The Cult of Arclesia Mountain (Kuragari)

[jondude]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Roll! Hard event. Needs 75 or more. Result... 16... failed!

Doing your best to concentrate on the river you manage another few minutes of dodging tentacle trip lines so to speak. However coming around another bend in the cave reveals a two things. The first of which was a fork in the river where it split into separate rivers. The fork to the left seems to go downward more, the current becoming faster and near rapid like. The right fork meanders onward at a still faster but less drastically so pace. The second part about the right though is looking ahead to the next bend in that path you can see the glow of soft white light. Sunlight! If you could keep going that way, then perhaps escape was only a turn or three away!

The excitement of nearly being free again distracts you slightly however. Coupled with the slight increase in speed and the current darker area you were in makes in accounting for all the numerous tentacle pods difficult. You hit another one, but manage to use the same trick as before to dispatch it. Before you can recover your paddle though you hit a second and then a third. Another quick sidestep in the boat allows with the room to swing again, severing another whole slew of tentacles. The third set however comes from the ceiling directly above. You try to move but your earlier side step makes the rickety boat rock around in the water, making your footing unstable. Much to your chagrin a mass of tentacles suddenly ensnares you from above, quickly starting to coil around you, and make things worse, pinned your drawn sword arm to your side.

The things are slimy and warm, quickly coiling around your limbs and body and within moments seem to squirm their way under your armor and run across your bare skin. A couple second after that then they begin to lift, attempting to pull you out of the boat as they simultaneously molested you!

[Kuragari]

When the boat reaches the fork, Kayin makes ready to guide the boat to the right where she could see sunlight. She was nearly out, nearly able and ready to escape this place! The chance of getting out excited her so, and she was already focusing on that before anything else. So its only when she bumps into a tentacle she is reminded of the obstacles in her way and quickly begins to lose control of the situation as her paddle is lost. Even as she deals with some of the tentacles, there just keeps seeming to be more and more of the damned things springing out and-

Then she is in their grip and being lifted up, and she is unable to move her sword enough to try and slice and slash at them. She struggles and shouts, frustration mixing with growing fright at not knowing what it is they might to do her. (4) But then as they begin to squirm under her armor and have their way with her, she blinks as a strange, almost unnatural calm floods through her. Her mind recalls the image that had flashed in her mind before, even if briefly, and then she gasps, squirms, and moans as she... Stops fighting? Yes, that's the only word for it, for while she is still squirming as she begins to be lifted up, it is not out of a desire to escape, but more just the squirming one does when one is being touched and stimulated in a pleasurable manner. Her eyes become a bit clouded, and she whines in confusion for only a moment before she lets out another pleasured moan as she feels one of the tendrils starting to grope and coil around her tit.

What... Shouldn't I... Be trying to escape? To get away from these things? It was weird, and yet, at the same time, she couldn't seem to gather herself up enough to stop the tendrils as she was slowly lifted up and out of the boat.

[jondude]

Caught up by the tentacles it seems they unknowingly use your new conditioning against you as your body is quickly fondled. A light brush against her breasts or butt and your eyes glaze over, as if forgetting what you were doing. As a state of calm sets in you simply allow yourself to be lifted upward, watching with only mild sense of curiosity as the bluish body opens up fully, ready to fully ensnare you. By the time you're fully reeled in by the strange creature your practically limp, nearly all the tentacles threaded into your clothes and gripping your heated skin directly.

While the creature has no eyes that you can see it seems to hold you directly in front it's base for a second, as if regarding it's curiously subdued prey. It's only for a moment though before it before it pulls you in closer till your head nearly touches the base of all the tentacles. Once here the large bluish petals that had opened up close around you, sealing you inside with only some faint glow from the tentacle base above lighting the pod in soft blue light. From here the tentacles then begin to get to work. They begin to strip you, pulling your articles of clothes off one by one... and doing a surprisingly good job of it really, though they will rip and tear what they have too. Within a few moments you're stripped completely, once again naked with all your clothes discarded to the bottom of the pod, and your swords currently held together by another two of the tentacles, one still drawn and potentially usable...

