The second deathknight looked over its shoulder, saw Rose leaping, and made an effort to twist and catch the attack at a glancing angle off helm or edge of armor. By sheer power, it bit through the armor at the shoulder, and Rose could feel the creature's spine and ribcage splintering apart inside the metal hull of the armor. It dropped its lance and fell forward with a clang of metal, rattle of separating bones, and tearing of dry strips of flesh.<br/><br/>Aria stepped around the podium on the heels of the she-death-knight who seemed in denial about her 'age', as it were, the other kukri sliding into hand. She clicked together her boot heels, and also the black bracers she wore, their curving surfaces etched with abstract stylization. She felt and almost saw something of the negative energy coursing through the being in front of her, like personal ley lines of the creature, cords where the unholy animating forces flowed. Cords which just might be cut.<br/><br/>She stepped around the creature's brandished lance, and sliced out horizontally with a kurki at that ghastly face. She phased out, phasing in with the kukri already past it; she backhand-sliced, and phased out again! With a third stroke she plunged the kurki tip along the center line of that ill-preserved face, causing the death knight to shriek horribly. The she-fiend knocked Aria's shoulder away with her lance shaft, spinning the redhead halfway around.<br/><br/>Aria arced her second kukri overhead and around, chiseling between gorget and helm. She felt and heard a pop; vertebrae separated, and the helmed head rolled to the floor, followed soon by the body.<br/><br/>Aria grimaced as the helm rolled away from the head; the latter still had a full scalp of long, painstakingly braided and powdered ash blonde hair; the particular shade and style of braiding both rather reminded her of Sara's. It wasn't the same head of hair she was sure, but there was some common fashion or technique between the two.<br/><br/>The chapel and mansion beyond were now quiet, with no stirrings or crashing or laughter, just the evidence of prior mischief from the rudely tossed ecclesiastical offices through the opened two of the sanctuary's four side doors.<br/><br/>Aria turned about, having noticed Rose's slight divine 'burn' from the vengeful she-knight, calm care and concern in her voice. "You okay, Rose? Glad you have the wand! If there was any other ill effect, well, divine healers can be found a plenty in this quarter of a goddess!"<br/><br/><br/>KOed (65 is its HP!)<br/><br/>The reflex style works for me! More like blocking than literally 'cutting' anyway...I should gave Aria a cloak for hers or something...<br/><br/>Aria third turn: draw 2nd kukri (free action w/ its crystal - she's been drawing 1 while moving to have something out for AoOs but more options to draw something else until she actually TWFs), 5' toward third death knight, activate haste boots (free) and deathstrike bracers (swift; overcomes creature-Type-trait immunity to precision damage for one round), FA<br/><br/>same '3d20' convention as last time; mods 29/29/24/19 and 25/20<br/><br/>Result: 3, 3, 4,<br/>blink miss<br/>Result: 7, 4, 2,<br/>blink miss!<br/>Result: 5, 10, 15,<br/>hit, dmg 14 + 45 (SA b/c of blink and the bracers)<br/>Result: 6, 15, 16,<br/>miss (atk 25, its AC is 26)<br/>(off hand)<br/>Result: 9, 12, 12,<br/>dmg 7 + 43, KOed<br/>(close one...)