Nature Exploration

[fuckingnature]

Who: The Daring
When: Day 11, Morning to afternoon
Where: Past the safe apartments (You are now entering giant hallway territory)
What:

[ Hi ho, hi ho, it's back to maulings you go. ]

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[chivalric]

[ Pauses then slows his movements, keeping a hand on his sword as he moves further. ]

[edgeofjustice]

[bounces a little on the balls of his feet]

[formulaic]

[sighs a little at Yuri but readies her whip and proceeds]

[fuckingnature]

[ As you approach, the chomping gets louder and louder. One of the vines shakes and turns as it's being tugged down by-! ]

[fuckingnature]

[ A dog sized, armor-covered animal chewing noisily on it. ]

[chivalric]

[ ... what the. ]

[edgeofjustice]

Dammit!

[formulaic]

[glancing around them at it curiously]

Is it bad?

[fuckingnature]

[ Chomp chomp chomp ]

[edgeofjustice]

It's boring...

[chivalric]

Yuri.

The armor backing on this thing would be useful for constructing a shield, in any case.

[formulaic]

Whatever. We can deal with it quickly and move on.

[fuckingnature]

[ The honeydillo doesn't seem to care you're there, chewing away at that vine. ]

[chivalric]

Let's save it for later- who knows what else we may run into further along.

[edgeofjustice]

Yeah, I'm not in the mood for one of these things.

[formulaic]

Fine, then we're leaving it! Let's go!

[starts to walk past the honeydillo]

[fuckingnature]

[ The honeydillo continues to chomp peacefully. ]

[ Further down the hall, there's buzzing. Lots and lots of buzzing. It sounds ridiculously busy. ]

[chivalric]

[ Grimacing a little. ]

Insects, from the sound of it.

[edgeofjustice]

Can't we just get a large carnivore?

[formulaic]

Do you want to get eaten? Stop saying stupid things and let's just look around.

[fuckingnature]

[ As you approach, you see a large red cone-like nest hanging from the regular vines, and these mantii wandering in and out of it. ]

[ But what's REALLY noticeable is that thick, blue vine running the full length of the wall. The mantii seem to be occupying it at varying lengths and busy at work. ]

[chivalric]

... A blue vine?

[edgeofjustice]

That's... new.

[formulaic]

Hmm... is there anything strange about it other than the color? What are the insects doing? I want to take a look.

[heads closer to it]

[fuckingnature]

[ The insects are making precise incisions into the blue vine, then step back and allow a thick, blue liquid to flow out. Where you lean in to watch them, it smells horribly like sour milk. ]