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Gilly scooted past a mess of tendrils towards some vents, hoping they hadn't been harvested yet. She felt like there should have been more people around, weren't the other kingdoms also participating in the same tasks? The quiet, it scared her.

She poked her head around the side of the tendrils to get a better look. One of the vents was venting, she guessed what was miasma. Gilly's eyes lit up, she bent down to avoid touching the spastic arms and made her way to the base of the vent. She placed her hands into the vent and pulled out some of the stuff inside.

Gilly stood there, uh, she looked around and then back at her hands. She didn't really bring anything with her. There wasn't any place to put the miasma. Gilly made a frumpy face and was thinking... but then decided that she would just walk back with it in her hands. There wasn't really any other way she was going to get it back.

So she started to make her way back to the red kingdom. "Next time I'll get my things before I head out."

[exit to red kingdom]

He approached the heart, and with it came a sense of dread.

Turn back. Turn back now, before it is too late, before these shaded tendrils weave a web to trap you in. Before you dragged down beneath the surface, to feed a spiteful creature who knew how to do nothing but eat and corrupt.

Discretion was the better part of valor.

Henry turned and ran.


[[ exiting ]]

Lizzy continued on her way. In her carelessness, she stepped into a puddle, falling right in. Before she could climb out, she felt something curling around her waist, and then something licking her ankle. Right as she felt the sharp pain from being bitten on her side, she blacked out.

[Exit!]

It seemed the careful step was not careful enough. Her foot slipped straight through a puddle that she had assumed was shallow, causing her to stumble forward until she slipped and fell waist-deep into the pit. She only managed to right herself and remain standing at the last second.

Her skirts from the waist down were soaked, sagging with weight and making her attempt to crawl out almost impossible. Uneasiness had already begun to set in as she realized she might be trapped, but then she felt something anchor her around the waist. Her mouth clamped shut and she froze but for a second in fear. Her bright lime eyes widened in panic. Then something that felt uncomfortably like a tongue slithered through her ankles and she propelled forward in an attempt to escape.

She braced her hands on the more steady earth around the pit and began to drag herself out. It was slower than she would have liked, held down by the weight of her own soaked clothing. Panic set in and she began to fumble with the skirts at her waist, her fingers slipping in the liquid she was surrounded with. At the last moment she pulled them free, leaving her in nothing but a pair of simple, black stockings.

She reached for the side of the pit again as the tongue around her ankles began to move higher. Just as she found the momentum to propel herself out of the pit, whatever had been testing her edibility decided to strike. It sunk teeth into her side, clipping her as she rolled over the edge and away. She cried out in pain and pressed both hands against the wound. Her eyes squeezed shut and for a moment she just lay there with pain blossoming across her abdomen, temporarily safe from the pit monster.

[-20 HP]

Night kept walking, the ground shifting under him like tiny little worms. It didn't bother him at all honestly, the worms.

He was more focused on that bright gasssssss.

Night:: 50/50
Miasma:: 4

Scarlett lay there for a long time, silently willing the world to leave her be. From where she was curled in on herself on the ground she could see the creatures in the distance, skulking and hunting the others around her. Gas curled through the air like poison and beneath her the earth itself squirmed, making her fear that it might reach out and swallow her whole at any moment.

But she was safe, apart from the bleeding wound in her side.

[+2 Miasma]

Just as she felt the creature curling around her, ready to drag her down to the bottom of the pit, the world went black.

[Exit/KO]

He just chose a random direction and started to head that way. Was there any real way to navigate this place otherwise? Nothing seemed to make sense, the landscape looked exactly the same. One curling, freaky vine looked just like the next curling, freaky vine.

But what was that?

Ren's head whipped around as he thought he heard his name. Well, he was pretty sure it was his name, right? He turned his body in the direction he was sure it'd come from, side stepping across the ground in what was probably a great display of his lack of qualification for this job.

Because then, he stumbled, right over something sharp and pointy. He groaned as his butt collided with the wriggling, wreathing soil and immediately he brought his leg up, cradling it to his chest. There was a gash there, bloody where the.. sword (why the hell was there a sword in the ground?) had ripped right through his pants and laid open a wound on his leg.

"Who the hell leaves a sword sticking out of the ground?" Angry, he kicked it with his good leg and hobbled back onto two feet.

[-20 HP]