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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ciaran" data-source="post: 467944" data-attributes="member: 756">You return to consciousness over some indeterminate length of time.  A potent chemical odor leaves you groggy and nauseous, but you fight against its pull toward sleep.  You are not sure how long it takes before you wrest yourself fully awake.The next thing you notice after the smell is the pain.  Streaks of burning tightness envelop your limbs, and you quickly realize that you can scarcely move.  When you do stir, your whole body sways, intensifying the nausea.  Sticky cables bind your arms and legs tightly, and you feel a strange slithering as other cables begin to move across your torso.Opening your eyes reveals a low grotto, lit but dimly by an unnatural bluish radiance.  Ropes…  no, vines, or perhaps roots, dangle from the ceiling, and similar pale growths crawl across every stone surface.  You yourself are bound in a web of these white roots.  To your horror, you realize that the roots have somehow eaten through your garments, leaving them in rotted tatters, and that the burning sensation surely presages the deliquescence of your own flesh.  Bones gleam in the blue light.What do you do?(Note: all of your items have been destroyed.  Ouch.)</blockquote>