trophy

With this skill a fighter may take the severed body part of a victim and make a trophy out of it. The strength of such a trophy will vary according to...

warcry

This fighter skill is similar in affects to bless. It grants some bonus to hitting, and a little to resisting spells....

flurry

A fighter specialized in swords may attempt to assault their opponent with a rapid series of sword blows all at once. Flurry can only be done while du...

'cross slice' crossslice

This violent attack involves a sword specialized fighter slashing horizontally across a victim's body in a scissor motion. If successful the blades ca...

'drumming maces' drum

A powerful mace specialist attack requiring two maces dual wielded. The fighter attempts to drum the maces around their opponent's head in a rapid bea...

boneshatter

A mace specialist may use this skill to deliberately shatter the bones in an opponent's hand....

backhand

This allows a fighter specialized in maces to make a powerful backhanded strike to a victim. The damage inflicted is dependant on the quality of the m...

'charge set'

This spear specialization skill allows a fighter to prepare himself for attacks. The fighter, while under the affects of a chargeset, will automatical...

'strip weapon'

A person skill in whips and flails may use this skill to rip a weapon out of their opponent's hands. If successful the victim's weapon is pulled away,...

pull

While using a whip or flail a skilled fighter can attempt to pull a victim from a room and into another one....

riposte

Riposte is an automatic skill that allows sword specialized fighters a chance of returning an attack of their own when they parry an attacker. If a fi...

lash

Lash is a skill for whip/flail weapon specialists. The whip or flail is used to trip up an opponent and knock them to the ground....

bandage

This skill allows a fighter to apply their knowledge of wounds and injury to heal a person. If fighting the fighter can only use the skill while in an...

feint

Use of this automatic skill gives a chance to block weapon hits as they are mislead by a tricky feint. The ability to dodge several fighting skills is...

'shield cleave'

Allows the person to attempt to land mighty blow to shatter a victim's shield if they are holding one....

eyejab

When using a whip or flail a whip/flail specialized fighter can attempt to flick the tip of their weapon into an opponent's eye, thus blinding them fo...

lunge

A fighter with this skill may make a quick jab at a victim to inflict damage. Only swords, spears and polearms are useable in lunges....

'stand off'

This automatic skill allows a spear/staff specialist to keep opponents at a distance with his or her weapon. It only works when wielding a spear, staf...

'leg sweep' legsweep

A spear/staff specialized fighter may use his or her weapon to sweep the legs out from an opponent, thus tripping them up and doing some injury at the...

combo

This command will allow you to perform overheads combined with legsweeps, or to stop doing that if you already do....

harpoon

This is the most complex manuever a spearman can perform. First, he uses some rope and existing spear to craft a harpoon. While in the battle, if wiel...

'recovery'

An automatic skill that allows a person who is bashed, thrown, tripped or leg swept to attempt a recovery. If successful they are not stunned or delay...

flourentine

Flourentine allows sword specialists to gain an advantage in parrying when using two swords in a dual wield combination....

overhead

Allows a staff specialist fighter to deliver a powerful overhead blow using a staff. See also: COMBO...

choke

Allows a whip/flail specialist fighter a chance to choke a victim using a whip or flail. If the choking fails, some damage is still inflicted....

pincer

An axe specialist fighter can dual wield axes and use them in combat to catch a victim between them in a deadly pincer motion....

'adrenalin rush'

A fighter in an offensive stance may use this skill to give a boost of speed in combat....

deathblow

An automatic skill that allows a minotaur fighter in an offensive stance to deliver powerful blows in combat....

'toughen'

Powerful fighters are able to flex their muscles and toughen themselves against injury. It improves his protection rate against any sources of damag...

'crush'

During a fight a powerful fighters can attempt to grasp an opponent in his arms and crush him to the ground with bone crushing force....

'offhand disarm'

During combat a fighter may attempt to disarm the secondary hand of an opponent. This is usually either a dual wielded weapon or a shield, but can al...

bash

The bash skill is a warrior talent, a brute-force attack designed to knock your foe to his knees. Its success depends on many factors, including the b...

'shield bash'

An improved version of bash: send your opponent sprawling using your shield. Does damage, has a higher chance of longer knockdown, has a chance to byp...

'shield mastery'

Improves shield block chance, and enables you to deflect offensive spells and skills with your shield....

