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Wordman at 14:48, 13 September 2011

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Wordman: /* Invocations */

2011-09-09T14:21:33Z

‎Invocations

Wordman: /* Invocations */

2011-09-09T14:14:46Z

‎Invocations

Wordman: /* Weaknesses */

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‎Weaknesses

Wordman: Degenerating

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Degenerating

Wordman: Influence should be Transcendent

2011-09-08T22:27:20Z

Influence should be Transcendent

Wordman: Influence should be Transcendent

2011-09-08T22:26:52Z

Influence should be Transcendent

Wordman: Menace and Omen added

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Menace and Omen added

Wordman: Menace and Omen added

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Menace and Omen added

Wordman: Menace and Omen added

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Menace and Omen added

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-|charge (strike, 1)
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 Because of Warfare Summoning, the invocation can act immediately (and has two strike dice as well). ''Crystal'' is more interested in having the invocation just suck damage for her, but she must make it act. She decides she might as well have it maneuver. She describes some of the gears as spinning further away from her, then back, at random, sort of pulsing against her attackers, warning them to stay back. The maneuver uses the eidolon's Force skill, so starts with three dice. She uses one die from the eidolon's action pool, but saves her own action dice. The maneuver roll comes up 4, 7, 8, 8, for three successes, all of which become strike dice. Even added to the two strike dice already in the pool (from Warfare Summoning), these don't exceed the eidolon's limit of six, so it keeps all of them. Its action is now over, so it immediately takes a sllight. The round continues, and several opponents attack the eidolon. One even manages to wound it, leaving it with two empty wound circles.
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-On ''Crystal'''s next action, her options are limited, as she has to give her action to the eidolon, or it will vanish. She has it attack, using all of its strike dice. She figures a lucky hit might just take out an attacker, so adds one of her own strike dice to this pool. The eidolon has no charge powers to help the attack, so rolls the six dice. All of them succeed and manage to take out an attacker. Its action is now over, so it immediately takes a slight, leaving it with one empty circle.
+On ''Crystal'''s next action, her options are limited, as she has to give her action to the eidolon, or it will vanish. She has it attack, using all of its strike dice. She figures a lucky hit might just take out an attacker, so adds one of her own strike dice to this pool. The eidolon has no charge powers to help the attack, so rolls the six dice. All of them succeed and manage to take out an attacker. Its action is now over, so it immediately takes a slight from its Degenerating weakness, leaving it with one empty circle.
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 As the round continues, the opponents manage to give the eidolon another wound, taking it out of the conflict. The slights immediately heal, but the two wounds remain. ''Crystal'' could use her next action to summon the eidolon again, but it would appear with these two wounds, so she would need to buy enough Toughness to handle that, otherwise the eidolon would vanish as soon as it arrived.
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 <blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Later on, after healing her invocation, ''Asymmetrically Growing Crystal'' gets ambushed by a swarm of twiglings. Knowing their wooden bodies are vulnerable to fire, she again summons her invocation. As before, she has four powers to select. This time, she chooses Firestorm, another level of Preternatural, and two levels of Menace (providing four strike dice). She makes the eidolon an individual, with a Craft skill of 3. It arrives looking like an odd metallic whirligig, spewing fire from numerous nozzles. It has defense of 1, a full action pool of two dice, six dice in its strike pool, no die in its charge pool and three wound circles.
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-The eidolon may act immediately, thanks to Warfare Summoning. It uses all its strike dice to attack. It activates the Firestorm power, using three dice from ''Crystal'''s charge pool. The power provides four bonus dice for strikes against swarms. The twiglings are also vulnerable to fire, which provides three more dice, for a total of 13 dice. The nine successes wind up dealing two wounds to the swarm. Good, but these are tough little buggers. Since the eidolon's action is now over, it takes a slight.
+The eidolon may act immediately, thanks to Warfare Summoning. It uses all its strike dice to attack. It activates the Firestorm power, using three dice from ''Crystal'''s charge pool. The power provides four bonus dice for strikes against swarms. The twiglings are also vulnerable to fire, which provides three more dice, for a total of 13 dice. The nine successes wind up dealing two wounds to the swarm. Good, but these are tough little buggers. Since the eidolon's action is now over, it takes a slight from its Degenerating weakness.
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 The twigling swarm goes after ''Crystal'' on its action, leaving the eidolon untouched. ''Crystal'' again gives her action to the eidolon, using it to make a maneuver. The whirligig wades into the swarm, picking up the burning remains of the previously incinerated twiglings, and shoving them into an opening in its head, stoking its internal fires even higher. It uses its Craft skill, and all of its action pool, rolling four successes: 4, 6, 8, 8, 9. Since the eidolon's levels of Preternatural give it the Transcendent condition, three of these successes become charge dice, one becomes strike dice. Since the eidolon's action is now over, it takes a slight.