Alas, you were currently in no such state of mind to fight back at the moment.

The tentacles begin to coil around your bare body, leaving a thin lair of slime that had to be serving as some kind of aphrodisiac judging by the way your entire body seems to heat up with want. The wrap around legs and arms and torso, coil around your impressive breasts and give them firm squeeze, slide against your lower holes and press firmly on their sensitive surfaces. Before long though a thick tentacle begins to press at the entrance to your pussy, prodding your lips while another does much the same to your snug asshole. Simultaneously one comes up to your face, waving around your face and seemingly awaiting your inevitable gasp to strike, unrealizing of your current... pliancy.

[Kuragari]

She should be worried and freaked out, even as the tendrils fondle her under her clothes as she is pulled up and ensnared by the creature. Instead, only a slowly building perverse curiosity pervades and spreads through her as she wriggles about under the attentions of the tendrils thus far. Kayin moans and only tilts her head in wonderment as she is brought closer to the base of all the tentacles and the pod closes in around her. She does blink, in some minor surprise, to see that she is not now wrapped in total darkness. The soft blue light in this otherwise darkened space seems to help calm her further, making even her writhing from the undulating tentacles under her clothes more subdued.

Kayin should have been bothered by them stripping her, especially when here and there it does tear at her clothes. She'd just gotten those back. But instead, she doesn't emit a beep of agitation. If it had let her go, she would have stripped for it, but as it was she left to whine softly as the tentacles doing their work inevitably teased her slowly warming body. By the time she is naked once more... she's barely holding onto her swords, though thanks to the tentacles holding her hands, she is unlikely to drop them unless they are forced out of her hand.

"P~Please..." She mumbles out with need as they begin to coil around her, climbing up her arms and legs, coiling around her breasts and squeezing them, causing her to moan and thrust her chest out as she rolled her hips. She even spread her legs, even before she felt the tips of tendrils rubbing and pressing against her ass and petals. When she spots the one dangling about her face... just as before when she was first conditioned, she takes the initiative here as she leans forward and needily, hungrily even, wraps her lips around the larger tendril and begins to suckle, slurp, and bob, moaning contently as she closes her eyes and relaxes her lower holes for the coming penetration~

[jondude]

Naked, stripped, and your mind both filled with calm and yet intense roiling desire... well it certainly is quite the pair of conflicting emotions to say the least. You don't resist at all as the tentacles begin to explore your body, and in fact only whine in desire as their slightly slimy surfaces make you extra hot and bothered. A part you wonders how different this experience might be without the earlier hypnotizing... but given the suspected aphrodisiac slime maybe it wouldn't really feel any different? Part of you likes to believe that.

The other part of you though just wants to get fucked.

When you open your mouth and capture the tip of the tentacle to begin sucking on it, it actually doesn't do anything for a moment, simply sitting inside your mouth and leaking a sugary sweet sap or something onto your tongue. As you spread your legs though the tentacles on your lover half seem to take the cue, sliding into your pass and ass not roughly per say, but certainly quickly! You can't help but squeal a little around the tentacle in your mouth as your tight lower holes are pleasurably stressed, and it's only after that does the tentacle in your mouth suddenly push forward, it's slick surface letting it slip down your throat slightly before back up and beginning to thrust into your mouth a few times before dipping into your throat again. It seems it's strategy to get into your mouth had perhaps been to get you to gasp, and so when you eagerly captured the tentacle in front of your face... you may have slightly confused the simple creature. It got there in the end though.

