Aria nodded, and touched Rose, enjoying the rush of the dimension door (and the touch itself).<br/><br/>Suddenly the forest seemed less  high around her - for they were now over a dozen feet in the air, upon one of the trilithons, right amidst the picnic of the two elven vagabonds. Aria activated two of her self-speeding magics, fast taking a sap and hammer into hand. Rightbetween the two elves, she whirled herself about from one to the other, spinning almost in place and clattering the wine goblets with her footwork. The sap clocked one of the elves in a diagonal uppercut, then the other, then she whirled back to the fist with a smash across the temple. The fellow fell back with a thud possessing no elven grace, head lolling unconsciously. Aria spun about again but struck the elf across his mailed collar by mistake, hissed briefly, and whipped the hammer in other hand across. The flat head cracked against the elf's skull, and he too sprawled back on the trilithon surface, nearly spilling off to the grass below.<br/><br/>Aria swung her arm about underhand past her hip, whipped her head back, and tossed the hammer almost straight up. It struck the nearer spider across the center of its hundred-eyed face, and the creature shuddered bedazedly.<br/><br/>A mere moment later, it seemed to fade and vanish, and the other spider with it. Aria immediately recognized the phantasmal quality Rose had had when blinking at the temple, and she cried to the shifter now, "These spiders can phase ethereally, like us! And the other one's descending!" She waved her sap to mark its trajectory to Rose. Indeed it was, the think drifted down like a haunt, landing right next to herself and Rose with its still-ethereal eight legs straddling across one of the fallen elves. The creature didn't even properly fit atop the trilithon, but seemed to pinch and clamp its legs around the two sides, perching deftly like its tinier kin.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Aria: haste boots (free) and belt of battle (swift; to draw sap and hammer as a move action), then full attack<br/>main hand (sap) mods 24/24/19/14<br/>Result: 17, 15, 6, 2,<br/>mh1, west elf<br/>atk 41, dmg 9 + 35<br/>fails Fort; staggered<br/>mh2, east elf<br/>atk 39, dmg 12 + 39, staggered<br/>mh3, west elf<br/>atk 25, dmg 10 + 46, KOed<br/>east elf:<br/>atk 16, miss<br/>off hand (hammer) mods 24/19<br/>Result: 7, 14,<br/>oh1, east elf<br/>atk 31, dmg 9 + 53, KOed<br/>oh2, west spider<br/>atk 33, dmg 7 + 45, staggered<br/><br/><br/>Both spiders become ethereal (and thus invisible)<br/>East spider descends and ends up next to Rose and Aria<br/><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">. . . . . . . . . s s s <br/>. . . . x x x x r s s s <br/>. x x x x x x x a s s s<br/>x x x x . . . . . . . .<br/>x x . . . . . . . . . .<br/>x . . . . . . . . . . .<br/></code></pre>