"Watch?" the winged being seemed skeptical, but when Kass began to dance in the doorway, his stern face softened. Steel-gray eyes shined as they gazed upon her, ignoring the crab figurine and he nearly seemed to drop his sword. "Ah, I understand..some manner of traveling troubadours...how funny..." his wings lowered, relaxed, and he seemed to be daydreaming about some millenia-old memory. The man's stance seemed slightly sore or pained, and his wings bruised - perhaps he too had been injured when the pyramid crashed, although he certainly didn't look as out-of-sorts as one might expect from such a calamity; perhaps he knew some healing magic or had other innate abilities like the regenerative devils.<br/><br/>A second armored angel became visible a moment later, peeking over the edge of the caved-in area from the upper floor, probably having overhead the recent conversation - but once his eyes found it as well, his lips stilled midway through their first explanation-demanding syllable. Holding a previously-lifted greatsword low, he too stood and watched, from the elevated vantage of the broken ledge.<br/><br/>Aria was impressed to say the least, treating herself to a few eyefulls of Kass before studying the angel-men. She guessed Kass's intent for herself, and, handsome and unmonstrous as the men were, given that the first had acted as if he was of the host forces of this pyramid (which seemed so far nothing so much as a floating fortress of systematic enslavement), rather than a incidental interloper like themselves, she had little compunction about striking without further questions. (Their likeness to the murals certainly didn't help either.)<br/><br/>As unassumingly as she might, Aria leaned over the edge, always careful not to obscure their view of Kass - then she pushed off, her own faux-angel wings spreading, and she fluttered up to the ledge opposite the second angel. Her reasoning was that she ought not to give him any advantage of height once she struck, being as she flew more slowly upward - and so that she might see a bit more of the chamber.<br/><br/>It was indeed truncated-pyramid-shaped, with two pairs of doors in the floor just behind her (no doubt those leading to the construct-workshop and the cage-floor chambers) and two other pairs opposite - or rather, two open squares in the floor where she presumed they had been. The second angel had probably just flown up out of one, she realized. From her shallow angle she could only see the stone of the floor  behind those opened gaps, and nothing of the first-floor chambers below (though she presumed the one on the left led to the sarcophagi-vats chamber where they'd found Anya).<br/><br/>Double checking that the angels seemed unthreatened by her rise - indeed, she wasn't sure they'd noticed at all, still fixated on Kass...fixated enough not to effectively defend themselves against her first few attacks, she trusted.<br/><br/>The tiefling jumped and dove off the edge, hovering a bit closer, to get into a proper charging range before she assumed more aggressive body language. Then her body went in a horizontal, and she flew right at the upper angel. She met him with a knife-hand punch of four fingertips against his throat - so that she needn't draw a weapon until after her first attack - which she then did, drawing a kukri and slicing it back-and-forth across the same throat. The angelic being fell back, clutching at his throat and blacking out, nearly falling into one of the doorways.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Oh also my last map gives the false impression that the guys are Medium (the single A, which I Guess is redundant with Aria)...in fact they are Large, (so the first one is in the middle 4 squares of the room).<br/><br/>lol awesome! Gets us a surprise round...<br/>(sort of like when she fellated Firion, come to think of it, save for his Foresight)<br/>Very neat, never thought of that...<br/><br/>Both guys fail Will saves<br/><br/>Nice bard/rogue synergy too (since sneak attackers luv surprise rounds; = flat-footed foes). Sort of has historical precedent too (unsavory traveling gypsies / carnivals, where some members would entertain townsfolk while others went around picking their pockets or robbing their vacated homes).<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Aria</span><br/>Charge upper angel; full attack with unarmed (oh) and kukri (mh), starting with unarmed<br/>mh 48/43/38/33, 1d4+20, oh 44/39/34/29, 1d3+17 (22 bab 13 dex 1 or 5 weapon -2 twf 2 blink 2 charge 2 sacred 4 inspire courage)<br/>oh http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2990566/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2990566/)<br/>mh http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2990567/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2990567/)<br/><br/>oh1 hit 99-10 (DR)<br/>mh1 hit 107-10<br/>mh2 hit 110-10 knocked out