Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-27303410-20170204050702/@comment-26492770-20170204170820

I do what I've always been doing: LEG IT!!

I could hear the voices coming from the other side of the river, so naturally I get up and speed off in the opposite direction. The loud sounds my high-speed sprint makes – me running through bushes, twigs being stepped on and broken, my footsteps, etc. – attracts the attention of every monster who could hear them, prompting them to run towards the source as fast as they could. Fortunately for me, I was running too fast for most of them to catch up, and had put a huge distance between myself and them. Unfortunately, that was only most of them. Already, I could hear and see trees being knocked over from a Wurm barreling towards me from the front. Rather than dodge to the side, I go straight at her and leap. Narrowly avoiding her arms, I use her head as a foot stool and jump high up and above the tree tops.

Suddenly, a trio of Harpies swoop in, each coming from the left, right and behind, and are ready to snatch me out of the air. I throw a hand down and release a burst of fire, propelling me higher and out of their paths. The Harpies slow down to avoid the blast. With them distracted, I use this opportunity to aim my hand up and release another burst that throws me back down into the forest. I tuck myself in, putting my arms and legs in front of me, and crash through several tree branches.

Once clear of the branches, I untuck and land on my feet. The force of the impact creates a loud bang. I slide forward some before coming to a stop. "Whew... That was a bit of a rough land-" I'm cut off when a Grizzly seizes me from behind with a firm bear hug.

"Aha! I've got you now," the Grizzly happily exclaims. I immediately try to shake free, but she tightens her grip and begins walking away with me. "Oh no you don't! The only place you're going is back to my cave. We're going to have a good time together."

I continue to shake and struggle to get out of her grasp, all while trying to resist the scent of the honey on her right paw. If I succumb to that, it's game over. No matter how hard I tried, I wasn't having any luck getting free through brute strength alone, and fighting the honey's fragrance was becoming more difficult. For now, there was only one option. "You're gonna have to forgive me for this," I say as I stop struggling. The Grizzly looks at me with a confused expression, but then notices my body was getting hotter at an alarming rate. She lets out a sharp scream and immediately releases me before I literally become too hot to handle and she'd suffer any harm. Once on the ground, I cool down and immediately make a break for it. "Sorry about that, miss," I shouted back to her while fleeing, "but I've got no interest in bein' a father!"

Resuming my escape from the forest, I continue to evade all sorts of monsters, both natives to the forests and those not normally found in the forest. I deal with a swarm of hornets, the same Wurm from before multiple times, a tribe of Amazonesses, a Dryad trying to snag me with vines and tree branches, a high-speed chase with a Wererabbit, a web made by Arachne twins, a Thunderbird trying to strike me with lightning, a Dragon of all things, and so on. Eventually, I manage to get out of the forest and fortunately with all of my clothes still on, but simply getting out of the forest didn't stop all of the monsters who still want to get in my pants. What ultimately does stop most of them is when I really kick it into high gear, accelerating to mach speeds and disappearing into the distance. ...I say "most of them" because the only monster with no intention of stopping the chase is that persistent Wurm.