Tahtetso (skill)
| Tahtetso is the specialization of kata that is taught by the guild of the same name in the New Celest. Monks taught at the Tahtetso School develop skills for use of the tahto staff. |
| Tahto | Master | The basic tahto staff attack. |
| Tahtai | Master +25% | Attack the defences that would keep your tahto out. |
| Boost | Master +50% | Spend power for superior kata moves. |
| Smash | Master +75% | Do more damage. |
| Gripping | Gifted | Grip your wielded items in a deathlock. |
| Rakto | Gifted +20% | Crack some bones with your tahto staff. |
| Rakti'ini | Gifted +40% | Interrupt your opponent's attacks. |
| Bomrakini | Gifted +60% | Break your enemy's bones. |
| Bomrakobo | Gifted +80% | End a lock grapple with limb dislocation. |
| Polevault | Expert | Begin your attack by launching yourself in the air. |
| Bairak | Expert +25% | Grapple the head with your staff in a choke hold. |
| Starkick | Expert +50% | A swift boot to the head! |
| Tidesweep | Expert +75% | Knock down several people at once. |
| Bomolini | Virtuoso | Trip your opponent with a leg strike. |
| Pound | Virtuoso +25% | Do more wounding. |
| Bairakobo | Virtuoso +75% | End a bairak hold with a crushed windpipe. |
| Tahto'sho | Fabled | Cause your staff to vibrate. |
| Rakti'sho | Fabled +20% | Inflict moderate bodily injury. |
| Bomol'sho | Fabled +40% | Paralyze the lower body. |
| Block | Fabled +60% | Ward off most physical attacks. |
| Twist | Fabled +80% | Cause bleeding with your tahto staff. |
| Bomir'rak | Mythical | Paralyze one side of the body. |
| Raktiah'sho | Mythical +25% | Cause heavy bodily injury. |
| Bomolah'sho | Mythical +50% | Shatter ankles to prevent movement. |
| Gahtiah'sho | Mythical +75% | Induce the heart to falter. |
| Gahtirak'sho | Transcendent | Cause the heart to fail completely. |
Tahto
| Syntax: |
| KA TAHTO <target> <bodypart> LEFT|RIGHT (For players) KA TAHTO <target> RIGHT|LEFT (For bashing NPCs.) |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 75 |
The basic attack with a tahto weapon will do blunt damage. Note that while a tahto is wielded, the trained monk can still perform punches and other moves.
Tahtai
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS TAHTAI |
| Power: 3 (Any) Kata: Modifier |
When using your tahto to attack opponents, your weapon will shear away the defences of your enemies that serve to keep your weapons out. It will also boost your damage and wounds.
Boost
| Power: 5 or 10 (Pool of Stars) |
You can now expend power for a temporary increase in momentum. Suppose you have a Kata form called SMASH and another called DESTROY. Normally you could string these together using this syntax:
KATA PERFORM ROARK SMASH DESTROY
If you do not have enough momentum to support the ka cost of DESTROY then you boost your momentum by a level for 5 power. You use + to do this. For example:
KATA PERFORM ROARK SMASH +DESTROY
You can boost multiple forms. For example, if you lack the momentum for both SMASH and DESTROY then you could boost both for a sum cost of 10 power with this syntax:
KATA PERFORM ROARK +SMASH +DESTROY
Finally, you can also boost your forms by two momentum levels using ++. For example, if you need two more levels of momentum to afford the SMASH form then you could spend 10 power to do the following:
KATA PERFORM ROARK ++SMASH DESTROY
Lastly, there is a level 6 of momentum that opens 1500 ka points. You cannot attain this level through normal means. Only through boosting can you get to level 6 momentum.
NOTE: This skill does not actually increase your momentum. It just gives a temporary boost. So if an attack causes you to lose momentum, boosting will not help you avoid the momentum loss.
Smash
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS SMASH |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 50 |
When used in conjunction with a tahto staff attack, your damage will be increased at the expense of wounding.
Gripping
| Syntax: |
| GRIP RELAX GRIP |
While using this ability, you will prevent items from being knocked out of your grip. Relax when you want to unwield.
Rakto
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS RAKTO |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 75 |
Carefully choosing the optimum place to strike with your tahto staff, you may cause various afflictions, including a broken jaw (head), knocked wind (chest, balance loss), paralysis (gut), or broken limbs.
Rakti'ini
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS RAKTI'INI |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 125 |
With a well-placed blow from your staff, you may cause various afflictions, including a brief loss of mental equilibrium (head), shortness of breath (chest), stun (gut), limb balance loss (arms), or a cracked kneecap (legs) to prevent stancing.
