Eshalu clambered up the tree with practised ease, hauling herself up by latching onto bark and branch, all the while surveying the action below. Her eyes narrowed when the six-armed beasts came into view. She had seen great apes in the past, and marveled at their strange, uncanny ways, but these creatures were strange, even to the eye of a ranger.<em>Excised,</em>the word the elder druids used to speak of natural beings made unnatural by sorcery and the forgotten arts of the First,<em>and this island is doubtless full of them</em>.<br/><br/>The speed with which she had leapt into the tree seemed to catch the corrupted apes unawares, so she moved on her advantage. Circling her targets and balanced on a sturdy, high branch, Eshalu contemplated the situation below. Aeryn and Lazerette seemed prepared enough, but her vantage and the advantage of height gave her a unique opportunity to strike her quarry at their most vulnerable.<br/><br/>Eshalu selected the great ape closest to her and calculated a descent trajectory which would bring her in two bounds onto a series of lower branches, before falling with her gleaming spear upon her opponent, using the momentum of her descent to provide greater force to her thrust.<br/><br/>She took a fraction of an instant to breathe, visualise the path by which she would strike, and then she leapt off the branch, silently, holding the haft of her spear tightly in both hands, its glinting head angled away from her body and thrust downwards, ready to strike.<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">Eshalu invokes the Treetop Position aspect to confer greater force and surprise to her strike on the nearest Gorilledator<br/>Roll Result: Eshalu rolled: 4d6<br/>Comment: Fighting skill check to impale the Gorilledator with a leap from on high with her spear<br/>Result: 4, 1, 2, 1<br/>Activates <strong>invoke to re-roll</strong><br/>Roll Result: Eshalu rolled: 4d6<br/>Comment: Fighting skill check to impale the Gorilledator with a leap from on high with her spear re-roll<br/>Result: 3, 1, 5, 5<br/><br/>Net Result: <strong>+5</strong> (+1 roll and +4 Fighting skill), a <strong>Superb</strong> success<br/></div></div>