<|endoftext|> the Untapped Anger feat. This lasts for 3 rounds or until you are knocked unconscious.
Techniques
The techniques are presented in alphabetical order.
Chaos Blades You can use your action and expend 1 fury point to make a melee weapon attack to all creatures within 5 feet of you.
Death Sentence As a bonus action you can use any number of fury points, up to a maximum of 3, to start hunting a target you can see. For a number of rounds, equal to the number of fury points spent, the dice you roll for your melee weapon attack damage against the chosen target is raised by two, up to a maximum of a d12.
Demonic Spikes Whenever you are hit by a melee attack, you can spend 1 fury point, as a reaction, to reduce the damage taken by 2d10. Additionally you force the attacker to make a constitution saving throw against your technique save DC. On a fail the attacker suffers 2d10 piercing damage.
Eye Beam You channel pure demonic energy through your eyes. You can expend 2 fury points to make a ranged weapon attack against a target. On a hit the target suffers 3d6 damage and is forced to do a constitution saving throw against your save DC. On a fail he is stunned for one turn.
Fel Rush You can spend one fury point to avoid provoking opportunity attacks until the end of your turn. Additionally, whenever you move within 5 feet of a creature this turn, you can make a single weapon attack against that creature. You can't make more than one attack against the same creature that way until the end of your turn
Shattered Soul As a bonus action you can expend one fury point to siphon life force out of your targets. Every time you deal damage until the end of your turn, you gain half of that amount as temporary hit points for the remainder of the fight.
Soul Cleave You can spend two fury points to attack all enemies within 5 feet of you with a weapon attack. Additionally you heal yourself for 1d6 for every enemy hit. This increases to 1d10 at 11th level.
Spirit Bomb You can use your action, and 2 fury points to throw a glowing orb of fel energy onto a target location up to 60 feet away. Every creature within 10 feet of the target location must succeed on a dexterity saving throw against your technique save DC or suffer 3d6 damage and gain disadvantage on their next attack roll. On a success they suffer half the damage.<|endoftext|>ESA and the Planck Collaboration
We live in a lopsided universe: That has been a lesson that cosmologists have learned from examining the detailed structure of the radiation left over from the Big Bang. Now, two cosmologists show that the data are consistent with a Universe that is curved slightly, similarly to a saddle. If their model is correct, it would overturn the long-held belief that the cosmos is flat.
On a large scale, precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by NASA��s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe provided the first hints of an asymmetry in 2004. Some experts wondered whether the finding was a systematic error that would be corrected when the NASA probe��s successor, the European Space Agency��s Planck spacecraft, mapped the CMB again with higher precision. But the Planck results, announced earlier this year, confirmed the anomaly.
To explain those results, Andrew Liddle and Marina Cortês, both at the University of Edinburgh, UK, have now proposed a model of cosmic inflation — a hypothetical period of rapid expansion right after the Big Bang in which the Universe grew by many orders of magnitude in a small fraction of a second.
The simplest theory of inflation holds that the Universe is flat and that its expansion is driven by a single quantum field called the inflaton. In this model the inflaton has two roles: it triggers hyperexpansion and generates the tiny density fluctuations that enlarged to become the seeds of galaxies.
But this version of inflation cannot account for the Universe��s lopsidedness except as a statistical fluke — similar to, for example, a fair coin that happens to come up heads many more times than tails over 1,000 flips. If the CMB anomalies are not flukes, they could offer an unprecedented window on the detailed structure of the early universe, says Liddle.
In their paper, published this week in Physical Review Letters1, Liddle and Cortês tinker with inflation. Like many theorists before them, they invoke a second quantum field — the curvaton — to set the primordial density fluctuations in the infant Universe, restricting the inflaton to driving the era of hyperexpansion only.
The researchers show that the curvaton field would generate the lopsided density fluctuations that have been observed if space had a slightly negative curvature on large scales. This means that if large triangles could be �