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Now, for the scary part.
<span class="mu-g">"Oi! Come on out biggun! Strogga want tasty legs!"</span>
In this instance having some fire from Davith actually would have been useful, but you'll have to make due with hurled rocks and shouts. Even with your dark vision it's hard to make out much of anything within the ruin, but you realize you're getting somewhere when eventually the immense toad-song quietens. An eerie silence falls across the mire and the old structure starts to shake and list before you make out some sort of gleam in the dark... reflection of moonlight off slick skin, and a huge pair of eyes.
<span class="mu-g">"-AAH! Ah...? Ha ho! Got you biggun! Now for- AAAAAHH!"</span>
Initial panic as the entire building shifts, when the toad makes hungry jump for you. Easily large enough to swallow you whole, you didn't expect a creature so big could be so fast. In relief though do you ease up from flinching and open an eye to see the monster caught upon the many oversized stakes you set up. Blood spilling forth from many wounds, the giant toad writhes against impalement and causes much damage to the structure but is unable to actually reach you. It seems like that may be it for the beast as you ease up to marvel at the struggle against your trap...
...until it opens its mouth. A huge tongue lashes out and smacks into you, some agonizing moments of dread before you're tugged out of the water and into that gaping maw. Struggling and screaming all the way, you're dragged into darkness soon enough.
<span class="mu-g">"-ahah... AHAHAH! Real fight now biggun?! AHAHAHAH!"</span>
If you were a weak and tiny human like Davith for example, this would be the end for you. Gobbled up by a monstrous toad for an ignoble end, probably like many others before. You're a troll however so this isn't even nearly the end for you. Between claw and tusk and horn, and the sheer strength of your body, you fight back against the toad from within its gullet. Biting and ripping what you can from within and finding a grip of the monster's jaws to force its mouth open and try to hoist yourself back out.
And you very nearly would have, but faced with being caught by the many wooden spikes and a prey that isn't so easily eaten, the toad in some panic simply resorts to what it does best. Kicking off the ruined floor of the old building, the toad performs a leap of such strength that it entirely upends and takes the ruin with it. And you as well of course, caught in its mouth. A dizzying tumble through the air for the short distance that can be managed, when the toad up and tears the structure out of the swamp only to crash back down with it some distance away.
All goes black, all goes quiet.
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