Warrior Tricks
Skill | Rank |
---|---|
WFLIP | 1 |
GUZZLE | 2 |
TSHEATH | 3 |
WHOP | 4 |
SPIN | 5 |
APPRAISE | 6 |
BALANCE | 7 |
SPIT | 8 |
JUGGLE | 9 |
FEINT | 10 |
BACKFLIP | 11 |
POLISH | 12 |
DRAW | 13 |
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
Skeyelar appears to be of hardy constitution and is in relatively good shape.
Skeyelar could probably wipe the floor with you.
- Tasks for this trick include audience reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.
Balance
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
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. 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, spit 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.
- Tasks for this trick include audience reps, feint creature reps, spit creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.
Backflip
You grasp your quarterstaff with both hands for counter-balance, and attempt to do a backflip, but only manage to do a lame cartwheel.
- Tasks for this trick include audience reps, feint creature reps, spit creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.
Polish
You carefully polish a vultite quarterstaff until it has a nice shine.
- Tasks for this trick include audience reps, feint creature reps, spit creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.
Draw
Quick as an arrow in flight, you snatch a black ora twohanded sword from your scabbard and brandish it.
- Tasks for this trick include audience reps, feint creature reps, spit creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.
Stance Perfection
- Tasks for this trick include audience reps, feint creature reps, spit creature reps, raking the yard, polishing armor, and scrubbing floors.
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.
Feint 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 FEINT (creature) them for as many repetitions as you need. Successfully feinting is not necessary to get a rep.
- This task is worth 15 points.