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 * The eidolon's skill is chosen at the time of summoning, but only has a rating of 3.
 * As part of the summoning, the summoner's player must describe the appearance of the eidolon, using the powers selected as a guide.
-* A weakness is not selected for invocations. Instead, invocations only remain for a limited time. At the end of the ''invocation's'' action, it automatically takes a slight (see "Added Terminology", above).
+* Invocations ''must'' take Degenerating as a weakness.
 * When a character earns a level of Empower Eidolon, they ''may'' break Open Bonds with any invocations and replace them with bonds to new invocations. Bonus powers provided by Empower Eidolon are not selected immediately, but are chosen during summoning.

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 '''Predictable'''<br/>The eidolon is either easy to fool or set in its ways: any fours rolled to maneuver against the eidolon count as successes, generating strike dice.
-'''Rogue'''<br/>The eidolon breaks from the control of the summoner as soon as it arrives. It may act independently from the summoner, receiving its own action each turn, but it follows its own motivation and is controlled by the GM. Most rogue eidola hold ill feelings toward their summoner.
+'''Rogue'''<br/>The eidolon breaks from the control of the summoner as soon as it arrives. It may act independently from the summoner, receiving its own action each turn, but it follows its own motivation and is controlled by the GM. It cannot access its summoner's pools. Most rogue eidola hold ill feelings toward their summoner.
 === Summoning Powers ===

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	Any of the weaknesses listed in ''Anima Prime'' may be selected. You may instead choose one of these:		Any of the weaknesses listed in ''Anima Prime'' may be selected. You may instead choose one of these:
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		+	'''Degenerating'''<br/>The eidolon cannot remain summoned for long. After any action the eidolon takes, it suffers a slight. All Invocations must take this weakness.

	'''Flawed'''<br/>Imperfections mar the eidolon's magic. The moment it its summoned, a "banish flawed eidolon" goal is created, with a difficulty equal to 4 + the eidolon's level. If this goal is achieved, the eidolon vanishes with all of its wound circles marked, even if it has the Unbreakable Bond power. The story surrounding this goal often involves some known susceptibility to a special material. For example, many creations of the Raksha can be unmade by the touch of cold-forged iron. Achieving the goal, then, often represents knowing of this flaw, having the right materials on hand, and using them correctly.		'''Flawed'''<br/>Imperfections mar the eidolon's magic. The moment it its summoned, a "banish flawed eidolon" goal is created, with a difficulty equal to 4 + the eidolon's level. If this goal is achieved, the eidolon vanishes with all of its wound circles marked, even if it has the Unbreakable Bond power. The story surrounding this goal often involves some known susceptibility to a special material. For example, many creations of the Raksha can be unmade by the touch of cold-forged iron. Achieving the goal, then, often represents knowing of this flaw, having the right materials on hand, and using them correctly.

