Difference between revisions of "Subterfuge (skill)"

{{SkillTableRow |Signs | Inept | 0| Knowledge of the secret hand language. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Hide | Novice | 0| Conceal yourself from view. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Illusion | Apprentice | 0| Create an illusion of your choosing. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Warding | Apprentice | 38| Pray to your comrades to protect you from harm. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Evade | Capable | 0| Misleading your pursuer. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Shadow | Capable | 20| Shadowing a target in order to track them. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Flay | Capable | 40| Flay the anti-venom sileris coatings from your enemies. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Recuperating | Adept | 0| Heal your wounds in the safety of Spinesreach. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Scaling | Adept | 13| Agily climb over an icewall. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Block | Adept | 25| Obstructing departure with your body. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Secret | Adept | 75| Give someone an item without their knowledge. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Forge | Adept | 75| Seal a letter with a fake sigil. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Scan | Skilled | 0| Scanning the forest floor from the treetops. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Lightwall | Skilled | 10| Create a palpable wall of light. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Bowmanship | Skilled | 20| Use of the valued projectile weapon. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Colours | Skilled | 20| Dye your arrows to categorize them. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Noose | Gifted | 0| Covert and deadly assassination from the trees. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Shadowsight | Gifted | 0| Focus your vision on those hiding within the shadows. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Aiming | Gifted | 17| Increase your accuracy in shooting. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Listen | Gifted | 33| Detect action and conversations nearby. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Bowstance | Gifted | 50| Wield bows fluidly. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Dispel | Gifted | 50| Rid your environment of illusions. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Lipread | Gifted | 66| The ability to understand what is said while deaf. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Eavesdrop | Gifted | 83| Listen even through closed doors. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Slit | Expert | 0| Cut the throat of a helpless victim. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Wind | Expert | 13| Further increase your accuracy through wind compensation. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Echo | Expert | 13| Detect presences through wormholes. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Ghost | Expert | 25| Give yourself a ghostly appearance. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Warp | Expert | 37| Open and enter a dimensional wormhole. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Seek | Expert | 50| Sense for dimensional wormholes. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Doublestab | Expert | 68| Quickly administer two venoms to a target with your dirk. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Cloak | Expert | 75| Hide your actions from others. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Dash | Expert | 87| Sprint in a particular direction. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Artifice | Virtuoso | 0| Double your illusions. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Resonance | Virtuoso | 11| Allow sounds to resonate through a distant wormhole. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Darkbows | Virtuoso | 22| Using the infamous darkbows of lore. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Appraise | Virtuoso | 33| Quickly measure your foe's offensive capability. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Splice | Virtuoso | 44| Create a dimensional wormhole. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Darkflood | Virtuoso | 66| Flood your location with magical darkness. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Channel | Fabled | 0| Hurl an object through a dimensional wormhole. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Binding | Fabled | 18| Hog-tie an unconscious or sleeping opponent. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Sources | Fabled | 54| Sense out all dimensional wormholes. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Garrotelock | Fabled | 64| Death by asphyxiation. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Weaving | Fabled | 73| Twist and dodge to avoid attacks. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Yank | Mythical | 0| Use a whip to pull an opponent into your room. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Vortex | Mythical | 15| Suck an unwilling target into a wormhole. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Bedazzle | Mythical | 23| Distract your opponent into losing his thoughts. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Snipe | Mythical | 31| The ability to sharpshoot. }}

{{SkillTableRow |Abduct | Transcendent | 0| Bring a spiritual guardian home. }}

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|description = The sign language of the Syssin was well known to keep the secrets of the Defenders safe. Use it to communicate privately with your allies, with no fear of being understood by other mortals.

|syntax = HIDE

EMERGE

|description = Conceal yourself from view, hiding you from most mortals.

|syntax = CONJURE ILLUSION <victim{{!}}NOBODY> <illusion>

|description = Cause everyone in your location to witness an illusion. If you choose to direct the illusion at someone, only that person will see it.

