<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Sorry, sorry, SORRY about not posting in so long! Been in a slump, and it’s been a pain just trying to write what I have so far(and it’s not much…).<br/>On a side note, how much time does Vanika have left on her summon? The duration’s only ten minutes, and if everyone’s gotten VP for digesting their prey , then hasn’t about 4-9 minutes already passed?<br/><br/>EDIT: IC stuff added</div></div></div><br/>Vanika returns Yuki’s glare with an expectant smile, like a child waiting for praise. The Sergeant hadn’t lost her temper yet, but the tension in the air was hard to ignore.  And the eidolon seemed all too eager to fight back.  Her lips parted for half of a second as she licks her teeth.  A faint popping is heard as she flexed her clawed fingers.  She leaned in the guard’s direction, waiting for her to make the first move.<br/><br/>But it never came. Yuki’s self control bothered Vanika more than the guard’s anger. Time was short, and there was no guarantee that Larynn would bother summoning her again even if she did behave.  If Sergeant  Ananda wouldn’t snap, then Vanika would just have to egg her on some more.<span style="font-style: italic">”One more push should do it...”</span><br/><br/>But before the demoness could make chicken noises at the departing guard, she’s interrupted by a reptilian man with bloodstains on his clothes and midsection filled with something (or someone) addresses Yuki, bringing news that robs Vanika of the Sergeant’s attention entirely.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">”…The big blonde chick lived?”</span><br/>----<br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Caster level checks(using wands CL) to beat the Star Archon's spell resistance (DC 30).<br/>First check (1d20 + 1): 11 + 1 = 12, Failure.<br/>Second check : 1 + 1 = 2, Failure.</div></div></div><br/>Try as she might, Larynn couldn’t squeeze enough power out of her wand to get past the archons magical defenses. Now that the celestial was conscious, her resistance to spells was back in full force. While there was no denying that the aasimar wasn’t a real healer, she felt that she had to do something.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">”Maybe I should just ask her to lower her defense…”</span>Larynn wonders. She never gets the chance to ask though; as the sound of metal footsteps announces two new arrivals; a raven-haired guardswoman, and a large, gold-furred gnoll.  While the gnoll offered to provide real healing for the archon, the sergeant’s actions worried the cook.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Spellcraft Check to notice Yuki activating a nutrion(DC 15): (1d20 + 15): 17 + 15 = 32 Success.</div></div></div><span style="font-style: italic">“A Mental Note?”</span>Larynn ponders as Yuki activates her nutrion.<span style="font-style: italic">”Well, Guards use it a lot, but who is she sending a message to?  More importantly, what’s that message about? She looked at me, then Vanika….</span><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">”Oh right, the rune.”</span><br/><br/>Larynn had to fight the urge to trace her hand across her forehead. She knew she couldn’t hide her connection to Vanika, but hoped she could at least summon her eidolon without getting in trouble. If she had to guess, the mental note was a call for backup to arrest her and Vanika. The aasimar had hoped to end her first crossing night in her own bed, not in the cot of a jail cell.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">”Oh please, don’t let me get arrested…”</span>Larynn thinks,  as Dagnyr hoping things would work out once the archon was up and about. But things only seemed to get worse when the archon attempts to heal herself. Her own worries vanish for a moment when she sees the celestials anguish, but it quickly returns under the vindictive glare of Sergeant Ananda.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">”…Why me?”</span>