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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9052137" data-attributes="member: 6696971">1 Successes (0 Hard DC Available)/1 Failures/0 Secondary Skills Available[HR][/HR]Pulled to safety by divine invocation, Xin Mae throws his back against the canyon wall, his chest heaving with the adrenaline of the moment.The massive desert worm bursts forth from the ground.  A collection of mandibles array around a huge orifice, spiral inward to another layer, then another, and finally the vacuum of tiny teeth and maw.  No sign of eyes, the creature is clearly blind save for some manner of powerful sensory organs that allow it to detect prey in contact with the ground.  Its head thrashes on the ground, trying to consume or detect a meal.Its stinger-adorned tail thrashes the air, likely a predatory strategy evolved to terrify terrestrial creatures into foolishly running away which in turn allows the creature to pinpoint and pursue.The walls of the choking canyon would be wide if not for the gargantuan creature and its frenetic display.  The high central butte that bisects the canyon, creating two channels is showing signs of small imminent landslide.  The sun's radiant cast is just reaching over the high butte, bathing the mighty beast in light.As far as the eye can see, the outer wall of the canyon is covered in razorvine and its field of "death nettles" that it sheds below forms a vast ossuary as animals are drawn to the sweet fragrance and then killed in mass.  The circling birds above that use the death nettle-field as a buffet typically go some time without a proper snack, but now the carrion flock circles lower and lower overhead, expecting to feast on the remnants of the apex predator's "work."  [HR][/HR]MEDIUM DCWhat do you do to get out of this place?Failure that is related to fleeing/pursuit and we'll go to a nested, battlemap challenge with the Desert Worm, but not a full-combat.  Win Con will be getting the 2 PCs, Companion Character, and a 2-Hit Minion (Xin Mae) safely from starting squares to final squares which will = successful evasion.  Unless you opt into a combat (in which case, let me know)!Failure on some other kind of alternative action declaration and we'll have to revisit consequences.</blockquote>

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