Bomrakini
| Syntax: |
| KATA BOMRAKINI <target> <bodypart> RIGHT|LEFT |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 175 |
Carefully choosing the optimum place to strike with your tahto staff, you may damage extremities, either fracturing arms or crushing feet.
Bomrakobo
| Syntax: |
| KA BOMRAKOBO |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 250 |
End a kata lock grapple by leveraging your tahto staff to dislocate a limb. This causes a constant, ongoing increase to that limb's wound damage level. This move will cause you to lose some momentum.
Polevault
| Syntax: |
| KA POLEVAULT <target> <form name> [<form name>] [<form name>, etc.] KA POLEVALT <direction> |
| Kata: Action |
By polevaulting to a target, you can vault over any obstacle and immediately segue into any sequence of two or more Kata forms.
You can also simply polevault alone to a different room.
Bairak
| Syntax: |
| KA BAIRAK <target> <bodypart> |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 200 |
An advanced grapple that chokes your target with your tahto staff, causing periodic blackouts.
Starkick
| Syntax: |
| KA STARKICK <target> <bodypart> RIGHT|LEFT |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 125 |
Kicking high towards the stars in the sky, landing on the head powerfully can send enemies sprawling to the ground and even cause brain damage.
Tidesweep
| Syntax: |
| KA TIDESWEEP |
| Power: 3 (Pool of Stars) |
Like a swift tide of water, you will sweep your staff low to try and knock down all your enemies in the room. This move will cause you to lose some momentum.
Bomolini
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS BOMOLINI |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 200 |
By striking at the legs, you will knock your opponents off balance and have a chance of knocking them to the ground. This move will cause you to lose some momentum.
Pound
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS POUND |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 50 |
When used in conjunction with a tahto staff attack, your wounding will be increased at the expense of damage.
Bairakobo
| Syntax: |
| KA BAIRAKOBO <target> |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 200 |
You can crush your opponent's windpipe by striking precisely at the neck. You must have the target's head grappled with a tahto staff to do this.
Tahto'sho
| Syntax: |
| KA TAHTO'SHO <target> <bodypart> KA TAHTO'SHO GROUND |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 350 |
This attack will increase your momentum level. Note that if you target the ground then it will not be able to get you past initial momentum. You can not target the ground in a Kata form.
Rakti'sho
| Syntax: |
| KA RAKTI'SHO <target> <bodypart> LEFT|RIGHT |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 225 |
This action does various mild injuries to the body, including scambling the brains, breaking the chest and possibly knocking down at the same time, a brief stun (gut), slapping the knuckles (causing weapons to be unwielded), or tripping the target. This move will cause you to lose some momentum.
Bomol'sho
| Syntax: |
| KA BOMOL'SHO <target> <bodypart> |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 200 |
The force of your staff travels through the legs up into the very base of the spine, causing loss of control of the lower half of the body.
Block
| Syntax: |
| KA BLOCK |
Spinning your tahto staff in a defensive arc, you will ward off weapon attacks, but you will be unable to perform any other action.
Twist
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS TWIST |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 75 |
By twisting your tahto staff when you strike, you will cause some bleeding.
Bomir'rak
| Syntax: |
| KA BOMIR'RAK <target> <bodypart> RIGHT|LEFT |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 125 |
A powerful strike to the base of the arms can send shocks into the nervous system, causing loss of control to that side of the body.
Raktiah'sho
| Syntax: |
| KA RAKTIAH'SHO <target> <bodypart> LEFT|RIGHT |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 400 |
This action does various mild and also potentially major injuries to the body, including a blackout, collapsed lungs, severed spine (gut), or damaged limbs. In the case of hitting limbs, you will mangle them if they are already broken. If you are unable to mangle, this move will always break the bone and either trip the target or sometimes force the hands to unwield. This move will cause you to lose some momentum, and more will be lost if your target's spine is severed.
Bomolah'sho
| Syntax: |
| KA BOMOLAH'SHO <target> <bodypart> RIGHT|LEFT |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 225 |
Striking at the legs can shatter the ankles, making movement and standing be intensely painful. This move will cause you to lose some momentum.
Gahtiah'sho
| Syntax: |
| KATA DEVELOP <form> MODIFIERS GAHTIAH'SHO |
| Kata: Modifier Ka Weight: 400 |
When the most vital organ, the heart, is struck hard enough, its rhythms will falter, causing heavy chest pain and deterioration.
Gahtirak'sho
| Syntax: |
| KA GAHTIRAK'SHO <target> <bodypart> |
| Kata: Action Ka Weight: 1500 |
If your opponent is sprawled and has a faltering heart, this deadly strike to the chest can cause their heart to explode instantly. It requires the concentration of a kata form to execute; it cannot be executed by itself. This move will cause you to lose some momentum. If it is successful, you will lose more momentum.