Shadow strike

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Endurance point cost: 16

Affiliated stats:

       Primary: dexterity
     Secondary: strength
      Tertiary: wisdom

This skill is learnable by doing up to 80%.

Shadow strike is the feared dagger-based fighting maneuver of the Shadowdancers, making them capable of inflicting terrible damage and pain on their poor victims. The maneuver itself uses almost all the skills and abilities of the shadowdancers, for instance their profession in the martial arts, daggers and piercing weapons are essential for making them able to hit successfully on the foe, and it's said that an experienced shadowdancer can continue his succesful strike with a fierce kick or a strong headbutt, if he's also skilled in those skills, thus making them extremely efficient killers. It is also told that a skilled thrower may instantly hurl his weapon at a foe after a successful shadow strike, but one would probably need quite a lot of knowledge in throwing, its mastery, uncanny adroitness and even vital points. You can only perform this skill with piercing-type swords.

       Usage:
       use shadow strike at <target> [to poison]