Laughing as the bloodied her, Elmorel screwed up his face in mystification as Kass began to spellcast, trying to vain to find and opening to disrupt the evasive caster...only to have his own right sword-arm tapped at the elbow by the bardess.<br/><br/>"What's it all for, anyway?" he kicked his feet up, doing a somersault in midair and laughing mirthfully. "Clearly am I the finer fencer, and thus I tire of this dance of blades...let us dance for life! Iankas, a merrier song!" he called in the direction of the isle, and he continued a weird three-dimensional aerial dance, almost resembling underwater ballet except faster, spinning over himself as often as he spun laterally.<br/><br/>Aria smiled, "I'm getting to like this spell..." She opportunistically slashed out at the suddenly undignified (if he had ever been dignified, on second thought) and undangerous elf lord, finally connecting, indeed slicing into the artery of an azure-skinned wrist as it flashed by.<br/><br/>She hovered back a step, avoiding a fine pray of violet blood - then telekinetically threw her other kukri, as she had once before. Perhaps he'd prove less adept at parrying or dodge thrown weapons.<br/><br/>She wouldn't find out from the kukri, phasing out at the moment of the throw. With the freed hand, she rapidly pulled it back over her shoulder and thrust forth again, conjuring and throwing a javelin of pure force - and three more after.<br/><br/>The first javelin left her hand before she phased in, and even the crazy lord-a-leaping cleared one javelin and laughed uproariously as he floated up to watch other sail beneath his crotch - but one other struck him in the solar plexus, and the elf doubled over with a groan, wind knocked out. Aria's eyes never left him as she caught the the magically boomeranging kukri back in hand.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Indeed, that -4 AC is quite welcome here...as well as the lack of attacks of course!<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Aria</span><br/>haste, AoO with kukri, then use gloves of throwing (swift) to throw mh kukri, then use mh iteratives for the gloves of endless javelins (not using TWF this round)<br/>(A returning weapon doesn't return until the beginning of the thrower's next turn - so it can't be used for iteratives, but I guess that at least leaves the hand free to use other thrown weapons, like when throwing non-returning weapons.)<br/>aoo mod 47 (23 bab 14 dex 5 weapon 1 haste 4 flanking)<br/>thrown mods 41 and 37/32/27/22 (23 bab 14 dex 5 or 1 weapons 1 haste 2 blink -4 throwing into melee), kukri 1d4+46, javelins 1d6+32<br/>kukri http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3076846/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3076846/)<br/>aoo 64 threat 64 crit 165+2str+3con and staggered (though it's irrelevant while he's under IDance)<br/>mh0 phase<br/>javelins http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3076847/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3076847/)<br/>mh1 phase<br/>mh2 32+6 miss<br/>mh3 27+19 hit dmg 117<br/>(a hit at a much lower attack roll than some of the melee misses, b/c of the IDance -4 and his Blind-Fight feat lets him retain his Dex to AC despite Aria's blink for melee attacks only, whereas Uncanny Dodge like the werejaguars had is both melee and ranged)<br/>mh4 22+13 miss<br/><br/>(She's actually still adjacent to Elmorel - so that Kass still has flanking bonuses if she attacks next round - but throwing doesn't provoke AoOs since he doesn't take them thanks to IDance.)