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Message: <blockquote data-quote="injuredwyvern" data-source="post: 1472201" data-attributes="member: 17830">The Mighty Flower Warriors Continued...After realizing the rest of the party had disappeared along with their own equipment, Ayla, Felix, and Oceaus try to decide what to do next.  Quickly, Ayla finds tracks on the ground and begins to follow them, Felix and Oceaus accompany her.  They head off into the brush after the kidnappers and it doesn't take long for Ayla to notice that little effort had been taken to cover up the tracks she is following.  Suddenly, the plants surrounding the trio spring to life and reach to grapple them.  Ayla and Felix dexterously leap from the area, but Oceaus is quickly bound up against a tree.  As they try to think of a way to continue tracking their target without having to go through the entangling area, Oceaus remembers that his god can grant him the power to avoid being trapped in this manner.  He closes his eyes in a quick prayer and then quickly slips his bonds and joins his companions.  Seeing no other options, and not wishing to waste any more time, the group traces the outside of the area of effect and attempts to relocate the trail on the far side, which proves easy enough.  Again their progress is stopped shortly thereafter when they notice a net hanging high up in a tree.  Oceaus recognizes it as his net.  In an effort to both eliminate the threat of a trap as well as to aquire a weapon (since Oceaus and Ayla are currently weaponless), Ayla climbs up the tree to retrive the net.  Meanwhile, Felix checks around to determine if and where there is a trap.  He manages to locate a tripwire about the same time Ayla reaches the net.  To simplify matters, they decide to simply spring the trap cautiously rather than attempt to disarm it.  Felix cuts the tripwire and the net drops to the ground.  Ayla climbs back down as Oceaus gathers up his net, and then the group continued on.  Soon they come to a large tree with a note attached to it, held in place by a long thin arrow like the ones the party was attacked with back at the camp.  The note reads "Leave all of your equipment here and proceed to the clearing."  After a quick debate over whether or not they should leave their equipment and what, in fact, the note meant by ALL of their equipment, Ayla decides to proceed towards the clearing.  After only several steps Ayla vanishes.  Oceaus cautiously approaches the spot he last saw her in and he too disappears.  What he and Ayla both experience is a brief shimmer of light and suddenly they appear right where they were a moment ago, but now there is a gaping hole in the ground right in front of them.  Both managed to narrowly avoid it.  They look down into the hole and see only darkness with occasional layers of vines.  Oceaus then decides to step back through so that Felix will once again be able to see him.  Unfortunately, he returns just in time to see Felix being dragged off into the bushes by some invisible force.  He charges forward and dives at where he guesses an invisible creature might be, but fails to hit anything as Felix is lifted high off the ground.  A woman's voice speaks out to Oceaus from above "You dont want to play our game.  Go away!"  After a brief argument, Oceaus returns to Ayla and the pair sit in the clearing and wait.</blockquote>

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