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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9619878" data-attributes="member: 7737">59In our haste to escape from the mud-man, we lose our footing and fall face forward into the ooze. We turn our head to see if the monster is following us just in time to get hit in the face by a gooey glob of it.The force of that attack drives us deeper into the ooze where we can’t breathe. We panic and try to wipe the muck away from our mouth and nose, but it’s like paste. Our chest heaves convulsively as we try to breathe.”Don’t try to breathe!” Rufyl admonishes. Whatever else he’s trying to tell us, we cannot make out as we “sink into a darkness even thicker than the madman’s gooey missile….”We return to consciousness as water soaks us. Dalris leans over us, her expression of worry changing to relief mixed with irritation.She says we should stick to magic and not depend upon our “mountain boy’s agility” any more. “If it hadn’t been for Shanif’s quick reflexes and his magical water, you'd still be trying to breathe solid mud!”We turn to see Rufyl “in glorious full color” sitting in front of the huge monster who not only saved us, but knows who we are!Turn to (133).---Commentary:In our haste to escape from the mud-man, we lose our footing and fall face forward into the ooze.We did fail the DEX test. But I would far prefer to read a paragraph in which the mud-man's excellent accuracy with its blobs is why we get slimed, rather than our own pratfall.”Don’t try to breathe!” Rufyl admonishes.Rufyl. Buddy. Trying to breathe is autonomic.Also who says "Don't try to breathe"? The normal cliché here would be "Try not to breathe," which at least makes some sense, because you can temporarily override your autonomic nervous system by holding your breath (literally trying NOT to breathe).We turn to see Rufyl “in glorious full color”...Rufyl is always in "full color" when not invisible. Unless we've ended up in the beginning part of the movie The Wizard of Oz, somehow.</blockquote>

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