The sphere rippled violently above Kass, its substance separating like ocean-water parted by a prophet of old; it was getting decidedly smaller now, less uniform of character, and less composed.<br/><br/>Aria, after parrying the angel, phased out and took a swipe at the man's throat - she phased in just in time, but he seemed instinctively to've anticipated what she'd do while ethereal and thus unseen. Like his devil counterparts, the seeming-angel managed to flinch enough to turn the slash into a shallower graze across the corded muscle of his throat.<br/><br/>"Who trained all these interlopers!?" Aria scowled under her breath. "And why do they have to be visiting the plane I'm on..."<br/><br/>Belatedly it occurred to her that Zeromus had called them interpolers - of course, from her own and surely Kass's point of view, the others were the ones unwelcome, not just in the pyramid but Mulhorand or the Prime entirely!<br/><br/>She timed a strike with her other kukri to strike the silvered blob in sync with Kass's sword from underneath. What remained of its substance splashed outward in a dozen gravity-defying directions, leaving Aria and Kass to face another.<br/><br/>Aria spun back to the angel, spinning around him and away from that large sword, scissoring her kukris together across the front and back of his neck. This time he didn't quite escape it; the throat rended deeply. The man's white-feathered wings stilled, and he plummeted abruptly to the rubble alongside his first fellow.<br/><br/>Relief was short-lived: the scattered substance of the sphere coalesced above their heads, into the form of an angel-like being half again as tall and broad-shouldered as the other four. Its mithral armor gleamed silvery-green, the breastplate embossed with am emblem of weighting scales.<br/><br/>White wings beat almost leisurely, keeping it aloft with with almost levitative stillness for its size. The face was handsome like the earlier angels', yet seemed elder, with a flowing but neat white beard and hair. It spoke.<br/><br/><strong>I am the judge, Exodus.</strong><br/><br/>Taking its massive adamatine sword in both hands, it assumed an almost knightly kneel in midair, with its legs pulled in, and its blade downthrust before itself; ever-so-quickly, it seemed also to mutter something like a prayer under its breath, a divine magic Kass would recognize as intended to augment its own prowess with samesaid sword.<br/><br/><strong>You the guilty shall find no pardon this side of death.</strong><br/><br/>It plunged down at Aria, driving at her center with the tip of the sword.<br/><br/><strong>Nor beyond it.</strong><br/><br/>The speed surprised his target, who screamed as the sword stabbed down between her breasts and the length of her abdomen, rending ash-black leather and the fine chain links underneath, to say nothing of flesh and bone. She heard her own ribs cracking, then the creature twisted the sword, rending painfully, and used his double-handed grip to arc the blade and sent her flying off it.<br/><br/><strong>By blades you have lived, and thusly are measured.</strong><br/><br/><br/><br/>Kass hits x4 for 18 17 16 15 (it also has fire resistance)<br/>sphere at 261<br/><br/>Aria: full attack, 1st attack at angel (will try to at least stagger it)<br/>mod 39/...<br/>http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2992083/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2992083/)<br/>mh1 hit 16 (he knows Blind-Fight)<br/>(since the damage vs the two foes is different, I'll roll 7 attacks with 3 damage entries, for sphere / angel / angel on crit....rolling sequentially is much slower, and there's no look-ahead bias since the plan is sphere-first)<br/>http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2992100/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2992100/)<br/>(+1 for off hand damage for sphere, -1 for off hand damage for the other two, oops)<br/>(also +8 to crit dmg since the subtlety then kicks in via Telling Blow)<br/>oh1 hit 28 destroyed<br/><br/>attack angel<br/>mh2 hit 16<br/>oh2 nat20 crit 17+132+2str,con, dying<br/><br/><strong>Exodus</strong><br/>casts quickened Divine Power (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/divinePower.htm)<br/>charge and full attack Aria<br/><br/>1st attack 71 threat 71 crit 54<br/>2nd attack 50 dmg 35<br/>3rd attack 57 threat nat1 dmg 34<br/>4th attack 39 miss<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` <br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` E E ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` E E ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` A ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` K ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `<br/>` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `<br/></span>