Using Skills

[Derrick]

Anatomy - Evaluates a creatures physical condition.

Animal Lore - Shows descriptive text about the animal.

Animal Training - Attempt to tame an animal.

Archery - Skill checked when using a bow.

Arms Lore - Describes an item that this skill is used on.

Begging - Use on an NPC can result in money (if they have money to share) karma is reduced.

Blacksmithy - Use a smith's hammer or tongs near an anvil or forge. A menu comes up with a list of what you can make. There is a small little anvil icon that represented the repairing option. When attempting to repair an item, it's possible to further damage or even destroy the item. Each time a weapon is reforged you lose a bit of metal.

Bowcraft/Fletching - Use a knife or another bladed item on wood, then a list appears with what you can make. To make arrows, you need arrow shafts and feathers. Double click on the feathers then target the shafts to attach them.

Camping - Double click on kindling you bought in town or collected from a tree, if successful you get a message saying 'Your camp is secure' and can safely log out by laying down a bedroll and double clicking it.

Carpentry - Doubleclick on any woodworking tool to open a menu of what you can make, you must have the right amount of wood.

Cartography - Use this skill on a blank map, a menu comes up allowing you to select the scale. The higher your skill, the bigger the scale. Once selected, the map is created centered around your position and placed in your pack.

Cooking - You need to be next to a campfire, oven, or even a forge. To cook, double click on the item and then on the heat source. You can also combine items, ie: use water on flour to make dough. Use dough with fruit, meat, or vegetables to make a pie. Use dough with honey to make a sweet dough. Use sweet dough and flour to make cake mix. Use sweet dough and more honey to make cookie mix. If you use a bladed item on caught fish, you will bone and gut the fish into raw fish steaks.

Detecting Hidden - Use this on a specified area to try to reveal hidden characters.

Enticement - Use this skill on an NPC or creature to entice them to peacefully follow you. Use the skill and click on the instrument you wish to use and then your target. or click on the skill and your target and the game will remember the last instrument you used.

Evaluating Intellect - Use this skill on a person to determine their mental capabilities.

Fencing - This skill is checked when using a piercing weapon. ie: pickaxe, dagger, kryss, pitchfork, spears and war fork.

Fishing - Double click on a fishing pole and then on a body of water, success is determined by fishing skill and amount of fish in the water. You may also catch things other than fish.

Forensic Evaluation: Use on a corpse to determine its demise.

Healing: Double click a bandage and then a wounded character, if successful some hp will be healed and the bandage consumed.

Herding: Double click on a shepherds crook and then on an animal, if successful, click on the area you want the animal to go to.

Hiding: Use this to turn invisible aslong as you perform not actions and dont talk. Success depends on skill and amount of 'cover' available.

Enticement is not yet in SecondAge, but it is an the works.
Thanks to killsom3thing in the RunUO Forums for most of this list.