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.

Nightsight	Inept	Use infravision to see in the dark.
Wounds	Inept +50%	Examine the health of your body parts.
Search	Novice	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	The ability to recognize people's shouted voices.
Firstaid	Apprentice +50%	Quickly focus yourself and attend to wounds.
Keylist	Capable	See a list of your keys and which doors they open.
Bodyscan	Capable +33%	Determine the state of your body's defences.
Deathsense	Capable +66%	Perceive tears in the fabric of life.
Assessing	Adept	Ascertaining the health of a target.
Pipelist	Adept +50%	Take an inventory of your pipes at a glance.
Thirdeye	Master	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	See what hexes have been drawn even without the skill.
Illusions	Gifted +50%	Pierce through any illusory terrain at a glance.
Magiclist	Expert	Lists all your puissant magical items.
Scan	Expert +50%	Scan the local area for signs of life.
Contemplation	Virtuoso	Perceive the state of another's mental strength.
Lipread	Virtuoso +33%	The ability to understand what is said while deaf.
Tattoos	Virtuoso +66%	Discern detailed information on another's tattoos.
Powersense	Fabled	Ascertain the power status and reserves of another.
Powermask	Fabled +50%	Mask your actions that drain power from nexuses.
Appraise	Mythical	Quickly measure your foe's offensive capability.
Discerning	Mythical +50%	Discern the state of another's energies.
Aethersight	Transcendent	Sense disruptions in the aether.

Nightvision (by Alger)

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 CLOTHES|JEWELRY|BOOKS|ESTEEM|POWERSTONES|KEGS|PALETTES ITEMLIST INV|WORN|CARRIED [columns]

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> FIRSTAID REMOVE <affliction> FIRSTAID CUREQUEUE FIRSTAID AFFS WHATCURES <affliction> WHATISCUREDBY <curetype>

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 [RESISTANCES|BUFFS] (<damage type>|FULL)

Scan your body for defensive and offensive modifications that affect the damage you receive from, and deal to, other people and creatures. Optionally, you can scan only for a specific damage type, or do a full and detailed scan.

The brief scan will show an overview of the resistance or buff DMP you have to each damage type.

The full scan will list all of the defences you have which offer resistance or buff DMP for a given damage type, as well as how much they provide. The final row of each section shows the total DMP provided for the damage type. The value in parenthesis denotes the total DMP for that damage type, and includes non-specific DMP (for resistance, Elemental DMP applies to cold, fire, and electric sources). Finally, the weighted result is provided as a percentage in the last column.

Sources are excluded from subtotals and totals if they do not affect the majority of targets. Such sources will be marked with one of the below symbols.

• (*) These sources only affect specific targets.
• (M) These sources only affect magic-source attacks.
• (P) These sources only affect brute-source attacks.

Deathsense

Syntax:

DEATHSENSE [(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.

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.

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> AETHERSIGHT UNBLOCK <person> AETHERSIGHT IGNORING

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.