The man smiled an almost intoxicated smile as Kass knelt down, then threw his head back against the mirror in response to the first cupping of his sac. The contact of her lips to his phallus had him shuddering and sighing with great delight. "Thus, your proper place," he stroked her hair, then patted her head somewhat condescendingly, like one petting a cat or daughter. His face seemed genuinely impressed though, with how ardently and exotically her tongue began to twirl about, how her face seemed so decadently worshipful of the cock against her face - and the bliss of its physical sensations once inside her mouth, pursed, wet, and succulently sucked.<br/><br/><br/>~~<br/><br/>Following streets around corners caused Aria to cut not a perfectly straight path following the compass, but in a way it was as well: as her direction changed the movement of the compass allowed her to triangulate and guesstimate Kass's distance, which the compasses never showed directly. And anyway, every block she traveled was a chance to seek what they sought; she passed one more inn as she went, briefly inquiring within about any guests with the traits they knew of, to no avail.<br/><br/>She rather loved what she'd seen of the architecture and the humor of the people so far - independent and ambitious but not cravenly so in most cases, her first impression - and rather wished she had naught to do but sightsee.<br/><br/>Finally she came to a corner whence, passing around it, the movement of the needle was sufficiently drastic that she could infer that Kass was 'within' that same block. As she went down the street, the needle moved closer to perpendicular to the storefront walls, until  finally she stood before the single-windowed 'Dryad's Den'. The present angle of the needle pointed in, and its angle just before turning the corner had shown Kass to be but a few dozen feet back - she was in the store, not behind it - and, by rotating the compass vertically, evidently not above or below ground. Hmm - the other compass<em>was</em>a few feet below her own....<br/><br/>Aria took care to peek around the edge of the window, hoping not to be seen by anyone inside - but she could see no one anyway. Perhaps Kass was inquiring about previous customers with some back room employee. Aria used her illusory ring to shift her hair to raven black, eyes to emerald green, soften and tan her face beyond casual recognition. Most importantly, she assumed a set of workaday lady's clothes, a shopgirl's or secretary's perhaps, with no evidence of her favorite and currently out-of-haversack weapons.<br/><br/>The handle wouldn't turn; Aria glanced about and seeing no undue attention on herself, simply activated her blink ring and phased through. She stood stone-still for a moment, listening - apparently to wet sucking sounds from behind the same indigo curtain to which the compass pointed. Through it she could sense a stunning number of magic auras, some rather strong.<br/><br/>This might be it, she realized! Or was Kass simply being<em>very</em>creative in her efforts to suck information out of some shopkeep?<br/><br/>The tiefling padded softly to the left wall, to approach the curtain at as shallow an angle as possible, lest she be glimpsed. As she drew closer, the noises grew more vivid; faint feminine breathing and not-faint-at-all masculine breathing. Between the sounds and the compass angle, Kass was kneeling in there; Aria went almost flat to the wall near the curtain, drew the Selunite dagger and a plain hammer, and listened while regularly reactivating her blinking state.<br/><br/>~~<br/><br/>The man nearly went cross-eyed and erupted in a more-than-whispered utterance, "Salty balls of Talos!" He doubled over forward partway, watching both Kass's bobbing head below and his partner's coy smile across the dressing room, and feeling his loins release mightily. The organ pulsated against the wet warm surfaces of the mouth which enveloped and pleasured it, and the tip spurted long, slick, slightly acidic and almost citrus-flavored cum across the back of Kass's tongue. He angled up slightly and began to splash against the back of her throat, while his partner laughed smugly, "That's it! See if you can trigger the gag reflex of our little suck-slut..."<br/><br/>Behind her, the curtain flew aside suddenly. A raven-haired lass drifted as much as stepped into view, whipping a silvery white beam or sword - it seemed like both spell and weapon - in from overhead. It drove through his throat; the man clutched haplessly at himself, unable to speak or breathe, and all went from silvery-white to black.<br/><br/>~~<br/><br/><em>Sometimes I feel like I'm falling through a moment I've lived before...deja vu?