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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3923486" data-attributes="member: 13966">Warren, HP 39/39, AC 24, Assassin's Stance[sblock=ooc](Does Warren hear the dragon's wingbeats upon the air nearby?  <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1407854" target="_blank">Listen check</a> was 20; don't know how tough it would be to hear, and the DC would be adjusted for distance too.)(Also, what does it look like the hobgoblin archers are wearing in terms of armor?  Heavy armor, medium, or light?)[/sblock]Warren doesn't know whether to be glad that the techniques he'd been working on were so brutally effective, or to be disappointed that the hobgoblin was such a weak chump that he didn't even have the decency to stay standing for the full barrage of heart and lung jabs....He doesn't waste much time thinking about it, though, and soars over to the next tower to stab the other nearby archer, quickly dispelling the light upon him with a twirl of the blade, rendering himself invisible once more, but with his own technique this time.  He reappears a few seconds later, after stabbing the other guard in the throat with his invisible sword and a momentary, shimmering sword of icy shadows.....[sblock=actions]Warren initiates Cloak of Deception as a swift action, to become invisible until end of turn.  Then he flies directly over to space Q-28, next to and a little behind the hobgoblin archer in that tower.  That's a move action with the Fly spell (even if he has to go around a window or something to get there, he's got Haste boosting the horizontal flight speed to 90 feet, so no problem)....  He follows up by attacking with the Shadow Blade Technique as a standard action.<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1407860" target="_blank">Attack rolls</a> for SBT were 18 and 20 total, against the hobgoblin archer's flat-footed AC.  Damage was 11 piercing, +10 sneak attack, +2 cold.  Lots of low rolls on InvisibleCastle this time.  Warren uses the 18 as his real sword and the 20 as the shadow blade, unless it looks like the archer is wearing full plate armor.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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