Belias tried to turn as Kass danced around him, and soon was howling as her vibrating sword slid clean through his armor at the belt, plunging in nearly to the hilt, impaling the great creature from belly button to the small of the back. Steaming-hot blood gushed as her blade withdrew, literally catching fire as it met the oxygen of the air. The wounded giant roared, rearing its upper body back, and lifting the axe overhead with both arms for a series of from-on-high executioner-style chops at Kass, splitting the stone and cage-grates of the floor with t hose that missed her.<br/><br/>Aria zipped toward one of the kytons, blinking out, and while it couldn't see her positioning her blades for an attack unseen - until she phased back in just in time to cross the curving inner edges of the blades around each side of the fiend's throat. It seemed to react intuitively to the attack, already attempting a skilled dodge even when it couldn't see her, but found itself with its neck trapped and nowhere to go for that split second. The blade edges severed all the way around, almost decapitating the thing save for the spine itself. The nearest kyton howled and reached for it, snarling again as Aria vanished, phased right through its body, and appeared behind it - likewise encircling its neck with both blades, and rending lethally, even as they thing made a gamey attempt to evade.<br/><br/>Her body blurred with a burst of speed-magic, shifting several paces over and behind the next kyton just as it began to move towards where she'd been. As she passed behind it, she sliced both kukris to her own left side, attempting to sever the verbetrae at the back of the kyton's back - but the thing moved with a prenetnatural intuition and anticipation of her attacks, taking shallower slices than she might've hoped.<br/><br/>It howled, staggering back and gesturing with its arms. It and the other standing kyton commanded yet more chains to dance and strike at the tiefling, who sidestepped and ducked several. She then phased out, yet more chains striking the stone of the column behind where she'd been.<br/><br/><br/>Kass crits for 79 - 3 (DR) (and yeah, fire immune)<br/>Belias saves vs stunning<br/><br/>Wow, really high DC on the stunning surge! Very neat. And will continue to scale nicely.<br/><br/>I meant that only 2 were targeted and both made it (as you may've guessed from the power of their attacks, and their luck on saves, the kytons are advanced with extra outsider HD as well as Fighter levels. That's why so many resisted the heaven's trumpet before - high Fort from the natural Con and the fighter levels.)<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Aria</span><br/>charge southmost kyton<br/>some roll array as last round<br/>http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2988319/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2988319/)<br/>(oops, +2 sacred atk/damage no longer applies...so subtract 2 from damages..nd the mods are 43/38/33/28)<br/>(+4 atk, +5 dmg for mh)<br/><br/>mh1 crit 120+46+2str,con<br/>oh1 crit 207+42+2str, con, slain<br/><br/>attack kyton just n of last:<br/>mh2 crit 114+45+2str,con<br/>oh2 crit 92+39+2str,con, slain<br/><br/>activate quicksilver boots to move just north of between other two kytons (so adjacent to both)<br/>attack south kyton<br/>mh3 hit 16<br/>(It has Blind-Fight, which foils invisible-attacker bonuses vs her melee attacks; so, they don't add SA damage due to blink nor get the +2 attack bonus nor check flat-footed AC. All the other kytons had Blind-Fight, but the first four attacks were crits and so Telling Blow applied, and in the past kyton battles she happened to be using ranged attacks.)<br/>oh3 hit 14<br/>mh4 nat1<br/>oh4 crit dmg 116+40+2str,con<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">kytons</span><br/>5' steps away; dancing chains at Aria again<br/>1st phase<br/>2nd phase<br/>3rd atk 38, miss<br/>4th phase<br/><br/>5th atk 44 miss (thanks to Inspire Heroics!)<br/>6th phase<br/>7th atk 35 miss<br/>8th atk 37 miss<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Belias</span><br/>Full attack Kass<br/>Kass's AC is 48 with the dodge from IH I think (I batch-rolled damage for every attack in any case, but for convenience only listing any I think hit)<br/><br/>1st atk 59 dmg 33 + 4 fire<br/>2nd atk 40 miss<br/>3rd atk 49 dmg 30 + 5 fire<br/>4th atk 46 miss (thanks to IH!)<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><br/><br/>                                                             X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X<br/>                                                             X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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