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Sweetteeth lies naked and completely submerged in a large shale tub filled to the brim with water. Thin clouds of steam rise from the liquid through the low-lit chamber beneath the arena. His arm-like appendages float beside him like fleshy seaweed.

Besides a light rhythmic sloshing of the water, stirred by the opening and closing of Sweetteeth’s mouth, the chamber lies completely still. In a corner of the room stands a bearded figure, clutching something dripping dark-red liquid under his left arm.

Sweetteeth attaches his back sucker to the bottom of the tub and then contracts his body almost to the shape of a ball. The figure in the back of the room takes a step forward, holds out the dripping something besides him for a moment. Then, suddenly, he cries out “GET!”, throws the thing in his hands towards the other side of the room – and with a *SPLOSSSHHH* Sweetteeth breaks out of the water in a split second, extending his whole body in a wide arch, his pseudo-arms wriggling wildly and *SNAP* - snatches the thing right out of the air!

As fast as he jumped from the water, with another slumping *SLUUUSHH* he lies submerged in the tub again, his closed mouth hole chewing on the thing, almost making his head look like its pulsating while he is ripping the food apart with his inner teeth.

“Very good, Sweety. Now, remember to use your bites better in the next fight, will you! No more playing around with that sorry excuse of a buckler Ezum brought instead of a shield…”

Sweetteeth emerges slowly from the water, his mouth hole pointed right at the Dwarf:
“gooey squelch“

„Yes yes, I know, you gave it your all and you won in the end but think of that greedy quack they call chief medical dwarf around here. Reattaching your wrigglers was expensive as hell! We’re lucky Urdim and the others have bet on that marmot guy who sliced up the poor blunted hedgehog last minute… We need you to take the next step in round 3, simply flailing around won’t cut it this time. This bug has serious skill with their spear and shield...”

Sweetteeth contracts again, his head slumped and the rims of his mouth hole slightly quaking:
“squirming burble“

The dwarf sighs, steps to him and pats him lightly on the back of his head: „Oh, Sweety, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it like that. You did a great job. Just focus on getting your well deserved rest and everything will work out just fine…“

A knock on the door echoes through the stone chamber.
“That must be the Physio. Alright, Sweety, be nice and don’t worry about that show-off bug-man next round. Keep focused on what matters: getting to that sweet ichor of his.” The leech man gurgles approvingly. “COME IN, DOREN!”

The door opens and a squeaky, raspy voice yells: „Time for your massage, Sweetheart!“ as the rounded frame of a Gorlak enters the room. She continues with a big toothy grin, clapping her hands together: “Ahh, got soaked up already, perfect. Now step right out and come with me, please, Sweety. I already incensed the massage room with meadowsweet and cave moss and I warmed up the finest local Crundle Oil I could get my hands on, so we’ll get that tubey muscles of your’s back to match fitness in no time!”

As the glistening black, leechy form of Sweetteeth loops out of the water and through the door – alternately grabbing the floor with his mouth sucker, dragging his back sucker forward, then doing the same the other way around – the dwarf mumbles to himself:

“I need to fetch those sorry drunks Ezum and Urdim… Time to talk strategy.”

Heroic fight indeed @DeKaFu , I really wasn't hoping for much after seeing steel bolts consistently shred a poor dummy leech man in some testing rounds I did. Must have been quite unlucky with the shots!