Athletics

Athletics is the skill of training the body for raw physical endurance. Weight training, some aerobics and a rigorous workout regime will eventually gain a variety of skills that involve either brute strength or feats of endurance.

Skill	Learned At	Description
Weathering	Inept+0%	Immunity to normal weather.
Vitality	Inept+50%	An adrenaline rush to heal your body.
Breathe	Novice+0%	Prepares your body to reduce fatigue loss.
Sturdiness	Novice+33%	Standing firm against attempts to move you.
Fitness	Novice+66%	Increased resistance to the elements.
Headslam	Apprentice+0%	Stun your opponent with your hard head.
Intimidation	Apprentice+50%	Intimidates weaker opponents with your bulk.
Blocking	Capable+0%	Allows you to block specific directions.
Regeneration	Capable+50%	Regain health through strength of mind.
Resistance	Adept+0%	Affords your puissant body extra magical resistance.
Workout	Adept+33%	Maintain peak physical condition.
Tackle	Adept+66%	Roughly tackle an opponent into an adjacent room.
Sprinting	Master+0%	To sprint rapidly in a given direction.
Barging	Master+33%	Barging your opponents.
Constitution	Master+66%	Maintaining your intestinal equilibrium.
Adrenaline	Gifted+0%	Pumping adrenaline through your veins.
Hunger	Gifted+50%	To force hunger and thirst upon yourself.
Doors	Expert+0%	You can now attempt to barge through doors.
Strength	Expert+50%	Increases the strength of your strikes.
Consciousness	Virtuoso+0%	The ability to stay conscious at all times.
Transmute	Virtuoso+50%	Instantly convert mana into health.
Boosting	Fabled+0%	Increasing your rate of regeneration.
Charge	Fabled+33%	Carry someone a great distance with a charge.
Numbness	Fabled+66%	Delaying the effects of damage.
Immunity	Mythical+0%	Immunity from most poisons.
Surge	Mythical+50%	Increase your health at the cost of your mana.
Puissance	Transcendent+0%	Your next physical attack will be of great strength.
Bulwurk	?+?%	Protect others from harm while taking damage to yourself.

Surge (by Folken)

Weathering

Syntax

WEATHERING WEATHERING RELAX

Vitals Bonus: 1/2 Health

Your budding control over your body will assist you in weathering the storm of life by warming your blood and granting a 1/2 maximum health buff.

Vitality

Syntax

VITALITY

You may only activate this ability when on full health and mana. Once active, when you drop to less than twenty-five percent of your maximum health without dying, you will get a sudden rush of adrenaline that will heal you significantly.

Additional Notes:

Once your vitality defense has triggered, you cannot reraise vitality for XXX seconds.

Breathing

Syntax

BREATHE DEEP

Damage Resistance: 1/3 Asphyxiation

With the increased lung power you have gained from your bodily mastery, you are able to resist becoming out of breath, allowing you to move faster and resist asphyxiation damage.

Additional Notes:

Increases celerity

Sturdiness

Syntax

STAND FIRM

By concentrating on increasing your mass, you are able to increase resistance to most attempts to move you against your will. It is lost when you next use balance or equilibrium.

Additional Notes:

Sturdiness also fails on movement.

Fitness

Damage Resistance: 1/8 Fire

Your athletic fitness is such that you are better able to sweat out a fight at extremely hot temperatures, and will therefore take less damage from heat-based attacks. There is no command to activate it; you will always be protected from the heat so long as you possess this skill.

Headslam

Syntax

HEADSLAM <target>

By slamming your thick skull against your opponent's head, you can briefly stun them. You may headslam even while tied up or with both arms broken, though you must be standing.

Intimidation

Syntax

INTIMIDATE <target>

Instill fear in your opponent by your impressive strength and bulk...assuming you are indeed bulkier and stronger.

Blocking

Syntax

BLOCK <direction> [firm] UNBLOCK

Power: 1 (any) (Only when "firm")

This ability will allow you to block a particular direction, creating a chance to prevent normal movement in that direction. Firm, however, will make blocking guaranteed.

Regeneration

Syntax

REGENERATION ON/OFF

Regeneration: 1/5 Health

At an ongoing mental drain, you are able to channel your mental energy into healing yourself (1/5 health regen).

Changelog:

• Athletics Regeneration now has a mana malus equal to half of the health regen bonus (i.e. a -1 malus without boosting, a -2 malus with boosting. (#531 on 03-08-2016)

Resistance

Syntax

RESISTANCE

Damage Resistance: 1/8 Magic

Calling upon your inner physical reserves, you can exude an aura that will absorb some magical damage.

