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Aaaand I missed the end due to stuff at home. I'm glad we managed properly! Thanks for DMing, and thanks for running with us everyone!

Reflex save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

Jomanda deftly avoids MOST of the acid, but still takes a stinging burn to the arm. As she spins to avoid the acid she comes around with a spinning kick toward the remaining elemental.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Oooo my first critical threat on PbP, i'll roll to confirm
Critical threat confirmation: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
And assuming that is a hit...
Second damage roll: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
for a total of 17 damage

Swift Action to use Martial Flexibility to gain Dedicated Adversary (Earth Elemental)
Melee attack vs -Red- Elemental: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Melee damage vs -Red- Elemental: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Jomanda sidles past Valon's position and attempts to strike at the damaged Elemental, striking a dramatic pose in time with her punch and music unheard by others.

"Just one. Is trouble expected or are is it just a precaution?" Jomanda asks.

Oh hey my fluff post didn't go through.

Jomanda's eyes sparkle not unlike the gems just handed to her. "Just doing our duty, sir." she says to Boss in a tone that definitely doesn't match her expression before heading off to blow all the gifted gems practicing her ability to read others.

Jomanda crosses her arms with a disapproving look. "A cheat and a liar? You'd better leave before things get nasty here."

Diplomacy Aid Another: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (19) - 2 = 17

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Ugh, forums ate my post. Gotta retype it

Jomanda peers carefully at the woman until she recognizes her trickery. She approaches the nearest guard-person and notifies them about the problem. "Mind if I join in? What's the buy-in for this one?" she asks as she sits at the table and makes a long-winded show of shuffling through her meager purse, attempting to stall.

Spotting the 'General' entering the games room, Jomanda makes a pass at walking by in the opposite direction while observing the woman closely.

Perception roll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Sense Motive roll: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Wow. Just wow. I played a game last week with a different character that every single player's rolls were at least that bad, if not worse. Needless to say, it didn't go well. 0 fame/pp from it.

"Interesting turn of events... though I can't rightly say I'm surprised Othis is trying to screw with us again." Jomanda scowls. "I'll volunteer to watch the tables. I have a good eye for people's intentions so if we see this 'General' I'll see what she's up to."

"Catching a cheater? Now this is right up my alley." Jomanda stands straight and starts running scenarios through her head to catch them in the act - in the most dramatic way possible of course.

Well, Jomanda can stand at the end of the hall as a sentry, she's pretty good at spotting things. Not much else she's going to be good for here. We might just need to hope for a successful UMD roll from Xukong

Jomanda digs through her pockets, pulling out some lint, a small string, a stick, and some old, strange chewed-on material. Finally she finds a single gold coin and 8 silver coins hidden in her chest wrapping. "About all I've got, friends. I don't travel with much."

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Jomanda recognizes that something is off and puts a hand on Malvic's shoulder to stop him. "Hold up, there's more to this than we know isn't there, Dell?"

unlikely Diplomacy attempt?: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (13) - 2 = 11

I'm pretty sure as long as someone has pointed it out, anyone can make the diplomacy check to ask him what's up

Jomanda groans from her place in the dirt of the arena.

Fort vs Poison: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

As suddenly as the dramatic music starts, it cuts off with the sound of Jomanda collapsing face first into the dirt of the arena, barely a bruise on her. "Dirty sons of..." she mutters as she falls.

So I've been laid up in bed sick for 4 days... Sorry about that guys.

Edit: And now Jomanda is laid up on the floor of the arena.

In the meantime, what do you all think about this topic:

Pummeling style with sundering

"I'm always okay with some mischief if it gets to the bottom of a problem. I don't know much I can actually assist beyond running interference though." Jomanda pipes up from her place on the floor, previously seeming uninterested.

