Vincent Noir
Level: 13
Class: Assassin (Striker)
Paragon Path: Soul Thief
Medium Natural Humanoid (human, undead)

Initiative +11; Passive Senses Perception 23, Insight 18; Low-light vision
HP 79; Bloodied 38; Damage 0
Temp HP 0; Resist 5 necrotic
Healing Surge 19; Surges Per Day 11; Surges Used 1
AC 26; Fortitude 24, Reflex 24, Will 21
Speed 6; Action Points 1; Benefit Points 3; Soul Shards 2

Alignment Unaligned; Languages Common, Draconic

Skills Acrobatics +17, (Athletics) +7 (+9 climb), Endurance +18, (Intimidate) +7, Perception +13, Stealth +16 (+17), Thievery +16 (+18 open locks, disarm traps)

Feats Assassin’s Cloak (Whenever you become invisible, you can make a Stealth check to hide as a free action), Blood Thirst (+2 melee damage vs. bloodied targets), Fierce Vitality (If you drop to 0 or fewer hit points and choose to remain conscious due to Unnatural Vitality, you can remain conscious until you fail two death saving throws), Grave Dust Assassin (When you deal damage with your dark reaping racial power, if the target has at least one of your shrouds on it, it takes damage as if you had invoked your shrouds), Grave Step (If you reduce a creature to 0 hit points or fewer during your turn, you can use shadow step as a minor action during that turn without needing to begin or end the teleport adjacent to a creature), Killer’s Insight (Once per encounter when you use assassin’s shroud, you can subject the target to two shrouds instead of one), Weapon Focus (Heavy Blades), Weapon Proficiency (Fullblade)

Str 12 (+1/+7) Dex 21 (+5/+11) Wis 14 (+2/+8)
Con 21 (+5/+11) Int 11 (+0/+6) Cha 9 (-1/+5)
Possessions +3 jagged fullblade, +3 summoned drowmesh leather armor, +2 periapt of cascading health, iron armbands of power, gauntlets of blood, acrobat boots, ruby scabbard, circlet of second chances, death spiral ring, camouflaged clothing, footpads, thieves’ tools, climbing kit, adventurer’s kit, 152 pp, 68 gp

Racial Traits Skill Bonuses (Endurance, Intimidate), Dark Reaping, Past Life (human), Unnatural Vitality (Whenever you drop to 0 hit points or fewer, you are dying but you can choose to remain conscious until you fail two death saving throws. If you remain conscious, you can take only one standard action on your turn)
Class Features Assassin’s Shroud, Guild Training: Bleak Disciple (When you hit an unbloodied target, you gain 7 temporary hit points), Shade Form, Shadow Step
Paragon Path Features Soul Killer (A creature killed by you cannot be restored to life except by a creature of a level higher than yours), Soul Theft (When you reduce any enemy to 0 hit points, you gain a soul shard. You can expend a soul shard as a free action either to subject your assassin’s shroud target to another shroud or to gain a +1 bonus to a single attack roll, saving throw, skill check, or ability check. Alternatively, you can expend three soul shards as a free action to regain the use of shade form. You can have up to five soul shards at a time. After an extended rest, your unexpended soul shards vanish, but you gain a soul shard), Soul Thief’s Action (When you spend an action point to take an extra action, you gain a bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls until the end of your turn. The bonus equals 2 + the number of soul shards you currently have.)

Basic Attacks

+3 Jagged Fullblade (Standard; at-will) ✦ Weapon +13 vs. AC; 1d12 + 8 [12] {20 [24] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage.

Power Descriptions

At-Will Hexes

Assassin’s Shroud Assassin Feature
You cause invisible shrouds to settle on your foe. At your command, the shrouds reveal the target’s weak points to your keen gaze.
At-Will ✦ Shadow
Free Action Close burst 10
Target: One enemy you can see in burst
Effect: You subject the target to your shroud. If any of your shrouds are already on the target, you subject it to an additional shroud, up to a maximum of four. The shrouds last until you use this power against a different enemy or until the end of the encounter.
Before you make an attack roll against the target, you choose to invoke either all your shrouds on it or none of them. If you invoke your shrouds, the attack deals 1d6 + 3 damage per shroud, minus one shroud if the attack misses, and all your shrouds then vanish from the target. This damage roll never benefits from bonuses to damage rolls, and is in addition to the attack’s damage, if any.
Special: You can use this power only on your turn and only once per turn.

