Flight!

Without daring to look back, you begin sprinting down the flooded tunnel towards the light. The knee-deep water makes it challenging to maintain a steady pace, and your legs can barely push through its oddly thick viscosity. At times it feels like you'll collapse forwards if you don't slow down, but somehow you maintain your balance long enough to reach the rope. In a surprisingly graceful motion, you leap up and grab the rope, swinging your legs up out of the water in the process.

Just as you swing upwards, the worm rears up from the water and lashes its tongue at you! You barely manage to pull yourself out of its reach, leaving the worm coiling and squelching beneath you. The rope sways slightly under your weight, but fortunately it seems to hold together just fine. Finally, something in this place isn't moments away from rotting to pieces! With another narrow escape under your belt, you focus on climbing up the rope towards the light.

Spurrtt!

As you start to climb, a thick squirting noise echoes from beneath you - and moments later, you are sprayed with a jet of slime! The shock of the strike almost knocks the wind out of you, but that's the least of your worries - the rope, now saturated with slime, becomes incredibly slippery.