I was getting the feeling that it was supposed to be a reference to the multitude of military/police academy shenanigans movies out there, so it's mostly expected to break into the commanding officer's quarters and 'find out why he/she's being such a jerk to us'

"I'm not really one for sneaking around..." Jomanda flexes her rather bulky arm muscles. "When it comes to a fight though, either I break you, or I break your weapons. I doubt smashing the lock open would be a good plan."

Firstly, the heck is a Dell Darkblade? I don't remember that name at all. NEVERMIND I WENT BACK AND READ! Haha.

Jomanda spends most of her time not in training lounging lazily on her bedroll.

Knowledge (Planes) untrained: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Cleaning her ears with a bored expression through the first tirade of questions, Jomanda thinks for a moment. Just before she can ask even more condescending questions, she blurts out an answer that she overhearing during the research.

Swim check 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Jomanda hesitates for a moment when she goes to dive into the water, messing up her form. She doesn't want to get covered in mud after all!
Swim check 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Grimacing at the horrible, dirty water, she struggles to keep her composure as she pulls herself up on the other side. "Xukong, do you think I could get a little..." she trails off, making a wide brushing motion over herself.

I think it's two successes in a row to get over?

Climb checks for herself: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Climb checks for herself: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Climb checks for herself: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Jomanda misses her step for the boost at first, then scrambles back up to her original position without any help. She misplaces her footing as she tries to go higher, but catches Drukpa's and Xukong's outstretched hands, hauling herself up to the top. "Thank you, my friends."

Climb to aid another (Drukpa): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22
Climb to aid another (Drukpa): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Jomanda stands against the wall and attempts to reach up, giving her hands as extra footholds for Drukpa in case he needs it.

Climb to aid another: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Climb to aid another: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Crunch, what's the roll to not get hit by the trap if I trigger it on purpose?

If we can purposefully trigger it, Jomanda volunteers. She's mostly nimble.

Jomanda plants her feet and prepares to help swing the next person up the wall past her.

Climb to aid another: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

and I did it again, posted with the wrong alias. Looks like it didn't add him back to the current character list this time though.

Jomanda has a +4 climb without armor. Not the greatest, no skills points assigned to it. Never actually seen many people put points INTO climb before.

"Let me test the waters and see what's going on here."

Jomanda unbuckles her leather armor drops it on the ground before doing a few stretches. She approaches the wall and studies it for a moment.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Climb (no armor): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

She can't quite make out the tripwire from this angle but she reaches up and grasps the first part of the wall. Feeling rather surefooted, she quickly finds her marks and pulls herself up to the 7 foot mark.

Perception again if allowed?: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

The tripwire must be just behind a foothold from her field of view, because she still cannot see it.

"Alright, I'll stay here and help people up from this point. I've got a good hold."

Would this be an aid another that I can make, even though I'm already on the wall?

Yes indeed that's what I planned. I'll just post as though it didn't go screwey with my rolls

Jomanda smirks at the Captain, then hurls her buckler into the air. She immediately drops to the ground and shimmies under the wire as fast as she can, barely standing up in time on the other side to catch the shield on its way down. She strikes the same ridiculous pose. "Hmph."

Strength (throwing her buckler high in the air): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

Escape Artist (Armor, no buckler): 1d20 ⇒ 16

Escape Artist (Armor, no buckler): 1d20 ⇒ 7

Huh. So that's weird. I originally rolled and got 16 and 14, and then when I made space to add the strength roll and some text, it... rerolled my second Escape Artist check? I thought it was scripted to keep the rolls.

But how can we bot the amazingly, charmingly daft personality of Drukpa?!

Jomanda sniffs in disdain, nose in the air. "A balancing act? Seriously?"

Acrobatics (with armor): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

She begins to stroll across the beam, nonchalant with her hands in her pockets.

Acrobatics 2 (with armor): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

As she nears the end, she makes a very obvious show of pretending to lose her balance, then hops nimbly off the end of the beam. She turns around and strikes a rather ridiculous looking pose, fixing Othis with a glare.

"Not even worth my time."

