Sneak

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While SNEAKING you are still visible, just adept at skulking in the shadows, hiding, and otherwise avoiding attention. You are NOT invisible. People with Enhanced Senses and Radar will be able to find you. While you are SNEAKING you may not attack or be attacked, but you will be set to the special "HIDDEN" defense level. Be careful not to change your defense level before making your sneak attack, or you'll lose the special hidden bonus! You can also use your turns spent hidden to use !aim and !analyze. If you are detected while you are sneaking you will be automatically set to the OFF-GUARD (-40 to dodge!) defense level.
This will give you a one-time chance to execute a Sneak Attack. Since you cannot !sneak/on during combat, you will have to be sneaking BEFORE the battle begins. To launch your Sneak Attack (with enhanced damage and to-hit) you need to have used !sneak/on before the fight, which will consume ten (10) points of Energon. This also automatically switches you to the HIDDEN defense level. After you reveal yourself with !Sneak/off, you will still have the HIDDEN stance, thus your next attack will be a Sneak Attack, which will give you a bonus to damage and to-hit. (+30 to Hi!) After you make this attack, your HIDDEN stance will switch back to NEUTRAL, too late for you to change it to anything else before the inevitable counterattack. The Sneak Attack is automatically triggered via the regular !attack command.
== Commands ==
!sneak/on - Start moving stealthily
!sneak/off - Resume moving normally
!defend hidden - Switch to the special HIDDEN defense level
== Strategies ==
You may also do actions such as !pass, !aim or !analyze while cloaked and nigh-invincible! Look out for bots like Red Alert, though, as those with Enhanced Senses and Radar and can, and will, find you! Also, keep in mind, that while HIDDEN gives a +30 bonus to hit, you can in fact, miss a sneak attack! So choose your target wisely. 
== Notes ==
* Sneak is a "rare" ability and requires Wizard approval if you wish to buy it as an upgrade, which means that your application needs to be extra-good, and then the active wizards will vote on it.
*Sneak does flat bonus damage.
*You may not transform while HIDDEN, unless your alternate mode also has Cloak or Sneak.
*Costs 10 Energon to use.
*The "HIDDEN" defenses gives +30 to Hit (Accuracy), and gives no bonuses to dodge.
*Sneak attack does apply to Area-Ranged/Melee attacks with multiple targets. 
*You can, in fact, miss with a Sneak Attack! (Special honors to Goth For proving that.) 
*There is a 1 in 10 chance that you will get the message: "Combat: Suddenly, <Name> appears out of Fat air!"
*Sneak is very similar to Cloak (See page for details) in both usage and mechanics, however it can only be used ONCE In combat, thus it exempt from the Battlegrounds Mini-Game - Cloaking rules. 
== Related Abilities ==
* Hide
* Cloak
* Radar
* Enhanced Senses
Category:Combat
Category:Ability
Category:Wizard-Approval-Needed