The dragon shimmered prismatically in the sunlight afforded by the clearing as it shifted its weight forward on its four claws, moving toward Kass...only to find itself impaled on a vibrating, searing longsword lanced at the base of its throat. As the dragon threw its head back with a surprisingly high-toned shriek, Aria blurred with another burst of magical speed and began to fly alongside the throat and up its back. Glancing beyond the dragon's hindquarters to the writhing Maztican woman, she hollered - in a flowing yet primitive language Kass and even she wouldn't recognize, that of the woman she focused upon instead, characterized by unusual "ch" and "tl" consonants - "Get gone! Flee away, least its attacks reach you even as it aims for us!"<br/><br/>...for by flying to the creature's far side from Kass, Aria knew she was putting the woman at slightly more risk; she was at about the distance the prismatic breath had reached, so if her shouted warnings convinced her to crawl away even a few paces, or at least not approach, she ought be okay...<br/><br/>...and ideally, the dragon wouldn't live long enough.<br/><br/>As she flew up past its long neck, Aria's kukris whisked out in a veeing series of upward diagonal slices. Several rifts appeared in the scales, perhaps not as thick as she'd fought them on the back, and rainbow light burst right out. The dragon's shrieks became dissonant, then blood as rainbow-colored as oil in the sun burst forth. The beast sagged, then landed heavily on its own underbelly. Its head whipped and fell heavily against the bloody ground near Kass, right into a human corpse, and the two wings fell like cloaks over several others. The beast lay quite still.<br/><br/>The Maztican woman was scrambling, towards the north edge of the razed village's clearing, but slowly - it seemed, from her ungainly movements, her nearly all-fours locomotion, and her pawing at the ground, that she had been struck blind. Kass would also notice that, the manging of the human bodies wasn't' quite consistent with the massive claws and fangs of the dragon; it'd been done by the claws and teeth of something or several somethings smaller, not much larger than a man....possibly the harpy-like women with their own claws and fangs, but the wounds didn't<em>quite</em>match those either, and seemed more feline; several bodies had the characteristic pattern of victims of being pounced upon and raked by fore- and hind-claws alike, a characteristic attack of large cats.<br/><br/><br/>Kass crits for 115 (not DR'ed)!<br/><br/>Aria: haste and quicksilver boots to tumble to flanking w/ Kass; full attack<br/>http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3027007/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3027007/) (+2 dmg mh)<br/>atk 49/.. (22 bab 13 dex -2 twf 5 weapon 4 flanking 2 blink 4 inspire courage 1 blink)<br/>mh0 62 hit 118+1con<br/>(0 is shorthand for a haste bonus attack)<br/>mh1 61 hit 125+1con<br/>oh1 phase<br/>mh2 phase<br/>oh2 phase<br/>mh3 42 miss<br/>oh3 nat20 threat 52 hit (as in non-crit) 117+1con<br/>total 631 + 4con, slain