Workout

Your many hours of rigorous training grant you a 5/10 bonus to health.

Tackle

Syntax

TACKLE <target> <direction>

You can tackle your opponent and carry him or her to an adjacent location.

Sprinting

Syntax

SPRINT <direction>

Sprint quickly in a particular direction.

Barging

Syntax

BARGE <player> <direction>

This ability will barge a player to the direction you choose. To start the ability, you must be in a room adjacent to the room where the target player resides, and you must choose to barge him in a direction that wouldn't take him into the room you are in. So, for instance, say that Bob is in a room to the north of you, and that his room has another exit to the northeast. You would do BARGE BOB NE to carry Bob into the room northeast of him.

Changelog:

• Athletics Barging will no longer bypass walls or other exit obstructions. (#149 on 05-01-2012)

Constitution

Syntax

CONSTITUTION

This ability will gain you a stomach of steel.

Additional Notes:

Creates a chance to avoid the Vomiting affliction

Adrenaline

Syntax

ADRENALINE

A surge of adrenaline will speed up your reflexes.

Additional Notes:

Raises the speed defense if it is not present. Cures Aeon affliction on use.

Hunger

Syntax

HUNGER

Force yourself to become hungry, even if you don't want to eat. You should be warned, however, that this will indeed make you hungrier than normal.

Additional Notes:

Cures the Anorexia affliction.

Doors

Syntax

BARGE <direction>

If there is a door in the direction you barge, you will attempt to break it open using your superior strength and bulk.

Additional Notes:

Most doors will take several barge attempts. Steel reinforced doors may not be barged down.

Strength

Syntax

FLEX

Damage Bonus: 1/3 Universal

By flexing your muscles, you can enhance your damage to the tune of a 1/3 universal buff.

Consciousness

Syntax

CONSCIOUSNESS ON/OFF

Your power of concentration is such that you will be able to maintain a grasp on consciousness where you might normally lose it.

Additional Notes:

Prevents the unconsciousness affliction.

Transmute

Syntax

TRANSMUTE <0-1000>

This will instantly turn the specified amount of mana into health, minus a bit that is lost in the transfer.

Boosting

Syntax

BOOST REGENERATION

Regeneration: 2/6 Health (with [Athletics#Regeneration] active)

This ability, when used in conjunction with Regeneration, alters the rate of regeneration to a more favourable mana-to-health ratio (2/6 health regen).

Charge

Syntax

CHARGE <target> <direction>

Damage Type: 100% Blunt

If your target is within your line of sight, your charge will carry you the entire length of your line of sight, much like sprint, only you will ram into your target and carry him or her with you. Your target will be slammed into the ground and take damage.

Changelog:

• Athletics Charge will now properly respect movement barriers (e.g. icewalls, greatpentagrams, etc.) along the path between the caster and target. If the target is unreachable, then the caster is unmoved, otherwise both players will be moved as far along the path as possible. (#404 on 02-25-2014)

Numbness

Syntax

NUMB

Power: 5 (Any)

With a very clever method of concentration, you are now able to numb yourself to damage received, at least temporarily. For 15 seconds, you are granted a 25/25 universal resistance to damage.

Changelog:

• Athletics Numbness has been changed to be a temporary defense that grants 25/25 universal resistance for 15 seconds. (#1178 on 12-05-2017)

Immunity

Syntax

IMMUNITY

Power: 4 (Any)

Allows you to use your increased mastery over your body to burn off poisons.

Additional Notes:

Dramatically increases poison shrugging. Each time it fires, it has a chance to remove the defense.

Surge

Syntax

SURGE RELAX SURGE

Power: 8 (Any) Vitals Malus: -5/-15 Mana

By channeling your power into your body, you can increase the effectiveness of your transmutations, making them produce a surplus of health. However, this will come with a -5/-10 mana penalty.

Puissance

Syntax

PUISSANCE

Your next physical attack will do puissant damage, granting an impressive bonus to damage. This is an exhaustive state to maintain so you must make your attack quickly.

Changelog:

• Puissance will no longer work towards kill modifiers, such as execute, bashbrain, exsanguinate, etc. (#1409 on 06-01-2018)

Bulwurk

Syntax

BULWURK <ally>

Target a mutual ally and for the duration of the skill, any damage your target would take, you instead take. If you are separated from your target for 4 seconds or if you're afflicted with paranoia, bulwurk will drop.

Changelog:

• New skill added to Athletics: Bulwurk. (#1219 on 12-30-2017)