kintire wrote:Kat leaps forward, as far as she can given the light, trying to get to the thing in the crevice before it can start making a meal of the unfortunate man!
She is shifting to the defensive, though, to give her companions time to back her up...
KAT rushes ahead, sword at the ready, and stops short of the crevasse.
Down below, in the weak green light reflected off of dank cave walls dusted with mica, she sees the man scrabbling up towards her with something big slowly rolling up behind him. Whatever the Thing is, it looks like a mass of flowstone.
And then the lumpy rocklike Thing opens an eye and a fanged maw, and long pseudopods burst from its body. The mans' fingertips reach the rim of the crack. He looks up at Kat with hope burning in his eyes. And then one of the creature's protean tentacles seizes him by the legs and drags him screaming back down the steep slope toward that terrible mouth...