Belias bellowed and swept his axe back around to swipe at Aria, who phased out.<br/><br/>The giant turned his ram-head back to Kass just in time to see her taking several steps running right up the wall to get near his head - but not in time to due much about it. The first strike rended upon one side of its neck, and the second swung in perfectly into the same gap. The blade shattered vertebrae and larynx, slashing through until the ram-head was sent rolling over the far shoulder with it.<br/><br/>A high gout of flaming blood geysered from the neck. Burning, bubbling blood flowed free over the ram insignia across the breastplate. The creature dropped, axe clanging loudly before the body did with a true cacophony, blood oozing from a dozen wounds and lighting up.<br/><br/>The entire body ignited with a flash, giving Kass and Aria a quite uncomfortable yet harmless wave of wet heat. Ash spilled from out of the armor, a ruby-colored gem of a ram amidst the grit.<br/><br/>"Yeah!" Aria landed and danced back and forth, her motions clearly inspired by Kass's own style and probably her subtle singing just afore the battle. She pulled out a wand, twirling it like a baton and then tapping Kass to imbue her with beginning regeneration, muttering, "Wow, you stood up to more than a few axe-swings!" with her voice upbeat; again no doubt due to the magi-musical morale. She next pointed out "Gem's magic, its armor and weapon too....and the kytons have the same armor and footwear auras as those before..." before she dashed over to retrieve her kukris and hammers.<br/><br/>"The wands may take a few minutes to heal you, like it did for me outside..." she called, "assuming you agree it's prudent to wait for that before pressing on, despite the adreline rushing, no reason not to loot while we wait!"<br/><br/><br/><br/>Oops, Aria's attack should've triggered an AoO from Belias...rolling..<br/>misses due to blink<br/><br/>Love the flair.<br/>hit crit hit hit (as in, not confirmed) miss slain! (by the 2nd attack actually)<br/><br/>Aria begins healing Kass (Lesser Vigor is 1/round for 11 rounds and simultaneous castings don't stack...so she'll keep doing it every 1.1 minutes unless Kass wants to move on while the haste/BM is still in effect. I know I wouldn't want to get into another fight starting far below full HP.)<br/><br/>oh also btw, when developing epic spells, if you want you can substitute gp for the xp cost; 1 xp = 5 gp, analogous to when someone buys an item like a scroll of Wish or Permanency with a built in XP cost. Since epic spell development costs 9,000 gp x Spellcraft DC + 1/25th that in XP, that conversion would result in 10,800 gp x DC. (In some ways Epic Spellcrafting is like an item crafting feat.)