Illusions, along with many other things you CONJURE, are performed on their own illusion balance and are completely independent of your physical balance and mental equilibrium.

|skillname = Warding

|syntax = WARDING

|description = Those devout in prayer towards their fallen comrades will find their comrades will protect their bodies from harm.

|description = By stealthily slipping into pursuit from an adjacent location, you're able to follow your target from either the ground or the trees. Note that this will cause you to enter their location.

|description = Using a whip, you will be able to flay a few defences from an opponent.

 

|skillname = Pacing

|syntax = PACING ON/OFF

|description = At a constant endurance drain, you will be able to follow those while they sprint or gallop away.

|skillname = Scaling

|syntax = SCALE <direction>

|description = Scale over an icewall to reach the other side.

 

 

|description = Block most attempts to leave in a particular direction.

 

|description = This will allow you to seal a letter, while forging the mark of another in place of your own.

|skillname = Shrugging

|syntax = SHRUG SLICKNESS{{!}}ANOREXIA{{!}}ASTHMA{{!}}LIMPVEINS{{!}}BELONEPHOBIA

|description = This ability will allow you to shrug off slickness, anorexia, asthma, limpveins or belonephobia should you be suffering its affects.

|description = This will conjure a wall of pure light that will blind any passing through it, save for yourself. The light generated has also been known to trigger the effects of darkshade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

|skillname = Shove

|syntax = SHOVE <target>

|description = While in the trees, you may shove someone to the ground, possibly breaking their legs.

 

|description = Train your eyes to see those hidden in the shadows.

|skillname = Noose

|syntax = CRAFT NOOSE

|description = While you are in the trees you can craft a noose from the vines hanging everywhere. Then, if there is a sole victim below you, you can attempt to slip the noose around their neck. This is a long process as you have to move with utter silence. If anyone else enters the location, your attempt will be ruined.

|description = Use your auditory acuity to listen in on conversations in an adjacent room.

 

|syntax = DISPEL [<ME{{!}}target>]

|skillname = Eavesdrop

|syntax = EAVESDROP <direction>

|description = Your skills have improved to the point where you can now listen even through closed doors.

|skillname = Wind

|description = You will now passively compensate for wind while shooting, increasing your bowmanship accuracy.

|skillname = Ghost

|syntax = CONJURE GHOST

|description = Give yourself a ghostly appearance to mask your movement.

|skillname = Seek

|syntax = WORM SEEK

|description = Seek out wormholes in your location, if there are any, and where they lead.

|skillname = Doublestab

|syntax = DOUBLESTAB/DSTAB <target>

|description = If you are wielding a dirk that has been envenomed with more than one venom, you can quickly prick your target twice and deliver two venoms simultaneously to them.

 

|skillname = Dash

|syntax = DASH <direction>

|description = Sprint quickly in a particular direction.

|skillname = Resonance

|syntax = WORM RESONANCE ON/OFF

|description = Open a gap in a wormhole, allowing sounds to resonate back through it.

|skillname = Appraise

|syntax = APPRAISE <target>

|description = Check out the inventory of your target.

|description = Conjure up a magical darkness in your location.

|skillname = Channel

|syntax = WORM CHANNEL <object>

|description = Throw an object in your possession through a dimensional wormhole.

|skillname = Binding

|syntax = BIND <target>

|description = If your target is sleeping or unconscious, and you have a length of rope on your person, you may hog-tie your unlucky target.

|description = Destroy a wormhole if there is one in your location. It is not a short process at all, as it is an extremely complicated matter to close a dimensional wormhole.

|skillname = Phase

|syntax = PHASE

|description = Quite possibly the most effective means of concealment there is, while phased you will be hidden from all mortals save those who are also phased. You will, further, be unable to interact with anything that is not also phased. The caveat here is that you may try to attack someone who is unphased, which will automatically unphase you. Thus, phase can be used as an effective aid to assassinations.