Still shrouded in complete darkness I start to panic.
I thought I had broken out of the illusion. I remember the sound of glass shattering and the way the forest seemed to dissolve out of existence.
So why am I trapped in pure darkness unable to move?
Could I have died again?
Maybe this is the place souls go to pass on...
I don't remember coming here last time I died though, and is the afterlife really nothing but darkness?
I don't think i'm dead. I can still feel my body but its as if iv'e been tightly bound by something.
I calm down a bit and try to figure out what kind of situation I'm it.
I can still breathe which confirms i'm not dead. I can't see anything but i'm sure that's just because something is wrapped around my body.
click click click
huh? what's that sound?
I stop trying to move so I can listen a bit better.
click click click click
It's a strange clicking sound. I don't know what it is but it's a bit unnerving.
I keep listening trying to make out what the sound was but I don't hear it again, instead a scurrying sound, as if something with multiple legs is running across a stone floor.
Then the realisation hits me.
Iv'e been caught by what ever cast the illusion on me!
I don't know how I didn't realise it sooner. I must have been too preoccupied with the fact I couldn't see anything to notice.
I need to get my self free, quickly! I don't know why they haven't killed me yet but I doubt they have good intensions.
I wriggle about even more than I did previously, trying to get loose whatever it I I have been bound with but nothing changes and I can't use any of my skills because I can't move. But then I remembered something I ready in my past life.
Foxes have semi-retractable claws! and when I use my scratch skill my claws defiantly extend a bit. With that in mind I try extending my claws.
it takes me a couple of try because I normally just do it subconsciously when I use scratch, but I manage it in the end.
Two of my claws manage to poke through something. I start wriggling my claws, trying to make the holes bigger.
After a couple of minutes I manage to make the hole bigger enough to move my entire arm. Without hesitation I use scratch to rip the rest of what is binding me.
Rip!
I fall forward out of the tear I just made. Before I even hit the floor I hear the loud clicking sound followed by the same scurrying sound I heard before, seemingly heading in my direction.
I hit the ground with a soft thud and quickly look to the direction the sounds are coming from.
The first thing I see is spiderwebs.
judging from this alone, I can tell that the creature that is making its way towards me is probably a spider. I don't see it just yet but I can hear it getting closer and closer.
I take a quick look round before I decide to either fight or escape. I seem to be in some kind of cave. It's so dark I can just about see, even with my night vision skill. There are spiderweb all over the place and I can see the remains of moss rats, thumper rabbits and various other monsters dotted around. There are also what can only be described as cocoons made of spiderwebs attached to the walls .
I look behind me and sure enough, it was one of these cocoons that I had just made my way out of. The thought of how close I just came to being spider food send shivers down my spine.
But i'm not out of woods just yet, I can hear the scurrying noise of its footsteps getting even closer, it will be here any second now!
I try to decide what to do. There's only two directions I can go, one is the way the spider is coming from and the other is obviously the opposite. I can't tell which way the exit to the cave is and if I end up running deeper into the cave then I might end up meeting more monsters.
I don't want to be stuck fighting a monster just for the spider to come up behind me, that will defiantly cause my death.
I would hide, but everything's covered in spiderweb and I don't want to end up stuck again, I think my best option is to try and fight it. If I decide that it's too strong for me I can always try to run then.
I'm just bit wary of its illusion magic. If it manages to trap me in an illusion again, I doubt it will give me a chance to escape a second time.
Plus I still don't know how I even got trapped in the illusion in the first place!
I know I have illusion resistance level 2 now so It should be harder to put me in an illusion but the fact they can do it without me even knowing is a very frightening aspect.
Just as I finish thinking these things the spider comes into view.
It's freaking huge!
It's at least three times the size of me with 8 long hairy legs and 2 sharp spider fangs dripping with what I can only hope is saliva. It has a dark blue exoskeleton which I can tell is going to be tough to break, just by looking at it.
It's looking down at me with its eight pitch black eyes, making me feel as if it's trying to devour me with its gaze alone.
I look up at it, wondering to myself whether it's actually possible to fight this thing and activate appraisal.
[unable to apprise]
Oh crap...
I should have run whilst I had the chance.