When Aria was alongside Kass, guessing and sharing the bardess's thoughts she said, "If you don't want them to see where we go...one option is to go out of sight in some random direction, employ your invisibility magic like you used on the girl from the pyramid, and then double back to go where we actually want to..."<br/><br/>The two male elves calmly milled about the table for a minute, but seemed to somewhat regain senses of themselves, as if waking from a dream, while Breora, physically exhausted, remained kneeling and panting by one corner of the table.<br/><br/>Once Kass and Aria where scarcely a hundred feet from the edge of the isle, the elf lord abruptly vanished.<br/><br/>He reappeared right in front of Kass and Aria, as if nearly to cause an aerial collision, but laughed mercurially and leaned back as it to avoid any such contact even if they'd failed to. ""So soon!?" the elf lord pouted, "But you've still not told me of this dragon! And such games we might play with each other..." his eyes twinkled, "Such pleasures and such games!"<br/><br/>His countenance seemed brighter than it had before, and Aria couldn't help but feel something magnetic about his visage...but the sensation was dulled by something else. Her own ward, perhaps! Was he...<br/><br/>...well, what he was<em>certainly</em>doing was drawing - nay, manifesting like her moonblade-from-the-dagger - two swords of pure energy right into his hands. Like straight-spined snakes they darted forth, thrusting and slashing rapidly through the air, the technique flamboyant, arrogant, but undeniable beautiful - and skilled. Aria had a glimpse for hast she herself might become if her own fencing skill were redoubled with further training; who knew how many decades of experience this decadent elf had...<br/><br/>She realized he seemed perfectly ambidextrous of mind and both body; one sword and arm assaulted each of the girls to no distraction or detriment of the other. Aria's head whipped around as a sword tip caught her in a long slice down one cheek. She looped over another slice of the blade, flying briefly over the man to put him between herself and Kass, and activated her ever-favored ethereal defense against such attacks.<br/><br/><br/><br/>100' to west of edge of island and 100' above water surface<br/><br/>Elmorel: charm monster gaze at Aria and Kass again (and nymphs if w/i 30'? where are they and Volera in relation to Kass?), Will DC 53<br/>Aria: mind blank<br/>rolling for Kass (saves a post cycle): Result: 15, saves<br/><br/>Initiative<br/>Elmorel 39<br/>Aria 32<br/>Kass 25<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Elmorel</span><br/>draws swords, TW full attack<br/><br/>at Kass (53 flat-footed AC vs melee?):<br/>1st atk 71 dmg 17<br/>2nd atk 64 dmg 22<br/>3rd atk 62 dmg 23<br/>4rd atk 59 dmg 24<br/>5th atk 51 miss<br/><br/>at Aria:<br/>1st atk %miss (due to her cloak of minor displacement)<br/>2nd atk 60 dmg 22<br/>3rd atk %miss<br/>4th atk 46 miss<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Aria</span><br/>activate blink, tumble to opposite side of Elmorel (i.e. flank with Kass)