The tentacles below meanwhile are much the same, seemingly exuding a natural lubrication that allows them to slide in deeply quite quickly. They too begin to suddenly piston in and out, seemingly to randomly push a little harder and a little deeper every so often, causing a crack of sexual bliss to tear through your hot heated body. The building euphoria causes you to wiggle happily, which in turn makes some of the tentacles holding you coil a little tighter, perhaps interpreting that as you struggling to break free. Currently you have no intention of that, but luckily the increased grip doesn't hurt, in fact as your tits are squeezed in only causes you to feel even better, another muffled moan coming from as the tips of those tentacles begin to play with your nipples and flick at them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

If you'd like the tentacles to do anything specific, feel free to have at it! If you're content to have Kayin just react to events though and let me steer the scene thats totally okay too.

[Kuragari]

Mewling around the one in her mouth, she wriggles about with need, urging the tentacles to fuck her. She's not actually sure if the tentacles can tell or not that she is receptive, eager, and desiring of their attentions. Well, she'd find out soon enough, hehe~ Though maybe it is they plunge into her empty and waiting holes. Her squeal of pleasure makes it much easier for her to slide more of the tendril in, even taking it into her throat as it plunges in. She lets out a sluttier sounding moan as it goes so far in, her gag reflex gone once more. Was it because of the slime, the conditioning? Or was I always this capable~? Such an Eager Slut that I could easily deepthroat something like this~? She's not sure, but as she slowly lets go of her swords, she doesn't care as much as the pleasure quickly begins to bubble within her.

The tendrils seem to take her swords from her. She's not sure what they'll do with them, but it does mean she's able to stroke and pump at the ones that slid into her fingers. So strong and thick, she was happy to pump her hands up and down them as the ones inside her slid in and out of her holes. Ass and pussy both clinging, both rippling around them. Fuck, this was so good... Mhm, why'd she wanted to be so mean to these things and slice at them~? They just wanted to make her feel good~ And as a good, eager, lusty gal, she'd make them feel good plenty in turn. She rolls her hips, flexing her core and squeezing them tightly again and again... trying at a few times to keep them from pulling out since she loves the way they writhe when they are buried deep inside her. Pressing so far into her backdoor, and the other all but prodding at her innermost chamber. She could feel how much it wanted to get in there, and each press made her whine with a growing need. As crazy as it sounded, she wanted it in there too, her deepest place~

When her tits get squeezed, she cums, hard, clinging to the tendrils in her hands, her holes... she thrusts her chest out, her slutty and perverse cry being muffled heavily by the one in her throat, though that just lets the vibrations stimulate it more, causing it to writhe and leak more slime. Which in turn... just makes her feel needier, hornier... Wanting more~! She starts to wriggle her body about more, thrusting her chest out more to draw more attention to it, and cries out in ecstasy as her nipples get flicked. Still though, she wants more, but isn't sure what more this plant thing can do. After a moment of thought, she starts trying to rock her hips enticingly at the tentacles. Sure, it didn't have eyes, but maybe it'd pick up how horny and needy she was~! Besides, if it wanted inside of her deepest place as much as she wanted it... It might need another one in her slutty hole to pull it off~!

She's not sure quite if it gets it at first. But then she whines when the one inside her pussy pulls out til just the tip remains. A needy, keening noise, muffled by the tendril in her mouth, vibrates along the length of it... and is then followed by a sharp, orgasmic squeal as a second tendril plunges in and both begin hammering away at her. Both of them pushing, smacking, trying to get deeper into her and then-

One of them manages it, and sensations explode as everything for her goes white for a moment. Her back arching, pussy and ass and even her throat clinging to the tendrils enough that all of them writhe about as they find themselves having trouble continuing their eager paces.

[jondude]

Bodies could certainly be curious things you might've mused had you not been so saturated with lust at the moment. Here you are held in the grasp of some tentacled creature, teal colored limbs slamming in and out of your holes and making you nice and air tight so to speak. And yet all it takes to set you over the edge a little quicker to sweet orgasmic relief as a mere squeeze of your breasts by the tentacles coiled around them. Swimming in blissful euphoria you don't even really notice as your hands leave your swords, another set of tentacles seeming to hold them tight against the side of the pod as you now use your hands to service even more tentacles! Wiggling in happiness your hands begin to jerk two of them off as you buck your hips between the two below, letting them drive even deeper into your hot body!

