Nova thrusts with her spear again and again, but Misha simply stands there, taking at most a single point of damage from each thrust. Occasionally the behemoth uses a Taunt emote, but otherwise Nova's just ineffectively poking at her toes with her starter spear. Then again, what other choice did she have? At level 4, she didn't even have any spells unlocked yet! Eventually, however, the giant taur grows bored of watching Nova's efforts. She reaches down, scoops up the sergal with one hand, taunts one last time, then selects the "Devour" command, tossing the tiny sergal into her maw and gulping! As her opponent hits her belly, her health bar refills the tiny fraction it has lost, and she gains a meager handful of exp, before continuing on her way!

Nova, meanwhile, emerges from the rushing loading screen of a throat onto a fleshy plateau. Bewildered, she stands and gazes out over a colossal gut, a lake of bright green acid with a huge apple, a human skull, and a chicken leg poking out. "Misha's Stomach - Floor 1, Level 50", announces the game screen. Level 50! Nova's level 4! And this is just floor 1? No way is she going to survive in here. She quickly enters a teleport command, only to be met with a dark red message: "You cannot fast-travel in this location". There's another one above that she missed too: "Spawn point set!" Does that mean that every time she gets slain by one of the high-level roaming monsters in this area, she'll respawn right back inside Misha's gut? Is she really going to have to travel through dozens if not hundreds of floors just to get back to the real game? Squinting, she can see boats floating in the acid lake near the drumstick in the distance, which seems to be labelled as a village... Sighing, she begins to make her way deeper inside. Looks like she's stuck here for now...!

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Had fun both drawing and typing up this one! Still playing catch-up, this sketch's theme is Stuck from the Voretober list. I remembered the pic I drew featuring  misha last week, and figured it'd be fun to follow up, considering the implications: Looks like Misha was actually telling the truth about having a dungeon for Nova to explore, but with the dungeon level beginning at 50 and Nova's spawn point being set at the entrance of the dungeon, with no fast-travelling alowed, it looks like she's gonna be stuck here grinding up levels forever at this rate!

I got my hands on a new pencil! This one's a Paper Mate Clear Point Elite 0.7mm HB mechanical pencil, but I'm still drawing on the same old A5 150gsm paper. This sketch probably took me a little over an hour as I'm having to get used to the new drawing implement!

The background belongs to  misha 's stomach!
Nova probably belongs to whoever's decided to get their lips around her today, honestly.

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For those of you who're not sure, Voretummber is a derivative of Inktober, a challenge where 31 prompts are provided in a bid to get artists to draw one themed picture every day for the entire duration of October. I'm using both of the following two prompt sheets, and selecting a prompt as I see fit! I'm not guaranteed to actually do them all, nor to do them on the listed day, but I'll stay as close as I can to the schedule!

[ Octummber ] prompt by  cowiie and  fffandever
[ Voretober ] prompt by  voretober