The substance of the ooze rended apart deeply at Kass's series of slashes, the sonic energy seeming to ripple inwards through its body and the fire caramelizing the fluid surface in its water. The amorphous body parted like water, oozing across the floor and nearly opening as far as the statue embedded within.<br/><br/>Across  it, Aria triggered several of her items and, perceiving something esoteric about the ooze, sliced it with a particular timing and placing. The wobblings from Kass's blows seemed to amplify, and like a bridge marched upon by soldiers at just the right (or rather, wrong) frequently, the ooze's violent quivering seemed to shake itself apart. Smaller blobs of smile splattered and spread lifelessly across the floor - mercifully still; not becoming animated oozes unto themselves.<br/><br/>"Thanks!" Aria whisper-called over the mess to Kass; she seemed quite relieved to see how well the bardess had been able to damage the thing, given the tenuousness of her own ability to do so for such creatures.<br/><br/>The tiefling sheathed her kukri and studied critically the exposed statue and where it stood, remarking, "Doesn't seem trapped, thank the gods..."<br/><br/>The statue itself distended suddenly; at first it seemed like the slimy coating on it reanimating but it was in fact the statue itself. Its erect stone phallus lashed out, growing in length and reach like a striking snake, even bulging at the end and swinging around in a goo-coated slap at Aria's face.<br/><br/>The 'stone' cock smacked across the tiefling's pale cheek with a hard bruising crunch, spinning her, and leaving trails of nigh-transparent ooze-fluid which hung from her lips and nose and chin in stretching arcs as the attacking organ continued past and Aria spun. The entire body of the statue - and the large chest it'd stood on - were shifting organically all of a sudden; their motions malleable, but not so amorphous as the ooze's. Kass would guess that this was the aberration known as a Mimic, infamous for disguising itself as treasure or doorways or other things which humanoid 'prey' might approach.<br/><br/>The slimed Aria wanted to growl but kept her lips pinched tight, drawing kukris and laying into the thing with a half-dozen shallow slashes. It wobbled and swayed gamily, and like with the satyrs it seemed impossible to hit any particular point she aimed for. Her sixth slash flayed away what was left of the face of Adon, earning a spray of awful-smelling black ichor, while the aberration was already swinging a 'fist' at Kass to surprise her much as it had Aria.<br/><br/><br/>Kass also gets a surprise round; I'll duplicate her 1st attack since I'm guessing that's what she'd have done (single attack, w/ the same parameters as the first attack of her full attack).<br/><br/>Kass hits x4 for 127.<br/><br/>Aria: activate haste (last one 'til dawn!) and deathstrike (1/6 left after); full attack, mods 36/36/31/26/21 (19 bab 10 dex 1+4 weapon 1 haste 4 inspire courage -2 twf - btw really glad to have inspire courage since this is probably the only round she'll be able to add sneak attack damage, due to its blindsight and unflankability)<br/>attack rolls Result: 16, 19, 14, 13, 14,<br/>threat rolls Result: 13, 9,<br/>(upshot of no Blink is no miss chance, and since the ooze hasn't acted yet, it's flat-footed, so the only obstacle to sneak attack was the ooze crit immunity)<br/>1 atk 36+16 threat 36+13 crit dmg 20+18+43, slain<br/><br/>ITs spells were Acid Storm, Acid Arrow, and Stinking Cloud. Nice going; Kass took off like 3/4ths of its HP (and if Aria had known its total HP she probably would've saved her item charges and done her low 'regular' damage since Kass would surely slay it with 1 more round.)<br/><br/>Surprise!<br/><br/>Mimic attacks Aria, atk 39, dmg 11 (Aria's Uncanny Dodge negates its sneak attack dmg, although I don't know if characters know this themselves?)<br/>(I did do our Spot vs its Disguise)<br/><br/>Aria init 36<br/>Mimic init 17<br/>Kass init 16<br/><br/>Aria: draw kukri(s) and full attack<br/>rolling 6 atks/threats: Result: 10, 14, 5, 13, 18, 1, 18, 2, 12, 15, 20, 16,<br/>mods 32/27/23/17 and 32/27<br/>1 atk 43 hit<br/>2 atk 31 hit<br/>3 atk 41 threat nat1<br/>4 atk 35 threat 19 no crit<br/>oh1 atk 44 hit<br/>oh2 atk nat20 threat 43 crit<br/>7x dmg (1d4+13) + 1x sa = 105 + 56 + 2 Str + staggered<br/><br/>Mimic:<br/>slam at Kass (vs her flat footed AC)<br/>atk 36 dmg 10 + 25 + 2 Str damage (the latter two are sneak attack damage; Kass can see it but is flat-footed)