The Perilous Quest to Save Vinyl From Certain Demise

Quick as a flash, the claws arrive, slashing through the air towards your neck, the beast attacking you lashing out with hunger in it's eyes.

Unfortunately for the manticore, you are much quicker. Your smaller body nimbly ducks under the first paw swipe, narrowly avoiding the blade-like claws. Quickly, you turn around to prepare a blow of your own, and kick your hind legs back with all the force you can muster.

As your hooves connect with a mighty impact, you feel your heartbeat racing with suspense. Did you hit it? Did you do any damage?

You aren't given much time to think however, as you quickly realize that your attack was a fatal mistake.

While you had hoped to strike the manticore in the face, knocking it away, the powerful creature had instead opened it's mouth wide, allowing your back legs right into it's open mouth.

Clamping down its teeth, you suddenly feel intense pain shoot through your back legs. You begin to panic, but the jaws hold tight, keeping you from pulling back from your failed attack.

Flailing about it a futile struggle to get away from the creature, you can't manage to make it release your hind legs, which only reduces your balance significantly. After a few failed attempts, you find yourself falling to the floor, your front hooves no longer able to support you on their own. A powerful lion's paw grabs you around your neck, and you feel yourself pressed against a wall, with an angry manticore eyeing your defeated figure with rage.

"This will teach you never to defy me!" Came the gruff voice, as you let your body fall limp with defeat.

With no way to escape the beast's grasp, nor any way to talk your way to a truce now, you can only let the monster decide your fate.

You're defeated.

You're screwed.

You're dead.