Prowl (Sniffer ability)
The prowl ability allows you to use your prowling skills to remain
hidden in the shadows, allowing you to move around undetected. Note that
some NPCs can still detect you even while prowling.
Staying hidden requires maximum focus; any action that will require
you to make a sudden movement or make a noise will automatically force you
out of the prowling state. Some commands (mostly OOC) can be used in
the prowling mode without fear of it breaking. These commands are:
| alias | align | armour | attune | brief |
| bug | camouflage | charinfo | charset | chfn |
| clan | close | color | commend | comms |
| conninfo | consider | daytime | describe | dev |
| do | draw | drink | eaglesight | eat |
| enc | enemy | er | faq | find |
| focus | fr | friend | get | glance |
| go | gold | guild | guildinfo | hands |
| harass | help | history | hpq | hunt |
| idea | ignore | inventory | languages | law |
| legend | legendinfo | look | merciful | mission |
| mudtime | mudvote | news | open | passwd |
| privacy | prop | prowl | put | quests |
| read | removetag | respond | retrieve | rpscore |
| save | score | sense | set | settings |
| shape | shape | skills | sniff | snoopable |
| speak | spells | stop | store | story |
| storyedit | surname | survey | tag | tell |
| tellhist | telloff | tellon | tradeskills | travelto |
| trigger | typo | unalias | undescribe | unignore |
| unset | untag | updates | uptime | verbose |
| vote | wanted | warnings | who | wield |
| wimpy | | | | |
Typing anything else will break prowl, if the command you type
succeeds (as opposed to, say, trying to bash an non-existent door).
Prowl is primarily associated with sniffers, and is an ability
exclusive to that profession. Success is determined by the prowling
skill. A successful prowling attempt costs 30 EP, and then EP is
continuously drained while prowl is active. A failed attempt costs
15 EP.