Even as that first orgasm fades though you're already well on the path to the next one. More tentacles seem to snake out from the base above, making you briefly curious as to how many this odd creature had before it uses them on you in new and wonderful ways. The tentacles playing with your nipples suddenly open up like small flowers, a glowing blue slime coating them before they dark forward, capturing your teats and clasping tight. They give each a firm tug, making you again moan around the tentacle in your throat, but that moan soon increases in pitch as something with either the tentacle or perhaps that blue goo makes your chest suddenly becomes extra sensitive! You're not sure how it's possible but it feels like your body gets even hotter then, and your chest suddenly goes taut as you feel firm suction on your nipples... were your tits swelling up a bit?

You don't get much time to think on it though as a second tentacle joins the first in your pussy, the two quickly coiling around each other as if forming one large tentacle! The strange spiraling shape only makes you get even more horny and wild, stretching your love tunnel in marvelous ways you'd never even thought about. Despite the fact they spin around each other though they work independently still, spinning around each other in a perverse corkscrewing motion that sees one slide deep enough to prod your cervix while the other retreats, allowing them to alternate their thrusts and enure your deepest reaches were always stimulated. They are aggressive in their pace however, and before you know it your cumming yet again as one does seemingly impossible, sliding through your inner gate to your womb directly! You practically convulse as another massive climax sets her nerves and mind alight with sexual delight, your body actually managing to slow the tentacles inside you and make them really work to move as the orgasm runs its course. Curiously however the tentacle stuff all the way into your baby maker seems to go still, making you wonder what was coming...

[Kuragari]

The feeling of the little suckers or tuggers on her tits had Kayin writhing about in increasingly almost maddening pleasure. The conditioning had made her breasts weakpoints, and these tendrils were going after them so thoroughly it was almost like they were her "Get Horny!" button and the tentacles were mashing the button in in an attempt to lock it in place. As her breasts tingled and felt hotter and even felt like they were swelling a bit, she could not contain the sounds of her rising ecstasy as it took little time for her to be thrown into yet another climax. The corkscrewing of the two inside her has her further writhing until her womb is breached, whereupon she... mostly goes still. Her hands are still pumping, her hips still rolling a bit and her core flexes and ripples around the tentacles inside her. She's also still slurping at the one in her mouth.

But as the one that has made it into her baby maker goes still and tense, her movements slow, and she slowly opens her eyes and lets out a curious, "Mmmhmhmhm~?" around the one in her mouth as curiosity begs her to try and see just what was in store. Even as her imagination began to run quite wild.

[jondude]

Utterly subsumed in what feels like ecstatic oblivion you can only wiggle in anticipation of what is to come, and you get an idea of what that is as you see round bulges begin to travel down some of the tentacles from the base above. Immediately you surmise these to be eggs, however when they get your various entrances it turns out not to be the case! Even as the bulges pauses at your holes for a moment, they are soft and squishy, and you can only change your earlier conclusion to guess they are instead wads of tentacle cum or... tentacle something or other. You honestly had no idea.

