Aria kicked aside as cold radiated out from Kass's gripped staff, superchilling the water ahead of her and blanketing the half-dragonesses in a forest of suspended ice crystals. They shrieked, kicking wildly, twisting their bodies and folding their wings to reduce exposed surface area and conserve body heat. The golden hues of their flesh turned paler, and drier-looking if such a thing were possibly underwater, previously smooth flesh cracking like old parchment.<br/><br/>Aria kicked towards Tlatrien, briefly crossing her arms over her fine-mailed chest, then sliding one up past her head, a drawn kukri pointed out tip-first like a bent swordfish nose. She plunged bodily into Tlatrien, tip first. The dragoness screamed as the blade slipped between two ribs under her left breast. She spasmed once, and then hung still in the water.<br/><br/>Behind her, the woman who'd hasted herself and the other two cast upon themselves again - Kass would recognize the spell has one to protect from energy (and from context might guess the element of choice). The woman to her left gave Aria another hard stare - and the tiefling stared back, the tendons of her neck showing as she strained briefly against another supernatural stunning.<br/><br/>The third woman cast and conjured; suddenly thorned, almost tentacle-like plant strands crisscrossed from edge toe edge of the tunnel, forming a disc-shaped barrier between themselves and the adventurers - and positioned to catch Aria within its further half. From its positioning, the tiefling supposed it was meant to entangle and stab her, and to incentive her to try to escape in the direction<em>away</em>from the three rather than approaching them.<br/><br/>The dragoness who'd stared hard at Aria laughed back at Kass through the fence of vines. "Surrender?<em>You</em>to us! You are trapped now - between us and the worm! Surrender your items of magic; drop them to the tunnel floor and leave - or we shall harvest them anyway, from the leavings of the worm after it has digested your soft flesh!"<br/><br/><br/>Aria rolls 10, evasion<br/>half-dragons all save, take 26 damage each<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Aria</span><br/>charge Tlatrien, full attack<br/>mods 44/... (23 bab 14 dex -2 twf 2 charge 2 blink 5 weapons) damage 2d4+46/44 (5 weapons 4/2 str 9 int 28 craven, 2x on a charge)+sa<br/>http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3082197/ (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3082197/)<br/>mh1 hit 141+1con dying<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Center HD (half dragon)</span><br/>Cast Mass Resist Energy on self, other two, then back up 5'<br/><span class="bbc_u">North HD</span><br/>stunning glance at Aria, Fort DC 32 negates, back up 5'<br/>Aria: rolls nat20<br/><span class="bbc_u">South HD</span><br/>back up 5', casts Wall of Thorns (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/wallOfThorns.htm) in a 10' thick, 20' radius disc shape across the tunnel, through Aria's "column" and the column to her left (i.e. between themselves and Kass/Aria, with Aria in it)<br/>(Since both girls have Freedom of Movement, it won't actually impede their movement. I'm not sure whether FoM immunizies you from the damage of the wall, but since their flat-footed ACs are 25+ it would be 0 damage anyway.)<br/><br/>Oh, I meant that spellcasting with a verbal component underwater would probably only require a concentration check w/o water breathing - but either way, as you pointed out, the DC is such that she'd make it every time. (For a character who can't breathe, attacks and spells and other non-free/move actions also reduce how long they can hold their breath, which is also n/a with water breathing.)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><br/>A = Aria<br/>H = other half-dragons (beyond Kass's blindsight range but pointed to by Aria. In other words she doesn't have line of sight from her present location, but knows their squares.)<br/>K = Kass<br/>T = Tlatrien<br/><br/>. . . . . . . . w w . . .<br/>. . . . . H . . w w . . .<br/>. . . . . . . . w w . . .<br/>. . . . . H . . w A . . .<br/>. . . . . . . . w w . . K<br/>. . . . . H . . w w . . .<br/>. . . . . . . . w w . . .<br/>. . . . . . . . w w . . .</span>