conversations: human
conversations:  Eldariel vs. Nefele  
  
  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.
   Alya Montane, Moira. You have been chosen to fight. 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 (10ft, Climb DC20, blocks LoS). Arena has a 60 foot ceiling.
  
  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.
  
   Nefele 
  V  (1d40)[ 26 ] 
  H  (1d40)[ 24 ] 
   Eldariel 
  V  (1d40)[ 11 ] 
  H  (1d40)[ 22 ] 
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  As I was saying...
  
   Nefele 
  V  (1d40)[ 34 ] 
  H  (1d40)[ 29 ] 
   Eldariel 
  V  (1d40)[ 40 ] 
  H  (1d40)[ 30 ] 
  
  This will be a very short fight, methinks.
  Initiative  (1d20+33)[ 43 ] 
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  PREP ROUND 
   
   Spoiler 
  Swift Action: Child of Shadow Stance
  Standard action: activate Scout's Headband (see invisibility)
   
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  OOC: Are we rolling Initiative before or after prep? If before, subtract...3.
  
  IC: " Ah, a chance to expand my shape repertoire! "
  
  Prep:
   
   Spoiler 
  Standard Action: Wildshape into Sanguaro Sentinel
  Swift Action: Law Devotion
  Free Action: Feral Trance
  Free Action: Cloak of Major Displacement
  Always On: Flame's Blessing
   
  
  
  Description:
   
   Spoiler 
  In her present shape, Alya is a 15' tall humanoid cactus-like creature. Visible equipment includes a Crown of some sort, a Necklace, a Belt, a Cloak, Boots and a Robe. The towering figure radiates strength and confidence, with extremely focused eyes piercing an observer's mind. She stands in a martial artist's stance.
   
  
    Initiative  - (1d20+11)[ 12 ] 
    Knowledge Devotion  - (1d20+9)[ 13 ] 
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  Sorry for the delay...
  
   ROUND 1 
  
  Moira looks at the giant Cactus right in front of her and sighs. She then flies straight towards it (him? her?), and draws her short sword immediately before attacking with Emerald Razor.
  
  attack:  (1d20+33)[ 50 ]  Vs your Touch &amp; Flat-footed AC (touch from maneuver, flat-footed because you lost initiative)
  miss chance:  (1d100)[ 7 ]  (high hits)
  
  damage:  (1d6+18)[ 23 ]  + 11 fire + I.F. damage
  Iaijutsu Focus:  (1d20+31)[ 32 ] 
  
  
  flyby attack tumbling, no AoOs
  20% miss chance
   
   Spoiler 
  
  
  flyby attack with Emerald Razor
  attack +25 +4 slippers + 2 SH + 2DM
  damage 1d6+11 fire+7 shadow Blade+11 slippers
   
  
  
  will continue actions once I know if I hit or not.
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  There's a 50% miss chance. As it stands, you exceed my AC. And it's a her, though you can't tell from the cactus. The redhair standing there seconds ago would've told you that :P
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  Swift Action: Lightning Recovery (I'm declaring maneuvers because you have martial lore, too)
  
  reroll attack:  (1d20+35)[ 36 ] 
  reroll miss chance:  (1d100)[ 88 ] 
  reroll damage  (1d6+18)[ 24 ] +11 fire
  reroll I.F.  (1d20+31)[ 51 ] 
  
  Again, will continue actions once I know if it hit. :)
  EDIT - Awwww...
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  OOC: Few things; I'm not seeing what the Lightning Recovery is for since I said you exceed my AC. In other words, AC-wise it hits - my Flat-Footed Touch AC isn't in the 50s. Also, when rolling percentiles, state the range that succeeds - some people here roll low (1-50) while others roll high (51-100), which coincidentially has quite the relevance with regards to the outcome.
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  Moira curses twice, and flies up to AM32, 20 feet up. From there she waits death, calmly.
  
   
   Spoiler 
  free action: inspiration point to AC
  oh, and dodge to Alya
  
  AC 63
  touch 59
  Flat-footed 63
   
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  OOC - I  did  roll a miss chance, and I  did  write "high hits". Which means "low misses", and I went and rolled a 7.
  On my second chance, I rolled high in the d100, and a natural 1 on the d20. Hopeless. 😛
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  OOC: Oh, see, that makes way more sense. I think Lightning Recovery does not allow rerolling miss chance; only To Hit. However, that's immaterial right now.
  
  Watching the fey fumble, be it through the protective illusion or the toughness of her form, Alya does not care. Her turn. She shifts to offensive posture and launches a landbound attack on her flying assailant.
  
