel... like we are walking into a trap?"</strong> she said a few moments later to nobody in particular, commenting her own thoughts aloud.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As it turned out, it was because they were.<br/><br/>The first clue was when Talia's staff poked entirely through the mossy ground, piercing some hidden cavity below. The second came when Amanda went into the house to look for Delaine and could fine nothing other than roots and branches lining the walls....and the black hold in the floor that had a dropped quill sitting next to it. The third came when Tula noticed that thick, heavy roots and vines around the house weren't just random, they formed a ring. Almost like the house sat in the centre of the mouth of some sort of--<br/><br/>At the same time, Aletta caught sight of the mysterious girl within the house, who giggled as she was illuminated by a stray ray of sunlight. She looked like a human, a very attractive one at that, but what was more eyecatching--even more than the fact that she was nude--was the green tint to her skin and hair, and the vines and flowers coiled around her legs. She also seemed to be the source of the distracting scent that had been detected floating among the town.<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/kTth8Z6.png)</div><br/>"Oooh! So many already....but we will not turn away more food!" she giggled, at the same time that the mossy ground the five adventurers were standing on began to sag, seeming to drop away from below. As chunks of the ground fell away, it became clear that they had been walking around on a thin covering over a deep hole--a platform of vegetation, which was now pulling away from under their feet. And if there had been any question of escaping, animated vines rose up in a ring around them, as if they were standing in the maw, and began grabbing at the women, seeking to pull or drive them over an edge.<br/><br/>Together with the ground dropping away and leaving nowhere to stand, there was nowhere to escape a fall into the pit below--one that would eventually see the heroines rolling down a steep slope and coming to a halt on a soft and mossy surface--shaken, but unharmed and unable to see anything.