But a part of you honestly doesn't care to much about zoological specifics of this tentacle creature as you feel the pressure behind those bulges build. Your jaw strains a little, and your pussy and asshole clamp tight around the tentacles invading deep into you by instinct. Given the fluid cargo though they simply redistribute themselves a little, and a few moments later begin to pump within you. You nearly have another orgasm right then and there as your delicate inner walls are stretched, one in your pussy feeling extremely wild as in spins around it's brother tentacle. However you do end up having an orgasm regardless of the slight delay as the one traveling deep into your ass and the one spinning around in your pussy brush by each other, your g-spot right in between the two thick bulges where it is squeezed hard on both sides! Your vision goes white again as liquid lightning seems to crash through you, and soon you feel hot fluid getting released deep within you, feeling you with heat and satisfaction as tentacle spunk gets pumped into your womb and cum. That is not all though of course as the tentacle in your throat does much the same! But curiously pulls back as it releases, filling your mouth a thick... puree? It's not nearly as slimy as you expect, and tastes sort of like ground up raspberries or something... it's actually quite good... but it doesn't feel warm like whatever was pumped into your core. Was it perhaps priming you for what was next?

You start to suspect that might be some of the case, for as you ride out your most recent orgasm you barely noticed the incredibly tightness in your chest until those tentacles attached to your nipples begun to suck again, making you only now just realize they had briefly stopped earlier. The tentacles squeeze your chest in a off rhythm fashion, the tentacle tips sucking while also gently twisting ever so slightly, just enough so that it makes your current orgasm seem to stretch on longer as if refusing to let it fully end for you. After a few moments though your eyes watch as more fluid bulges appear, but rather then going down toward you the appear from the tentacles attached to your nipples and go upward toward the tentacle base! This thing was milking you! Clearly there was some strange exchange of resources happening here, the tentacle creature likely preparing you to receive it's young while trying to get some energy back in return!

As the debaucherous scene unfolds however the tentacles become more and more excited, moving about around you in almost feverish energy. This includes the tentacles holding firm on your swords, the creature unwittingly pulling the blades towards it's base, one of which was still very much drawn...

[Kuragari]

The feeling of this thing cumming in her, or filling her with... whatever it was, was enticing to no end. Her climax being drawn out, extending, continuing! Then she felt the tuggings on her nipples and... More ecstasy! More euphoria! Somehow she was lactating! This plant made her breasts swell up with milk and now it was milking her! This was crazy... Crazy Good~! Maybe if she hadn't been conditioned, this would freak her out more, but instead~? Instead she thrust her chest forward in eager encouragement, while starting to ride the tentacles till inside her as she found herself wanting to let this plant know it could milk her as much as it wanted before giving her its young~! She'd be a good Mama and carry them... Somewhere, or something like that! It was hard to think when she was feeling so much constant pleasure and stimulation.

She does after a moment though spot where her swords, the unsheathed one at least, was going. "N~Nononono~" She mumbled, trying to pull off and reach for it. "Hehehe, you'll hurt yourself~!"

[jondude]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Random chance roll: Above 50 = no eggs... 53

Things seemed to be escalating rather quick in the strange tentacle pod! Now stuffed full of cum or something along those lines anyway, the thing had now triggered you to start lactating and was milking you in turn, it's many limbs thrashing all about you. It made you crave whatever came next. Made you want to receive its eggs or whatever it might be preparing to stuff you with. Hell even even if there was no eggs or anything with the amount of pleasure you were experiencing you were willing to bear this things children in the classical sense using its cum and your own eggs if need be! Whatever kept the phenomenal ecstasy coming!

Once your womb and bowels are stuffed full of a liberal coating of tentacle spunk they tendrils below all begin to start thrusting again, as well as the one in your mouth as you release a happy muffled squeal. As your nipples are gently tweaked and twisted by the sucker tentacles meanwhile you continue to supply them with bountiful milk, happily thrusting your chest forward. It's during this time however you notice your the creature seemingly unwittingly moving your dangerous swords around and attempt to stop it, but despite the tentacles happily getting jerked off by your hands many of them still pin your biceps to your body, limiting your reach.

As another crashing orgasm overtakes your mind though you briefly forget about the swords and just spasm within the tentacles grip. They all thrust deep again, though curiously the sucker tentacles release your teats and retract. Other tentacles come down to replace it though. Ones with thin fine tips... You watch as other cylindrical bulges make their way down these tentacles, as well as down the ones currently in your lower holes. These bulges are far more numerous and firm looking then the previous batch though. These had to be eggs! The babies you were already so ready to receive!