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 | Enlightened
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-| Enlightened<br/>Immaterial
+| Transcendent<br/>Immaterial
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 Influences follow the rules of eidolon, except as follows:
-* Influences have the Enlightened condition.
+* Influences have the Transcendent condition.
 * Influences have the Immaterial condition and nothing can revoke this.
 * An influence must be connected to some lie, chosen when a bond to the eidolon is created. The lie may be about the summoner (e.g. "I am the king of the world") or anyone else (e.g. "Harmonious Jade is a traitor").
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 * All ''players'' must be made aware of influences present in a scene, and what lie they are telling. This "metagame" knowledge is a big part of the way influences work, as it forces players to factor the ramifications of believing the lie or not into their planning. All ''characters'' in the scene are usually unaware of the lie, unless they can see Insubstantial targets.
-<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Chosen of Secrets Hammer in the Woods has a bond to the lie "I am the mortal court astrologer and chief administrator for Chiaroscuro's Tri-Kahn". She summoned it years ago and attached it to herself. This is a level 1 influence with three levels of Stamina, Blindness, Empower, two levels of Preternatural, the Subtlety skill and the Cowardly weakness, giving it an action pool maximum of 8 and a charm pool maximum of 4. At present, however, the influence's action pool has only two dice and its charge pool is empty.
+<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Chosen of Secrets Hammer in the Woods has a bond to the lie "I am the mortal court astrologer and chief administrator for Chiaroscuro's Tri-Kahn". She summoned it years ago and attached it to herself. This is a level 1 influence with three levels of Stamina, Blindness, Empower, two levels of Charge Boost, the Subtlety skill and the Cowardly weakness, giving it an action pool maximum of 8 and a charm pool maximum of 8. At present, however, the influence's action pool has only two dice and its charge pool is empty.
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 A brawl breaks out in the Tri-Kahn's throne room. Playing the role of the court astrologer, Hammer decides to cower in fear, giving her action to the influence. Since the influence's only choice is to maneuver, Hammer's player describes the influence as settling (immaterially) around Hammer and giving off "nothing here but a lowly mortal" vibes. The influence uses one of its own action dice, supplemented by two from Hammer. Added to its skill dice, it rolls: 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9. These are all successes. Thanks to its Transcendent condition, the 8's and 9 become charge dice. The others would normally become four strike dice, but influences convert them into action dice instead.
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 </blockquote>
-<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Many years later, Hammer in the Woods is on an assignment to increase cattle production among the Atuis tribe of Southern cattlemen. She decides to break the bond to one of her influences and bind to a new one: "The Atuis are the most successful cattle breeders of all time". This is a level 2 influence with 10 powers, two levels of Stamina, one level of Preternatural, Mass Effect, Shield, Weaken and four levels of Charge Boost. She summons the influence and targets it on the tent of the Atuis leader. She then travels on her way, but over the next week, she manages to max out the influence's charge pool (8 charge dice) but only has 2 action dice remaining.
+<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Many years later, Hammer in the Woods is on an assignment to increase cattle production among the Atuis tribe of Southern cattlemen. She decides to break the bond to one of her influences and bind to a new one: "The Atuis are the most successful cattle breeders of all time". This is a level 2 influence with 10 powers, two levels of Stamina, one level of Resistance, Mass Effect, Shield, Weaken and four levels of Charge Boost. She summons the influence and targets it on the tent of the Atuis leader. She then travels on her way, but over the next week, she manages to max out the influence's charge pool (8 charge dice) but only has 2 action dice remaining.
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 A week later, trouble is brewing in the Atuis camp: a young upstart is challenging the Atuis leader for control of the tribe. The two maneuver against each other, seeking support from the tribesmen. Factions develop, each a squad of loyalists to one of the two men. At one point, the leader says "are we not great cattle breeders?" and the influence takes notice, automatically spending an action die. While Hammer herself is not aware of any of this, Hammer's player chooses to activate the influence's power. The influence spends four charge dice to use Mass Effect Shield on the leader and his loyalists. On the next round, the upstart counters, saying "the gods did not intend us to ranch cattle like women! We are hunters!". The influence detects this, and Hammer's player decides to spend the influence's last action die to cast Mass Effect Weaken on the upstart and his followers. At this point, all of the influence's action dice are gone, so it goes back to its own world. While the conditions it created remain, and Hammer knows it is no longer summoned, Hammer is too far away to re-summon the influence to guide the conflict.
 </blockquote>
-<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Imperial raksha Erratic Threnody leads a force of fair folk into the scavenger lands. He has summoned a formidable glamour: "All will flee before the might of my army". This is a level 4 influence, with 16 powers: two levels of Preternatural, six levels of Charge Boost, four levels of Stamina, Mass Effect, Weakness, Slow, Power Block, with full pools (12 action dice, 10 charge dice). Threnody's army rides into a village defended by two terrestrial exalted, a squad of trained mortal troops, and a swarm of commoners. Since the influence wants people to flee, the GM decides to create a goal of "flee the battlefield"
+<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Imperial raksha Erratic Threnody leads a force of fair folk into the scavenger lands. He has summoned a formidable glamour: "All will flee before the might of my army". This is a level 4 influence, with 16 powers: two levels of Resistance, six levels of Charge Boost, four levels of Stamina, Mass Effect, Weakness, Slow, Power Block, with full pools (12 action dice, 10 charge dice). Threnody's army rides into a village defended by two terrestrial exalted, a squad of trained mortal troops, and a swarm of commoners. Since the influence wants people to flee, the GM decides to create a goal of "flee the battlefield"
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 When the swarm sees the imposing invaders, they decide to run. In order to do so, they must achieve the flee the battlefield goal, but they need strike dice to do so, and do not have any. They maneuver, signaling a retreat. This embraces the lie of the influence, so it automatically spends an action die. The influence has no other way to benefit the swarm (and, in any case, Threnody wants to use charge dice for other things), so the action die goes to helping the swarm's maneuver. One of the terrestrial exalted decides that he should go with the swarm, to protect them, so he makes a similar maneuver, costing the influence another action die. The squad goes next, taking a maneuver where they dramatically hold the line to cover the retreat of the others. This flies in the face of the lie the influence tells, so Threnody spends another of the influence's action dice to hurt the squad. It spends three charge dice to cast Mass Effect Weakness on the squad. The remaining terrestrial maneuvers against Threnody directly, so the raksha spends another of the influence's action dice, and two more charge dice to cast Power Block on the terrestrial.