  Unarmed Strike #1:  (1d20+47)[ 63 ]  Damage  (4d8+26)[ 44 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 99 ]   (1d100)[ 50 ] 
  Unarmed Strike #2:  (1d20+47)[ 49 ]  Damage  (4d8+26)[ 48 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 42 ]   (1d100)[ 44 ] 
  Unarmed Strike #3:  (1d20+42)[ 47 ]  Damage  (4d8+26)[ 45 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 12 ]   (1d100)[ 38 ] 
  Unarmed Strike #4:  (1d20+37)[ 52 ]  Damage  (4d8+26)[ 50 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 53 ]   (1d100)[ 62 ] 
  
  Slam Attack #1:  (1d20+37)[ 51 ]  Damage  (2d6+23)[ 34 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 20 ]   (1d100)[ 91 ] 
  Slam Attack #2:  (1d20+37)[ 43 ]  Damage  (2d6+23)[ 27 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 19 ]   (1d100)[ 55 ] 
  Bite Attack #1:  (1d20+37)[ 39 ]  Damage  (1d6+23)[ 29 ]  Miss Chance (high hits)  (1d100)[ 26 ]   (1d100)[ 75 ] 
  
  Crunch:
   
   Spoiler 
  Free Action: Shift Law Devotion to boost attack
  Free Action: Activate Boots of Speed
  Free Action: Rage
  Full-Round Action: Bounding Assault
   
  
  
  
  Will continue after I know how that turned out.
  
  EDIT: Looks like 1 hit unless you pull something out of your hat. At any rate, I'm going to continue my turn in next post.
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  OOC: I forgot to mention, but as a part of the double move from Bounding Assault, I moved to AI31-AK33.
  
  Seeing her opponent slightly damaged, but definitely not hurt, Alya decides to resort to some heavier offense:
  
  Swift action: Take full-round action from Belt of Battle
  
  Greater Divine Surge:  (1d20+60)[ 80 ]  Damage:  (40d8+27)[ 190 ]  Miss chance (high hits):  (1d100)[ 50 ]   (1d100)[ 71 ] 
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  OOC: First attack hits, 34 hit points down.
  I... honestly hadn't though it that way about Lightning recovery. (The way things turned out, I wish I had: I had much better things to do with my swift action.)
  
   "If one of your melee attacks misses, you can initiate this maneuver to reroll that attack roll with a +2 bonus"  is rather vague. It doesn't matter now, I guess we'll ask for a DM ruling at some point.
  
  Go on, then. :)
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  Critical Confirmation:  (1d20+60)[ 66 ] 
  
  EDIT: Alright, by the looks of it that's 190+4d8+28 damage. Assuming I roll 1 on all those d8s, it's 222 total.
  
  Provided you survive that, it's your turn.
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  You mean standard action from the Belt of Battle. 😛
  
  Yeah, I expected that maneuver, and basically hoped for a nat 1, 2, or 3. And you roll a 20? Congrats. Even if I had done the sensible thing and taken Law Devotion to AC earlier, I would be dead as a doornail one round later.
  
  Moira falls on the ground, squashed.
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  Divine energies fill Alya's cactuar "fist" as she uses the moment stolen from time with her magic trinket to reposition herself for a resounding blow. The strike lands true, indeed, piercing the Gloura's mighty defenses and leaving her motionless in the ground.
  
  " Thank you for this...experience, my friend. Mayhap you shall see me in your guise next time! "
  
  
  Full-Round Action. Greater Divine Surge takes Full-Round to use. Fortunately Belt of Battle has the 3 charge option 😛 Also, I have the Luck-domain granted power so I can reroll one poor roll here.
  
  But yeah, Greater Divine Surge is  extremely  handy for taking down überhigh AC types like you. Of course, I could buff my To Hit slightly higher, but that would take precious time and risk getting hit by one of those bombs you like throwing around.
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  Oh right, full round action. Bounding Assault is an awesome maneuver to combine, then.
  
  Hmm, with an inspiration point AND Law Devotion to AC, it would be 50/50 chance to hit. More than I hoped, heh. Pity it could only serve me for 3 rounds, tops.
  
  Good game. 🙂
  
  Also, I apologize for a rather fluff-less fight. Sorry if I seemed... curt, I was kind of busy with the other match (and a couple of other things) and felt in a hurry. Next time, I'll try and be much more descriptive. :)
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  No worries, I can understand that multitasking makes one stick to bare necessities, and really, it's just a practice fight. I'm just trying to fluff it out a bit out of habit. And yeah, the further buffs I could've used in this fight would've been: Dual Stance (so I'd have a Diamond Mind stance active to fully activate my "weapon"), Animal Devotion (for +3 Str), Flying above you for Higher Ground (+1 to hit) and possibly activating Distracting Ember for 2 more.
  
  That would put me at ~+66 or so. Had I rolled anything decent with Knowledge Devotion, it could be 67-68 and were you one of my focus types, I could be rolling +70 but that begins to be the cap I can reach here so with my one reroll, I can with reasonable consistency hit AC 80, but no higher (of course, I have access to Emerald Razor for when that seems like the best recourse).
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  *claps*
  And I don't even  want  to know what you'll do with all the MMs and FF. 😦
  
  I would like a rematch some day, with the Saguaro again - if possible. Basically, my numbers can only reach this high, from there it's movement and, umm... action management. I honestly don't expect to survive (except by being  scandalously  favoured by Lady Luck), but I'd like to try.
  
  Thanks again for the fight, I truly enjoyed it. 🙂
conversations: nefele:
conversations: human
conversations:  Yeah, a new fight can be arranged provided she gets approved. I don't see why she wouldn't since she was fine for the first iteration of the arena, but one never knows. But yah, if that happens we'll throw down again.
conversations: Eldariel:
conversations: human
conversations:  It's a perfectly legal character, I believe.
  After your approval, then. :)
conversations: nefele: