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conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ArenaManager: Arena Tournament, Round 102:  Cinder  vs.  De'Athbypro Xie    
   Map:  
   Spoiler 
  
   
   
  
   XP Award:  600 XP
   GP Award:  600 GP
  
   Cinder  - TheFallenOne
   De'Ahbypro Xie  - Psionic Dog
  
   All Combatants, please roll initiative and declare final purchases, if any 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: Round Finale vs Xie on Lava... Oddly familiar
  
    initiative  - (1d20+3)[ 11 ] 
  
  CL 1 Scroll of Electricity Resistance - 25 GP
  and something else, need to look up the name
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Any chance you'll DQ to give Xie a neat 3-in-a-row DQ win streak?
  
  No?
  
  Ah well.   Initiative  - (1d20+3)[ 16 ] 
  
  Currently shopping for permanent magic items.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: sorry pal, never been DQed yet and won't happen here, I want a 3rd level wizard so I can spam second level spells like candy 😏
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Lets see.
  If I win the tournament I want Xie to get a Bag of Tricks (rust).
  The more proxies the better.
  
  2331 +1800 - 3000 = 1131gp to spend getting said victory.
  
  Purchasing a Pierce Cloak, a tangle foot bag, and a flask of Slumber sand.
  And a powerstone (skate) too for good measure.
  Total spent: 1,025 gp
  
  Think that will work.
  Reserve right to counter.
  
  Updating character sheet...
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: well, I need no calculations like that since I can already get the item I want 😛
  
  Empowered Spellshard(Kelgores Firebolt) 1500 GP
  Fire damage - if it doesn't work you're not doing enough 😏
  Universal solvent - 50 GP
  scribe scroll of Expeditious Retreat - 12,5 GP, 1 XP
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Almost perfect, but not quite.
  One little clause is just too tight.
  Almost perfect, but not quite.
  
  Ok, plan 'B' it is.
  
  Counters:
  ML4 powerstone Vigor (100 gp)
  ML3 powerstone Elemental Steward (75 gp)
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: Originally Posted by Psionic Dog 
   Almost perfect, but not quite.
  One little clause is just too tight.
  Almost perfect, but not quite. 
   
  
  sorry, what? 🤨
  
  scroll of Fire Resistance 25 GP
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Part of a poem/story I heard at a story telling festive years ago.
  
  Guess it's a bit more obscure than I thought.
  
  Edit: found  link .
  
  Moral of the story:
   
   Spoiler 
  Some people are  never  happy.
  Moral doesn't apply to Xie. 😛
   
  
  
  No counters, I'll start us off later.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: I was more wondering what your were actually talking about. Seems the Not Fallen question didn't get resolved the way you hoped?
  
  ready to start, preparations
   
   Spoiler 
  Start in Y10, holding 2 srolls, Expetitious Retreat(top) and 'big' one both in left hand.
  
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
  Kelgores
  Kelgores
  
  Detect Magic
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Pretty much. It was a long shot, but had it worked to the best imaginable extent Xie could have tanked Cinder's damage.
  
   De'Athbypro Xie - Round 1 
   
   Spoiler 
   Xie: 
  All Power stones(vigor)(skate) one hand, slumber sand flask between teeth, Oxie in other hand. Starting in B-10.
  
  Free: 'drop' Oxie into B-10/+5
  Standard: manifest Vigor from stone on Oxie
    ML check  - (1d20+2)[ 19 ]  DC 5
  Move: Half speed to F9
    Hide  - (1d20+7)[ 23 ] 
   Oxie: 
  Starts with crossbow loaded MW/normal, wearing armor, new vest. Crawling Tatoo Stomp and tangle foot bag also carried by Oxie.
  
  Xie and Oxie each have two stowed acid flasks.
   
  
  
  Oxie does an areal run to T-10/+55.
  The elemental is wearing armor and vest, holding a double crossbow in two hands, with a tangle bag between teeth.
  