Alas it was not meant to be. In the excitement the tentacles holding your swords also retract, and the simple minded tentacle creature ends up stabbing into it's own base with your drawn blade! Everything seems to stop instantly, the tentacles all going still... and then here is a wet noise as the pod seems to lose it's grip from the cave ceiling. A brief period of weightlessness makes you panic as a second as you realize your falling, but no sooner do you make the connection then does the pod crash into the water! Luckily for you though, the pod wasn't taking in any water and seemed to float.

[Kuragari]

Ecstasy and euphoria, and excitement at the thought of being able to be a mama for this nice rapey tentacle pods children or seeds or whatever kept her from thinking or worrying too much as she came again. Of course, then just as things seem to hit their peak, seem ready to leap off the edge truly and strongly... the thing winds up basically stabbing itself. She squeaks, squeals, and cries out as the pod (and her in it) crash to the water. In her current state, her experience as an adventurer is on the backburner and she nearly begins to panic as she feels the pod slash down. Though then, still swollen chest heaving, she blinks a bit as she notices no water coming in.

Well... H~Hopefully that'd stay true til the pod maybe beached itself somewhere. She gulped and hurriedly moved to try and get back into her clothes, arousal and pleasure being quickly forgotten by fear and uncertainty. Well, mostly. She couldn't help but rub her legs together still, and she found that her upper wear felt a bit tight around her bosom now. And she still seemed to be lactating a bit. Sheathing her swords and reattaching them to her belt, she gulped and found herself hoping this thing wouldn't sink and she'd have to try and swim up from who knew how deep the water was.

[jondude]

The pod now bobbing around and in the water, it's rough cylindrical shape means that any slight movement makes the pod roll around. With you still inside it this makes trying to do much of anything incredibly difficult, as any movement no matter how minor seems over exaggerated. Coupled with the current and pod smacking into other tentacle trip wires from other pods, which mercifully don't react seeming to realize their own, well it makes it hard to try and do anything. You manage to grip your swords at least, preventing your drawn one from doing anymore damage.

More annoying still too is that is that while the tentacles had stopped moving... they hadn't really let go, still coiled around you tightly and shoved deep inside your body. You manage to pull the one in your mouth out of throat at the very least, a last rush of raspberry flavor hitting your tongue before the thicker tip comes from your mouth with a mild pop. You manage to pull the other tentacles free with a bit of time too, gasping every here and there, but as you try to get your gear back on the prospect is practically impossible. Every ten to thirty seconds or so the pod seems to hit something, probably the rocky sides of the cave river, and the pod will get sent spinning and rolling with you in it. That and your gear was covered with a thin layer of that tentacle slime, which while slippery on the skin seemed to apply wet clothing logic where trying to put it on was incredibly annoying. Trying to do that while the pod was basically a unstable water float? Well the fact you manage to get your belt on and sheath your drawn sword in the very tight space is rather impressive.

As you continue on downstream though the inside of the pod starts to get brighter, and with some small relief you realize the pod had not gone down the deeper path and that seemed to have exited the cave, as the light was sunlight bleeding through the flesh of the creature. You can't truly call it mission success till you were out of this dang pod though, and sort of had to wait until you washed up somewhere hopefully.

Luckily you don't have to wait all that long. The pod suddenly rolls intensely as it hits ground, making you dizzy for a moment, but quickly goes still, the sensation of hard ground on your back. With a little effort you manage to use one of your sheathed swords as a pry bar and pry it between the some of the pods leaf like openings, and a few minutes later bright golden sunlight streams in. The seal broken the rest of the work is simple and you manage to sit up.

You appeared to be in some generic woods. Granted it was beautiful, the scene set with a very close mountain range, and your location along a shallow rocky section of mountain river. The sounds of the forest was a delight to hear after that grim silence of the dungeon though. You were free! Though as you examine your gear... you might want to give it a rinse in the river at least before you but the rest of it on, thick drops of slime dripping from most of it.

[Kuragari]

Feeling a bit battered and a bit unsteady, Kayin stumbles about as she finally extracts herself from the pod. The feeling of sunlight however is a very welcome one, and she lets out a bit of a laugh as she, for a moment, dances about in it next to the pod. Its warmth making her feel a tad better already. Of course as her head clears of the lustful fog both conditioning and slime generated, she blushes a fair bit before retrieving her clothes and getting to work cleaning them and her swords off in the river water. She even takes a dip in it herself to further get cleaned up!

Course, once its all clean, she sighs and decides to set her things on some rocks near the shore to dry in the sun, while taking a brief look about for anything edible. Now that she thinks about it, she's not actually sure when the last time she ate was. And some nuts, berries, or even fruit sounded rather good right about now. She'd try her hand at making a makeshift fishing pole, but that was one thing her adventurer of a father had never really been able to pass onto her. Fish just didn't seem to want to bite when she was the one holding the pole.

[jondude]

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Roll! Hard event. Needs 75 or more. Result... 38... failed!

No fish 4 u

Event Roll: 83... not spotted

Since it was the middle of summer currently the weather was perfectly amiable, the temperature nice and warm. You go about cleaning your gear off of the viscous slime that had coated it, cleaning yourself of a copious layer of the same time in the process. All in all in turns into a decently pleasant experience, the cool water of the shallow river doing an excellent job of helping you cool off another intense sexual episode while not being uncomfortably cold.

Now clean you set out your gear to dry on some sun warmed boulders. It would probably take a couple hours though, so in the meantime you go about gathering some food stuffs. You walk a short ways into the woods, humming a quiet little tune as you have a bit of naturalist experience that you feel you make your local druids back home proud, picking berries and nuts and even a couple safe to eat mushrooms while naked. You manage to get a decent spread of stuff actually so head back with what you had before setting up a simple fishing pole with some hastily made sapling bark twine and a tree branch. Alas however you have no luck with it, the fish seemingly to continue their disdain for you. You might have better luck with a net, but trying to make a twine net from scratch would take forever. Far longer then you intended to spend time here... maybe you roll the tentacle pod back into the water a little bit though? Could maybe attract some river crabs or fish that way.

As you contemplate an idea or two and eat your foraged food though you hear a sudden minor snapping of twigs that catches your attention. Immediately focusing on it, your years of adventuring allow you to home in out, filtering out the natural sounds of the forest. After a few moments you foot steps, and then voices.

"Man how much farther are we going here Marco?", a female voice suddenly says.

"Not even a minute Ingrid, can't you hear the river with those big ears of yours?", A male voice replies back. "The fishing here is great, you'll see!"

The voices don't appear to be heading directly your way... but they were definitely close. They sounded like ordinary villagers... but these cultists were all about traps and subterfuge. Your first encounter with them before your capture had been an attempt to lure you in by acting like claiming to be wounded by wolves. It had nearly worked, but you had reacted faster then they had anticipated when they sprung their ambush.

[Kuragari]

Kayin snorts and giggles at the thoughts of some of the druids back home giving her thumbs up of approval for her foraging as she was. She was less happy to find that even here in this far away place, fish didn't seem to like her. In her frustration after eating some berries and things she kicks the pod a bit more into the water, figuring maybe if she was lucky it would attract something she could grab with her bare hands.

Of course, she stills then grabs for her swords when she hears folks approaching. Her clothes aren't yet dry which she curses, but after a moment she decides to try and hide behind some of the rocks, pulling her clothes and armor with her so they are out of sight. She'll then watch and observe, and if the voices seemed like actual regular villagers...

Well, she actually wasn't sure what she'd do then. She didn't exactly want to be seen naked save a belt! But well, she'd figure out something!