'porcupine stance'

An ultimate defensive stance using a shield. You don't make any normal attacks, and can't use offensive skills. Instead, you counterattack every time ...

berserk

Only powerful warriors can master berserking, the ability to enter insane rage in combat. Its effects are not altogether unlike the frenzy spell - a h...

dirt 'dirt kicking'

Consider by some to be a cowardly skill, dirt kicking gives the clever combatant a chance to blind his opponent by casting dirt into his eyes. The b...

disarm

Disarm is a somewhat showy and unreliable skill, designed to relieve your opponent of his weapon. The best possible chance of disarming occurs when yo...

dodge

In the words of one wise warrior, 'the best way to block a blow is to not be where it lands'. The dodge skill honors this tradition, by improving the ...

'enhanced damage'

Warriors and skilled thieves can become skilled enough in combat that they are able to inflict more damage than other classes. Enhanced damage is chec...

kick

Kicking allows the adventurer to receive an extra attack in combat, a powerful kick. However, a failed kick may throw an unwary fighter off balance. F...

parry

Block incoming attacks with your weapon. Relies on the difference between your and attacker's strength, weapon types, some affects like adrenalin rush...

'shield block'

Deflect incoming attacks with your shield. Checks your constitution, in a way that max con (i.e. dwarves) have a significant bonus, but the difference...

rescue

A friend in need is a friend indeed. And when in combat, a warrior with the rescue skill is just the friend you need. Rescue allows you to intercede i...

jab

An expert of spear has reached excellence in the art of lunging, so that his jabs take less time to perform....

warrior spirit

Through meditations, a warrior's spirit can develop in powerful and inspiring ways. Once a warrior's spirit has properly matured, the warrior will fi...

shoot

This command can be used to perform the most basic ranged shot and does not require specializing in ranged weapons (it still requires the knowledge of...

accuracy

Accuracy is a skill for rangers and fighters who have specialized in 'ranged'. Accuracy provides four benefits: - Enables ranged critical hits. - Cau...

'ranged critical hits' 'critical hits'

Ranged critical hits do NOT increase attack damage. Ranged critical hits allow a player to pierce through sanctuary-like spells (such as sanctuary, sh...

'precision'

Precision affects the chances that a ranged attack will hit the victim. Precision also affects the chances of having a critical hit. High precision me...

'aimed shot'

A fighter or ranger specialized in 'ranged' can aim their shots at a victim's body part. A successful hit on a body part will place a specific negativ...

'quick shot' quickshot

This attack can be used to perform a ranged shot that quickly loads the ammo and shoots the target. Players do not need to arm their ranged weapon be...

volley

Volley is a specialized untargeted ranged attack that shoots a large amount of ammo in a specified direction. Volley cannot be targeted, and thus rand...

arm draw

Arm/draw is a skill that is used to load ammo into a ranged weapon. You must be wielding a ranged weapon in order to arm it. You need to arm a ranged ...

quiver

Quivers are special containers with two important features. Firstly, they can only contain ammo. Secondly, they can contain limited items. In order to...

ranged

Ranged weapons allow players to damage victims in nearby rooms. Solace currently offers two types of ranged weapons: Crossbows, and Bows. To use a ran...

'ranged tips' tips

The following is a list of advanced tips for ranged combat and objects. Weapons and ammo: - Different ranged weapon types (ie. bow/crossbow) have dif...

unload

Unload is used to manually unarm ranged weapons. Using unload will cause your ammo to be removed from your ranged weapon and put into your inventory. ...

flog flogging

Strike an enemy multiple times with your whip. Each strike has a chance to lash, eyejab, or strip victim's weapon....

meatgrinder

Whirl your weapon madly one or two times, striking everyone in the room with a chance to inflict a bleeding wound. Can only be done with a two-hande...

'wrist chop' wristchop

Attempt to strike your enemy's wrist, rending them unable to wield their mainhand weapon for a while. This can only be done with a one-handed axe....

chop

Chop a person with your axe or polearm, inflicting damage....

'concussion strike' concussion

Whack your enemy's head with your axe's haft, dazing them and potentially knocking them out....

grapple grappling

Fighters trained in unarmed combat learn this powerful technique of closing in and forcing the battle into a brutal, close-quarters struggle. A succes...