Discernment
| Discernment is a selection of abilities related to your perception of the world around you. As you increase in this ability, you will be able to gather information about your state of health and those of others, take quick inventories of items you hold, and eventually even to sense power and illusions. Finally, the higher the discernment level, the greater the chance you can detect dramatic impersonations. |
| Skill | Learned At | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Nightsight | Inept+0% | Use infravision to see in the dark. |
| Wounds | Inept+50% | Examine the health of your body parts. |
| Search | Novice+0% | Search your location for hidden beings. |
| Itemlist | Novice+33% | Inspect your items and attire! |
| Diagnose | Novice+66% | Check up on your physical and mental health. |
| Recognition | Apprentice+0% | The ability to recognize people's shouted voices. |
| Firstaid | Apprentice+50% | Quickly focus yourself and attend to wounds. |
| Keylist | Capable+0% | See a list of your keys and which doors they open. |
| Bodyscan | Capable+33% | Determine the state of your body's defences. |
| Deathsight | Capable+66% | Perceive tears in the fabric of life. |
| Assessing | Adept+0% | Ascertaining the health of a target. |
| Pipelist | Adept+50% | Take an inventory of your pipes at a glance. |
| FabricAppraisal | Adept+50% | Determine the quality and warmth of an article of clothing. |
| Thirdeye | Master+0% | Give yourself the power of the third eye. |
| Potionlist | Master+33% | Quickly discover what potions you are holding. |
| Audit | Master+66% | Review the condition of your vital possessions. |
| Hexes | Gifted+0% | See what hexes have been drawn even without the skill. |
| Illusions | Gifted+50% | Pierce through any illusory terrain at a glance. |
| Magiclist | Expert+0% | Lists all your puissant magical items. |
| Scan | Expert+50% | Scan the local area for signs of life. |
| Contemplation | Virtuoso+0% | Perceive the state of another's mental strength. |
| Analytics | Virtuoso+0% | Keep the mind sharp with close observation of your surroundings. |
| Lipread | Virtuoso+33% | The ability to understand what is said while deaf. |
| Tattoos | Virtuoso+66% | Discern detailed information on another's tattoos. |
| Powersense | Fabled+0% | Ascertain the power status and reserves of another. |
| Powermask | Fabled+50% | Mask your actions that drain power from nexuses. |
| Appraise | Mythical+0% | Quickly measure your foe's offensive capability. |
| Discerning | Mythical+50% | Discern the state of another's energies. |
| Aethersight | Transcendent+0% | Sense disruptions in the aether. |
Nightsight
| Syntax |
| NIGHTSIGHT |
You will gain the ability to see in normal darkness.
| Additional Notes: |
| Only really noticeable when you squint or glance. |
Wounds
| Syntax |
| WOUNDS [SIMPLE], WS |
You can determine exactly what level of wounding you have been dealt to all your body parts. Note: your wounds start at 0 and go higher the worse they are.
WOUNDS SIMPLE (or WS) will show the same information as above, except in a tabular format.
See HELP DEEPWOUNDS.
| Additional Notes: |
| See Deepwounds for information about what effect deep wounds have. |
Search
| Syntax |
| SEARCH |
Force those in your location to reveal themselves if hidden.
Itemlist
| Syntax |
| ITEMLIST
ITEMLIST <type> |
You can assess pertinent details about your possessions such as descriptions, months until decay, quantities, authors, and titles.
Diagnose
| Syntax |
| DIAG |
This ability will give you a list of the afflictions, if any, that are affecting you currently.
Recognition
This ability works automatically. It will allow you to perceive the name of the person who is shouting.
Firstaid
| Syntax |
| FIRSTAID FIRSTAID ADD <affliction> |
This ability will give you a list of the afflictions, such as in diagnose, and then list cures of each. In addition, it will automatically act to cure you.
It can also be used without the diagnosing function by manually adding and removing afflictions from the queue and then explicitly curing the stored queue.
Keylist
| Syntax |
| KEYLIST |
This ability will allow you to see a list of the keys in your inventory and what doors, if any, they open. If you see a key that opens "an impossible place" your key has likely become useless as concerns that lock.
