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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forgefly" data-source="post: 4142631" data-attributes="member: 55352">Scherzo alla Bladey ThingBefore any of you get a chance to do more than gasp, this deadly dancer is upon you, leaping from a broken pillar more than 15 feet away it lands gracefully on one “arm” still spinning.  In a single pirouette, more akin to a whirlwind of bony blades its three remaining blades find targets: one leg skitters across Brorgar’s mobile wall, his other leg cutting through Revek’s surprise to painful result, his free arm catches Vonval across the chin as he grabs his holy symbol.  ( 3 points slashing to Vonval and Revek)Overcoming his initial shock Brorgar lashes out with his axe aiming as best he can for the center of this whirling mass of blades.  He strikes true, but the blow which would have hacked off an arm instead glances off a leg blade doing minimal damage, as the mad monstrosity continues its whirling dance.Vonval takes extra time and great care in his invocation and is able to make connection to his dark patron calling for the curses of Khyber, in spite of the blades whirring around him.  At his final syllable a cloud of shadow seems to coalesce from the many shadows in the block strewn room gathering around the dancer hampering its movement and then fading back into nothing, leaving no obvious signs on this aberration of nature.Revek curses, “May every stone you touch be rotten, misbegotten figment of a bard’s dreamweed”  He drops his bow and dives through the storm of blades into a front roll and comes up with axe in hand, but is unable to find an opening in the whirling of the blades.That whirling is interrupted for the first time as Ulzim’s ray cuts across the dancer’s body, causing it to stumble and its dance to slow, the blades seemingly more clumsy in their motions.Though slowed down slightly and perhaps a little less perfect in its spin the dancer hops from limb to limb to limb with each hop one of its limbs reaches out slashing at those surrounding it.  Missing both Brorgar and Revek due to it spell induced clumsiness, it is nonetheless able to catch Vonval off guard cutting and bruising his right arm.(7 Damage)  It then launches itself once more into the air tumbling over Brorgar and Revek landing on another pillar, dancing and spinning all the while.<a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96070.jpg" target="_blank"> The Deadly Dancer </a></blockquote>

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