Werewolf infection is a hidden flag you can get from a handful of sources. When you are Etheric, you start all fights by turning into a werewolf, and have access to a new set of techniques.
Sources
- Equipping a wolfskin belt - gives the following when starting a fight:
The belt around your waist writhes and sinks into your flesh. The hunt is on.
- Having Omega Injection or Worrying Bite effect active - gives the following when starting a fight:
You can hear your heart beating, louder and louder as your body twists to join the hunt.
- Or, with any of the above and also the charmed chain:
You feel the urge to hunt rise within you, but keep it chained.
(Charmed chain techniques take priority.)
All of the above require Etheric to work.
Effects
Your techniques are replaced by a new set of techniques. Some are in your deck by default; others are unlocked by having certain techniques in your regular deck or by using certain techniques in earlier rounds of combat.
None of the techniques granted by the belt require or consume energy of Etheric when used.
| Chain | Technique | Unlocked by | Type | Attribute | Base Dam/Def |
Special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Wolf Bite | Ghoul Bite | Melee | Strength | 7 | |
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Brutal Claw | Brutality | Melee | Strength | 4 | +8 unopposed |
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Wolf Claw | (default) | Melee | Strength | 4 | |
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Hunting Dash | (default) | Stealth | Strength | 3 | bonus following Skin of the Wolf and "moon tide" techniques? |
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Predatory Leap | (default) | Evasion | Strength | 2 | Defends vs. F, M, R ; also blocks E following Gibbous Moon Tide or Full Moon Tide |
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Sudden Savagery | Sudden Savagery | Stealth | Strength | 15 | Any copies in your normal deck also show up in your werewolf deck |
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Skin of the Wolf | (default) | Etheric | Will | - | unlocks Crescent Moon Tide for the next round of combat |
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Crescent Moon Tide | * | Etheric | Will | 5 | unlocks Half Moon Tide for the next round of of combat |
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Half Moon Tide | * | Etheric | Will | 10 | unlocks Gibbous Moon Tide for the next round of of combat |
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Gibbous Moon Tide | * | Etheric | Will | 15 | unlocks Full Moon Tide for the next round of of combat |
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Full Moon Tide | * | Etheric | Will | 20 | |
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Call Of The Moon | Release the Hounds | Etheric | Will | - | does damage following "moon tide" techniques; may defend (vs R?) following Full Moon Tide (and others?) |
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Lupine Gaze | Evil Eye | Etheric | Will | 8 |
You start with 4 of each of the (default) techniques in your deck. The number of unlockable techniques in your werewolf deck is equal to the number of equivalent techniques in your normal deck.
The moon tide techniques (*) are only available as you use the previous one in the cycle, starting with Skin of the Wolf. When you use Skin of the wolf, it automatically adds one copy of Crescent Moon Tide to your hand (not deck). When you use Crescent Moon Tide, it adds Half Moon Tide, and so on. Nothing is added when you use Full Moon Tide.
See Techniques Testing for a list techniques that are confirmed not unlock more techniques with the belt and things that still need testing.
Notes
Silver Bullets seems to get a bonus against people with the werewolf infection, if you have Undead Scourge?
See also: Lupine Masks