conversations: human
conversations:  A towering figure in a dark robe enters the room where you have been milling around sizing up the competition. His face is completely obscured by his hood. He raises both hands to get your attention and speaks in a deep voice.
   Touchstone, Kilan.   He pauses for you to identify yourselves.
   You have been chosen to be the first. Prepare yourselves! 
  With that he brings his hands down and the two of you find yourself transported to the  arena 
  
  OOC:
  You've got time for one swift action and one standard action before you get transported in case you need to adopt a stance or activate an item.
  
  On the map, green is open terrain, yellow is difficult terrain, red/brown is the cliffs
  
  Opening post should have an initiative roll, anything you said after he called your name and what, if anything you did with the 'surprise round' before being transported. After that, start fighting in initiative order.
  
  Touchstone
   
   Spoiler 
  start at L13
   
  
  Kilan
   
   Spoiler 
  start at Y33
   
conversations: playswithfire:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  Touchstone, hovering invisible in the air, announces himself, and looks at his foe.  "Of course,"  he remarks sardonically,  "I get the guy with more brawn than the rest of the world's brains put together. Joy."  Touchstone reaches into a pocket and pulls out a small metal sphere, while adopting a fighting stance.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  Standard action: pull out Iron Bands. Swift action, assume Assasin's stance. Maneuvers prepared, Warblade/Bloodclaw Master: Dancing Mongoose, Pouncing Charge, Rabid Bear Strike, Death from Above, Iron Heart Surge. Maneuvers prepared, Swordsage: Emerald Razor, Ruby Nightmare Blade, Fleshripper, Soaring Raptor Strike. Init:  (1d20+16)[ 20 ] 
   
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  An eight foot tall humanoid grins a mawful of fangs. Somewhere between an anthro tiger and a dragon, it growls softly, The hunt is on. Pray to whatever god you worship that my claws don't find your flesh. 
  
  Init:  (1d20+6)[ 25 ] 
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Fly up 70', then move to Y21, land on the cliff.
  
  Turn
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  Touchstone flies 60 feet straight up into the air. Activate Leaps And Bounds (+6 bonus to jump, balance, and tumble checks).
  
  EDIT: Touchstone declares Kilan his dodge target, and will always do so (Damn, Dodge is hard to remember).
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Move to O18 and land, using the cliff as total cover. Ready an action for breath attack if you get within 20 feet.
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  Sighing as his opponent dodges out of sight behind cover, Touchstone moves up another 60 feet and puts his sphere behind his back. Ending the invisibility, Touchstone calls to his opponent.  "OY, BRUTE! YOUR MOTHER HAD FLEAS AND YOUR FATHER HAD BAD BREATH!!!" 
   
   Spoiler 
  Ready an action to throw the Iron Bands if Kilan gets close enough to Touchstone to use his claws.
   
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  He stands still, but shouts back,
   MY FATHER DIDN'T MIND YOUR MOTHER'S FLEAS WHEN HE SHOWED HIS DRACONIC SUPERIORITY TO HER!!! 
  
  Full Defense Action, still holding action.
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  
  Touchstone sighs, and flies back 60 feet.  "I can keep this up all day. If you don't come at me, I'm going to be able to chip away at you until you collapse." 
   
   Spoiler 
  Move to square D5, ready an Eldritch Spear to be used as soon as Kiran is in range and Touchstone has line of sight.
   
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Move North, than East to G11, still staying out of the line thanks to the cliffs.
  
   Too bad. A true hunter can wait for days. 
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  Flying south, Touchstone sighs. He had hoped for an interesting fight.  "Look, you're going to have to come at me eventually. So, quit stalling, or the scary robed man might get miffed." 
   
   Spoiler 
  Move to P5, ready the Iron Bands for if/when Kilan comes within ten feet of Touchstone. EDIT: Or whatever is close enough for Kilan to claw Touchstone.
   
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Fly to L5, 20' away from you.  If you are so impatient to die, than be my guest. Lets see how well you burn. 
  
  Fire Breath, DC22 Reflex for Half damage.
  