[jondude]

Hearing the voices you quickly grab your gear and hide yourself among a cluster of larger rocks, crouching down and waiting to see who might shows. You don't have to wait long at all though till a pair of figures appear though. A man and a woman, though both appear to demi-human. The man was a tall fellow, fit but lanky and decently handsome. Atop his head though was what appeared to be two orangish red fox ears, with a rather fluffy tail to match. He was dressed in what appeared to be simple commoner clothing, and was carrying a couple of fishing rods, a net, and a box with could be reasonably guessed was filled with tackle of some sort.

The woman meanwhile was a bunny girl with light mocha colored skin that made her snow white bunny ears and tail almost seem to glow in contrast. She was dressed in a similar simple style as the fox guy, though was stomping after the him with a pouty expression that somehow just made her look cuter. They walk through the grass to the rocky but shallow waters, where they quickly spot the dead tentacle pod lightly submerged.

"Ugh! What is that? Gross!", The bunny girl, Ingrid asks.

"Bait!", Marco the fox guy says in a much more enthusiastic manner, dropping his stuff and jogging over to it. "It's a cave fisher pod I think it's called. They're all over in the mountain caves with water flowing through them. This one must've either grabbed something a little too big or maybe it just died of old age and just washed up here. It should make fishing even better though!", He says happily, pulling out a small hunting knife and starting to slice up one of the tentacles. "I hear you can cook the thing itself too and it's not so bad but... never tried it but... might make a decent lunch!"

"Ew! You can't be serious! I'll just have fish thanks... ya weirdo.", Ingrid says, grabbing one of the rods and starting to set a tackle to it.

Well they certainly seem genuine, and you've never heard of a roving ambush before. It seemed very unlikely there was cultists in the woods following these two around hoping to get the drop on random folks they might meet in the forest. That was a little too contrived even for a wacky sex cult.

[Kuragari]

Kayin watches them for a bit, keeping an eye on and listening to their conversation. She was a little surprised to see Demi-humans, having been expecting regular humans. Then again, she didn't know a ton about this region. Maybe demi-humans were more common? Still she observes them, and curses for not thinking to more actively use the pod as bait. Not that it probably would have mattered much with her luck when it came to fishing. Still, after a few more minutes, she comes to the conclusion that they weren't cultist related. She didn't see anything about them screamed it anyways.

First though, she'd check her clothes, see what might be at least... dryish? Or less damp? She didn't want to just march out there naked. At least, not unless her clothes were still just plain wet. She might try to avoid coming out fully though then.

[jondude]

Your clothes we're still pretty much soaked, but just because it was wet didn't meant you couldn't wear it. It would be kind of a pain in the ass to put on, but at least it would have your ass covered again. Given that it might be difficult to put on though the two villagers might notice you trying to get dressed. Of course you can just put on the more important articles so to speak and then go from there.

In any case the two hardly seemed a threat, and were presumably from a nearby village or town. Getting back to civilization would be nice, even if you'd likely had to keep a hawkish look out for cultist activity. By the sounds of it there were large and entrenched, so no doubt they had presences just about everywhere. You might be able to use the shield of society from having them attack you openly in the streets however... and you really needed some money and supplies. Getting your gear back was great, but living off nuts and berries out in the woods hardly was an ideal prospect long term.

[Kuragari]

Grumbling about her clothes not drying fast enough, she decided to try and go ahead and get the most important bits on as she called out, "Hello~! Sorry to startle or anything... I'm an adventurer who... humph, damn wet clothes, got into some trouble and wound up riding that pod thing out here." When she has enough on, or if they come over to investigate, she asks, "You two wouldn't happen to know of anywhere I could go to get some supplies? I lost mine while exploring the caves in that mountain."

Keep things vague, and she should be fine. She didn't want to mention the cult, in case they turned out to be members or if they were afraid of it enough to turn her in.