</em><br/><br/>The man nearly went cross-eyed and erupted in a more-than-whispered utterance, "Salty balls of Talos!" He doubled over forward partway, watching both Kass's bobbing head below and his partner's coy smile across the dressing room, and feeling his loins release mightily. The organ pulsated against the wet warm surfaces of the mouth which enveloped and pleasured it, and the tip spurted long, slick, slightly acidic and almost citrus-flavored cum across the back of Kass's tongue. He angled up slightly and began to splash against the back of her throat, while his partner laughed smugly, "That's it! See if you can trigger the gag reflex of our little suck-slut..."<br/><br/>Even amidst such an epic orgasm, the man had found his imagination preoccupied with the images a female assassin running his throat through with a spell-sword. He gasped even as his hips pushed against Kass's face before he drew back out, a long arc of cum dangling between phallic tip and lower lip. His hands flew up with the fingers curling, a clear precursor to spellcasting. His upper body seemed to sway and his eyes, as they had with the tossed coin-pouch and the drunk youths, seemed to follow something through the air - toward him, in this case - even though nothing was there; a phantomime dodge.<br/><br/>~~<br/><br/>Aria, listening, heard both masculine swearing and grunts, then something from the female who wasn't Kass - he was probably orgasming, or in any case seemed especially distracted.<br/><br/>She triggered the moonblade magic of the dagger, watching as the short stiletto blade became obscured within an extending rapier 'blade' of pure moonlight, or so it seemed.<br/><br/>Holding it for a split-second more around the edge of the wall, she moved the rest of her body slit parallel to the curtain, which with the hammer she pushed aside.<br/><br/>The sight would've been rather amusing in circumstances where the population and structures of the city around them might not've hung in the balance. As it was, Aria sized up the scene within about as quickly as one would hope of one who made a career of ambushes.<br/><br/>In a blink of her mind's eye, she traced out her first attack at the man - and noticed with a chill that he already seemed to be moving as if to dodge exactly that attack.<br/><br/>Instinctively she thrust out, and before she quite realized it, sliced the tip through the throat of the man, apparently having 'led' the motion he'd made in response to the attack she<em>would</em>have made.<br/><br/>Despite all that, he desperately spellcast. Then his body jolted, as if the magic had surged back in somehow, scrambled by something more mysterious than the physical pain of the blow. Aria for her part jolted as well - her attack had earned some sort of backlash from some nasty magic of the man's, though to no ill effect so far that she could tell.<br/><br/>Aria jabbed the glowing rapier tip repeatedly; her next attack phased out, but even as she drew her blade back ethereally, and forth again, the man seemed to be dodging! She reappeared just before her next jab, but the man flicked his head, taking a graze along the chin. Aria felt another backlash muscle-spasm and realized he, like herself, could either see ethereal things, or had some other ability like the annoying persistant prance-dodging of the babau demons and Sharran satys.<em>And</em>the man began blinking, like herself! She'd seen no more spellcasting; some sort of contingency or quickened spell. Paranoid wizards...<br/><br/>She whipped the blade to the yet-unaware-seeming woman, slicing open the back of her neck to the bone. Aria felt the same backlash from her, but flicked the moon-rapier back across, making a parallel slice. The next phased out - while ethereal, Aria glanced over to the man, seeing him upon the thereal plane as well. She spun her other side towards the woman, dropping her hammer to draw and drive the kukri into the back of the woman's neck, solidly material. The blade severed the spine, and the tiefling continued across towards the man, but phased out again - just as he phased material!<br/><br/>His face riveted as he saw the woman drop; abruptly changing character. Aria realized what Kass had before - he'd been under an enchantment. And suddenly wasn't.<br/><br/>"Look through my pack's notes and spellbook for the very worst of the spells," he shouted in a Waterdhavian-educated tenor voice, drawing a rod and uttering a cast. "Let it never be known or cast again. Erase and destroy the knowledge from page and brain, thoroughly - as thoroughly as this!"<br/><br/>Kass would recognize the magic; pure disintegration. A beam sprang from the man's palm - aimed at his own torn throat. Once it struck, there was no man, merely a pillar of ash. It held up his clothes - the 'true' set of clothing, jewelry and pack Kass had seen through the illusion - for a split-second, like the corset-and-garter-wearing wooden dryad in the center of the store, then collapsed into a fine powder upon the crimson carpet.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Rolled 2 hours for Gather Information (on the 1d4+1) for both girls. Then added 1d60 minutes for Aria's arrival (came out to +15, and Kass did very nicely preoccupying them for 15 minutes) - otherwise you get bizarre metagame 'top of the hour' effects with there being a 1 in 4 chance of ending at the exact same moment.