Bodyscan
| Syntax |
| BODYSCAN BUFFS [UNIVERSAL|<damage type>|FULL] BODYSCAN RESISTANCES [UNIVERSAL|<damage type>|FULL] |
Scan your body for any alterations that affect the damage you receive from, and deal to, other people and creatures - for bonuses to your health, mana and ego - or for bonuses to the regeneration of your vitals.
Note that for influence it only shows buffs to the ego damage you dish out with each successful attack. It does not show buffs related to prestige and resistance. See HELP INFLUENCE for info on prestige and resistances.
Deathsight
| Syntax |
| DEATHSIGHT [ON|OFF] |
Using this ability, you will attune yourself to the deaths of others.
Assessing
| Syntax |
| ASSESS <player> |
You've now gained the ability to see various information about the physical well being of another player by evaluating the seriousness of his wounds.
Pipelist
| Syntax |
| PIPELIST or PIPEL |
You can list all the pipes in your inventory, including what herb they are filled with, how many puffs are left and whether they are lit.
FabricAppraisal
| Syntax |
| PROBE <item> |
You can now discern the warmth factor of an item of clothing.
Thirdeye
| Syntax |
| THIRDEYE |
This powerful ability will allow you to see everybody on the continent's location with the WHO command. It will also reveal shrouded persons in the room with you.
Potionlist
| Syntax |
| POTIONLIST/PL [BOTTLES|VIALS] [SUMMARY]
PLV [SUMMARY] PLB [SUMMARY] |
This will give you information on the various potions, purgatives, and salves that you may be holding. If you specify BOTTLES or VIALS (or use PLB or PLV), only items in bottles or vials will be included. The SUMMARY option shows total sips per type of fluid rather than individual containers.
Audit
| Syntax |
| AUDIT [months [container]] |
Shows a list of items in your inventory which will decay within the specified number of months (which defaults to 25), with those soonest to decay listed first. You may also audit items in containers.
Hexes
| Syntax |
| HEXES |
Even if you don't know how to draw them, you can see what hexes are in your location.
Illusions
| Syntax |
| REALITYCHECK |
Doing a realitycheck will uncover any illusory terrain in a location and automatically destroy it.
Magiclist
| Syntax |
| MAGICLIST or ML |
You may quickly take stock of all your magic items and tell if they are worn (if jewelery) or wielded (if wands), what enchantments are on them, how many charges are left on each and how many months are left until they decay.
Scan
| Syntax |
| SCAN |
So long as they are outdoors, you can scan for passersby throughout your local area.
Powersense
| Syntax |
| POWERSENSE <target> |
You can determine the state of someone else's current power level and energy reserves.
Lipread
| Syntax |
| LIPREAD |
This will allow you to hear speech as normal when deaf.
| Additional Notes: |
| This only affects people speaking to you from within the room; you still don't hear aethers or tells, for instance. |
Tattoos
| Syntax |
| TATTOOS SHOW <person> |
You can get detailed information on the visible tattoos of any person, including knowing the power and weight of the tattoo.
Contemplation
| Syntax |
| CONTEMPLATE <player> |
With this ability, you may see how much mana a player has.
Analytics
Your analytical nature and discerning eye grant you a 1/4 bonus to mana.
Powermask
| Syntax |
| POWERMASK |
| Power: 10 (Any) |
You can mask your actions so that powerlogs will not be able to register when you drain a nexus through power quests (for example, killing demons in Nil will not register your name in the Magnagora powerlog). Note that this will not mask linking to the nexus you are affiliated with to fill your energy reserves.
The powermask will also give you a chance to block any attempts to forcibly drain your power reserves so long as it is active.
Appraise
| Syntax |
| APPRAISE <player> |
You may use this ability to gain information on an opponent's weapons.
| Additional Notes: |
| It actually shows you someone's entire inventory. |
Discerning
| Syntax |
| DISCERN <target> |
Your highly developed discerning skills can now detect the level of a person's health, mana, ego, and power in a single glance.
Aethersight
| Syntax |
| AETHERSIGHT [(ON)|OFF] AETHERSIGHT BLOCK <person> |
| Power: 3 (Any) |
The strongest of the discernment skills, this extraordinary feat will tell you who is attempting to view your location, summon you, teleport to you or tesseract to you. It will also tell you who is summoning, teleporting or tesseracting to another in the same location as you. Note: It will not cost any power to turn off this feat.
If you wish to ignore repeated scries from a particular person, use AETHERSIGHT BLOCK.