<div class="floatleft"><strong>Darian Darklance</strong> (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2406680)<br/>(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/e8/89/07e8891cba321447068b2a50db679e9b.jpg)</div><div class="floatright"><strong>Ardar Blade</strong> (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2411843)<br/>(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/38/a6/99/38a699a4e03948eefe6af6a723352187.png)</div><br/>Darian once formed a connection to the remaining women, he spends a moment focus his energies, sending those energies aid Ardar, help protect him from potential near future harm with added awareness. He can do this focus on any one part of the collective, including himself. The deed however also refreshes his mind and body in regards to doing the higher combat arts, so he again as swiftly forms faces of the women part of the collective and then with surge pulls them beside him, below him, onto the balcony. Then he gazes at Ardar, seeing that one rescuer had got held to trolgre but at the same time one trolgres has bashed blindly inside to building with potential more victims. He sends him a surge of speed, psionically focus grant him movement and he has to make choice.<br/><br/>As he does so he looks down to women who were now teleported and says to them; "Your safe now, just head that way so you're out of the battlefield." Darian looks into the battlefield, he soon joins it himself as well now that most civilians and past victims are out of it.<br/><br/><em>Meanwhile</em><br/><br/>Ardar feels a rush of energy as trolgre fell by his attacks, draining the living psyche from his victim upon himself through his soulblade invigorates his killing frenzy which he keeps in check, controlled. There are many soulknives who surrender to their natural murderous instinct, disregard all morality altogether, and become merciless killers who gain revelry in slaughter. Such surrender, such freedom, is addicting but also absolutely corrupting. Poison and kill all empathy altogether near-instantly once you slip. He had lived both extremes; the revelry and complete denial which resulted in him loose his powers. After a long time he had achieved a zen-like balance between the two; not controlled by his frenzy but nor deny it being part of him. Denying oneself is never a good practice, it's spiritual self-mutilation. But surrender to your primal instincts you descend and become more an animal than human.<br/><br/>Once recovered from the rush, he sees the battlefield once more as he feels Darian fuel him with additional awareness and a surge of zealous wrath to finish this battle quicker. A trolgre entered inside an inn, blinded and stumbling around. There could be people hiding there and thus said trolgre would need dealt with and blinded would be easy prey for his blades. But more immediate and nearer is trolgre who had got hold of elven woman, the alchemist he recalls her, her companion is attacking trolgre already. But Ardar already can foresee that despite any attacks the woman does with her katana, it will not be enough harm or even distract trolgre savagely fuck the elf. Already slashes she did are regenerating nearly closed on trolgre's body. As he can see the trolgre's intentions clearing in tearing her clothes and readying tear next to her pants to allow his gruesome-sized and shaped organ penetrate the elf and wreck her insides.<br/><br/>Elf could maybe survive, if she has the same traits as the cleric of Sarenrae has, otherwise she may die just from internal damage done. What's more, once finished with her it could turn on the companion who is hacking at him and so instead of having one victim it may get two. Considering Ardar hasn't spotted yet anyone from inn and that these two other women are a higher priority; as they both protectors of city and so leading loss not just one but two protectors weighs more heavily than dealing with blind trolgre in the inn. That's how his mental scales worked, but perhaps the strongest influence came from crystal embedded on his forehead which whispered;<em>"Can you dare walk away from a woman screaming in horror and about get raped, in front of you?"</em><br/><br/>The crystal holds the last fragments of his original self, self before his transformation. Self who dreamed once being a hero. he no longer feels nor thinks of himself as a hero, but that's the root from which the tree grew from. Small and insignificant compared to whole, but it's still part of his core and perhaps submerged in shadows and be subtle influence guiding his actions even today. Albeit he rationalizes much more with logic his decisions than he did in youth on an emotion-driven basis.<br/><br/>So with a surge of speed, he moves, swiftly, to trolgre. Flank with the woman with katana. He tenses his muscles, channels Ki empower the blood flow and he slowly exhales and inhales, his blood and heart rate accelerates again to several hundred beats a second as he pushes his body beyond normal limits and unleashes both fast and powerful ripping and tearing attacks with his shadowy blades which leave a whirling storm of shadowy after images as he attacks trolgre in a full fury of a zealous dragon!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Darian used standard action to give Ardar aid another, +2 to AC vs next attack against him (thanks to class feature he does not need to succeed DC 10 attack roll check and do so despite the distance). Also besides recovering maneuvers, it activates Zealots <em>Zeal</em> class feature, gives +2 morale bonus to attack&amp;dmg for 3 rounds to him, the three women and Ardar (normally 1 round but trait extends it by +2). Then once recovered maneuver he spends 2 PP to <em>Reunion in Dreams</em> to teleport multiple women as a swift action. Then transfer move action to Ardar able to move.<br/><br/>Ardar spends his granted move action move to flank trolgre with Kaname, so thus benefit from +2 flanking bonus if possible. Then he uses power attack grant himself -4 to hit but +8 to his damage (dmg halved to his off hand attack). Thanks flanking and zeal he attacks with a normal melee bonus (while TWF'ing penalties applied), but with +6-10 dmg per attack and he repeats his earlier attack; swift action activate boost and full attack on trolgre while using stance which increases his dmg. As note forgot in dmg rolls +2 morale bonus in below (edited it afterward and second attacks had +8  when it should have been +6).<br/><br/>Attack: 32 hit vs AC (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152806), Base weapon dmg: 21 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152810) + Cold dmg: 1 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152814) + Stance+Boost dmg: 27 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152818) = 49<br/>Attack: 36 hit vs AC (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152807), Base weapon dmg: 17 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152811) + Cold dmg: 2 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152815) + Stance+Boost dmg: 15 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152819) + Strike dmg: 6 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152822) = 40<br/>Attack: 29 hit vs AC (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152808), Base weapon dmg: 21 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152812) + Cold dmg: 5 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152816) + Stance+Boost dmg: 13 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152820) + Strike dmg: 9 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152823) = 48<br/>Attack: 25 hit vs AC (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152809), Base weapon dmg: 21 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152813) + Cold dmg: 2 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152817) + Stance+Boost dmg: 22 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152821) + Strike dmg: 7 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=152824) = 52<br/><br/>Total dmg; <strong>189pts dmg</strong> (assuming no DR vs dmg or resistance to cold). AC 27 vs first attack and 25 follow up attacks and able use counter as immediate action.</div></div>