Lie in Wait

The deer looks up, sees grass, and goes back to eating.

Mode

Stance

Used with

Dagger, Sword, Wolf

Stamina

15

Cooldown

6s

Range

3.5 tiles

Price

520 gold

Needs first

Nose to the Wind

What it does

Stance. Stand still 1.5 s in cover (tall grass, reeds or ferns on your tile; beside a bush, sapling or hedge; under a tree's canopy: the stealth cover map) or, in a Wolf form, anywhere darker than lamp light (light 0.5 or less): you settle low (the crouch, drawn 1 px lower). Settled: creatures' and bandits' sight of you x0.4 (a term in sightMul) and stamina regenerates x1.5. Moving unsettles you (stand still again to settle); the stance holds until toggled or you strike. The ambush: your first blow from settled (a swing, a snap or a technique) on a foe that isn't targeting you. If it is 1.5-3.5 tiles off you pounce to it first (0.3 s, a BodyMoves pounce, 6 px arc). A basic blow becomes power 2.0; a technique keeps its own power +0.4; either adds 40 stagger (an S body or a bandit is staggered at once). A basic blow that also carries a Ministry sneak strike keeps the sneak multiplier and takes only the stagger. Cooldown 6 s from the ambush.

Edge: Stone-Still

Settles in 1.5 -> 1.0 s.