Loptr dashes down the corridor with his great hammer at the ready, but closes his eyes and turns his head left and right as if listening intently as he reaches the area where his friends told him of the illusion.
move 45 feet (move action), then swift action change stance to "Whispering Wind Stance" to gain blindsense 15'. Then move up to 22 feet more until he is within reach (10 feet) of an enemy (or runs out of movement).
Quill –
I think this would be fun, and use a Blue Mage class feature I haven’t tried yet: Blisss is going to try Mirror Moving like Loptr (and while he’s doing it, will look just like a little Loptr in his mannerisms) since Loptr clearly is trying to sense his enemies blind; Loptr is moving with his eyes closed and shifting his head from side to side. And Miyella did say not to look.
LMK if it will work; if it does, I’ll write it up one way and if it doesn’t I’ll write it up another way.
FYI, the
Mirror Move spell says “The DM may allow mirroring of feats from sources other than the Player's Handbook, as long as they are feats with observable physical effects.”
It also says that with a single casting, Blisss can use Mirror Move on a number of feats = his INT bonus, which is 4, but he must meet the prerequisites of any move he mirrors.
So, what about prerequisites? I’ll try to sort through them. (1) According to Loptr’s character sheet, the Whispering Wind (Gentle Breeze) stance is L3. To access a stance, the feat for Mirror Move is Martial Stance. The Martial Stance feat says the Initiator level for Blisss is half his character level, which is L8, so Blisss would count as an L4 Initiator. (2) The Whispering Wind stance requires knowledge of two manoeuvers in its discipline. The Martial Study feat could cover this prerequisite, if necessary, by taking it twice – maybe based on what he’s seen Loptr doing. Blisss can cover 4 feats at once, based on his INT bonus, so he has enough capacity in theory.
Whether this works in practice is your call; the spell says that explicitly!
If so, Blisss would find that he can use the stance for 6 minutes and gains blind-sense, with a range of 15 feet, just like Loptr – and he’ll continue to move like a little Loptr when he needs the blind-sense
What do you think? I’m fine either way.
PS. Just in case you’d like a roll of some kind, I rolled a Concentration check on the Dice Rolls thread. It seemed like a good check for Blue Mage spell-like imitation in a combat situation.
The result: 33
