<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/VjfvTWw.png)</div><strong>Taris Vannel</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=293833.msg14533999#msg14533999)<br/><strong>HP:</strong>46 / 46<strong>AC:</strong>18<strong>CMD:</strong>21<strong>Arcane Pool:</strong>3 / 6<strong>Arrows:</strong>43<strong>Posts:</strong>48<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Velvet Dawn<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Ah, solitude ...<br/><em>Nondetection</em>5 Hours;<em>Clay Skin</em>:  DR 5/ Adamantine (35) / 70 Minutes<hr/>Taris braced her feet against the wall, winding the rope around her forearm as she leaned in with narrowed eyes.  She touched a finger to the spikes in the window sill cautiously, sliding her fingers up from the base to the pointed tip and examining her glove.  Satisfied that there were no poisons or other nasty surprises she examined the scene taking place on the church floor.<br/>". . . Huhn." she mused to herself, eyebrows raising behind her mask.  Strangely enough, she hadn't expected things to be<em>quite</em>that ...<em>open</em>between members.  Her blood heated up as she used her vantage to look over the sensually writhing, twisting bodies in various states of artful undress.  She rolled her eyes internally as words of arcane gibberish mingled together, the ignorant playing at significance with their animal rutting.  As a professional, it was difficult not to take some small offense.<br/><br/>Still, the hard faced man overseeing the procedings had the mantle of one who knew something of power.  In point of fact, it seemed that he was looking for much the same in those present, an effect very much like the detection spell Taris herself was using sweeping over the congregation as though her were trying to fine something.  It seemed her potion would already be paying for itself ... the cloak and her armor were vital to her work, but under mage sight they tended to light her up like a church on vigil.  The scars on his face allowed her to identify him as the Marquis De'Crien, the head of this particular heresy.<br/><br/>With a bit of searching, she managed to pick out all the key players.  A full house ... could be a major event.  Maybe they'd managed to capture both of the Soulless they needed?  That'd complicate things.  At least they were fully distracted for the time being, absorbed in their partners and games.  Oh, sorry, "Rituals".<br/><br/>She leaned back away from the window, trusting the stone to shield her from the Marquis's divination.  She wasn't really clear if the potion helped with active casting, and was loathe to test it in the moment, but she had a spell that should take the bite out of the window spikes.  Taking the ball of clay from her component pouch, she rolled it over and over again in her palm, mumbling under her breath as she braced herself for a change.  The iron fillings swirled in strange patterns as she worked it into a ball.  Then, triggering the command phrase<br/>"<em>Tergus Lutum</em>", she crushed the ball into her palm, letting it work between her fingers as the slowly built aether flowed from the ball into her.<br/><br/>It was a strange feeling, her flesh turning thick, smooth, and gray under her armor.  Tough and resistant to damage, she doubted that the spikes could dig deep enough to truly hurt her.  Now she just had to avoid them snagging on her cloak, or tumbling out of the window like a jackass.  Licking her lips, she gathered the back of her cloak around one arm so it wouldn't snag, and swung for the window, arching her back and trying to angle in and over the spikes.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Untrained Acrobatics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Squeezing through narrow spaces is usually Escape Artist (which I *am* trained in), but sure:<br/>At 2019-02-02 13:32:55, Taris (uid: 52581) rolls: 1d20a4 Result: 6 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=130229)<br/><em><strong>Fudge</strong></em></div></div><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/WLVeGed.png)</div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Memorized Spells</div><div class="spoiler_body">Cantrips:  Detect Magic, Light, Mend, Mage Hand<br/>1st Level:  Expeditious Retreat, Grease, Magic Missile, Obscuring Mist, Shield<br/>2nd Level:  Force Sword, Mirror Image, Scorching Ray, Web<br/>3rd Level:  <del>Clay Skin</del>, Haste</div></div>