Swashbuckling

The physical abilities in the skill of Swashbuckling are available to members of the Bard class and enable users to mount a strong offense against their opponents. The primary weapon employed by Swashbucklers are rapiers blessed in the Grotto of Song off the beach of Tasur'ke.

Abilities in Swashbuckling

Ability	Description
Swing	Swing gracefully up into the trees overhead.
Known: Yes Syntax: SWING UP SWING DOWN Details: When in a forest location, you will be able to swing up into the trees, or down from them again.
Flourish	Intimidate an opponent with a flourish of your blade.
Known: Yes Syntax: FLOURISH <target> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Strike fear into your opponent's heart with a complex flourish, showing exactly what you will be doing to him in the coming combat.
Backflip	Flip over obstructions that stand in your way.
Known: No (6 lessons required) Syntax: BACKFLIP <direction> Details: Like a monkey on kola you can flip over obstructions such as adventurers blocking you or icewalls.
Auralbless	Use your song-blessed blade to remove deafness.
Known: No (15 lessons required) Syntax: AURALBLESS <target> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: With a deft and carefully-aimed blow, knock the hearing back into your target, removing deafness and forcing them to sit up and take notice of your songs.
Tunesmithing	Harness the power of your songblessed rapier.
Known: No (22 lessons required) Syntax: TUNESMITH <your songblessed rapier> <song> Details: Call upon the power of song within your songblessed rapier to imbue your next jab with a certain power. As your skill level in Swashbuckling increases, you will gain more songs with which you can tunesmith your rapier. There are four such possible songs, and the first is ACCENTATO. See AB SWASHBUCKLING ACCENTATO.
Accentato	Let your songblessed rapier sing out to harm your opponent.
Known: No (22 lessons required) Syntax: TUNESMITH <your songblessed rapier> ACCENTATO Works on/against: Adventurers and denizens Details: Deliver a devastating burst of magical damage with your next jab. This damage will increase with the number of mental afflictions the target suffers from.
Handspring	Leap at your foes in neighboring rooms.
Known: No (33 lessons required) Syntax: HS/HANDSPRING <adventurer> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: With this acrobatic attack, you can handspring into an adjacent room, attacking an adventurer there.
Riposte	Unleash a strike of vengeance.
Known: No (66 lessons required) Syntax: None Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Riposte is a passive ability. After a successful parry or trueparry, riposte will sometimes permit a free and automatic counterattack. Yes, this means that you must have either the parry or trueparry ability in order to accomplish this.
Acrobatics	Leap and bounce to make yourself a difficult target to hit.
Known: No (88 lessons required) Syntax: ACROBATICS [ON|OFF] RELAX ACROBATICS Details: With this ability, you will become even more acrobatic, leaping and bouncing about such that you are more difficult to hit. Be warned that it is a serious endurance drain.
Gripping	Grip your wielded items in a deathlock.
Known: No (133 lessons required) Syntax: GRIP RELAX GRIP Details: While using this ability, you will prevent items from being knocked out of your grip.
Scan	Scanning the forest floor from the treetops.
Known: No (177 lessons required) Syntax: SCAN Works on/against: Room Details: While in the treetops, you can scan the ground for passersby.
Knuckleslap	Numb an opponent's hand temporarily.
Known: No (222 lessons required) Syntax: KNUCKLESLAP|KS <target> LEFT|RIGHT Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Numb your opponent's hand, either left or right, for a few seconds, making it unusable. There is currently no cure or way to avoid a knuckleslap. Attempts to use a numbed hand will have unpleasant results.
Shove	Sending a hapless victim crashing to the forest floor.
Known: No (288 lessons required) Syntax: SHOVE <target> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: While in the trees, you may shove an adventurer to the ground, possibly breaking his legs.
Thrustkick	Kick your opponent out of the way.
Known: No (333 lessons required) Syntax: THK <target> <direction> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Using your great leg power, you will attempt to kick your opponent away in the specified direction.
Backhandspring	Leap out of the room striking someone on the way out.
Known: No (377 lessons required) Syntax: BHS/BACKHANDSPRING <person> <direction> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: With the backwards handspring, you may leave the room while simultaneously kicking someone on your way out.
Raze	Attack the defences that would keep your weapons out.
Known: No (422 lessons required) Syntax: RAZE <target> Works on/against: Adventurers and denizens Details: With raze, your sword will become a weapon of destruction, attacking the defences of your enemies that serve to keep your weapons out.
