Subterfuge (skill)

Skill	Rank	Percent	Description
Signs	Inept	0%	Knowledge of the secret hand language.
Hide	Novice	0%	Conceal yourself from view.
Illusion	Apprentice	0%	Create an illusion of your choosing.
Warding	Apprentice	38%	Pray to your comrades to protect you from harm.
Evade	Capable	0%	Misleading your pursuer.
Shadow	Capable	20%	Shadowing a target in order to track them.
Flay	Capable	40%	Flay the anti-venom sileris coatings from your enemies.
Waiting	Capable	60%	Awaiting a target to be shadowed.
Pacing	Capable	80%	The ability to anticipate and keep pace with others.
Recuperating	Adept	0%	Heal your wounds in the safety of Spinesreach.
Scaling	Adept	13%	Agily climb over an icewall.
Block	Adept	25%	Obstructing departure with your body.
Swinging	Adept	50%	Swinging up into the treetops.
Secret	Adept	75%	Give someone an item without their knowledge.
Forge	Adept	75%	Seal a letter with a fake sigil.
Scan	Skilled	0%	Scanning the forest floor from the treetops.
Lightwall	Skilled	10%	Create a palpable wall of light.
Bowmanship	Skilled	20%	Use of the valued projectile weapon.
Colours	Skilled	20%	Dye your arrows to categorize them.
Seize	Skilled	40%	Grabbing unwary victims from the forest floor.
Shove	Skilled	60%	Sending a hapless victim crashing to the forest floor.
Garrote	Skilled	80%	Choke the life out of a target with your whip.
Noose	Gifted	0%	Covert and deadly assassination from the trees.
Shadowsight	Gifted	0%	Focus your vision on those hiding within the shadows.
Aiming	Gifted	17%	Increase your accuracy in shooting.
Listen	Gifted	33%	Detect action and conversations nearby.
Bowstance	Gifted	50%	Wield bows fluidly.
Dispel	Gifted	50%	Rid your environment of illusions.
Lipread	Gifted	66%	The ability to understand what is said while deaf.
Eavesdrop	Gifted	83%	Listen even through closed doors.
Slit	Expert	0%	Cut the throat of a helpless victim.
Wind	Expert	13%	Further increase your accuracy through wind compensation.
Echo	Expert	13%	Detect presences through wormholes.
Ghost	Expert	25%	Give yourself a ghostly appearance.
Warp	Expert	37%	Open and enter a dimensional wormhole.
Seek	Expert	50%	Sense for dimensional wormholes.
Crossbows	Expert	62%	A powerful projectile weapon.
Doublestab	Expert	68%	Quickly administer two venoms to a target with your dirk.
Cloak	Expert	75%	Hide your actions from others.
Dash	Expert	87%	Sprint in a particular direction.
Artifice	Virtuoso	0%	Double your illusions.
Resonance	Virtuoso	11%	Allow sounds to resonate through a distant wormhole.
Darkbows	Virtuoso	22%	Using the infamous darkbows of lore.
Appraise	Virtuoso	33%	Quickly measure your foe's offensive capability.
Splice	Virtuoso	44%	Create a dimensional wormhole.
Darkflood	Virtuoso	66%	Flood your location with magical darkness.
Channel	Fabled	0%	Hurl an object through a dimensional wormhole.
Binding	Fabled	18%	Hog-tie an unconscious or sleeping opponent.
Sources	Fabled	54%	Sense out all dimensional wormholes.
Garrotelock	Fabled	64%	Death by asphyxiation.
Deception	Fabled	64%	Deceive your enemies with your attacks.
Weaving	Fabled	73%	Twist and dodge to avoid attacks.
Yank	Mythical	0%	Use a whip to pull an opponent into your room.
Vortex	Mythical	15%	Suck an unwilling target into a wormhole.
Bedazzle	Mythical	23%	Distract your opponent into losing his thoughts.
Snipe	Mythical	31%	The ability to sharpshoot.
Cancel	Mythical	62%	Destroy a wormhole.
Phase	Mythical	77%	Alter your status in space-time itself.
Abduct	Transcendent	0%	Bring a spiritual guardian home.

Signs
Syntax:	SIGN <message>
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.

