Tha'ael (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=604399)<br/><strong>At sniping range in the woods: assuming the targets are lit, she is at the edge outside <i>their</i> visible range... probably 70 ft in this rain.</strong><br/><br/>Water threads through the branches and leaves, drumming softly on Tha'ael's leather-sheathed body and pattering sporadically upon her black hair.  Where she has chosen a 'hunting blind', she spreads her cloak overhead-- the wet black cloth sags the boughs of the tree, and the darkness takes her in a long, slow swallow.  She disappears entirely into the darkness, her pale face bleeding into the inky night until even her silvery eyes seep entirely into the black.<br/><br/>She restrings her bow under the meager shelter her stretched cloak offers from the rain, forcing the layered, masterfully crafted wood taut with all the force of her compact, powerful form.  Her pulse mournfully drones in her ears, the steady tattoo of of some savage funeral drum.  She chooses an arrow, feeling the tingling magic of the bow in her hands as it prepares to deal death.<br/><br/>Out there in the twinkling lantern and torchlight, she picks her targets carefully with keen, elven eyes... some of the savages are readying<i>bows</i>, she sees.  Those would tip the balance against her swordsmen... for the first time since seeing the riders, a well of acidic dread opens in her stomach.  Something odd about her companions on this journey... she has no desire to listen to their gutter and vomit their deaths onto the mud of this place, nor has she desire to endure such a humiliating and painful death.<br/><br/>The dread fades, then, as she takes a long, steady breath.<i>Then kill the others first,</i>the cold reptile deep in her mind murmurs.<i>It's just that simple.</i><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Stealth: At 2013-07-25 18:12:51, icsyhyat (uid: 768) rolls: 1d20a18 Result: 38. I will never roll this good again this game. (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=48695)</div></div>