Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat

Baran Do acts as an equivalent of Mental Shielding/Espionage in terms of resisting Deception-based attacks, Manipulation-based attacks, Dun Moch, and attacks based around Cloaking.

Begun Training to Skilled

• Travel to the planet of Dorin and find the Baran Do sages. Convince them to train you. 

1 Day Cooldown

• Sit on a cliff edge on Dorin while a helium storm rolls in. Your Baran Do teacher tells you not to move until they say so. They won't say so for a very long time.

1 Day Cooldown

• Your Baran Do teacher speaks a single sentence to you at dawn, then walks away. You must find them by evening and explain what they meant.

1 Day Cooldown

• Face a senior Baran Do student in the sparring ring, who will do nothing but stand there. The exercise will end when you succeed. 

1 Day Cooldown

• Fill a cup with water to the brim and carry it through the temple without spilling a drop, while other students attempt to startle you. 

1 Day Cooldown

• Feat

Skilled to Proficient

• Be taken to a Dorin Local Council debate. Inform your teacher what each speaker was actually afraid of beneath their arguments. 

4 Day Cooldown

• Under instruction from your Baran Do teacher, enter the wilderness with a blindfold over your eyes. Succeed the task. 

4 Day Cooldown

• Sit in a busy Dorin marketplace for the entire day. Inform your Baran Do teacher the most important thing that occurred.

4 Day Cooldown

• Pass the Two-Streamed Test, wherein you are given contradictory instruction by two Baran Do teachers. 

4 Day Cooldown

• Survive the Final Lesson. This is a PK-permitted task.

4 Day Cooldown

• Feat

Proficient to Highly Proficient

• Using Baran Do combat, end a spar in a single action, as you would do everything that needs to be done. Return to stillness afterwards. 

1 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an equal-tiered opponent in a spar without ever making the leading action. 

1 Week Cooldown

• Perfectly counter an opponent's Deception-based manoeuvre using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat.

1 Week Cooldown

• De-escalate a conflict between two separate equal-tiered opponents using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat. 

1 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an equal-tiered opponent in a legitimate combat encounter without needing to block once. 

1 Week Cooldown

• Feat

Highly Proficient to Mastery

• Utterly waffle an equally skilled opponent in Street Hand-to-Hand Combat, in a legitimate combat encounter. 

3 Week Cooldown

• Be defeated by an opponent using Drunken Hand-to-Hand Combat in a legitimate combat encounter. Learn that even the Baran Do have their blindspots. 

3 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an equal-tiered opponent using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat in a legitimate combat encounter, without moving significantly from the spot you started upon.

3 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an equal-tiered opponent in a legitimate combat encounter, all the while having a time limit before the environment becomes untenable to stay in, thus PK'ing you if you remain too long. 

3 Week Cooldown

• Teach a student in Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat to the level of Proficient. 

1 Day Cooldown

• Feat

Mastery to Extreme Mastery

• Using Baran-Do Hand-to-Hand Combat, defeat an equal-tiered cloaked opponent in a legitimate combat encounter without using the Espionage ability for the first time. 

6 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an opponent with higher levels of Dun Moch in a legitimate combat encounter, using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat. 

6 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an equal-tiered player character who is equally skilled in Temple Hand-to-Hand combat in a legitimate combat encounter. 

6 Week Cooldown

• Successfully defeat an opponent who has wronged you in the worst way possible, more so than anyone else has ever done, using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat in a legitimate encounter. 

6 Week Cooldown

• Successfully defeat an opponent who has wronged you in the worst way possible, more so than anyone else has ever done, using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat in a legitimate encounter. 

6 Week Cooldown

• Feat

Extreme Mastery to The Mastery

• Defeat an equally skilled user of Echani Hand-to-Hand Combat in a legitimate combat encounter, using nothing but Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat. 

 9 Week Cooldown

• Using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand combat, detect and defeat an opponent using Void Cloak in a Legitimate Combat Encounter. 

9 Week Cooldown

• Defeat an equal or higher tiered opponent who is (at minimum) equally skilled in Drunken Hand-to-Hand Combat, through the sole usage of Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat in a legitimate combat encounter. 

9 Week Cooldown

• Using Baran Do Hand-to-Hand Combat, ensure violence is unnecessary against a player opponent higher than you on the tier list in a legitimate encounter, doing so in a single action against a foe with genuine hostile intent. 

9 Week Cooldown

• Defeat the Storm Master of the Baran Do sages. 

9 Week Cooldown