  Blink miss chance: Highs miss 81-100  (1d100)[ 88 ] 
  
  Damage  (6d8)[ 29 ]  Fire
  
  Edit: At least, I assume that the Supernatural ability is affected by the etherealness. May need a ruling.
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  
  Reflex Save:
   (1d20+21)[ 35 ] 
  
  When did you activate your blinking?
  
  EDIT: Also, what was the ruling on 24-hour buffs? If we're allowed to keep them up all the time, I guess it won't affect this fight, but it would be good to know in the future.
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Its a ring, its always on. If not, just make it the standard action I didn't use for before the fight.
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Ring of Blinking requires a command (standard action that does not provoke attacks of opportunities), and lasts for seven rounds before needing to be reactivated. It can be used as many times per day as you want to.
  
  However, since your character would've been blinking in the beginning, my actions would probably have been somewhat different. I would've used my See the Unseen invocation. It's a 24 hour buff anyway, so I probably could have had it active the entire time anyway. So, you get to retcon in blinking, I get to retcon in See the Unseen?
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Deal, and I have... three rounds of this Blink left.
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  Touchstone blinks as the flames turn etheral right before touching him. Dropping a bit, he flies south some more.  "Oh, please now. Fighting at a distance? Are you afraid to get too close? C'mon, you ***** cat!"  Touchstone shouts to his opponent.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  Drops 5 feet and moves to V5, readying the sphere in the same manner I've readied it every single other time.
  
  Also, I find the censor on this quite amusing. You can probably figure out what I was trying to say, though.
   
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Well then, I guess it is time to end this.  The lycan's wings open in a menacing manner as he takes flight and charges toward you.
  
  Pending shenannigans, I full attack.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  
  Claw, Claw, Bite, Rake, Rake, Grapple
   (1d20+30)[ 48 ] 
   (1d20+30)[ 40 ] 
   (1d20+29)[ 38 ] 
   (1d20+27)[ 34 ] 
   (1d20+27)[ 35 ] 
   (1d20+37)[ 47 ] 
  
  Damage, same order.
  
   (1d8+20)[ 27 ] 
   (1d8+20)[ 27 ] 
   (2d6+10)[ 16 ] 
   (1d8+11)[ 18 ] 
   (1d8+11)[ 13 ] 
   
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Oh, I forgot ethereal miss. Highs miss again.
  
   (1d100)[ 8 ] 
   (1d100)[ 10 ] 
   (1d100)[ 65 ] 
   (1d100)[ 44 ] 
   (1d100)[ 71 ] 
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  Shenanigans time, though I'm feeling unlucky. If the bands hit, you're helpless, and this happens as soon as you're in range, so if I succeed, the attacks didn't happen.
  
  Ranged Touch:  (1d20+23)[ 28 ] 
  
  Etheral miss chance, 81-100 misses:  (1d100)[ 84 ] 
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Touchstone 
  
  While his heart sinks from seeing the bands pass through suddenly empty space, he is relieved to find that only one of his opponent's attacks succeed. Closing the distance between the two, Touchstone becomes invisible once more, unsheathes his weapons, adopts a more defensive stance, and strikes out with his full force.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  Dammit. However, only the first claw hits, for 17 points of damage after DR.
  
  Five foot step, resume invisibility, free action unsheathe weapons, adopt Stance of Clarity (EDIT: Just to be clear, Kilan is the target of the stance😛), Rabid Bear Strike.
  
  To hit:  (1d20+23)[ 37 ] 
  
  Damage:  (1d3+6)[ 9 ]  +  (10d6)[ 30 ] 
  
  Miss chance, same as before:  (1d100)[ 9 ] 
   
conversations: XenoGeno:
conversations: human
conversations:  Hold on since I hit you with one of my attacks, I got to grapple you as a free attempt. So you have to beat my grapple roll.
conversations: Dresil:
conversations: human
conversations:  You don't get improved grab or rake in hybrid form.
  
  EDIT: Actually, you can't pounce either. Which doesn't really affect this time anyway, as only your first attack hit.
conversations: XenoGeno: