Tarlassana starts in A, Thalia in B.

Hajime!

Tarlassana starts with a couple protective spells and to insure she has a few extra weapons. Her first words don't seem to have visible effect but those of skill will spells might recognize the warding. The second one though is very visible and the elf's form shimmers to become that of a troglodyte giving her class and a bite to use if she doesn't want to use her greatsword.

Prep Round 1:
  [Move]
  [Free]
  [Standard] Shield

Prep Round 2:
  [Move]
  [Free]
  [Standard] Alter Self to Trog form

Status:
  Initiative: 18
  AC (Touch AC): 27 (12)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
  Shield (7 minutes)
  Alter Self (Trog form, 70 minutes)

Final Position: A9

The aasimar entered the arena without any ado, she was cool, calm and collected, wearing a mask depicting an angelic face, hiding most of her features. Giving her opponent a respectful nod, the golden-eyed woman drew two wands and activated them one after the other. And then the fight was on...

Prep Round 1:
  [Move] Draw wand
  [Free]
  [Standard] Cast Fly from wand

Prep Round 2:
  [Move] Draw wand
  [Free]
  [Standard] Cast Bull's strength from Wand

Status:
  Initiative: 18
  AC (Touch AC): 22 (11)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
  Bull's Strength (3 Minutes)
  Fly (50 Minutes)

ooc: I'll assume based on your touch AC that Tarlassana has a +2 mod to init, thus goes first, for Thalia has +1 only.

Final Position: Q09

It is the flying circus with Tarlassana casting fly and then rising straight up in the air high enough that there will be no advantage to attacking from above her. Since her opponent has two wands in hand, she has no fear of an immediate attack.

Round 1:
  [Standard] Cast Fly
  [Move] Fly up 25'

Status:
  Initiative: 18 (+2 for dex)
  AC (Touch AC): 27 (12)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
  Alter Self: Troglodyte (70 minutes, cast prep 1)
  Shield: (7 Minutes Cast prep 2)
  Fly (7 minutes, cast round 1, speed 40' for medium load)

Cast spells: Fly, Shield, Alter Self

Final Position: A09, 25' up
This message was last edited by the player at 23:25, Tue 24 Feb 2009.

"Elusive alright." Thalia thought and smirked. Dropping her wands she stepped forth and drew another wand and her sword. Activating the wand, a silvery shield shimmered into existance to fade from view quickly. "Well then, lets do battle!" she said and presented her greatsword.

Round 1:
  [Free] Drop wands
  [Move] 5ft step
  [Free] Draw sword (as part of movement)
  [Free] Draw wand (as part of movement)

  [Standard] Cast Shield from Wand

Status:
  Initiative: 18
  AC (Touch AC): 26 (11)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
  Shield (10rds)
  Bull's Strength (3 Minutes)
  Fly (50 Minutes)

Final Position: P09

Tarlassana flies forward, drawing her sap as she flies and descending some. She mutters about having to get a decent one handed weapon one of these days. As she gets closer, she stops next to the central column and casts. Seven disembodied jaws fly appear and fly forth from her position to attack her foe, nipping and biting.

Round 1:
  [Move] Fly to I8
  [free] draw sap with movement
  [Standard] Cast Manyjaws, 21 damage, reflex save 18 for half.

Status:
  Initiative: 18 (+2 for dex)
  AC (Touch AC): 27 (12)

  Damage Taken:   0
  Damage Dealt:   0

Effects:
  Alter Self: Troglodyte (70 minutes, cast prep 1)
  Shield: (7 Minutes Cast prep 2)
  Fly (7 minutes, cast round 1, speed 40' for medium load)
  Manyjaws (7d4 damage a round, 2 more rounds (3 total), reflex 18 for half)

Cast spells: Fly, Shield, Alter Self

Final Position: I07, 10' up

ooc: Would you please let me know where you found that nifty spell, it is very interesting.

"By the light!" the aasimar exclaimed at the sight of the teeth heading for her. Despite her divine touch, Thalia was unable to fend off the jaws that gnawed at her armor and flesh. But rather than being dismayed, she just set her own jaw and lifted off the ground, straight for her opponent. A second before engaging the elf, the heart-shaped amulet around her neck glowed briefly. Her sword became a translucient blurr as it passed through Tarlassana's armor and scales as if they were non-existant, cutting deep into her flesh.

Round 1: - Refl DC 18 failed, taking 21pts.
  [Free] Drop wand
  [Move] Fly to J08
  [Swift] Activate Heartseeking Amulet (next melee attack resolved as touch attack)
  [Standard] Attack 16 (hits touch AC), damage 20pts +1pt electricity.

Status:
  Initiative: 18
  AC (Touch AC): 26 (12)

  Damage Taken:   21
  Damage Dealt:   21

Effects:
  Shield (09rds)
  Bull's Strength (3 Minutes)
  Fly (50 Minutes)

Final Position: J08

Note: I deducted 2 from her tab for Power Attacking, giving her +4 damage. Just forgot to note it in the diceroller.

The force of the blow was much harder than she expected and it was almost as if her defenses didn't exist. She could not take a second blow like that without healing. Her plan to dispel the magics of the aasimar could wait. She leaves the jaws to bite even as she steps back out of reach and drinks one of the many potions on her potion belt. The electric zap bothered her a little but she could deal with it if she ever got the breathing space.

Round 1:
  [free] WINCE, 5' step back to I06, pull cure moderate potion from potion belt
  [Standard] drink potion of cure moderate
  [Free] Manyjaws attacks again, 15 damage, reflex save 18 for half.

Status:
  Initiative: 18 (+2 for dex)
  AC (Touch AC): 27 (12)

  Damage Taken (Taken/healed):   21L/12: = 9L
  Damage Dealt (Taken/healed):   21 + 15 or 7

Effects:
  Alter Self: Troglodyte (70 minutes, cast prep 1)
  Shield: (7 Minutes Cast prep 2)
  Fly (7 minutes, cast round 1, speed 40' for medium load)
  Manyjaws (7d4 damage a round, 1 more rounds (3 total), reflex 18 for half)

Cast spells: Fly, Shield, Alter Self

Final Position: I06, 10' up

OOC: Manyjaws: Level 3 Wizard/sorcerer spell from Player's guide to Faerun

This time Thalia wasn't as surprised as before, evading most of the bites and since the elf had merely taken a step backwards it was easy to follow up with her attacks. The amulet around her neck glowed again and once more her sword transformed into a ghostly blurr, passing through armor and tough hide with frightening ease. This time the aasimar had put even more strength into the blow, and it showed... "Surrender and see the brightness of another morning sun or die and face the night!" she called out, not willing to down a non-evil person just because.

Round 2: - Refl DC 22 success, taking 7pts.
  [Free] 5ft step to I07, flying.
  [Swift] Activate Heartseeking Amulet (next melee attack resolved as touch attack)
  [Standard] Full Attack (-5 PA) 22 (hits touch AC), damage 28pts +4pts electricity.
                second attack 19 - miss

Status:
  Initiative: 18
  AC (Touch AC): 26 (12)

  Damage Taken:   28
  Damage Dealt:   53-12 = 41pts.

Effects:
  Shield (08rds)
  Bull's Strength (3 Minutes)
  Fly (50 Minutes)

Final Position: I07

The power of that massive attack and the magic amulet is more than any wizard can counter. She will need to worry about defenses against such things and come up with a counter. Perhaps the dispel magic would have been the better option, especially with the fly wand across the arena. Perhaps she should consider mirror image more often. Still these are a debate and consideration for another time as the gold elf is unconcious from the blow.


OOC: only 37 hp and touch attacks with power attack 5, two handed electrical weapon is more than I could take. Even if I had cast resistance to electricty, I still would have only been at 1 hp and I doubt you were even close to down. My swashbucker would have done a lot better here with her 20 or 23 touch AC.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:53, Thu 26 Feb 2009.

Thalia catches the unconscious, hovering elf and puts a hand on her heart, letting healing energies surge through her body before her own curse can start leeching life from the elf.

Cures 9 HPs.

ooc: Thalia has fought PCs with high ACs before, namely Korst the Clanless (31 I think) and had to figure out a way to overcome that. I guess if your swashbuckler showed up, she'd have to make use of a true strike wand to get through eventually, then again the swashbuckler doesn't have the ability to cast fireballs or the likes against her. I read through Tamarie's fight and estimated how you would play Tarlassana, in fact I was surprised her touch AC was just 12. There is a spell in Spell compendium I think, which changes natural armor bonus to a deflection bonus, that might help. Which means I have to figure out a way to strip you of that bonus, now where did I put my dispelling crossbow bolts..? ;) I must say Arcane Schooling has turned out an excellent help in the arena.

In reply to Thalia (msg #12):

OOC: Mirror image will be more effective. When you have to pick among images, maybe you won't use that true strike. As for the spell in the spell compendium. I have never seen it and had no chance to get it. Tarlassana is an evoker and she figured you for some touch attack spells but not 3d6+18 per blow. That is a 2 hit KO no matter what her AC is. I perhaps could have kept distance better and used my 8d6 scorching rays or my Scintillating Sphere but I knew you have some electricity resistance (wasn't sure how much, at least 5 as aasimar) that my usual tactic of stormbolts wasn't going to work well.

what I would like to know is how did you manage to use a shield wand. Shield is not on your spell list (I was going to use magic missiles until you rendered them impotent. 4d4+4 each and 170' range). Wands can only be used by characters who have the specific spell on their spell list. Paladins, Aasimars, paladins and clerics of lathander don't have it on their spell list (come to think of it, you can't use a fly wand either. Was this whole battle won using two wands that you can't by the rules used (would have kept you out of range thanks to my fly spell).

If so, we will have to have a rematch.

Wands use spell trigger to activate (bold and underline is mine): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magi...ics.htm#spellTrigger

Spell Trigger
Spell trigger activation is similar to spell completion, but it’s even simpler. No gestures or spell finishing is needed, just a special knowledge of spellcasting that an appropriate character would know, and a single word that must be spoken. Anyone with a spell on his or her spell list knows how to use a spell trigger item that stores that spell. (This is the case even for a character who can’t actually cast spells, such as a 3rd-level paladin.) The user must still determine what spell is stored in the item before she can activate it. Activating a spell trigger item is a standard action and does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:52, Thu 26 Feb 2009.

Ok, that does it. I'm not an IMBECILE! Rather than accusing me of cheating, and that is what you are whining about, you should have picked up your precious Player's Guide to Faerun and check out the Regional Feats for Planetouched in Chessenta (p.29+33). You will find the ARCANE SCHOOLING feat which allows the use of spell trigger items just the way you explained in detail.

All in all I am tempted to say you are a poor looser, sorry but there will be no re-match.

OOC As I said in another place, I don't know all the feats and books by heart. I don't have all the books (for example, no spell compendium. (I likely wouldn't take the spell anyways for Nat Armor to some other type.

My questioning on the wands I think was valid and why I said, "If so, we would have a rematch" (this battle was lost but I might win the second time around). People make errors and mistakes like this all the time: Look at the fight with my alt and the inadvertant mistakes my foe there make. She didn't do it deliberately, it was mistakes she made. (Unlike you though, I can't see character sheets to know that you have that wierd feat.)

This is turning into a pointless argument. Please apologise to each other and calm down.

Now you are accusing me of looking at your sheet. Don't you see what you do? If you ask politely how I can use these wands I can explain, however, you insisted treating me like a 5 year old by quoting all those bloody rules telling me how impossible it is for me to use the wands. A simple: "How do you do that?" would have been fine and if you take a look at my post above yours you see that I already mentioned the Arcane Schooling feat, revealing the reason even before you asked. I still think you questioned my honesty and will not back down from this claim. Period.

And thank you for stepping in DM Furyou Miko but I don't think that is necessary, all has been said.