Shadow Step Assassin Feature
You vanish into the shadow energy around one creature and then step out of it near another creature.
At-Will ✦ Shadow, Teleportation
Move Action Personal
Requirement: You must be adjacent to a creature.
Effect: You teleport 4 squares to a square adjacent to a different creature.

Stalking Phantom Soul Thief Utility 12
You move like a ghost, passing through your enemies.
At-Will ✦ Shadow
Move Action Personal
Requirement: You must be under the effect of shade form.
Effect: You shift your speed and can move through enemies’ spaces during the shift.

Executioner’s Noose Assassin Attack 1
You gather shadows into the form of a noose, cast it around your foe’s neck, and pull.
At-Will ✦ Force, Implement, Shadow
Standard Action Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: +14 vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d6 + 8 [10] {14 [16] and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} force damage, you pull the target 2 squares. The target is slowed until the end of your next turn.

Leaping Shade Assassin Attack 1
As your weapon makes contact, the shrouds you have placed on your victim dig cruelly into its flesh.
At-Will ✦ Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: +17 vs. AC
Hit: 1d12 + 12 [16] {24 [28] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage. If you didn’t invoke your shrouds on the target, it takes 1 extra damage for each of your shrouds on it.

Encounter Hexes

Dark Reaping Revenant Racial Power
You use one death as the seed to sow more destruction.
Encounter ✦ Necrotic
Free Action
Trigger: A creature within 5 squares of you is reduced to 0 hit points
Effect: One creature you hit with an attack you make before the end of your next turn takes an additional 1d8 + 5 (Constitution modifier) necrotic damage. If the target has at least one of your shrouds on it, it takes damage as if you had invoked your shrouds.

Shade Form Assassin Feature
You transform yourself into a being of shadow, becoming more difficult to notice and to harm.
Encounter ✦ Shadow
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You assume a shadowy form that lasts until you make an attack roll or until the end of your next turn. While in this form, you are insubstantial, and you gain vulnerable 5 radiant. In addition, you can make Stealth checks to become hidden if you have any cover or concealment, and you can use cover granted by your allies both to become hidden and to remain hidden.
Sustain Minor: The form persists.

Gloom Thief Assassin Attack 1
As you slash at your foe, you seize part of its shadow, which you use to hide yourself from your enemies’ eyes.
Encounter ✦ Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: +17 vs. AC
Hit: 2d12 + 12 [16] {36 [40] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage. Until the end of your next turn, you are invisible while within 2 squares of the target.

Nightshade’s Kiss Assassin Attack 3
Your strike infects your foe’s mind, causing the foe to recoil from every attack.
Encounter ✦ Fear, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: +17 vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d12 + 12 [16] {36 [40] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage, and you slide the target 2 squares. Until the end of your next turn, you can slide the target 1 square as a free action whenever the target is hit.
Bleak Disciple: The number of squares you slide the target increases by 1.

Dark Step Ambush Assassin Attack 13
You step from your foe’s shadow to deliver a deadly attack, then hide in the tatters of the foe’s soul.
Encounter ✦ Illusion, Shadow, Teleportation, Weapon
Standard Action Melee 1
Target: Your assassin’s shroud target
Effect: Before the attack, you teleport 5 squares to a square adjacent to your assassin’s shroud target.
Attack: +17 vs. AC
Hit: 2d12 + 12 [16] {36 [40] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage.

Soul Shadow Soul Thief Attack 11
Infused with shadow magic, your weapon slashes into your enemy’s very soul.
Encounter ✦ Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: +17 vs. Will
Hit: 3d12 + 12 [16] {48 [52] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage.
Special: You can expend a soul shard to prevent the attack roll from ending your shade form.

Cloak of Shades Assassin Utility 2
A shadowy haze swirls around you, hiding you from view.
Encounter ✦ Shadow
Minor Action Personal
Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain concealment against all creatures and are invisible to creatures that are more than 5 squares away from you.

Slayer’s Escape Assassin Utility 6
After you are struck, you fold shadows around yourself and disappear.
Encounter ✦ Shadow, Teleportation
Immediate Reaction Personal
Trigger: You are hit by an attack
Effect: You teleport 5 squares, and you become invisible until the start of your next turn.

