Difference between revisions of "Predation Abilities"

 

 

  HIDE

  EMERGE

Should you find yourself in want of sustenance, scavenging in the wilderness will often yield enough in the way of food to hold you over.

 

 

 

  SECRET <item> TO <player>

 

 

Whether in your inventory or on the ground, you can secretly take an item using this skill and hide it in your palm, making it invisible to those who might check your inventory while at the same time leaving no evidence as to who manipulated the object.

 

  LISTEN <direction>

== Shadow ==

  SHADOW <player>

From on the ground or in the trees you are able to shadow a player from an adjacent location. This will cause you to enter their location and begin following them.

So great is the control you wield over your body and its internal workings that you can now will it to heal itself steadily and constantly, though such an effort requires mental strength.

  EAVESDROP <direction>

 

 

 

 

 

  PACING ON/OFF

 

At a constant endurance drain, you will be able to follow those while they sprint away.

 

== Swinging ==

 

 

== Secondwind ==

  SECONDWIND ON/OFF

Your physical and mental conditioning are such that you can now awake from a sleep faster than you normally could;

== Fashion ==

  FASHION DARTS

== Flingdarts ==

  FLING DART AT <target> [<dir>] [<toxin>]

  DART SELECT <toxin>

  INS(HEATH) [amt] DART

  OUTS(HEATH) [amt] DART

  INSPECT DARTSHEATH

A long-time favorite of desert dwellers, these darts can be stored within a forearm bracer, and delivered to your foe with a mere flick of the wrist.

You may also optionally select a specific toxin-type to throw from your dartsheath at the time that you execute the fling command by appending the toxin name to the end of your command.

  ENVENOM <amount> DARTS WITH <toxin>

  DART BACKUP <toxin>

You may cover the tips of darts or weapons with a toxin if you have a vial of that toxin or have the appropriate skill.

 

 

While you are in an enemy city, the guards will not immediately see through your disguise unless you linger too long. Should the guards recognise you as an enemy, they will attack you and continue to recognise you for some time after. They will not immediately forget you, even if they are successful in killing you.

 

== Accuracy ==

 

  WINDWALK ON/OFF

 

== Constitution ==

 

 

  CRAFT SMOKEBOMB

  THROW SMOKEBOMB AT GROUND

  THROW SMOKEBOMB <dir>

  EVADE <dir> WITH SMOKEBOMB

With the ability to create this small sphere, you can throw it to the ground, causing an explosion of smoke which will fill the room and allow you to escape easily from your enemies.

Alternatively, you may throw a smokebomb to the ground while leaving the room, preventing others from following you immediately.

 

== Nightsight ==

 

== Clinging ==

 

 

 

  LURE <player>

  LURE <mob> <direction>

You are now able to lure your prey towards you. If used against a player, who has to be in the same room as you, this will cause the player to start following you around. If used against a mob, you need to be in an adjacent room, and luring will cause the mob to move towards you.

This ability will not cause mobiles to leave their natural environment or area, if they have one. It will not work on any mobiles loyal to a player or to an organization.

== Lartosis ==

Lartosis is one of the few toxins known to be naturally thick enough to adhere to a sitara, and only to a sitara. Those affected by this toxin will find that their blood blackens and burns the veins of its owner should enough other hostile substances be introduced into the blood system.

While afflicted with blackened blood, Bloodscourge ticks will additionally cause damage if the target is afflicted with at least more than two physical afflictions. The damage depends on how many physical afflictions the target suffers from.

Blackened blood is a persistant effect and curing it is not easy - one has to eat a toadstool plant three times to be successfully rid of the toxin. Fortunately, the toadstool still also has its usual effect while attempting to cure blackened blood, and being afflicted with the toxin while already suffering its effects does not restore the toxin's full strength.

Blackened blood does not count as a toxin affliction for the purposes of the cirisosis toxin or abilities such as purge blood.

 

  PRESERVATION

Utilizing your survival training, you may now survive in harsh environments for extended periods of time without the threat of exposure. This ability increases your fire and cold resistance, as well as allows you to periodically cure the effects of being put on fire or frozen.

== Refresh ==

  REFRESH BODY

Physical training in pacing yourself has allowed you to swiftly close your wounds. Should you find yourself low on health, refreshing yourself will replace half of your total.

== Mindnumb ==

  MINDNUMB <target>

== Whitesight ==

 

 

== Shrugging ==

  SHRUG <toxin>

This ability allows you to focus on shrugging off the effect of a toxin of your choice. The next time you are hit by the chosen toxin, you will be able to shrug it off without feeling any of its usual effects. Only one toxin will be shrugged - you need to pick a new toxin afterwards.

