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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9384502" data-attributes="member: 20459">With instincts manifested through life in the beforetimes with her clan and further honed into sharpness through the adventures in the nowtimes with her gosb'tar and their various companions, PA'AVU immediately understands the impending danger. For the Remorhaz to escape upwards would be disastrous: it would negate all they have been doing to protect the city of Chanvati and Yazdan. There is no time for careful--albeit quick--statistical analysis, and Stoneroot's warrior steps forward to engage their latest threat.The Death Spirit of the venerable K’mniich’ still rages through His Stoneblessed Goliath, and through the roiling of her blood, the touch of stone at her feet--through all her natural senses, in fact--Pa'avu instantly sees the solution. The great beastmother merely wants to escape danger (as do they all) and protect her young (as do they desire protection for the city): she needs an escape route, and Stoneroot has informed his Chosen what that route can be, if the Remorhaz can be brought to "find" it. A ring of Stone--newly formed on her left hand--burns with the ice of deep caverns and reveals a thinness to the stone, something the beastmother can best use for passage away ... from them, from the results of Nerull's fury, and--most importantly--away from the city.The goliath swells to her full height--and then some-- and strides around the beastmother, forcing her to turn away from the tunnel heading upward toward Bantouk, keeping Pa'avu in sight. The warrior gives a great yell, raising her huge arms above her head in a thunderous clap. The Remorhaz--obviously choosing the better part of valour and protection for her young--turns around and crashing through the wall and downward, to safety.As the beastmother's tail disappears through its new tunnel and Pa'avu's companions hustle toward the upward tunnel, Pa'avu gives a thoughtful glance down at the new lithoderm she now wears. Then, her blood beginning to cool somewhat, she stalks forward, quickly catching up to maintain the rear guard.[HR][/HR]* Pa'avu makes a Secondary Skill Nature check to sense an alternative escape route--a thinner stone wall of the cavern--for the Remorhaz (r14+14=28 vs 16 Easy DC) to give a +2 bonus to her Primary Skill Intimidate check to scare the Remorhaz into breaking through that thinner wall: r4+16+2 SS =22 vs 22 Moderate DC. Success. Phew!</blockquote>

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