"Ah-ah?" the knocked-down vampire feedlby thew up a pale, thin-fingered hand against Rose's guisarme, which only succeeded in losing it to a slash clean through the forearm. The vampire hissed as the guisarme cleft through and into his chest. He made an attempt to roll up, only getting as far as his knees and palms when the guisarme edge sliced through his neck, almost executioner's-block style. The fang-mouthed head rolled away, and moments later both head and body seemed to burst in smoky puffs.<br/><br/>In gray gaseous the body coalesced together, and began shifting slowly through the air towards the doors of the room.<br/><br/>Frida's flaming sword bit through the table as Aria hopped aside, cleaving it almost in two and scorching nearby wood and goblets with the flamed which danced up from the lenght of steel. Aria leaped back over the blade as Frida grunted to extract it. At the apex of the tiefling's arc, she whirled out one kukri in a crescent-shaped slash. She'd just reached high enough to drive the blade up through Frida's chin, just beyond the gorget. Blood came in a waterfall over the front of the armor after Aria and the knife passed by to land on the table. The giantess let go the sword, clapped a hand to her throat. She slumped to the stone with a great crash, unconscious and bleeding out.<br/><br/>Aria landed with a hop-skip across the table, bounding to get within her own reach of the troll. She battle-cried gleefully at the sight of Rose's guisarme crashing into the troll's skull and sending its gangly bulk toppling to the ston elike the vampire before.<br/><br/>Throwing herself down in a kneel at the table's edge, Aria held but kukris in backhanded grips. She made a series of downward stabs against the sprawled green giant, earning nasty gouts of greenish-red blood from pierced arteries. The howling creature went unconscious, but its wounds from both guisarme and kukri seemed to be closing and knitting themselves together at a page worthy of their own wand-healing. Aria grunted and kept stabbing, fearing the thing would get back up again, but even as she jabbed the blades' chiseled tirps through the helpless ugly thing's throat and eyes, the body regenerated.<br/><br/>"Huh?" Aria's eyes followed also the floating, ghost-like form of the vampire, which seemed lucid but uncaring about all things material now, as it drifted over the fallen troll and along the hall. Its face was trancelike, as if seeking to the exclusion of all other concerns. Even as Rose's guisarme found again the gaseous thing in its retreat, though it seemed somehow struck by the weapon, the substance of its form seemed no worse off than it already was. Aria slashed out as the thing floated right by her, somehow seeming to hit but not hurt it.<br/><br/><br/>Very nice synergy between Rage and Desert Terrain Mastery ^_^.<br/><br/>Good question about cover...yeah, I'll say not. Luckily makes no difference in this case...<br/><br/>You're right about the blink-miss on trip touches....thanks for thinking of that!<br/><br/>vampire hit (with 10 DR again) for 24, 28, 32, total dmg 111, reduced to gaseous form<br/>with 4th hit, troll hit for 43 (no DR here)<br/>touch attack hits, scrag oppposed check 21, tripped!<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Aria 2nd round</span><br/>Full attack at Frida, will 5' ne toward scrag if she drops Frida<br/><br/>main hand:<br/>blink Result: 84, 22, 79, 39,  (yay, no phaseouts)<br/>attack mods 31/26/21/16 (16 bab 10 dex 1+4 weapon 2 blink* -2 twf)<br/>four attack rolls with four threats<br/>Result: 4, 12, 9, 5, 18, 11, 15, 8, (no 15-20s on the first four, so no threat rolls used)<br/>mh1 atk 35 dmg 13+33, total 197, KOed<br/>5' step ne adjacent to scrag, attacks w/ +4 vs prone thanks to Rose<br/>mh2 atk 42 dmg 15+51<br/>mh3 atk 34 dmg 13+52, total 175 w/ Rose, KOed but regenerating<br/>(for some reason I have the idea that it's 'visible' that a downed troll is regenerating...and in any case with Rose's K(nature) she could call it out to Aria if needed...in any case it's already several rounds' worth of regeneration below 0 HP)<br/>Now its AC is lowered by being helpless (already has the prone penalty, and now has an effective Dex of 0, which subsumes the as-invis bonuses from blink)<br/>mh4 atk 25, dmg 12 + 54<br/><br/>off hand mods 21/26 (including the +4 vs prone/helpless)<br/>blink Result: 6, 73,<br/>oh2 roll and threat Result: 5, 7,<br/>atk 31, hit , dmg 8 +  49<br/><br/>(it's now at over -100 HP and at its more-or-less-visually-evident regeneration pace of 5 will take several minutes to heal)<br/><br/>Lower-cased the enemies' letters to connote their various states of KOedness<br/><br/>The vampire is in gaseous form and floating at 20'/round (double move) towards the doors.<br/>Using Rose's rolled AoO, she hits it as it flees, but observes the 'damage' has no effect. 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