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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4733957" data-attributes="member: 13966">Warren (flippin' out!), HP 40/47, AC 27, Haste, Child of ShadowWarren winces at the light wound he suffers, but is annoyed that the barghest has just passed him by to go harass the others.  "Hey, I'm over here, dogbreath!" he calls out after the barghest.  He decides that with everyone moving so slowly to clear the area, he's never going to blow up the barghest at this rate.So instead he twirls his short sword around in a flourish, jabs and slashes a few times just in front of the dragonspawn he was facing, then skips forward a moment to thrust into the draconic abomination's heart, burning a mark across its chest in the pattern of his earlier strokes.  The mark explodes outward, a low roar of flames washing over the dragonspawn, its companion on Warren's side, and the barghest's rear-left flank.By the time the flames burn out, Warren has changed his footing and raised his sword into a different posture, as he flips backward a few times to approach that darn barghest.  As he moves, his own shadow and that of the burnt dragonspawn flows around him, swirling about in a veil of fog-like darkness.  "I need a little help to finish this thing off!  Pender?  Avril?"[sblock=ooc]Actually, Warren's minimum damage is 7 points presently.  1d4+6 (+1 weapon, +5 Dex with Shadow Blade feat, since his 8th-level Dex increase).  Unless the thing has some wierd 1-point DR....  But yeah, somehow it slipped my mind last round that Mandla would be moving before Warren struck, so he wouldn't get much benefit from Island of Blades.  No matter, at least he hit once.Warren stabs the same dragonspawn as last round, the one just a bit further north, with Death Mark, which has a 10-foot burst with the Medium target instead of the larger barghest.  This catches both dragonspawn by Warren, and the barghest.  Afterward, Warren changes stances to Child of Shadow, tumbling 10 feet northeast to AK-6 to get behind the barghest.  The movement gives him concealment (20% miss chance for enemies) until his next turn.I really, really wish I had been able to safely target the barghest this round without blowing up the rest of the party. ^_^;;Attack roll was a natural 20 (woo!) for 10 piercing damage.  And 35 fire damage to both dragonspawn and the barghest, with a Reflex save versus DC 16 for half (I forgot to add his Wisdom bonus to the Death Mark's damage roll on InvisibleCastle, from Discipline Focus).  That was a freaking awesome set of rolls for a change! ^_^ Rolled a total of 20 to confirm the critical hit, for 8 additional piercing damage to the first dragonspawn.<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2001943/" target="_blank">1d20+14=34, 1d4+6=10, 6d6=32</a> <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2001950/" target="_blank">1d20+14=20, 1d4+6=8</a> Rolled a total of 17 for the Tumble check to move without AoOs from the first dragonspawn, so that succeeds.  Rolled a 27 to Tumble past the second foe unmolested, so that's good.  I highly doubt the dragonspawn Warren stabbed has survived the likely-critical-hit + big BOOM, but on the off-chance that it did somehow remain conscious, then my third Tumble check to avoid AoOs is a 28, so no problems there.  Warren flips out like a ninja successfully! ^_^<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2001966/" target="_blank">1d20+15=17</a> <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2001970/" target="_blank">1d20+15=27</a> <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2001973/" target="_blank">1d20+15=28</a> [/sblock]</blockquote>

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