Sune reacted quickly to the beast's goring, kicking at it's legs a few times until the third caught it hard enough to knock it's legs out from under it, with her bringing her heel down upon it's skull with a sick cracking sound.  In a flurry of movement, she struck the creature several times, but it only ever squealed in pain for one of them.  It could take a beating, apparently, but it's movement ceased in an instance as the rapier slid it's way through it's spine, between vertebrae... and the creature quit moving about with one last long and drawn-out squeal of pain.<br/><br/>Checking her stomach, Sune shook her head, though the wound was not too terribly bad.  Wasn't even bleeding too terribly, not more than what she could do to patch it up anyway.  In fact, she was more concerned about other things...<br/><br/>"Another stained outfit... great." she muttered with a chuckle afterwords "Oh well, anyway, shall we haul it back?  I think Dawn knows how to skin and clean this thing better than I do, unless you'd care to do it, since you're the one with the blades."<br/><br/>Pushing it with her foot, the creature was easily the size of a horse, though with far more meat on his slightly smaller frame than one.  They would both be able to drag it back if they wished to without any real hassle at all.<br/><br/>Of fensive Defense** (Ex): When a rogue with this talent<br/>hits a creature with a melee attack that deals sneak attack<br/>damage, the rogue gains a +1 circumstance bonus to AC<br/>against that creature for 1 round.<br/><br/>Taken straight from the book, which actually states that she gets a +1 circumstance bonus, and it doesn't say anything about per dice of SA.  Not a very good ability in my opinion... but +8 Dodge is a bit excessive IMHO.  We might be able to arrange you picking another one if you'd like, but as it stands the most you could get is one per hit in a full-round attack, sadly.<br/><br/>Anyway, Sune ends up going before you, she uses a Trip attack, then another trip attack, then a third that actually succeeds, fourth attack hits, and attacks 5,6,7 all miss (sadly, it's mostly Natural Armor).  She does get an Attack of Opportunity on the beast which does hit as well, and Valencia doesn't get it because technically Sune goes before her, and she moved on her own turn.<br/><br/>Then it's your go, and because this was not a tough creature... well, it's dead now, so Congrats!  It was a modified Dire Boar if you're wondering, and also regarding XP: given the slower pace of this sort of game online, I tend to award XP in larger quantities and occasionally just tell you now and again that it's time to level up.  RP and puzzle-solving play into XP as well, so just because you don't fight something (like the last creature, a Weretigress Barbarian ^_^) doesn't mean you don't get XP.