== Dodging ==

  DASH <direction>

 

  CYCLE

Using this technique, you will be able to fling a different colour dart each time you attack with one, effectively hitting your target with a different toxin with each projectile, should your darts be properly prepared.

  MARK <target> AS DECOY

This ability allows you to mark a target of your choosing as your decoy. Doing so will cause tracing and awareness abilities to react on the decoy's movements as if they were your own, while not reacting on your own movement at all.

The effect will wear off after some time, or if the target scrubs off the scent. The ability does not affect close-range detection abilities, such as Alertness.

== Lariat ==

  CRAFT LARIAT

  PREPARE LARIAT FOR <target>

  DASH <direction>

Using a length of rope, you may now craft a lariat, which can be used to drag your target from a room while you are on the move. Simply prepare your lariat once you've marked your target and dash in his direction. You will loop your lariat around your target and attempt to drag him with you to the end of your dash.

== Threadtrap ==

  LAY THREADTRAP

Using a spool of cloth, you can strip the threads and set them over an area consisting of the rooms surrounding your current location. Should anyone on your enemy list enter any of the rooms that you have trapped, you will pull them to you with a tug of the cunningly crafted threads. The trap will be ruined if you move.

== Feigning ==

  FEIGN DEATH

  FEIGN DEATH ON ATTACK

  FEIGN OFF

Utilising practiced methods of internal control, you can stop your heart and breathing for a limited period of time, presenting a convincing facade of death. Should anyone on your 'enemies' list attempt to pick up your corpse, you will immediately break your trance and deal a crippling blow to the offending party.

Optionally, you may time your play to trigger when an enemy lands a blow upon you, causing you to lose health. For all intents and purposes, it will look as if you were slain by your enemy, allowing you to trick them into manipulating your corpse.

Keep in mind that remaining in this suspended state beyond a certain point will result in actual death; the brain can only survive without blood or oxygen for so long.

Using this technique, you can fling two poisoned darts at your enemy at once, though it will take you longer to recover your balance than it would with only one.

You may also optionally select one or two specific toxin-types to throw from your dartsheath at the time that you execute the twinshot command by appending the toxin name(s) to the end of your command. If you only specify one toxin in this way, the backup dart is used as the other one.

== Obfuscation ==

  OBFUSCATE

  OBFUSCATE OFF

Your knowledge of the intricate chemical properties of pheromones, combined with your skill in making your presence undetected allows you to make your presence nearly undetectable. So nondescript is your demeanor that those who attempt to sense your location from afar, whether it be through sense, psychic manipulation, or the foul taint of magick, they will instead pick up the location of somebody else. Your disguise is complete enough that any seekers will be fooled such that they do not even know that they have homed in on a different target.

== Prowling ==

  PROWLING ON/OFF

This ability will allow you to walk without being attacked by any aggressive creatures of the wilds. City guards and entities loyal to players will not be fooled, however. Any aggressive action will stop this.

== Cirisosis ==

This deadly, thick morphing toxin is the one of the few toxins that have the proper consistency to be envenomed on a sitara, but only on a sitara.

It is known to interact with the various toxins already in a target's system. For this reason, it has been nicknamed the "morphing toxin".

If your target is currently afflicted with three other toxins when cirisosis is introduced into their system, cirisosis will then morph into a random toxin that the target is not currently affected by. The following toxins can be morphed by cirisosis: ether, mebaral, noctec, calotropis, cyanide, butisol, mazanor, ketamine, metrazol, luminal, digitalis, xeroderma, atropine, mercury, ciguatoxin, strychnine, vitriol, botulinum, arsenic, lindane, bromine, and iodine.

Furthermore, some remnant of cirisosis will stay in the target's system for a short time. Should your target continue to be afflicted with six or more toxins shortly after cirisosis has been introduced, the victim will go into toxic shock, and subsequently die shortly after.

== Hostage ==

  TAKE <target> HOSTAGE

  RELEASE HOSTAGE

  EXECUTE HOSTAGE

  RIFLE HOSTAGE

Though it takes skill, patience, and time to pull off, taking a hostage can mean the difference between life and death in a situation which threatens your own well-being. While hiding and windwalking, you may execute this measure, with the chance of taking your target at knifepoint.

While you have your target held hostage, you may perform no aggressive actions, but neither may your hostage. Should your hostage attempt to struggle against you, you will give him one warning, that being your blade at his throat. Should he persist in his struggles, you will automatically slit his throat and throw him to the ground to leave him to die.

While you have a hostage, you may rifle through their possessions in an effort to steal a random item from them. This item will then be useful for having your wolf hunt your prey. However, while your attention is distracted, your hostage may be able to escape your grip.