   Done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  Xie:
  Hp: 14/14
  
  Oxie:
  Hp: 13+20T/13
  Vigor 40/40
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: tank CL 5 Empowered Searing Kelgores? Must have been some trick.
  If you don't mind, do me a favour and tell me what it was. I'm quite curious
  
    Cinder Turn 1  
  
  Start in Y10, holding 2 srolls in left hand
  Swift: Empower
   Shapes flicker in the fire light through the windows
  The woodlands burn with grace
  Their silence drowns the age
  As wandering ghosts pass through the flames
  A new age of rebirth lights the dawn 
    Fire on Oxie  - (5d6)[ 14 ]  x1.5, Reflex 15 halves
  move to Y17(-10)
  drop prone
  
   done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  HP 8/8
  AC 13(3 dex), Touch 13, FF 10
  Abrupt Jaunt 4/4
  
  Rageclaws with 1 Essentia
  
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
  Kelgores
   Kelgores 
  
  Detect Magic
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Reflex  - (1d20+6)[ 21 ] 
  
  *shrug*
  
  Favorable interpretation of Share Pain power + share spells.
  
  In my dream share spells rebounds the effect so that Xie and Oxie each take half damage, no matter who gets targeted. (It doesn't work like this 🫤)
  
  So those 22-30 point damage kelgars? Team De'Athbypro Xie each soaks 11-15, or only 1-5 real hp after a shared vigor. Xie has the HP to soak every empowered blast, and enough PP to match every one of Cinder's 1st level spell slots. Finish it all off with a gentleman's agreement that Xie won't buy additional healing/vigor expendables if Cinder won't go crafting additional scrolls.
  
  If it tactic had actually worked, Xie could have gone toe-toe with Cinder on at least even odds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: De'Athbypro Xie - Round 2 
   Oxie 
  Move: drive to W13/+15 (30 ft movement)
  Free: shift to 1-hand X-bow grip.
  Standard: Sic crawling tatoo on Cinder.
  
   Crawling Tatoo 
  Takes   falling damage  - (1d6)[ 5 ]  (hopefully negated by hardness 5)
  Move: 30ft to Y-17.
  Standard: Attack Cinder.
    Touch Attack  - (1d20+9)[ 23 ]  (+8 size, +1 Oxie's Cha)
  On hit:
   
   Spoiler 
  Crawling Tatoo, Stomp
  take   NonLeathal  - (1d4)[ 3 ] , and fall prone if not already so.
   
  
   Xie 
  LoS
   
   Spoiler 
  Move: to F15
  Standard: Manifest augmented vigor on self
   
  
   Done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  Xie:
  Hp: 14+10T/14
  8PP
  Focused: Yes
  Vigor 20/20
  
  Oxie:
  Hp: 13+10T/13
  Vigor 40/40
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: that would've been a nice trick. Indeed little way for me to burn through that defense
  
  jaunt to W18
  
    Cinder Turn 2  
   There are gods in the wake of every flame
  The fire that betroths the coldness of the void
  In every wind, every tempest, and every snowfall
  In every silence
  Inside every root that reaches deep into the soul of the Earth
  
  ...but there are no gods here...
  
  Shadows paint the dusk
  Ghosts rise from the flames
  To set alight in the fields
  In robes of smoke and spirit aligned
   
    Fire on Oxie  - (5d6)[ 17 ]  Reflex 15 halves
  stand up
  step to V18
  
  
   done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  HP 8/8
  AC 13(3 dex), Touch 13, FF 10
  Abrupt Jaunt 3/4
  
  Rageclaws with 1 Essentia
  
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
   Kelgores 
   Kelgores 
  
  Detect Magic
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Reflex  - (1d20+6)[ 26 ] 
   De'Athbypro Xie - Round 3 
   Oxie: 
  Free: activate cloak
  
  Standard: Shoot Cinder.
  
  Rolls pending jaunt:
   
   Spoiler 
    Attack  - (1d20+7)[ 26 ] 
    damage  - (2d6)[ 10 ] 
  
  Critical hit! ^^
  I'll roll the crit with the rest of my turn to avoid spoiling the surprise
   
  
  
  Move: somewhere. Where pending reflex results.
  
   Crawling Tatoo: 
  Move: Into Cinder's space.
  Standard: try try again.
    Touch Attack  - (1d20+9)[ 22 ] (+8 size, +1 Oxie's Cha
  If hit:
   
   Spoiler 
    Non lethal damage  - (1d4)[ 3 ]  + fall prone
   
  
   Xie 
  actions pending on all of the above.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: hurk. If you keep making those saves I'm pretty much done
  
  Jaunt from the tattoos attack to V16
  
  You know, this is the 6th time I'm fighting Xie, and the third time we contend for the championship. Not bad, huh?
  
  edit: oh dear, a crit threat. At least the cloak bonus won't be multiplied, but still, ouchie
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Your guys do have a distressing tendency to pop up and stop Xie one step short of gold. Still, maybe, this time, De'Athbypro Xie will defeat something above a commoner.
  