<br/><br/><br/>Aria blinking and evokes moonblade as a rapier (says 'any type of sword'; probably doesn't include kukris)<br/><br/>Surprise round for Aria...and the man<br/><br/>Aria init 21<br/>NPC init 19<br/><br/>Aria:<br/>attack man with moonblade<br/>Man applies Moment of Prescience (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/momentOfPrescience.htm) to his AC<br/>mod 20 bab + 10 dex, dmg 1d8+8 (Str damage doesn't apply but Insightful Strike does, and sneak attack, potentially)<br/>blink roll 81<br/>atk nat20 threat 30+10 confirmed (amazingly, despite the MoP...helps that moonblade makes touch attacks),<br/>dmg 20 + 54 + 2 Str + staggered<br/>Blacklash: Aria makes Fort save 26 + 15r<br/><br/>Man:<br/>Casting defensively: Time Stop (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/timeStop.htm) (Kass recognizes verbal component via Spellcraft)<br/>fails Concentration check due to moonblade magic scrambling<br/><br/>First round<br/><br/>Kass init 13 (roll of 11; mod of +2)<br/><br/>Aria:<br/>haste books, begin full attack at man, mods 29/29/24/19/14<br/><br/>Trying Invisible Castle - has nice 'notation' for doing a full attack in one go, with condtional extra rolls when blink rolls succeed or attack rolls are threats<br/>Did name = ff, number of rolls = 7, dice = 1d20.extra(5).extra(15)<br/>(This means it'll roll a d20, and if this is 5+, will roll a second d20, and if that's 15+, will roll a third. The first is the blink miss roll, where 1-4 is the 20% miss chance, the second is the attak roll - only done if the first succeeded - and the third is the threat roll, if the attack roll was 15+. Her kurki threat range is 15-20 and her rapier threat range is the normal 18-20.)<br/><br/>http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2926162/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2926162/)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [4] = (4)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [[16, 10]] = (26)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [[7, 18, 7]] = (32)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [[9, 9]] = (18)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [2] = (2)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [[14, 13]] = (27)<br/>1d20.extra(5).extra(15) → [[18, 6]] = (24)<br/><br/>mh1: blink miss<br/>mh2: atk 29+10, dmg 11 (no sneak attack dmg despite her blink!)<br/>triggers Continengy: Greater Blink<br/>attack woman next (b/c she doesn't seem to be able to sneak attack the man)<br/>mh3: atk 24+18(+2 from blink), threat +7, crit 25+73 + 2 Str + staggered<br/>mh4: atk 19+9, dmg 10+71<br/>Blacklash: Aria Fort 26+3r, pass<br/>mh5: blink miss<br/>off hand: drop hammer, draw kukri; mods 36/31, dmg 1d4+12 (includes subtlety and blink)<br/>oh1: atk 36+13, dmg 13+64, slain<br/>Blacklash: Aria Fort 26+6r, pass<br/>oh2: attack man<br/>(They are both blinking, and she can see ethereal but not strike ethereal except when she is ethereal; I believe the miss chance is 36% - 20% from hers and 20% from his)<br/>blink roll 13, miss (out of 100; not using the above one b/c 36% doesn't go into 20)<br/><br/>Man:<br/>draws rod, casts Disintegrate (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/disintegrate.htm)...on himself<br/>makes Concentration check against the moonblade<br/>voluntarily fails Fort, is damaged and disintegrated<br/><br/>As you may have guessed, he had Foresight active (hence his precognitive behavior, acting in the surprise round, and not being flat-footed) and See Invis (hence Aria not getting sneak attack dmg from blink, except via Telling Blow on the crit). He also had Moment of Prescience, as mentioned above, and a few other spells. The Fort saves were b/c of Unholy Aura cast by the priestess (which can deal Str damage to those who hit the warded character with melee attacks).<br/><br/>Each of the pair had certain spontaneous-metamagic feats or class features to make some buff spells last all day. And some of their buffs are hour/level spells that can last all day at their level with 1-2 castings or Extend Spell. For example, the illusory guises were Seeming (like Disguise Self except multi-person and lasts 12 hours.)<br/><br/>I wasn't sure how being in Kass's mouth would be represented (grappled? etc.) - generally maybe her getting the option of a 'grapple' check if he tries to pull away, if she weren't flat-footed (for example a situation where the counterparty hadn't had Foresight and she'd beaten their initiative).<br/><br/>Despite their ridiculous buffs it was a very effective strategy Kass pulled off - allowed starting the battle in melee range, the priestess being unaware for awhile, and with very tight quarters for them; and without Foresight of course only Aria would've gotten a surprise round. (Couldn't think of a way for them both to have a surprise round).  Just mentioning in case you thought Kass's strategy didn't work as well as you hoped (i.e., it did; Foresight would affect pretty much any ambush strategy).