f++ Technique
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Description | Invoke twisted hounds you've bound |
Chain | 5 |
Type | Etheric |
Attribute | Will |
Effects | Summons a hound from your Tome of Binding. |
Special | Like the hounds themselves, this attack is most dangerous in packs. |
Attack Summary
Condition | Base Damage |
Base Defense |
Notes |
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Normally | - | - | |
You call out, invoking the twisted hounds that haunt the ether. There's an awkward pause, but nothing happens. | |||
With a binding tome, first time | 6 | - | |
You call out, invoking the twisted hounds that haunt the ether. The hound appears as a spectral echo and tears into <opponent> for <X> damage. | |||
With a binding tome, second time | 9 | ≥4 (E) | |
You call out, invoking the twisted hounds that haunt the ether. Your pair of hounds circle <opponent> and tear into it with their spectral teeth for <X> damage. <Opponent attacks> but one of your hounds blocks the brunt of the attack, absorbing <X> damage. |
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With a binding tome, further times | 12 | ?? (E) | |
Your pack of hounds descends on <opponent>, tearing into it with their spectral fangs. <Opponent> takes <X> damage. <Opponent attacks> but the hounds swarm around <opponent> and absorb <X> of the damage from the attack. |
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With a binding tome, vs. a Hound opponent | - | - | This still counts as summoning a first/second/pack of hounds to the fight; even though they will not attack other hounds, they still increment the counter. |
You call out to the hounds that haunt the ether, but they refuse to attack their kin. |
Source
Defeating a Twisted Hound or Stalking Hound with a binding tome equipped. If you defeat a hound with both a binding tome and a Myers sampling kit equipped you will collect samples rather than bind it. Kinak says this is deliberate.
The hound collapses into a pile of dust in moments. You call out with ancient words from the tome you carry and gather the hound's energies.
You trap a spectral echo of the hound within the pages of the tome, feeling exhausted afterward.
If you defeat multiple hounds in one fight, the message is:
The hounds collapse into piles of dust in moments. You call out with ancient words from the tome you carry and gather one hound's energies.
You trap a spectral echo of the hound within the pages of the tome, feeling exhausted afterward.
Notes
If you have two or three hounds summoned, this technique also blocks Etheric techniques.
Winning a fight using Release the Hounds can unlock/enhance various other techniques:
- Defeating a Horrific Spider after summoning three hounds lets you learn the Unleash Spider technique.
- Defeating a Drone Statue after summoning a hound lets you learn the Hunting Command technique. Hunting Command is enhanced based on how many times you have summoned Hounds (does not have to chain to it explicitly).
- Enhances Call to Feast.
- Winning a fight with the Fenris tome equipped can give Fenris Command technique, and it is enhanced by Release the Hounds.
Some encounters are modified with Release the Hounds in your deck (and tome):
- Southside: Abandoned Building: Beaten Man - allows luring a guard away.
- The Slags: 5th Floor: Dr. Johnson, I presume? - can be given a hound.
- Halloween 2010: some interactions in the Portal.
- Halloween 2011: some interactions in the Swirling Portal (2011).
- Halloween 2012: some interactions in the Collapsed Dorm.
- Halloween 2019: some interactions in the The Spider's Nest.
- Modifies text of Southside Lab Notes.
Unlocks Call Of The Moon with the wolfskin belt equipped.