<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Status = Staggering away, a little hope creeping back in</div><div class="spoiler_body">In "microbreastplate" with lovely skirt and nipples exposed (AC+6, max +4 dex bonus, armor check penalty -2, 15% arcane spell failure)<br/>(Armor training, Arcane armor training (requires swift action to reduce spell failure chance, included above))<br/>Nipple hoops (AC+4)<br/>AC 24 (touch 22, flat-footed 20, -2 against improvised weapons)<br/>SR 19 (Spell Resistance, miniskirt)<br/>HP 86/105<br/>CMB: 9<br/>CMD: 23 (10 + Base + Dex) (21 against dirty tricks, Naive)<br/><br/>Spells remaining: 6 of 7 1st, 4 of 6 2nd, 3 of 4 3rd<br/>Without bonded object, need Concentration (+10 vs. DC = 20 + spell level) to cast<br/>Longbow +1<br/></div></div><br/>Rayne could only gape, dumbfounded, as Colossus wielded the Announcer and her half-born, terrifying progeny.  Rayne had regrets about leaving the Announcer, now, but... there really had been no choice.  Sylvia was out of action, Rayne couldn't hurt Colossus, and there were far too many of the demon's new brood all through the arena.  So engrossed was she - and grossed-out, and appalled - that it didn't even occur to her to take cover from the dangerous beams lancing down... it was a sight one couldn't look away from, surely the only time she would ever see anything like it.  Of course she recognized the beholder right away - a terribly appropriate offspring from the Announcer, though there wouldn't be much left of the poor woman once it completed its "birth".  Perhaps she'd be lucky - the beholder might, accidentally, kill her, freeing the player from this situation.  It was about the only hope Rayne had, for the Announcer and other inhabitants of the arena.<br/><br/>Fortunately none of the rays did any damage to the fleeing trio of heroines, and the elevator wasn't harmed enough to cease function.  "Good dwarven construciton, I guess..." Rayne said, automatically facing the exit doors as the elevator descended.  Then, with a few seconds to actually breathe and not act, she turned towards their saviour, Youmu.  "How... how did you find us?  I thought you'd be after the Stag...."<br/><br/><br/>Sylvia was conscious, and able to take action again - whether the demon's<em>suggestion</em>still had effect or not, there was no way for her to act on it now.  But the elf wasn't going to be able to fight for a while... Rayne wasn't too sure about herself.  It seemed her aim was unimpaired... but she really didn't want to contemplate how it would feel to try moving quickly.<br/><br/><br/>She nodded at Youmu's suggestion.  "Good idea, I'll try."  She really, really needed her bow... but if she could buy them more time.... "Go on, I'll try a web here.  Yes, I need to get my gear.  Where's the chute?"  She hadn't seen it herself, and hadn't bothered to grill Sylvia on its location... presumably it would be easy to spot.  But first, she could go nowhere without her gear.<br/><br/>Again it felt wrong to cast without her own bow in hand... the mystical symbols just wouldn't line up steadily.  She thrust her hand forward dramatically, but... nothing happened.  She tried again, as the sound of twisting metal from the locker room warned that creatures were breaking through... again the spell fizzled out, uselessly.  "Oh, darn..." the stairs were right by her, but something was coming down the corridor already; Rayne prepared her bow, hoping it would be something she could down quickly.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Knowledge (Dungeoneering): 1d20a7 DC: 23 Result: 26 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=95039) siccess<br/><br/>Concentration: 1d20a10 DC: 22 Result: 20 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=95040)<br/>Concentration again: 1d20a10 DC: 22 Result: 13 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=95041) nope nope nope<br/><br/>Out of TU, I believe!  Darned arcane bond... but I knew what I was doing when I took it.<br/></div></div>