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 ! Strike pool at summoning<br/>(not including summoning powers)
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-| 1/sacrificed power
+| 2 per Menace power
 | Transfered from summoner
 | Empty<br/>All earned strike dice become action dice
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 ! Charge pool at summoning<br/>(not including summoning powers)
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-| 1/two sacrificed powers
+| 1 per Omen power
 | Transfered from summoner
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 |charge (boost, 1 per power2 per power)
 |Pay +1cd to use a power marked § on a squad or swarm. Pay +2cd to use a power marked ‡ on up to three additional targets.
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 '''Integrity'''<br/>
 The eidolon may enter the Wyld without being subject to its mutating effects. They are also immune to any powers used by influences and add 1 to their defense against characters with the Wyld condition.
 '''Persistent'''<br/>The eidolon stays in the world longer than usual (though not as long as one summoned as a companion). If a conflict involving the eidolon concludes with the eidolon completely unwounded, it remains in the world. Further, the eidolon may be summoned during a character scene, provided the summoner uses the scene specifically for that purpose and forgoes any other scene benefit for that scene. Outside of conflict scenes, any wounds cause the eidolon to vanish. This means, in order to summon the eidolon outside of a conflict, it must first be fully healed. It may be summoned while wounded during a conflict, but vanishes once the conflict ends, unless healed.
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 * Level 0 invocations start with the Enlightened condition and two powers. They gain two more powers for each additional level.
 * When binding to an invocation, only half of the powers of that eidolon are determined.
-* Each time the character summons a bound invocation, the player may select the eidolon's remaining powers, which last for the duration of that particular summoning. The summoner may "sacrifice" any or all of these powers to provide dice for the eidolon. Each power sacrificed provides either 2 strike dice or 1 charge die, though any dice that would exceed the eidolon's pool limits are wasted.
+* Each time the character summons a bound invocation, the player may select the eidolon's remaining powers, which last for the duration of that particular summoning.
 * While the invocation is summoned, the summoner must spend her action to give the eidolon an action of its own. If the summoner cannot act, or uses her action herself, the invocation vanishes immediately.
 * The type of the eidolon (individual, squad, swarm) is selected by the summoner at the time of the summoning.
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 <blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': During a conflict, ''Asymmetrically Growing Crystal'' gets surrounded, and needs some quick defense to hold out until her friends arrive. She spends her action summoning her bound invocation, spending three charge dice to do so. Based on its level, it has three additional powers that can be selected during the summoning. Plus, Empower Eidolon III provides a bonus power to the Level 2 eidolon. She selects Auto Guard (so the attackers have to go after the eidolon), another level of Toughness (taking the total to the max of three), and two levels of Resilience. She wants to make her attackers think twice so chooses Force as the invocation's skill, and decides to summon it as a swarm. The eidolon arrives with a defense of 3, an Force skill of 3, a full action pool of two dice and four wound circles. The player describes gears of all sizes, materializing around her by the hundreds, and whirling around her with a rhythmic, menacing humming.
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-Because of Warfare summoning, the invocation can act immediately (and has two strike dice as well). ''Crystal'' is more interested in having the invocation just suck damage for her, but she must make it act. She decides she might as well have it maneuver. She describes some of the gears as spinning further away from her, then back, at random, sort of pulsing against her attackers, warning them to stay back. The maneuver uses the eidolon's Force skill, so starts with three dice. She uses one die from the eidolon's action pool, but saves her own action dice. The maneuver roll comes up 4, 7, 8, 8, for three successes, all of which become strike dice. Even added to the two strike dice already in the pool (from Warfare Summoning), these don't exceed the eidolon's limit of six, so it keeps all of them. Its action is now over, so it immediately takes a sllight. The round continues, and several opponents attack the eidolon. One even manages to wound it, leaving it with two empty wound circles.