Slayer’s Endurance Assassin Utility 10
You draw the comforting darkness close, allowing shadows to carry away the pain of your wounds.
Encounter ✦ Shadow
Minor Action Personal
Effect: The first time an enemy takes damage from your assassin’s shroud before the end of your next turn, you gain 5 temporary hit points for each shroud on that enemy.

Second Wind PC Feature
Encounter ✦ Healing
Standard Action Personal
Effect: You spend a healing surge and regain 19 hit points. You gain a +2 bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn.

Daily Hexes

Targeted for Death Assassin Attack 1
A black dart streaks from your hand to strike the target, surrounding it in a warmth-stealing gloom.
Daily ✦ Cold, Implement, Shadow
Standard Action Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: +14 vs. Will
Hit: 3d8 + 8 [10] {32 [34] and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} cold damage.
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, whenever you use assassin’s shroud against the target, you subject it to two shrouds instead of one.

Heart of Dust Assassin Attack 5
Shadow venom courses through your target, causing it to shed a gray dust that chokes nearby enemies.
Daily ✦ Poison, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: +17 vs. AC
Hit: 2d12 + 12 [16] {36 [40] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends). Whenever the target takes this ongoing damage, each enemy within 2 squares of it takes 5 poison damage.
Miss: Half damage, and each enemy within 2 squares of the target takes 3 poison damage.

Obscuring Shadow Assassin Attack 9
You slash at your foe, calling up shadows that blot you from its vision.
Daily ✦ Illusion, Shadow, Weapon
Standard Action Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: +17 vs. Will
Hit: 3d12 + 12 [16] {48 [52] + 2d12 and ongoing 10 damage (save ends) on crit} damage.
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: The target cannot see you (save ends).

Sylvara’s Summer Empowerment Special Utility
Daily ✦ Cold, Stance
Minor Action Personal
Effect: Until the end of the encounter, add 5 cold damage to all damage rolls, gain resist 10 cold, and against any Winter Wyrm creature, you may score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Magic Items

+3 Jagged Fullblade Level 12
Weapon: Fullblade
Enhancement: +3 attack rolls and damage rolls
Critical: +2d12 damage and ongoing 10 damage (save ends)
Property: This weapon scores critical hits on a 19 or 20.

+3 Summoned Drowmesh Leather Armor Level 11
Armor: Leather
Enhancement: +3 AC
Special: +1 Reflex
Power (At-Will): Minor Action. You banish this armor to a secure extradimensional location. At any point in the future, unless you are wearing armor, you can use another minor action to recall the armor. The armor appears on you as though you had donned it normally.

+2 Periapt of Cascading Health Level 10
Item Slot: Neck
Enhancement: +2 Fortitude, Reflex, and Will
Power (Encounter): Minor Action. You end one condition that a save can end.

Iron Armbands of Power Level 6
Item Slot: Arms
Property: Gain a +2 item bonus to melee damage rolls.

Ruby Scabbard Level 5
Wondrous Item
Property: You can draw a weapon from this scabbard as part of the same action used to make an attack with that weapon.
Power (Encounter): Free Action. Use this power when you attack with the weapon most recently sheathed in the scabbard. Gain a +1 power bonus to the next damage roll you make with that weapon before the end of your next turn.

Gauntlets of Blood Level 4
Item Slot: Hands
Property: You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls against bloodied targets.

Circlet of Second Chances Level 3
Item Slot: Head
Power (Daily): No Action. Use this power when you fail a saving throw. Reroll the saving throw, using the second result even if it’s lower.

Acrobat Boots Level 2
Item Slot: Feet
Property: Gain a +1 item bonus to Acrobatics checks.
Power (At-will): Minor Action. Stand up from prone.

Death Spiral Ring Level 16
Item Slot: Ring
Property: Gain resist 5 necrotic.
Power (Daily ✦ Teleportation): Immediate Reaction. Trigger: A creature within 10 squares of you drops to 0 hit points or fewer. Effect: You teleport into the creature’s space or to a square adjacent to it.
If you’ve reached at least one milestone today, you can use the power a second time during this encounter. This second use doesn’t count as a use of a daily magic item power.

Current XP: 44,524 (Through Session 9)
Next Level: 47,000