Hide
Syntax:	HIDE EMERGE
Description:	Conceal yourself from view, hiding you from most mortals.

Illusion
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. Note: You can add new lines into your illusion by using the tag $nl within the text, but be warned that you can use a maximum of five, and each one you use increases the mana and balance cost of the illusion.

Warding
Syntax:	WARDING
Description:	Those devout in prayer towards their fallen comrades will find their comrades will protect their bodies from harm.

Evade
Syntax:	EVADE <direction>
Description:	Silently slip away from your location. Anyone following you when you do so will be lost.

Shadow
Syntax:	SHADOW <target>
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.

Flay
Syntax:	FLAY <target> [<SILERIS|REBOUNDING|SHIELD|SPEED|CLOAK>]
Description:	Using a whip, you will be able to flay a few defences from an opponent.

Waiting
Syntax:	AWAIT <target>
Description:	Slip into the shadows and silently wait for your target to arrive. When they do, you will begin to secretly follow them.

Pacing
Syntax:	PACING ON/OFF
Description:	At a constant endurance drain, you will be able to follow those while they sprint or gallop away.

Recuperating
Syntax:	RECUPERATE
Description:	While within the safety of Spinesreach, you may rest to recover your strength.

Scaling
Syntax:	SCALE <direction>
Description:	Scale over an icewall to reach the other side.

Block
Syntax:	BLOCK <direction>
Description:	Block most attempts to leave in a particular direction.

Swinging
Syntax:	SWING UP SWING DOWN
Description:	When in a location with trees, you may swing up into them.

Secret
Syntax:	SECRET <item> TO <target>
Description:	Secretly slip an item to someone without them noticing.

Forge
Syntax:	SEAL <letter> AS <person>
Description:	This will allow you to seal a letter, while forging the mark of another in place of your own.

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.

Scan
Syntax:	SCAN
Description:	While in the treetops, you can scan the ground for people.

Lightwall
Syntax:	CONJURE LIGHTWALL <direction>
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.

Colours
Syntax:	DYE <amount> ARROWS <colour> SWITCH <colour> SWITCH NORMAL
Description:	First, you should inspect your quiver to see how many arrows you posses. Then, you may dye a number of arrows a certain colour. Colours you may use are red, blue, purple, green, black, white, grey, orange, gold, and silver.

Bowmanship
Syntax:	SHOOT <target> <direction>
Description:	<INQ|INQUIVER> <amount> <NORMAL|METEOR> ARROWS - Puts arrows into your quiver <OUTQ|OUTQUIVER> <amount> <NORMAL|METEOR> ARROWS - Takes arrows from your quiver <IQ|INSPECT QUIVER> - Gives a list of what coloured and envenomed arrows are in your quiver SWITCH <colour|METEOR|NORMAL> - Changes what arrow you will use when shooting Use a longbow to shoot someone in a line-of-sight location from you. You must be wearing a quiver to use it, and you can switch between different coloured arrows if they have been dyed.

Seize
Syntax:	SEIZE <target>
Description:	While in the trees, you may seize someone on the ground below you and bring them to your elevation.

Shove
Syntax:	SHOVE <target>
Description:	While in the trees, you may shove someone to the ground, possibly breaking their legs.

Garrote
Syntax:	GARROTE <target>
Description:	Using a wielded whip, you can try to slip behind a target and choke the life out of them, rendering their armour completely useless. Furthermore, while it is difficult to do normally, if your target is prone in some form, then your success is guaranteed.

Shadowsight
Syntax:	SHADOWSIGHT
Description:	Train your eyes to see those hidden in the shadows.

Noose
Syntax:	CRAFT NOOSE NOOSE <target>
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.

Aiming
Syntax:	AIM <target> <direction>
Description:	Increase the accuracy of your shooting.

Listen
Syntax:	LISTEN <direction>
Description:	Use your auditory acuity to listen in on conversations in an adjacent room.

Bowstance
Syntax:	BOWSTANCE
Description:	While wearing a bow, fluidly move it into your hands.

Dispel
Syntax:	DISPEL [<ME|target>]
Description:	Dispel many illusions in associated with your location, yourself, or another person.

Lipread
Syntax:	LIPREAD
Description:	Read the lips of others to understand their speech, no matter how quiet they keep it.

