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GAROTTE
Usage:      garotte <target>
Level:      Thief 35 (Prime)
Manual:     a book bound with barbed wire
See Also:   VANISH

Garotte is an opening attack that can be only be used when:
    (1) Mob is not in battle
    (2) Mob is not hemorrhaging
    (3) Mob can see two or less PC's in the room

    and either:

    (4a) the mob is undamaged
    or
    (4b) the mob can't see you because of vanish.


Garotte does ~60% damage of a single stab and causes the mob to hemorrhage for
30 seconds.

While hemorrhaging, the mob will hemorrhage blood once every 6 seconds, and its
output damage will be lowered by a moderate amount.

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"FAN OF KNIVES"
Usage:      fan
Level:      Avatar-Thief 1
Manual:     a folio on handling knives

Similar to flurry, but for stabbing weapons, costs *a lot* more than flurry,
and lasts *a lot* longer than flurry.

For thief prime, adds 2 attacks per round, for thief secondary adds 1 or 2
attacks per round, and for everyone else, adds 1 attack per round.


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"SHADOW MASTERY"

Usage:      Automatic
Manual:     a book consumed by shadow
Level:      Avatar-Thief 7 (Prime)
See Also:   VANISH "EMBRACE THE SHADOWS" GAROTTE

Passive skill that upgrades vanish dramatically by removing the requirement
for the white powder and enables the vanish effect to remain intact when
moving rooms (introduces a prediction-like effect for thief primes).



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"EMBRACE THE SHADOWS"

Usage:      Automatic
Manual:     an advanced treatise on embracing shadows
Level:      Avatar-Thief 36 (Prime)
See Also:   VANISH GAROTTE "SHADOW MASTERY"

Passive skill that upgrades vanish yet again by performing a squelch (similar
to the pipe ('|') command) and cancels all lag on the player when vanish is
executed.