Category:Skill

Skills are bundles of knowledge and reflexes granted to players via nanites injected into them by their collars. Some skills activate nanites to perform actions which seem downright magical. Obtaining skills is necessary to survive the Elemental Arena, and to have any chance at winning. When a skill is learned, the player also gains enhancement to their mind or body (or both) by the nanites, resulting in a stat increase of +1 or more.

This enhancement is painful and debilitating, taking somewhere between three and five minutes. Initially, players black out due to over-stimulation. A high Physical stat mitigates this, allowing the player to stay conscious, albeit still largely helpless.

Skill learning is triggered by using a wristband interface. The act of reading the skill reward message sets off the upgrade. Due to this and the short term debilitation, players must take care to only read from glowing wristbands when not imperiled by hostile creatures.

Physical skill increase also heals the player as a side effect, as well as making them ravenously hungry. The effect scales with the increase in Physical stat.