+Because of Warfare Summoning, the invocation can act immediately (and has two strike dice as well). ''Crystal'' is more interested in having the invocation just suck damage for her, but she must make it act. She decides she might as well have it maneuver. She describes some of the gears as spinning further away from her, then back, at random, sort of pulsing against her attackers, warning them to stay back. The maneuver uses the eidolon's Force skill, so starts with three dice. She uses one die from the eidolon's action pool, but saves her own action dice. The maneuver roll comes up 4, 7, 8, 8, for three successes, all of which become strike dice. Even added to the two strike dice already in the pool (from Warfare Summoning), these don't exceed the eidolon's limit of six, so it keeps all of them. Its action is now over, so it immediately takes a sllight. The round continues, and several opponents attack the eidolon. One even manages to wound it, leaving it with two empty wound circles.
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 On ''Crystal'''s next action, her options are limited, as she has to give her action to the eidolon, or it will vanish. She has it attack, using all of its strike dice. She figures a lucky hit might just take out an attacker, so adds one of her own strike dice to this pool. The eidolon has no charge powers to help the attack, so rolls the six dice. All of them succeed and manage to take out an attacker. Its action is now over, so it immediately takes a slight, leaving it with one empty circle.
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-<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Later on, after healing her invocation, ''Asymmetrically Growing Crystal'' gets ambushed by a swarm of twiglings. Knowing their wooden bodies are vulnerable to fire, she again summons her invocation. As before, she has four powers to select. This time, she chooses Firestorm and another level of Preternatural as its only additional powers. The other two she sacrifices to buy four strike dice. She makes the eidolon an individual, with a Craft skill of 3. It arrives looking like an odd metallic whirligig, spewing fire from numerous nozzles. It has defense of 1, a full action pool of two dice, six dice in its strike pool, no die in its charge pool and three wound circles.
+<blockquote style="background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid black;">'''Example''': Later on, after healing her invocation, ''Asymmetrically Growing Crystal'' gets ambushed by a swarm of twiglings. Knowing their wooden bodies are vulnerable to fire, she again summons her invocation. As before, she has four powers to select. This time, she chooses Firestorm, another level of Preternatural, and two levels of Menace (providing four strike dice). She makes the eidolon an individual, with a Craft skill of 3. It arrives looking like an odd metallic whirligig, spewing fire from numerous nozzles. It has defense of 1, a full action pool of two dice, six dice in its strike pool, no die in its charge pool and three wound circles.
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-The eidolon may act immediately, thanks to Warfare summoning. It uses all its strike dice to attack. It activates the Firestorm power, using three dice from ''Crystal'''s charge pool. The power provides four bonus dice for strikes against swarms. The twiglings are also vulnerable to fire, which provides three more dice, for a total of 13 dice. The nine successes wind up dealing two wounds to the swarm. Good, but these are tough little buggers. Since the eidolon's action is now over, it takes a slight.
+The eidolon may act immediately, thanks to Warfare Summoning. It uses all its strike dice to attack. It activates the Firestorm power, using three dice from ''Crystal'''s charge pool. The power provides four bonus dice for strikes against swarms. The twiglings are also vulnerable to fire, which provides three more dice, for a total of 13 dice. The nine successes wind up dealing two wounds to the swarm. Good, but these are tough little buggers. Since the eidolon's action is now over, it takes a slight.
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 The twigling swarm goes after ''Crystal'' on its action, leaving the eidolon untouched. ''Crystal'' again gives her action to the eidolon, using it to make a maneuver. The whirligig wades into the swarm, picking up the burning remains of the previously incinerated twiglings, and shoving them into an opening in its head, stoking its internal fires even higher. It uses its Craft skill, and all of its action pool, rolling four successes: 4, 6, 8, 8, 9. Since the eidolon's levels of Preternatural give it the Transcendent condition, three of these successes become charge dice, one becomes strike dice. Since the eidolon's action is now over, it takes a slight.