"Right," Aria noted Rose's words and hand-gesture, understanding, and rather enjoying how well she and her companion were developing their battle-jargon. She figured she'd probably let Rose teleport them before launching an attack...<br/><br/>The centaurs were mounting, so to speak, their own attack, beginning to swarm towards the nearest edge of the court, and around both sides of the net onto the head of the long white-pebbled path. Each drew a dagger from somewhere, seemingly-naked bodies rippling slightly as they did so. The male to Aria and Rose's west spellcast again, the antics visible and audible eight times over. Sixteen hands flew out, whichever two were real. The pebbles around Rose and Aria suddenly erupted with hundreds of writhing, rubbery octopus tentacles of shiny, slippery dark hues. The things sought to writhe and slide and coil around the limbs of the two girls, and enshare them. The centaur laughed lewdly, "I don't know what it is with ladies and tentacles...but the sight just gets me every time!"<br/><br/>The two females racing down either side of the net, past the braying male centaur, exchanged glances. One muttered to the other, "Don't leave Arithex anything to play with!" Both spellcast, raising their hands and then dropping them outward. Columns of fire descended around Rose and Aria; the other male behind them laughed rudely, casting himself a quintet of five mirror images. The other male, with seven, laughed at him, "Always the me-too mageling, Daezvar, eh?"<br/><br/>Aria gasped as tentacles snaked in many coils about her legs, and squeezed painfully; she knew her legs would be bruising under her clothes. She was thankful both for the blinking, remembering Rose's trick getting out of the icy ooze, and for Rose's teleportive abilities. The two falling columns of flame were more the sort of magic she felt confident at avoiding, and so she did, twisting through the tentacles into around the edge of one fiery column and through a narrow gap in the billowing flame-cloud of the other. Too bad they didn't burn away the creepy tentacles, she reflected.<br/><br/>"Should we get out of these things for you to 'door us safely?" she wondered aloud to Rose.<br/><br/><br/><br/>'East male' not 'each male' :)<br/><br/>West male - move, draw dagger, cast Black Tentacles (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/blacktentacles.htm) centered on girls<br/>grapple check at Rose 21, dmg 8 if successful<br/>grapple check at Aria 33. dmg 8 if successful<br/><br/>West female - move, draw dagger, cast Flame Strike (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flamestrike.htm)<br/>dmg 14 fire + 14 'divine' (nonelemental), Reflex DC 20 half<br/><br/>East female - move, draw dagger, cast Flame Strike (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flamestrike.htm)<br/>dmg 17 fire + 16 'divine' (nonelemental), Reflex DC 20 half<br/><br/>East male - move, draw dagger, cast Mirror Image (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/mirrorimage.htm)<br/>5 images<br/><br/><br/>Black Tentacles and Blink: AFAICT, the tentacles don't need to make melee touch attacks (to which the 50% blink miss chance would apply) to initiate a grapple. Blink probably doesn't confer a miss chance to avoid the tentacles (it doesn't for area attacks generally, although for damaging ones such as the flame strikes it cuts damage in half). However, like with Rose engulfed in the ooze, I suppose Blink allows us to move through them even if grappled (as if the grapple was broken soon after the initial grapple and possible crushing damage.) Movement would be 1/2 speed (since black tentacles halves movement while in it, even if not grappled, so the blinker is 1/2 speed while material as well as 1/2 while ethereal). Let me know if you have a different inference.<br/><br/><br/>Aria:<br/>opposed grapple check: 17 + 4r = 21, grappled, takes 8 bludgeoning dmg<br/>Reflex saves vs Flamestrikes: 22 + 17r, 22 + 19r, both evaded<br/>(AFAICT being grappled doesn't impinge on Reflex saves or Evasion?)<br/><br/>Aria takes a delay action to go after Rose (knowing Rose intends to DD them).<br/><br/>If Rose got grappled and didn't have blink, she'd need to make a Concentration check to use the spell-like ability while grappled. But the 21 looks like a grapple check Rose is guaranteed to beat  (I don't think 1s are auto-failures on opposed attack rolls?), which Aria would observe before taking/delaying her turn, and Blink probably negates the need for the Concentration check anyway (but I don't feel 'sure' about that yet and you may think differently).<br/><br/>If I'm wrong, you can either let me know via an intermediary post like your other one or by having Rose delay back to Aria. If Rose needs to get out of the tentacle area to 'cast' DD safely, Aria'll move outside them.<br/><br/>It might also be that (despite Rose succeeding on the grapple, and her blink) that the tentacles count as a 'distacting spell' (as in the Concentration description (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/concentration.htm)) in which case the DC would be 19. If this is the case, I'll have Aria move outside the spell area (even if she doesn't know the mechanics herself, she could figure out from Rose's body language or speech, and if Aria used a delay action, Rose could delay right back.)<br/><br/>If Aria does have to move, she'll probably use a swift-move and make a ranged full attack to take out mirror images. (sniper's shot is also a swift action, so she can't make a full attack of long-range sneak attacks after moving, so it's another swift-action collision and a choice between one sneak attack or a full attack of regular attacks...figuring on the latter since most or all of the shots would just take out MIs anyway and dmg would be irrelevant.)<br/><br/>- 30' more feet n of tennis court before back wall of house<br/>- tennis court is 35' wide (ns), 75' long (ew)<br/>- 190' between tennis court and Rose+Aria<br/><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code"><br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -  <br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -  <br/>- - - - - - - |- - - - - - -  <br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -  <br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -  <br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - - <br/>- - - - - M - | - - M - - - - <br/>              F - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - F<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - - 50'<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - - 100'<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - - 150'<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              a r -<br/>              - - - 200'<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              - - -<br/>              a r -<br/></code></pre>