After preparing a meal with your now meager rations, you line up like children in preschool and begin the trip through the tall grass while holding a long rope.
The journey is not altogether different than moving through a normal forest with thick underbrush, with Lysia presumably leading the way having the most difficulty fighting the grass at every step and those after being able to follow her trodden path with progressive ease. It seems to be teaming with life, every blade of grass that is pushed aside sends bugs of all shapes and sizes scattering away from the party. They seem to be larger than those that grow in normal-sized grass, as if you had simply shrunk down to fist size in the previous grassland. A bright red ladybug flies by the size of your head, a horsefly the size of a dog buzzes above the grass, hungry hungry caterpillars the size of a man graze high above your heads. You carefully avoid a normal-sized anthill that acts as evidence that the usual ecosystem of insects remains intact. A field mouse, the size of a horse, peaks through at you before rushing away full speed in a panic showing that other lifeforms are likewise enlarged compared to their grassland cousins.
The plants themselves offer shade in thanks to how thick the grassforest is, but if you desire to see the sun pushing enough grass down to see the sky is something even the weakest among you is capable of. Most of the grass appears to be of the same species, but occasionally other plant life is found. This includes mushrooms and mold growing on dead grass, giant weeds attempting to claim the grassland for their own, and various flowering plants that seem to be especially tiny as if to contrast with the forest's main gimmick. None of the rangers find anything particularly noteworthy while literally tied to several hundred pounds of dead weight, but you assume that you could forage or hunt as if this was a normal forest if you had the time to do so.
As the morning passes you make good time, though you now find yourself assaulted by the noise of giant crickets somewhere beyond your field of vision.
And giant ticks. Giant ticks also assault you.
COMBAT START!
A group of 6 Giant Ticks has dropped down from above your heads on the party. As animals they don't appear to have any ranged weapons, the entire group is likely to be in the frontline. This does not count as an ambush, however you will only be able to use spells and abilities marked as precombat in the precombat phase. For most of you this will be readying weapons.
PRECOMBAT PHASE
The enemy has no spells, or at least none they can use is the precombat phase if we assume they are magical bugs.
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Topic: Swordworld - Etherwind (IC) Dungeon Plunging (Read 26139 times)