The pillows would be the first to fall under the lurantis' gaze, the joltik positioning itself back on top of her head, even as she was dwindling down for yet another increment of the shrinkage that ailed her. Still, she would move over to the blue cushions and crouch down to pick one of them up. Earlier, they had been just a bit larger than her feet, the biggest of them equal to her torso. Now, the smallest of them was roughly a quarter of her size, the largest being longer than she was tall. Tempting as it was to rip them open to see what secrets they hid, she was quick to find that they too had zippers on them, rolling her eyes a bit at the minor 'robbery' of potential fun and gripped hold of the zippers with her fangs, pulling them down much like she did to the one on the fomantis earlier. Cotton insides of the pillows, no surprise there, the smallest of the four not having that much inside of it, even when the overly-eager joltik jumped in to see for itself. The next two didn't have anything inside of them, though nestled inside of the largest of the pillows was a form of device spanning a good portion of the length of it, which was the cause of it being a fair bit heavier than it appeared. She had no idea what the whole thing was about, but seeing that there was one part running down the length of the device did give her an idea, pressing the tip of a claw to one end of it. Dragging it down the length of the object, she saw that it was something that slid with ease, quickly finishing it and heard a click, looking around and, to her relief, saw that a second green light had come on above the sink's mirror. Two down, two more to go.

Looking away from it, she would look to the end table, stepping to it and tried to hook a claw to the handle of the drawer, though to her annoyance, it was stuck shut. Even when she hooked her second claw underneath the handle and pulled, the drawer didn't budge. Not even when she attempted to pull back and away from it, not only finding out that it was glued to its spot like the rest of the items, but ended up mis-stepping, slipping and landed on her side, the joltik squeaking when it was thrown off from its spot. Grumbling under her breath, she would unhook her right claw and opt to looking beneath it for anything, even the alcove beneath the drawer. To her annoyance, neither spot had anything of use, huffing as she turned away from the end table, the joltik managing to return to its usual spot.

The television would finally be inspected properly, walking up to the table that it rested on. Seeing that it was one that reached fairly high up, she would shift one of the pillows over and stand on it. The feeling of doing such was new to her, since she never really had to use an object to reach something else, her original size and scythes more than enough to get what she wanted in reach. Now though, she would have difficulty trying to look onto the surface of the table before her, looking at the blank screen before her. She would jolt slightly when she felt the joltik push off from her head and land on the table, skittering around and worked on climbing up the side of the device. She couldn't help but let out a chuckle at the electric tick's eagerness for exploration, adjusting her own positioning to try and look around the device as well. Seeing the back of it did draw her attention to one portion that stood out, a silvery-gray instead of the deep black of the device, tilting her head as she tried to get a closer look at it, even tried to reach a claw to it. Brushing her claw up against it and having her head pressed to the wall of the chamber to get a better look, she saw that there wasn't any visible switch on it, even noticing the lack of any bumps to indicate such, arching an eyebrow as she glanced up to the joltik's spot on top of the screen. It did a little movement to try and mimic a shrug, watching it climb back down. If that spot's a switch, one of the four to try and get out of here, how was it supposed to be activated?

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Round five results

Lurantis starting size: 62.33 in/158.32 cm.

Votes from the fifth poll: 13(1 Low, 2 Med, 10 High).

Highest voted result: Inspect the television for a possible switch (High).

Runner-ups: Try to search the end table by the bed (Med), Inspect the pillows for something useful (Low).

Percentages total:
Ribbon feedback is still present, but weaker than before. The 'Ribbon Feedback Echo' will occur for this round.
2.5% constant rate.
+0.25% Low votes.
+1% Med votes.
+10% High votes.
Ribbon Feedback Echo: x1.075 total results/7.5% overall increase.
Total: -14.75% current size loss. Number was rounded to the nearest hundredth.

New size: 62.33 in/158.32 cm >> 53.14 in/134.98 cm. Numbers were rounded to the nearest hundredth.

A beep comes from the ribbon. Sounds like it can be used again, but it's risky.

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Starting to have some difficulty reaching up to stuff now, but it seems like she managed to find the second of the four devices to get out of here.

Round six poll is now closed. Thank you for voting!

Some of you may notice that the Low category for votes are now missing. Figured I'd spice it up a bit and give a liiiiittle bit of emphasis on the devices to help her escape. The more of them she activates, the more potent the shrinkage becomes overall, reflected by the lower potency vote categories vanishing or being replaced.

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