Without a bridge, the group had to decide whether to backtrack to where the river was narrower. Vas had suggested tearing down one of the trees to make their own bridge but both Kemy and Deo refused.“That’s just rude!” Kemy gasped.“THE TREES DIDN’T HURT ANYONE!” Deo frowned.Poppy just pointed to the overhanging branches.“Then we can just swing on the vines, nyeh,” she muttered. Everyone followed her finger to the thin green vines dangling above the river. Without the bridge, the gap really did seem huge, but one by one, everyone began to grin.Except Kemy.“In other Dungeons… they’d be snakes, trap chains, curling vine grabbers, too flimsy-” she listed quickly with her hands waving in panic. She brushed down her cloudy robe where her legs were just visible.“Delta wouldn’t do that. She’d have it if you swing the vines in a certain way, they produce a musical note then a song and it rains rainbows or something,” Amenster snorted. Grim grumbled. He swept his gaze out into the jungle.“Or summon mimes,” he gritted out.From the shadows, unseen, Devina’s chuckling could be heard.“NO TIME TO WASTE! ADVENTURE FORTH!” Deo proclaimed and began to scramble up a tree like some crab monkey. Kemy’s nervousness grew, but before she could do much, a vine lowered within reach of her.She blinked and saw no one else had gotten this reaction.“We respect people and their modesty in this Dungeon,” Devina said calmly as she came to help Kemy tie the vine around her arm in a tight knot.“O-oh,” Kemy stuttered, going pink as the vine began to carry her across as if she were no heavier than the cloud her robe suggested. She touched down as the the rest of the group grabbed their own vines and were crossing the space.“WAHOO!”“For glory!”“Thank you for the ride, jungle vine.”“I’m too edgy to enjoy this more than a little.”“Excited noises, nyeh.”Kemy covered her mouth as a smile burst forth. This group was simply too bizarre to be real at times.---Delta raised her hands high in the air.“IT LIVES!” she howled into the abyss of between floors. Nu was behind her.

What have we become?

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