After a few moments of rest, you begin to feel strange. (Even stranger than you already do.)
You can't quite put your finger on it, but you know you're changing somehow. Perplexed, you put a mutated
'hand' on the rocky edge of the slope. However, the slope feels somewhat... smaller than when you'd climbed up
it. Furrowing your brow, you examine your 'hand' and notice two things.
1.) Your skin has taken on a decidedly more purple hue, with dark blotchy spots.
2.) The rock your 'hand' is holding appears to be shrinking.
Suddenly, it hits you: you're growing!
Surprised, you jump out of the pool and fall back down the slope you worked so hard to climb up. With a huge
splash, you hit the pond below, displacing most of the water. You sit up, dazed, and take stock of yourself.
You've grown much larger than you started, your whole body filling the pond. If you had to guess, you'd say
you're about 20 feet tall by now. Your 'leg' tentacles are much longer than they were, overflowing onto the
meadow surrounding the pond. Your skin is much more purple, almost a dark violet by now. Your 'arm' tentacles
have grown longer as well, with your 'fingers' stretching and mutating into their own, smaller tentacles.
Sighing, you look up at the drainage pipe, your only hope, and recognize that you could probably never fit a
single tentacle into it now, let alone crawl through it.
All in all, you'd call this a set back.