The cursed relic : let's discuss ! (Patreon)

As you know, it was the idea who won the vote for the next Patreon comic ;3

Reminder of the base pitch :

A group of adventurers have gone out to find a certain object or relic, only to find out that when they get their hands on said object it shrinks them! 

Now the startled party have to find a way back through a route home that has become 100x more dangerous due to a certain size reduction. Just making their way back to the entrance of the temple would be a journey in itself, when simple cracks on the floor have become menacing pits and all sort of items are now obstacles or walls. Not to mention they left one of the member of their group at the entrance ( For some reasons I’m imagining a shy, introverted female neko ). Who was too afraid / sick to enter ? And now that they are tiny they are slowly realizing she’s now a predator? ( especially if they mistreated her before )  Or maybe instead of a member of the group she is the guardian of the place ?

The idea is still to be developed in term of scenario but it would play a lot on the shrinking and the perspective you have on the world when you are small, and it would also focus much more on the prey perspective too :) 

So let’s see ^^ 

As I see it this idea’s flavor is going to be mostly based on the shrunken people’s point of view and playing on the Neko girl’s emotions and feeling which are going to be quite different from your typical pred :3

There is a lot of different things to do on the theme though ^^ 

First: the characters :

-For the Neko girl I imagine her  to be shy and a bit clumsy. Maybe the fidgety and nervous type ? No idea for a name yet

She could be a guide hired from a nearby neko settlement by the group in order to find the temple. She would refuse to enter it because of ancient tales speaking of doom for trespassers.

Or maybe she is with them but she's simply too afraid to enter ( phobia of cramped spaces ? )

Or she could actually be a guardian of sort for that relic and concealing her identity ? Her personality would then be more deceptive and devious of course.

-For the group, nothing too precise yet but I imagine it to be composed of members with different personalities. They are going to be more developed than I do usually for prey characters in order to have a lot of interaction between them ( For example a loud, greedy asshole, a silent, sharp-eyed efficient guy, a soft-spoken, understanding member etc )

For the relic itself :

It could be a trap : the object is a fake treasure :  it’s relatively easy to find and it shrinks all those present in the room in order to protect the real treasure which is hidden somewhere else. Or it could be the real treasure but protected by a spell. It could be either a pretext that is only briefly mentioned in the beginning, or in opposite, be a recurring element the story is built around with a precise goal from the group to obtain it. 

The time in the temple could also vary from simple introduction, to being a really important part of the story.

Personally here is how I imagine ( very roughly ) the story unfolding based on those elements: 

-The story starts with the group finding the relic. They are shrunk and must now find their way back to their normal-sized companion. A good way to develop each of the members through events as well as having some impressive scenes with them once they are shrunk and suddenly finding themselves in a very intimidating environment. ( I like drawing those X3 ) 

They eventually manage to find their way out and come back to the entrance, finding miss neko sitting and reading. She doesn’t notice them, absorbed by her book ( and because a very noisy bird cover their voices ?). Two of the adventurers decide to « escalate » her to get her attention. One of them could fall into her cleavage at some points ( classic GTS scene XD ). She would become startled by it, would turn red, panic, fall on her back, making one of the adventurer fly and land…. right in her mouth ! She swallows him reflexively. The rest of the group is horrified. They shout at her to quickly cough him back up. One of them is an asshole who insult her in the process and mistreated her when during their way to the temple. He becomes really rude, she get mad and eat him without thinking !

Now the group is really freaking out.  Another adventurer press her to cough them back up but this time he is one of the « good » guys and he manages to get to her. She tries to cough the two back up but no matter how hard she tries, she can’t. Miss neko now really start to panic under the pressure and guilt and eventually she passes out !  The group is horrified by that turn of event. Their comrades trapped inside her call them for help as the neko’s stomach is starting to produce gastric juices. All of them try to wake the fainted neko up ( from outside and inside  ) but without success.

The group decide to try and rescue their comrade by using a rope. They attach it to an object ( maybe a fruit ) and the plan is to make the neko swallows it. They put the rope in her mouth but It doesn’t work. The neko just continues to sleep without swallowing. A sense of urgency is mounting as the two in her stomach really start to become panicked ( there are some nice inside shots to make here X3 ) 

The group draw straws to decide who will have the task of going in her mouth and pushing the object in her throat to force her to swallow. You can imagine what happens here XP  She eventually swallows both the object and her comrade, and wake up suddenly. Either she cuts the rope by closing her mouth or the element where the rope was anchored breaks, but a third member of the group ends up in her stomach. 

The remaining one(s?) is completely panicked as well as the neko. They have no rope left and miss neko still can't manage to cough her meal back up. The remaining one suddenly has the idea of having her eat a certain plant that is supposed to make her vomit. The neko rush to eat it but it was the wrong type of plant ! Instead it makes her fall asleep where she stands. This time the fate of those in her stomach is sealed. When she wakes up again, one hour later, her digestion is well underway.

Awkward moment with the remaining member, probably a mild indigestion as well.  I can imagine some mixed emotions from the neko girl ( After all she is from a predatory species )

Eventually, once the neko is feeling better they start the way back. At this point either it could lead to the end with the remaining member (s) surviving and commenting on what happened. Or it could be an ironic scene where she SOMEHOW ends up eating them by accident XD  but maybe that would be pushing it too much though ^^ 

Like I said, it's a very rough take on the idea ;)

I really think as a whole it can be a very nice comic, with both some great vore and body exploration and funny moments, playing a lot on expressions and faces ^^

What do you think ? Please don't hesitate to share your own ideas, thoughts and suggestions here ! I’ll soon sketch some concept for the neko girl so we can chose how she will look ;3