Perform (oratory): 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1

Jomanda has no idea what sort of chants she's supposed to be repeating, and frankly doesn't care. She simply bellows unintelligibly at the top of her lungs along with everyone's chanting.

Sorry I was unable to post, I had a solid 34 hours of being drunk for a friend's birthday.

Fortitude: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

"I'm better than this work, but I'll be damned if I underperform."

Jomanda takes a small bundle of sticks from her pocket and breaks them into slightly different sizes. She dips the end of the shortest one into a nearby bowl of stew to change the color and holds them out for people to take. "Take one, and I'll know exactly which one each of you has."

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

She carefully reads the expressions on everyone's faces as they take a stick. "I know what you're thinking. You have the shortest stick!" she points at one of the men dramatically.

Jomanda rolls out her bedroll in the corner without a word. Nothing to clean up if it's your own bed. She lounges with her hands behind her head and her ankle resting on her knee for the rest of the time until dinner.

Jomanda strolls alongside the party attempting to portray an air of calm but her eyes wildly shooting back and forth at all the sights betrays her, not to mention her mouth slightly agape.

I've been unable to access the website all weekend, for (???) reasons. Now that I'm at work I'm able to. Not sure what's up with that but I can post now!

On another note, Malvic, what line are you putting that Spoiler tag in to get it to go beneath the other stats? I was wanting to do that with my Spells Per Day data on a different character.

For the most part, yes. I haven't really been keeping up with Diamond is Unbreakable, but the first two seasons were great. Honestly just not the biggest fan of the Stands(otherwise I'd be a summoner). The original idea was to "ORA ORA ORA ORA" someone's sword/armor to pieces with Pummeling Strike into Greater Sunder for punch-through damage. It does seem like I can still do that, just can't bypass the hardness with it (??)

The jury is still out on that one, I need to see if I can get a FAQ for it, and the Rules Forums has been less than helpful. I need to know if only the 'hit' that finishes off breaking the weapon will count with Greater Sunder or if it will allow me to add all the hits (minus hardness for each one) and then count that as the damage to the object.

"Jomanda Josebeth, at your service. My friends call me... JoJo." She says with unnecessary drama, hands in her pockets and her long coat flowing behind her at a strange angle, almost as if it were blowing in the wind.

"I see what they did with the name, rather interesting considering the locale."

Yes indeedy! Jomanda's entire character concept is "If you need to fight with a weapon, you're not man enough", and then she snaps your sword in half with her fists.

I was planning on a Pummeling Style build for sundering, but I learned that (for whatever weird reason) the Pummeling Style effect only works on DR, not hardness.

For GM Crunch: Here is the Item Hardness/HP Quick Reference

Sadly I mostly only get a chance to post while at work, and as with most office spaces for non-management, I can't add things like that to my browser. Despite the fact that I've come across at least 4 things I could do to optimize my workspace in the 8 months I've been here.

I was wondering. I did a search and saw that it was a request made about 2 years ago, but did they ever implement the ability to set your Default Alias on a per-campaign basis?

That would be great! I was just now doing some research to see if I could do it myself.
FYI, this character is focused on sundering, and I have a hardness/item HP quick cheat sheet at my disposal (I planned ahead). If we end up fighting anything with specific weapons, I'm going to end up wanting to know the material/type of armor etc. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Now that I'm finished my two double-shifts in a row...

The door to the office swings open rather late to reveal a scarred and piercing-filled woman with short-cropped hair standing in the doorway like she owns the place. You can almost see a cartoon sound effect representing her humongous ego floating around her head. "Plane of Earth eh? Nothing less for my first task. They already know of my greatness!"

Knowledge (Planes) untrained to assist: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

One day I'll get the hang of switching my "Post As".

As everyone arrives at the library, Jomanda picks a random book of the shelf and starts to flip through it, feet up on the table.

Glad to be here. As usual, luck is in my favour. Or did I plan it? You'll never know until I reveal my master plan in a long poorly animated monologue.