After a few days of being on the run, the man from outside the swamp began to feel confident in having lost any pursuit. “That didn’t go well, Morphidian, you fool.” He mused, “How the hell am I supposed to get out of this swamp now?” Morphidian began coughing again and realized he wasn’t out of breath because he was tired but because the swamp’s atmosphere was becoming more concentrated as he got in farther. He had a solution ready to solve his problem but it was missing a component; it needed the blood of a creature from the swamp to take advantage of their natural resistances to the atmosphere. He looked around and noticed a warthog wallowing in a mud puddle. He took out a knife and leapt onto the massive boar. The warog thrashed and fought but Morphidian succeeded in getting enough blood and crawled out of the mad. He laughed as the warthog wailed in pain thrashing about and then finally sunk into the mud hole which opened up to receive it. As Morphidian mixed and drank this elixir a high-pitched tormented wail came up again. This time it was answered by several baritone groans. Morphidian decided to take refuge up a nearby tree which attacked him as he came close. As it lifted him up in the air he cursed the tree for bothering him and struck at it with his knife. The surprised tree yielded easily to this unknown foe and Morphidian was thrown several feet and crashed into another tree. There was a loud crunch of glass and bone as the forceful impact broke his vials of various chemicals along with his shoulders and his hip. Several shards of glass were forced into Morphidians vertebrae paralyzing him. As he fell limp into an eagerly awaiting sink hole below the chemicals ran down the tree, mixing together and giving off honey scented fumes. Morphidian landed on his back and before going under saw an emaciated Vorpeus struggling weakly with the vines. Unaware of the tentacles poised to rip him apart, Morphidian extended two middle fingers at the trees he had defeated and the poor sap that had to suffer such an excruciating and slow death.
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