Round 72 (12:07:12)

Little Ali Andri, now a shadow, jumps a 7 strength old woman in the street and deals 5 points of strength damage. Rutio takes his readied attack, deals 6 damage. They roll initiative, the ranger wins. Full attacks, but Ali survives.

A different shadow might have taken cover, or finished off the commoner and then taken cover, but baby Ali Andri is possessed with a keener mind for tactics: he decides to fly erratically in dead panic.

Round 73 (12:07:18)

Rutio full attacks the damaged shadow and annihilates it.

He readies another action.

Ali Andri's murderous CE soul is judged and found wanting.

Rodica Andri, lurking high in the Shingles, has taken notice of Rutio.

She isn't happy.

Round 74 (12:07:24)

Rodica takes the run action and is now adjacent to Rutio.

Rutio takes his readied attack against her, rolls max damage and deals 6 out of her 19 hitpoints.

The hippogriff will attack with a magic fang’d beak against Rodica’s flatfooted AC and somehow miss (standard action). Then, in an attempt to move away without provoking an attack of opportunity, the hippogriff rolls an acrobatics check against DC 17, which it fails spectacularly (move action).

Round 75 (12:07:30)

Rutio negates Rodica’s attack with Mounted Combat, no sweat. He can block one attack made against his mount per round, if he succeeds at a ride skill check.

He full attacks, in his first range increment, and leaves Rodica with 2 HP.

There are 255 shadows in Bridgefront and environs surrounding, though soon to be 254.

16 in Midland.

Though it makes increasingly little sense to divide the shadows as belonging to one district or another.

This is maybe getting out of hand.

Round 76 (12:07:36)

Rodica charges Rutio and deals 2 strength damage out of his 14 point total.

Hippogriff attacks and misses again. Wings away, fails another acrobatics check, Rutio negates the AoO with Mounted Combat, one more arrow and Rodica dies.

A lifetime of kindness and local charity is more than outweighed by tonight’s murder spree. As a general rule, CE souls go to the Abyss.

Unless they follow Gorum, who lives in Elysium with all his faithful.

Wow, that seems kind of unfair.

Get yourself a god who looks out for you.

Hey, Rutio, good thing you stopped those attacks of opportunity, huh?

I don't see that it would have been a big deal either way.

Hippogriffs are large-sized quadrupeds with 15 strength. Their light load is 198 lbs. How much do you weigh with all your gear, Rutio? Is it more than 173 lbs? (I added it up; unless you weigh less than 130 lbs it totally is.)

I hope you never find yourself riding a hippogriff with 14 strength.

That’s an old rule, from D&D 3.5.

In Pathfinder, flying creatures don’t need to stay under their light load limit.

Most flying creatures don’t, but flying mounts can’t fly in medium or heavy barding.

I must have missed the place in the rules where it says rangers count as armor. Maybe you can point it out to me.

Core Rulebook, chapter 7, page 169: “A medium or heavy load counts as medium or heavy armor for the purpose of abilities or skills that are restricted by armor.”

That's convoluted.

That's Pathfinder.

Round 77 (12:07:42)

"Fly, Cloudy, take us up!"

In the third range increment of your longbow, it'll take three rounds on average to dispatch a shadow.

Meanwhile you can't even start unless you spot a shadow and it jumps someone, at which point there it will take fewer than three rounds for the shadow to conclude their attack.

The other rangers will get here soon. Hundreds of marines to flatten the curve and buy time.

Not a lot of time. You're launching 4 arrows a round. How sustainable a pace is that, for you?