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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4228523" data-attributes="member: 13966">Warren the halfling, HP 37/44, AC 25, Giant Killing StyleWarren grits his teeth for a moment, trying to avoid being swallowed by the giant fish.  He tries to use his experience with fighting big monsters to shift position in its jaw, stab its gums or lips, and cut through.  After a twirling of his blade and a sweep to try and invoke burning energy along its length....[sblock=ooc]While he could try an Escape Artist check at +4, it doesn't seem likely that it would beat the fish's grapple check to get him free.  So instead he'll try to stab and incinerate it first.These actions are assuming that nobody else gets him free first somehow, since I'm not sure how they could.  If he is somehow freed from its grip first, he'll use a different tactic.For now, his action is to change stances to Giant Killing Style, for +2 on attack rolls and +4 on damage rolls against larger creatures.  Then initiate Death Mark and attack.  It's not really mentioned anywhere in the Bo9S whether or not Desert Wind maneuvers work underwater, but since it does mention a limitation on Stone Dragon maneuvers (and since some spells already have such a clause), I would assume that the designers intentionally did not limit DW in that way.  Besides, Death Mark generates its fire inside the body of the target.  I'm not quite sure if a strike maneuver can be used in a grapple, but from the grapple text and the way maneuvers work, I think so.  Up to the DM of course.If his Death Mark fails to work, he'll still be making an attack, at least.Short sword +9 melee (+11, -4 grappling, +2 Giant Killing Style) for 1d4+12 piercing damage and 6d6+3 fire damage (Reflex DC 16 halves the fire damage), fire damage covers an area as well excluding Warren (20 ft. spread radius if target is Large, 30 ft. if Huge, 40 ft. if Gargantuant, 50 ft. if Colossal)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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