Warrior Tricks

Skill	Rank
WFLIP	0
GUZZLE	2
TSHEATH	3
WHOP	4
SPIN	5
APPRAISE	6
BALANCE	7
SPIT	8
JUGGLE	9
FEINT	10
BACKFLIP	11
POLISH	12
DRAW
SPERF
INITIAL
ROLL
SATTACK
TSLICE
CATCHS
HAIRCUT
KSHEATH
SHEATHM

Warrior tricks are a collection of miscellaneous skills, largely flashy weapon play to impress your comrades and foes alike. Some, like FEINT, are more mechanically useful than others, say SPIT or GUZZLE.

Tricks

Weapon Flip

You toss your vultite battlesword in the air, sending it into a spiraling blur. At the perfect moment, you reach out and snatch it competently by the handle.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, and polishing armor.

Guzzle

You tip your head back and empty your crystal clear water down your gullet! You discard your vessel of drink and wipe off your mouth.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, and polishing armor.

Twirl and Sheath

You deftly twirl your vultite battlesword around your finger and stuff it in your storm grey scabbard.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Weapon Hop

You spin the vultite battlesword over your head, leap into the air and tuck your legs beneath you as you swing the battlesword where your legs were just an instant ago.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Spin

You spin the quarter staff around your right forearm, then pass it to your left without grasping it or stopping the spin, then pass it back to your right arm. You spin it once more until you grasp the staff by its handle.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Appraise

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Balance

Balance Difficulty

Location	Modifier
PALM	-0
FINGER	-10
FOOT	-50
CHIN	-85
NOSE	-120

[Total modified roll: 140]
You stand a quarter staff on your finger and begin to balance it skillfully.
Your quarter staff wobbles slightly on your finger, but you shift to compensate.
You stop balancing a quarter staff on your finger.

BALANCE is the first of the tricks that you can fine-tune. The proper usage for this trick is WTRICK BALANCE <location>, whereas each location has a different difficulty modifier. It's quite easy to balance a weapon on your palm, but much more difficult to use, say, your nose. Success is determined by one's ranks in WTRICKs, and may also take into account wounds, and stance.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Spit

Spit Difficulty

Location	Modifier
SHIRT	-0 difficulty
FEET	-10
LEFT/RIGHT FOOT	-30
LEFT/RIGHT HAND	-50 to -75 (held objects)
FACE	-80
LEFT/RIGHT EYE	-130

[Total modified roll = 111]
You dredge the back of your throat for some meaty phlegm and bring a gob to the tip of your tongue. You expertly shape the gob into a perfect missile and fire it at your intended victim!
The sticky missile hits a wind witch's robes!

SPIT is another targeted trick, and with it, you can specifiy both the target, and the location on the target you would like to SPIT on. Smaller targets are harder to hit, and so difficulty modifiers are assessed accordingly. Only your training in WTRICKs affects your success rate, and not level difference between you and the creature. SPIT is the first trick for which you will need to do creature reps. Failure to SPIT successfully results in about 30 seconds where you cannot spit due to your mouth being too dry.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Juggle

[Total modified roll = 122] You gather up a quarter staff and a dagger in your hands. One by one, you toss them in the air, where they flip end over end until all of the weapons are airborne. You catch each one as they fall and send it back in the air, creating a dazzling aerobatic display.

When using Juggle the number of weapons you would like to attempt to juggle is specified, and more weapons is correspondingly harder to pull off.

Tasks for this trick include audience reps, creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.

Feint

[Roll result: -3102 (open d100: 93) Penalties: 22] You attempt to feint low, but fail miserably, leaving yourself vulnerable and off-balance. Roundtime: 5 sec. A maneuver to confound your opponent.

Backflip

Heels over head.

Polish

Put a nice shine on a weapon or shield.

Draw

Bring out your nearest weapon.

Stance Perfection

Perfect your stance by 5%.

Initial

Cut the air with your initials.

Roll

Tuck and roll to the left or right.

Spin Attack

Fly into battle while spinning in the air.

Toss and Slice

Toss a food item in the air and annihilate it.

Catch in Sheath

Throw weapon in the air and catch it in a sheath.

Haircut

Harm one hair on your opponent's body.

Kick into Sheath

Kick a weapon into the air and catch it with a sheath.

Sheath making

Make your own sheath in the Guild workshop.

Tasks assigned

Skilled masters

Go see one of the guild's Masters at Arms. They will demonstrate for you and have you perform a new trick several times.

This task is worth 15 points.

Audience

Perform your trick for an audience. A full audience consist of five non-guild members or two guild masters. Based on the size of your audience, the time between reps, and the number of reps you get for each performance of the trick varies. For each audience member, the wait time between repetitions is 20 seconds, and there is a maximum number of reps you can get for a single performance (5). In GemStone IV Platinum, the audience size requirements are diminished.

This task is worth 10 points.

Rake leaves

Simply proceed to the tool rack, retrieve a rake and bag, and return to the yard. In areas with scattered leaves, PULL RAKE to gather the leaves into a pile and then GET PILE to gather the leaves into your bag. When the bag is full, return to the tool rack and EMPTY BAG IN BIN to complete the rep.

This task is worth 5 points.

Polish armor

Proceed to the tool rack, retrieve an oiled rag, and find the suits of armor scattered throughout the guild hall and RUB ARMOR to polish them. Return the rag when you are finished. Each suit of armor can only be polished once every 10 minutes.

This task is worth 5 points.

Prune shrubs

Again, go to the tool rack and retrieve pruning shears. Then, at each bush, hedge, or shrub, PRUNE it. Return the shears to the rack when finished. Each shrub can only be pruned once every 10 minutes.

This task is worth 5 points.

Scrub floors

Go to the tool rack and retrieve a scrub brush, then on your hands and knees, CLEAN the floor of inside rooms. Like polishing armor and pruning scrubs, one cannot repeatedly scrub the same floor for reps.

This task is worth 5 points.

Spit on creatures

You'll need to go out and find creatures that are a suitable skill level (within 5 trains of you) to spit on. Simply WTR SPIT (creature) (location) them for as many repetitions as you need.

This task is worth 15 points.

Reference

• Warrior Guild FAQ saved post