Slip Jab

Be somewhere else when the blow lands, and somewhere worse for them after.

Mode

Strike

Used with

Unarmed

Stamina

14

Cooldown

3s

Range

2.5 tiles

Price

100 gold

Needs first

nothing

What it does

Slip 1.5 tiles toward the cursor (sideways if the cursor is within 1 tile: past the blow) in 0.14 s, untouchable for 0.12 s, then jab the nearest foe in an 80 deg arc in reach: 1.8 x roll, 6 poise. Walls stop the slip. Usable in a punch's recovery (as a dodge is), not in a wind-up. The jab counts as a blow of the Five-Knuckle String (it opens or continues one). The Way's gap-closer: knuckles reach only 1.05 tiles.

Edge: Ghost Step

Untouchable for 0.2 s instead of 0.12 s.