[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

What emerges from the muck is not the snake-husband. The snake-husband was made out of stone, you see, and was similar to a cobra, and also had laser eyes. This giant sea snake is made out of glass, and is -- as mentioned before -- a sea snake with rippling feathery sides, and also she has [i]poisoned[/i] laser eyes. She also has a really wet, detailed mouth, and while you're pretty sure letting her swallow the Jedadi mercenary and the Watchwoman wouldn't be fatal at all, it would be, well, like being trapped in a giant, wet, rippling tunnel, and it strikes you that there is absolutely something worse than being tied up. Oh, gosh. Just [i]infinitely[/i] worse.

The problem is that you have made the gremlins practically invulnerable to being rushed, and as soon as the, well, let's call her a snake-wife, as soon as the snake-wife bends down they're just going to toss their sacrificial captives into her mouth! Bull-rushing them is out of the question, and you don't have very much time at all before the two of them meet a slimy, disgusting doom.

Also, you're trying to think of something while desperately trying to duck out of the way of green laser blasts that leave the swamp bubbling noxiously and make any stray gremlins hit by it keel over groaning and clutching their stomachs. There's always "plan: punch a hole right through her," but that seems really uncomfortable after what happened with the snake-husband, and if you hurt her how will you ever manage to coax her onto a date with the snake-husband???[/quote]

Princess Adila is in no position to think of cunning plans. Princess Adila is in no position to be graceful or elegant. Princess Adila is in a position to do exactly one thing, and you know exactly what it is, damn your eyes.

Princess Adila leaps into the open mouth of the Snake Wife before any of the prisoners can be thrown into it.

She expands her wings and braces herself as best she can, getting lodged into the serpent's mouth, two dripping poisonous fangs braced against her shoulders. Her talons scrabble for purchase against slippery gums like a dog trying to climb a waterslide. It takes all her strength to keep those jaws from snapping shut. But there's a silver lining here: laser poison eyes can't shoot you if you're being eaten. How, exactly, Princess Adila feels about the physical experience of being inside the Snake-Wife's mouth is left as an exercise for the reader.

+I... really hope you've got a better plan than I do,+ Princess Adila thinks to Princess Dandy.

[Keeping Her Busy on a 9. This is a temporary solution.]