Sorry about the silence, life has been very, very hectic as of late. Troubles at work and at home, but I should be sorted by now.
Skylar shrugs, following along and mostly staying silent as to observe her surroundings. The dream was... vivid, more so than she was used to, but it probably meant she was just more tired or something like that.
Upon hearing that their supposed enemy was apparently immune to physical attacks, Skylar just scoffed. "I'm sure we'll be fine! Maybe they resist some highschooler's lil' punts, but they haven't felt my moves just yet!" She says confidently, raising her fists and punching the air a few times.
Skylar nods, only getting two things out of what was said: light drives the night terrors away, and they have to find ligh somehow. Fine by her, if anything that just means she got to do some dream-wrestling and beat up whatever nightmare is coming their way!
She did sense the distress coming from Lasciel's voice, and while she didn't exactly think it was warranted given how this would all end when she woke up, Skylar realized that dream constructs probably didn't really know that they were dreams. Kind of like how computers are clever and do all sorts of math, but don't really know that they're computers like people do.
...At least, Skylar hoped so. Terminator was a scary, scary movie.
"C'mon gal, lighten up. I know you're feeling all weird and stuff, but ya gotta think on the upsides: maybe that dress is gaudy, but you got the bod to wear it! Own it up, cheer up, and let's go on a bit of an adventure together!" Skylar said, with a naive but nevertheless genuine attempt to help a fellow party member get settled. The large, muscular woman had a pep in her step, a jovial measure in the way she shook shoulders, danced in place a bit, oblivious to the true nature of their predicament.
Bless her, the fool.
"For the record! Xestris is fine and dandy, but you can just call me Skylar. Whoever was here before ain't here anymore, so we're gonna be rebranding a bit even if the looks are the same!" Gleefully introducing herself to everyone, Skylar even shot a finger gun here, a flex there, flairs to make sure she tested out her dream body some. Presentation and a warm-up, tied into one.
Skylar listens on to the explanation with focused eyes, only because she's trying hard to discern just how much of it is true and how much is b$!*!#@+ her mind is making up to fill the gaps. By the time Eftichia was done, it seemed like no time at all had passed to the bulky martial artist, only because the details flew out of her head with all the adjacent thinking she was doing.
And this fleeting sense of time only further convinced her this was all a dream of some kind, right along with all the weird sights, people, and words she did not understand and assumed were made up.
"WOW, now that was one hell of a tale!" Skylar evaluated honestly, clapping to the discourse given to her by the weird people. "So what's our next step in this whole night shebang? We wait till sun sets, find whatever the hell this monster thing is and piledrive it into the ground?" Asks Skylar, naturally leaning towards just going along for the ride this dream takes her.
And speaking of overexerting oneself, as soon as the light hit the sharp, trained eyes of the martial artist, she jolted awake, immediately putting her own six-pack to work in order to sit up in a rush. A movement that quickly brought Skylar, the new mind occupying that body, to feel dizzy and disoriented, placing a hand upon her hair to center herself again.
"Dang man, really outdoing myself with these dreams lately. So, what's on the menu for tonight?" She asked with a grin, the very concept of this new life escaping her thoughts completely. Recovering from the daze as swiftly as she got into it, Skylar was the first to take initiative and try to stand up, springing to life even if it momentarily costed her balance.
My girl is done! I ended up going for the Monk special features because the chained version actually allows you to add extra attacks to Flurry of Blows, since it acts like the TWF feat instead of being its own thing. Because of that, Xestris is able to perform a great many attacks per turn, when combining flurry with this stance.
Should be fun, she's very mobile and can do a ton of damage every turn. I optimized her a respectable amount, but definitively not as much as I could have (I took Lightning Reflexes, that should tell you a lot xD). I think she's very solid overall, but if needed we can obviously tone her down.
As for the backstory... I think I went overboard with it :P
Sebecloki wrote: This is what I got out of what you wrote:
Fists count as unarmed strikes and weapons for the purposes of this maneuver, but you're asking if they count as weapons,
If they count as both unarmed strikes and weapons for this maneuver, per what you wrote, I'm unclear why there's a question if they count as weapons.
There's another sentence that says weapons can count as unarmed strikes, but none that says the opposite.
I don't understand how this relates to the first question.
I'm sorry, again, I've read this three times and I still don't have a clue what you're asking. Maybe we can try to clarify it on discord.
It's fine! I'm just gonna avoid the options and I don't want to impose too much. I should be the one to apologize for confusing the matter as I did.
Anyways, here's my girl. Sadly, I woke up with a hangover so I couldn't really bring myself to finish her today as planned, but she's about halfway done. I have the backstory written on my desktop, I'll pass it over and finish buying stuff, calculating offenses and defenses, and settling on which semi-gestalt I'll be picking.
I think I'm settled on Unchained Monk though. The Scaled Fist archetype lets me add Cha instead of Wis to her class features, and being able to fall back on Flurry of Blows + Ki stuff when I need to full attack is pretty sweet. Besides, it fits with the idea of my character getting isekai'd into a martial arts master, so it hits all the good spots.
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