Eavesdrop
Syntax:	EAVESDROP <direction>
Description:	Your skills have improved to the point where you can now listen even through closed doors.

Slit
Syntax:	SLIT <target>
Description:	While wielding either a dagger or dirk, slit the throat of a victim who is bound or not conscious.

Wind
Syntax:	{{{syntax}}}
Description:	You will now passively compensate for wind while shooting, increasing your bowmanship accuracy.

Echo
Syntax:	WORM ECHO
Description:	By observing a wormhole, you are able to determine if anyone is at the other end by the echoes of their movements along it.

Ghost
Syntax:	CONJURE GHOST
Description:	Give yourself a ghostly appearance to mask your movement.

Warp
Syntax:	WORM WARP
Description:	When in the presence of a wormhole, you can hurl yourself through it to reach the other side.

Seek
Syntax:	WORM SEEK
Description:	Seek out wormholes in your location, if there are any, and where they lead.

Crossbows
Syntax:	SHOOT <target> <direction>
Description:	The crossbow is more powerful, but less accurate, than the longbow.

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.

Cloak
Syntax:	CONJURE CLOAK [<target>]
Description:	Conjure up a cloak of invisibility that will disguise many actions from most observers.

Dash
Syntax:	DASH <direction>
Description:	Sprint quickly in a particular direction.

Artifice
Syntax:	{{{syntax}}}
Description:	Your mastery of illusions allows you to conjure two of them at once. However, the second illusion will have to be less complex than the first and will take longer to recover from.

Resonance
Syntax:	WORM RESONANCE ON/OFF
Description:	Open a gap in a wormhole, allowing sounds to resonate back through it.

Darkbows
Syntax:	SHOOT <target> <direction>
Description:	The famous darkbows are both expensive and powerful. Only slightly less powerful than a crossbow, they are far more accurate.

Appraise
Syntax:	APPRAISE <target>
Description:	Check out the inventory of your target.

Splice
Syntax:	WORM SPLICE <target>
Description:	Splicing a wormhole is a lengthy process that will require two people with the ability to splice. The two people splicing the wormhole will need to each go to a different location, which will be the two places the wormhole will connect. Each person must then attempt to splice to the other. After a few minutes, during which the actions of pair are severely limited, the wormhole will be successfully formed between the two locations.

Darkflood
Syntax:	CONJURE DARKFLOOD
Description:	Conjure up a magical darkness in your location.

Channel
Syntax:	WORM CHANNEL <object>
Description:	Throw an object in your possession through a dimensional wormhole.

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.

Sources
Syntax:	WORM SOURCES
Description:	Sense out all wormholes in your area and discern where they each connect to.

Garrotelock
Syntax:	GARROTELOCK <target>
Description:	This ability will allow you to choke someone to death with your whip, suffocating them until they can no longer live. You cannot do anything while choking someone to death. Being afflicted with the curse of Aeon will also stop you.

Weaving
Syntax:	WEAVING ON/OFF
Description:	At the cost of a heavy mana drain, you may boost your avoidance rate massively. This is cumulative with whatever level you are at in your avoidance skill.

Yank
Syntax:	YANK <target>
Description:	While wielding a whip, you can attempt to yank someone from an adjacent location into yours.

Vortex
Syntax:	WORM VORTEX <target>
Description:	Suck someone, willing or not, from the opposite end of the wormhole into your location.

Bedazzle
Syntax:	BEDAZZLE <target>
Description:	At the cost of both your illusion balances, you may bedazzle an opponent, eliciting one of four afflictions: Amnesia, mind daze, hypochondria or a knock to their herb balance. Your victim will not be able to immediately discern which one they have suffered.

Snipe
Syntax:	SNIPE <target> <direction>
Description:	Snipe your victim for greater accuracy than just regular shooting. If you manage to slay them while sniping, they will not be able to discern who their killer was.

Cancel
Syntax:	WORM CANCEL
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.

Phase
Syntax:	PHASE UNPHASE
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. Be warned that it takes a great deal of effort to remain phased, and your endurance will be drained quickly.

Abduct
Syntax:	ABDUCT <target>
Description:	Pull the target into phase with you. However, this is an unstable form of going out of sync with reality and tends to only last for a short duration.