The false centauress cackled as Rose's guisarme blade phased out and swung through her several times, while she desperately poised her own hands and lips for her next spell. It never came, as the guisarme bit solidly and clove into her skull, knocking the already-prone creature back flat amidst the flowers.<br/><br/>Aria smiled as she darted around the anchoring pole at the edge of tennis net, clicking her heels twice. She raced, not quite directly to, but alongside the fleeing male centaur - her motive being to leave a a clear path for Rose if she charged him after downing her last foe.<br/><br/>Daezvar growled down at her as she icaught up, slashing out to both sides at his many cantering mirror images. A kurki popped one image, then found purchase between the the ribs of the true Daezvar, who howled and spat ichor over his bare chest. Aria blinked out before withdrawing the dagger, swishing it again haplessly on the ethereal plane, before blinking in and stabbing at what she<em>thought</em>was still the true Daezvar. Yet mirror images, she was finding, had an announcing habit of constantly jumping through one another, like a carnival charlatan playing the one-pea-under-three-cups game, and she popped out another mirror image.<br/><br/>Six copies of Daezvar remained, but on her fifth strike Aria got lucky, finding the real Daezvar again, and that probably only because the blinking left him surprised at her angle of attack. The kukri sliced between another pair of ribs, sending out blackish arcs of ichor with the rhythm of heartbeats. The male howled, falling backwards heavily onto the clay court.  His body flickered and shimmered, the mirror images vanishing - and the true body remaining was that of a fourth drider.<br/><br/>Aria spun about in place for a few times, double checking that all the centaurs - no, make that driders - seemed genuinely down, and that no more were about the gardens. "Still well after all those spells, Rose?" she called. "That golden pixie dust almost had me seeing naught but stars. I've some bruising from those tentacles, but otherwise, I think I'm okay. Oh, and it won't surprise you that those rings they're all wearing are magical, as are-" she gestured to the female body Rose had just brought down - in true drider form, the female drow top half was not barebreasted, but wore a breastplate of gleaming mithral, with a stereotypically drow 'spiderweb' motif over each breast cup, "-that rather busty armor of the females."<br/><br/><br/><br/>hit, 112 total dmg, and KO!<br/><br/>(Blink's +2 atk, and denying most targets their Dex bonus to AC, sorta makes up for the 20% miss chance!)<br/><br/>Double checking Rose's attack mod on her last FA: 17 + bab + 8 str + 5 weapon + 2 blink - 6 power attack = 26 for 26/21/16/11. Happily you also get +4 for attacking a prone target (yay trip!)....and +1 atk & dmg for the driders being underground terrain (I included the dmg on her past hit, just forgot to mention it to you).<br/><br/><br/>Aria: quicksilver and haste boots,<br/><br/>main hand +31/+31/+26/+21/+16  (16 bab 10 dex 1 haste 2 blink -2 twf 4 subtlety), of hand +27/+22<br/><br/>mh1, 31<br/>Result: 8, 3, 10,<br/>mi Result: 4,<br/>7 to 6 mirror images<br/><br/>mh2, 31<br/>Result: 4, 14, 1,<br/>blink miss<br/><br/>mh3, 26<br/>Result: 9, 18, 10,<br/>mi Result: 1,<br/>hit, dmg 13 + 51<br/><br/>mh4 21<br/>Result: 10, 9, 8,<br/>mi Result: 6,<br/>6 to 5 mirror images<br/><br/>mh5, 16<br/>Result: 7, 15, 17,<br/>mi Result: 1,<br/>hit (barely), dmg 13 + 48, slain<br/><br/>(very lucky with the mirror images there)<br/><br/><br/>x x - - - - - | - - - - - - -<br/>x x A - - - - | - - - - - - -<br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -<br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -<br/>- - - - - - - | - x x - - - -<br/>- - - - - - - | - x x - - - -<br/>- - - - - - - | - - - - - - -<br/>- - -<br/>- - -<br/>- R -<br/>- - -<br/>- - - x x<br/>- - - x x<br/>- - -<br/>- - -<br/>- - -