The pink-corsetted Babau which had claw-slashed Aria grinned as Kass literally danced evasively behind it. "You don't look so strong either..." when the sword flashed out more swiftly than it had expected, clipping its thick-corded neck and drawing caustically hissing blood. "The noise, the noise!" it howled, its head seeming to vibrate from the sonic aftershock the musically quivering blade delivered. The heat and flame of its edge, however, seemed not to hurt the fiend-flesh at all.<br/><br/>The other babau taunted its own injured fellow, "Style over strength, it seems!"<br/><br/>"Nice manuevering!" Aria called to Kass, impressed with the bard having already picked up the tactic's importance to her after the marilith fight. She drew her favoite kukri and made several quick slashes at the struck creature, but it was artfully twisting to face Kass and Aria with an arm each and bobbing its head gamily back and forth. Most of Aria's slashes drew blood, but the creature was just evasive enough to keep her from striking just where she wanted and opening arteries or ruining joints. Soon she dropped her bow and brought a second kukri to bear, finding that blade hurt it even less. She hissed several times, while the babau in between her and Kass laughed, "Dance, magic, dance! And tell me," it said to Kass, "Where<em>did</em>you get that outfit! I shall<em>have</em>to try it on...after devouring your corpse within it!"<br/><br/>The other, white-corsetted babau which had attacked Saturnia now leaped back to the corner of the hall, its body flickering like a silhouette or shadow of its former self as it did so. It planted one foot against the wall and then, like a shadow dancing upon a wall with no person to call it their own, leaped down again through the beaded curtain and opposite its fellow from Kass; obviously seeking to flank her in turn. It landed with a downward swipe of one claw, and then shouted in a deep baritone voice across Kass to its fellow, "Fine, you can have her clothes! But<em>I</em>call her scalp and that gorgeous hair! I've not had a decent wig since you ate my last, you brute!"<br/><br/>The injured, pink-corsetted babau made several hasty swipes and even a chomping bite at Kass as well, always keeping a gamey eye on the attacking Aria. Scowling at the uncannily evasive babau, Aria glanced at her own wetted kurkis and called, "My cold iron weapon hurts it better than the other!"<br/><br/>"That's not nice! T' give away our secrets!" The other one laughed, then growled and hissed as Saturnia spellcast, pointing at it with a dismissive gesture and growling, "Get...thee...gone!" The two outsiders seemed locked in a battle of wills for a brief moment, but then the babua's face relaxed and it giggled merrily.<br/><br/><br/><br/>You don't need to roll when you're guaranteed to make the check (like the DC 15 Tumble for avoiding AoOs at half-speed, or 25 for full speed). I like to call it 'taking 1'.<br/><br/>Double checking Kass's attack mod: BAB 13 + 8 Cha (slippers) + 8 Cha (snowflake wardance) + 5 weapon + 3 morale<br/><br/>Yes, Snowflake Wardance adds Cha to atk but not dmg, I think (so with the slippers it's 2xCha on attack and 1xCha on dmg), as you said in your edit. Also I think the echoblade sonic damage is +9 rather than +8 (it's = 1/2 bard level).<br/><br/>Thanks, I forgot that Inspire Courage adds to dmg as well as atk; Aria's atk vs the babau should've been 12 dmg.<br/><br/>Kass hits; all fire and 10 physical damage resisted, for 18 dmg; babau at 30.<br/><br/>Indeed, it has Improved Uncanny Dodge. (Bad news for Aria, being a multiclassed rogue - since IUD vs checks attacker's rogue level vs defender's level(s) in IUD class(s)es and the rogue usually have to be 4 higher. Since Aria is a Rogue-4, this means she generally can't get the flanking bonuses / sneak attack anything with IUD!)<br/><br/>Aria: haste (3/10), draw kukri, attack mods 30/30/25/20/15 (17 bab 10 dex 1 weapon 1 haste -2 wf 3 morale) damage 1d4+10 (1 weapon 2 str 4 insightful strike 3 morale)<br/>Result: 8, 6, 19, 11, 6, 14, 3, 1, 20, 11,<br/>(for kurkis I'll often roll the confirm rolls upfront and only use if the corresponding original rolls are threats, since they have a wide threat range. The order will always be regular attack rolls, then threat rolls...although maybe after this round I'll alternate, i.e. group the pair of each attack together, since that's the order they are actually used.)<br/>atk 38, dmg 11<br/>atk 36, dmg 14<br/>atk 44, threat is a nat 1 (too bad! would've had Telling Blow to 'recover' sneak attack damage despite IUD), dmg 14<br/>atk 31, dmg 14<br/>atk 21 miss<br/><br/>off hand mods 30/25, dmg 1d4+9<br/>Result: 12, 14, 11, 3,<br/>atk 42, dmg 13-10 (10 damage resisted - worth noting the only 'DR' difference between her main and off hand kukri is that the former is cold iron)<br/>atk 29, dmg 11-10<br/><br/>babau total 87 so far<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">'right'/north/I7 white-corsetted babau</span>(0 dmg)<br/>move with hide and tumble (DC 15) to G8, to flank Kass<br/>hide check 37<br/>claw atk nat20 threat 28 not confirmed? dmg 18<br/>[since the flanking gives it sneak attack dmg, the only difference a successful Hide would make is to deny Kass her dex bonus to AC vs its attack roll. If her AC is 35 and flat-footed AC is 30 then I think it's a regular hit either way. If it matters and/or you want to, roll a spot vs the hide and if Kass succeeds, she's not denied Dex vs that attack. The act of attacking would 'reveal' the babau after it 'hid'.]<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">I8 pink-corsetted babau</span>(87 dmg)<br/>full attack Kass<br/>claw 34<br/>claw 25<br/>bite 26<br/>(includes their flanking bonuses - so all misses vs her AC 35?)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Saturnia</span><br/>casts Dismissal (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/dismissal.htm) on the undamaged (I7 to K8) babau; CL 14th, DC 17 + her CL - its HD<br/>beats its SR<br/>it nat20s its save<br/>Saturnia 5' east<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><br/>  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P <br/>1         . .     . .<br/>2         . .     . . <br/>3         . .     . .<br/>4         . .     . .         . .<br/>5         . . . . . .         . . <br/>6         . . . Sa. .         . .<br/>7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br/>8 . . . . . . . A B K B . . . . .      <br/>9         . . . . . .         . .<br/>10        . . . . . .         . . <br/>11            . .<br/>12            . .<br/>13            . . <br/>          (to street)<br/></span>