Crawl into the muddy cave!

Spotting the muddy cave, you leap at the burrow begin to push your way in. The entrance is so narrow you can hardly squeeze your shoulders and hips through, but it widens slightly. Just enough for you to crawl along through the smooth, damp mud. It is cold and there is a foul smell coming from within. You don't want yo crawl into the deeper darkness, but as you hear the wolves baying and the goblins shouting you know you have ****.

Deeper and deeper you go, into the cold, wet earth, until the tunnel entrance is hidden from view by a turn of the tunnel and you are in almost total darkness. Your fingers collide with something hard and bumpy. You move your hand up and touch the smooth surface that seems to be obstructing the tunnel. There are two dangling pieces, thick as rope, roots maybe, that end in feathery-softness that is packed like a head of wheat. You brush against it with your fingers and suddenly the tunnel is cast in a strange orange glow.

Ahead of you, almost completely filling the tunnel, is the huge, insectoid face of a rotpede. These giant carrion insects are real after all, and you are inches away from one, having touched its antenna. Four red eyes stare directly at you and your blood runs cold. You've heard the tales of them dragging maidens to their lairs never to be seen again. Some say they eat what they catch, but others say they only eat rotten things and do something far worse with women.

The hideous creature hisses and comes at you with sudden speed. You scurry back up the muddy tunnel, but it is over quickly. The rotpede's many legs grip you and push you back against the tunnel wall as it crawls up your body. You scream as you are caught in its pinching claws, blood flowing from a dozen fleshwounds where it viciously seizes you and traps you tight against its body. With its hissing head over yours it curls down and lashes you with its razor-sharp mandibles. The pain in your shoulder and neck is excrutiating, but fades quickly to paralyzed numbness as the monster's venom does its work.

You are carried deeper into the tunnel, pulled without concern for your comfort through the seemingly endless burrow. At last the rotpede drags you into its lair, a large, foul-smelling pit with a faint hole to the surface high above.

The lower portion of the pit, like a bowl, is coated in a greasy brown slime. You see movement and realize, to even greater horror, that you are not alone with the creature. There are other figures - humanoids - stuck into the slime, their bodies coated with the glistening material. They writhe and moan as you are dragged closer by the rotpede.

In the dim light, you see that the figures stuck into the slime are plump women. Most have hugely distended bellies, but a few show the signs of having recently given birth. You try to scream as you realize that the stories of the rotpede dragging away maidens are true, and that it had a truly nefarious purpose.

At the room's center, in a pool of the brown slime that coats the walls, is a slithering mass of fat rotpede grubs. They become as agitated as the women when the huge crawler drags you over to the wall. It presses you into the slime and your limbs stick fast. Its mandibles snap open and it regurgitates a stream of warm, brown liquid over your body. It coats your face and breasts and slops down your belly and thighs until you are covered, head to toe. The slime tightens and you feel like you are tied by a thousand ropes to the wall.

Satisfied with your imprisonment, the rotpede crawls along the wall of the chamber, its feelers playing across the moaning, quivering bodies of the other women. Eventually, it finds one that does not cry out or move. It prods her with a mandible and then bites her. She must be dead from exhaustion. You close your eyes to shut out the grisly chewing of the rotpede which then drags the remnants of the woman over to the pit full of the squirming grubs.

Is this hell? You cannot even cry, the venom is so potent. You should have let the goblin take you. It seems there is no escape from this hopeless nightmare.