Abscond	Swing down and abscond with the rector's daughter!
Known: No (466 lessons required) Syntax: ABSCOND <target> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Swing down from the trees, hanging on to a perilously thin rope. Grab your target and continue in a graceful arc back to the trees, victim in hand! This requires a rope commodity. You must be in the trees with your target below you. A failed abscond attempt may result in a broken limb.
Acciaccatura	Tunesmith your songblessed rapier against a specific limb.
Known: No (488 lessons required) Syntax: TUNESMITH <your songblessed rapier> ACCIACCATURA Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Concentrate the powers of song on your rapier to strike a damaging blow at one of your opponent's limbs on your next limb-targetted jab. This requires the Targeting ability in Weaponry.
Arrowcatch	Pluck arrows from the air with the greatest of ease.
Known: No (533 lessons required) Syntax: ARROWCATCH [ON|OFF] RELAX ARROWCATCH Details: At the cost of a constant mana drain, this ability will give you a chance to pluck arrows fired at you from the air.
Drunkensailor	A stance designed to make your movements unpredictable.
Known: No (599 lessons required) Syntax: DRUNKENSAILOR UNSTANCE/STANCE NONE Details: Enter the stance of the drunken sailor. Makes you much harder to hit with normal attacks from physical weaponry. There is a mana drain associated with this stance. To end the stance, either switch to another stance, or select STANCE NONE or UNSTANCE.
Somersault	Quickly somersault past obstructions, even when bound.
Known: No (943 lessons required) Syntax: SOMERSAULT <direction> Details: With this ability you can escape a location even if you're webbed or paralysed. It is faster than 'tumbling' in Survival, as a bonus.
Martellato	Knock your opponent to the floor with this tunesmithing.
Known: No (1012 lessons required) Syntax: TUNESMITH <your songblessed rapier> MARTELLATO Works on/against: Adventurers Details: The power of your songblessed rapier will knock your opponent to the floor on your next jab.
Highleap	The sky is within your reach.
Known: No (1012 lessons required) Syntax: LEAP HIGH LAND Details: So powerful are your legs that you may leap high into the sky, briefly eluding gravity's grip. Beware that you lack the control to move about while up in the air.
Dodging	Avoiding attacks from the sky.
Known: No (1047 lessons required) Syntax: DODGING [ON|OFF] RELAX DODGING Details: At the cost of a constant mana drain, this ability will allow you to dodge any attempts to hoist you off the ground.
Heartsfury	An aggressive stance that gives a chance of counterattack.
Known: No (1150 lessons required) Syntax: HEARTSFURY UNSTANCE/STANCE NONE Details: Enter the stance of heart's fury. If you are damaged while in this stance, you will attempt an automatic counterattack. There is a mana drain associated with this stance. To end the stance, either switch to another stance, or select STANCE NONE or UNSTANCE.
Lunge	A deep, piercing blow from an adjacent location.
Known: No (1288 lessons required) Syntax: LUNGE <target> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: When starting from an adjacent location, you may lunge at a target, causing quite a bit of damage. You must be wielding a sword to use this ability.
Balancing	You're like a cat, you are.
Known: No (1392 lessons required) Syntax: BALANCING [ON|OFF] RELAX BALANCING Details: With this ability, you will have superior balance, making it much more difficult to knock you off your feet with abilities such as sweepkick, or the earthquake vibration. There is a mana drain associated with it, however.
Deathfromabove	The name says it all. Death, from above!
Known: No (1495 lessons required) Syntax: DEATHFROMABOVE <target> Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Leap down upon your unsuspecting enemy who is knocked to the ground and caused to black out momentarily by your brilliant attack. You must be in the trees, a ship's rigging or leaping into the air to begin with, and your target must be on the ground below.
Trueparry	Such is your mastery that you may parry a larger area.
Known: No (1598 lessons required) Syntax: PARRY left leg|left arm|right leg|right arm|head|torso TRUEPARRY centre|left|right|none Works on/against: Adventurers Details: The trueparry ability, combined with the weaponry parry ability, allows you to actively defend attacks against two parts of your body. 'centre' parries attacks to both the head and torso. If you do not have the weaponry parry ability, then trueparry allows parrying, but not trueparrying.
Pesante	Stun an opponent with the power of your tunesmithed rapier.
Known: No (1736 lessons required) Syntax: TUNESMITH <your songblessed rapier> PESANTE Works on/against: Adventurers Details: Deliver a stunning percussive blast to your opponent on your next jab, providing they do not have the deafness defence. In the event the target has deafness, it will be stripped instead.

See also

• Harmonics
• Voicecraft