The giantess continued to stab and swing the siege-weapon-size spear at Aria, who banked and flew in a twisting spiral around the spear shaft in desperate aerial maneuvring to avoid the insanely strong thrusts of the giatness. "You claim you slew my father!?" the giantess roared. "Whether you speak truth or lie, you shall earn your own skulls pounded to paste!"<br/><br/>The giantess snagged Aria out of the air briefly by biting into her leg; Aria screamed and sliced but the giantess spit her out again. As the tiefling twisted around with her wings to slice again, the giantess muttered out yet another squad of illusions - and a split second later, felt the abjurative magic. All vanished by the real one, who screamed in shock until Aria dove closer and plunged the kukri into the rumbling throat. She buried the blade to the hilt and nearly lost it, yanking it out as the giantess began to fall back. Static-crackling jugular blood sprayed across the tiefling, who shrieked and dove away, kicking off the giantess's chest.<br/><br/>The unconscious giantess crashed so heavily that the nearest rocks jumped up several inches from the slope, which the body slid down several yards before slowing to a halt amidst much kicked-up dust.<br/><br/>"<em>Thanks!</em>" Aria shouted over the tectonic din to Kass. "By the gods I hated her magic; thank you for unmaking it!" Wincing, she took out a wand in her free hand and began healing herself at Kass. Glancing at the great body she growled, "Two magic thing on her, one each hip pouch."<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>You can assume the runestaff is 3 lbs I guess (the ones in the MIC vary from 2-5 lbs) and is like a mw quarterstaff when used as a weapon. (The normal quarterstaff is 4 lbs; one made of the special material darkwood - which is like 'mithral for wooden things' - would be 2 lbs), which means it could be enhanced as a magic weapon.<br/><br/>Also I should've added before that normally a runestaff is only useable when the spell appears on the wielder's class spell list, but Kass has the UMD to always activate a wand or staff (DC 20) successfully and I figure a runestaff should be the same.<br/><br/>Since Greater MI is an immediate action (the giantess has been casting it on Aria's turn, in response to her first attack each time - sort of like an impulse Contingency), a regular standard action cast wouldn't dispel it (even if between her turn and Aria's, b/c the spell wouldn't be 'up' at that point, or rather you'd dispel the 'older' one which I gather is not your intent). But a readied action (which is also a standard action) would probably do it, so I'll do that.<br/><br/>Giantess:<br/>full attack Aria<br/>atk 37<br/>atk 37<br/>atk 34<br/>bite 39 dmg 15<br/>(Aria's pretty lucky her AC is 38 and not 37. That spear really hurts, as you can tell from last time! She took about 1/4th of Aria's HP and might've been able to drop Aria with another 3 hits or a spear's 3x crit.)<br/><br/>Aria:<br/>same full attack; giantess casts Gr. MI again; dispelled by Kass (AWESOME!)<br/>Aria main hand mods 37/32/27/22<br/>Result: 20, 19, 3, 16, 12, 3, 2, 14,<br/>atk nat2 threat 51 dmg 15+14+71, unconscious (was some mix of lethal and nonlethal dmg). Feels good to finish on a crit after all those MIs.<br/>I'm not sure, but I might've made a rules mistake that made Mirror Image much more powerful. The spell has a line<br/><br/>"While moving, you can merge with and split off from figments so that enemies who have learned which image is real are again confounded."<br/><br/>That might mean that, in between the caster's turns, opponents to hit it successfully can keep hitting the real one (until the caster has a turn and, presumably, would at least 5' step to reshuffle the images). For example Kass's 2nd and 3rd attacks would've hit b/c the first one hit, likewise some of Aria's earlier iteratives.  Let me know what you think.<br/><br/>Aria with 55 dmg total; 5x11 wand casts on self (back to 1 down) and 2 on Kass for 2x11 (now healed; she was 2 down before and took 20 fire.) Is using the 'other' lesser vigor wand; 50 to 43 charges. (Useful to have two partially used rather than one expired wand, in case they use them simultaneously later, etc.)<br/>