    Crit  - (1d20+7)[ 11 ] 
    Crit  - (1d6)[ 6 ] 
  
  move... Oxie flies to U17/+15
  
   Xie 
   
   Spoiler 
  Moving up the Walls...
  move to G15, then along the side of the pilar to J15, end back on flat ground.
  Standard: Ready Action
   
   Spoiler 
  Move if Cinder casts anything within LoE to Xie, if Cinder ends turn, or if Xie looses LoS to Cinder from Oxie.
   
  
   
  
   Done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  Xie:
  Hp: 14+10T/14
  8PP
  Focused: Yes
  Vigor 19/20
  
  Oxie:
  Hp: 13+2T/13
  Vigor 38/40
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: well, a commoner that beat up a CR 2 Dire Eagle in a quite hilarious way. You're actually the only one who managed to stop him. I love that aberrant farmer 😏
    Cinder Turn 3  
  
  15 damage on Oxie so far... Well, with a failed save and decent roll I can make it
  
  Swift: Empower
  Standard:
   well, almost out of fire songs, but kept this gem for last 
    Fire damage on Oxie  - (5d6)[ 17 ]  x1.5, Reflex 15 halves
  
  movement pending result of this
  
  edit: forget the empower, immediate action was taken
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: 18 damage so far. That first fire was empowered.
  
    reflex  - (1d20+6)[ 9 ] 
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: uh oh.
  
    falling  - (2d6)[ 5 ] 
  
  also, Xie's readied action triggers when Oxie goes unconscious.
  
  The elf moves to Q-17.
  
  Edit: for reference LoS to elf established when Xie moves SW into N17
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: oops, totally forgot my own empower  😳
  
  so falling damage wasn't fatal and Xie is close enough to get the envoy up again with a Vigor. Seems you planned that one quite well. However, I think you made a mistake in Oxies placement
  
  Move: pick up Oxie
  step to U15
  
   done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  HP -2/8
  AC 13(3 dex), Touch 13, FF 10
  Abrupt Jaunt 2/4
  
  Rageclaws with 1 Essentia
  
  Searing Kelgores
  Searing Kelgores
   Searing Kelgores
  Kelgores
  Kelgores 
  
  Detect Magic
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
  Acid Splash
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: post attempt #7... 
   De'Athbypro Xie - Round 4 
   Crawling Tatoo 
  Move: advance once more on Cinder.
  Standard: attack!
  If no jaunt...
   
   Spoiler 
    Touch Attack  - (1d20+9)[ 11 ]    nonleathal damage  - (1d4)[ 2 ]  + fall down.
   
  
   Xie 
  Free drop the alchemic flask held in teeth, transfer power stone in hand to mouth.
  Move: to U17 and on to... somewhere depending on where/if Cinder jaunts.
  Draw bow as part of movement.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: well, both bow shot and tattoo would finish me, and tattoo has the better chance to hit, so I'll jaunt from the attack to T16+0
  
  edit: curses, it would have missed!
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: Hm. Currently squeezing, but with cover against the elf's current position. That can be fixed.
  
   Xie 
  Continue move to X-15.
  
  I'm assuming its default to drop spent powerstones like potion vials if nothing says otherwise. If not: Free, drop spent powerstone to free both hands for bow use.
  
  Standard: Shoot blunt arrow at Cinder.
    Attack  - (1d20+4)[ 23 ]    NonLeathal  - (1d8)[ 7 ] 
   Done 
  
  Stats
   
   Spoiler 
  Xie:
  Hp: 14+10T/14
  8PP
  Focused: Yes
  Vigor 18/20
  
  Oxie:
  Hp: negatives/13
   
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TheFallenOne: and that drops me. You played this one well
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psionic Dog: I had a feeling that if Cinder ever got a beak Bad Things would happen to Team Death by Proxie.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sallera: High Ref Sallera  
   De'Athbypro Xie claims victory by virtue of relentless harassment. 