I've been thinking recently, and after finally getting aethersight, I realized that it would be the perfect way to know if you were being infiltrated. You can't tell me someone poking their nose into my city aether wouldn't cause a "disruption" When they infiltrate, you get a little message, like "You feel the mind of DarkSmokePuncher McNinja attempting to listen to your aethers.' It would fit

How does infiltration work? Person A uses the ability on Person B and can then hear the aethers that Person B has? Can Person B see they've been affected via Diagnose or something?

I think they choose to infiltrate one aether, like CT or GT or one of their clans

Oooh... so it's not a skill used on a person at all?

Infiltration is already largely useless because nobody talks about anything important on the city/commune aether. Everything's done in clans.

Nope. We hear gt, ct and ot of all personal enemies in the area.

AB file to the reference!

STEALTH - INFILTRATE

Syntax: INFILTRATE
In order to successfully infiltrate, your target must be in the same room as you
though can be on any elevation. While infiltrating, you will hear the city and
guild channels of that person.

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Anyway, yeah, I agree with Salvation. Infiltrate is minimally useful at best.

Y NOT TRUST MEH? =(

Because it's you, Ash?

So, you do use it on a person then. But they can't tell if they look at their Diagnose?

I Trust you, Ashteru. But this is just so that people know your argument isn't groundless. Even though I've never heard OT of anyone...but I don't have many personal enemies since I never leave my manse/Magnagora.

And, as far as I know, there's no diagnose message.

Girls trust me.

You can't tell in diagnose, but I make it a point to read the Defs of people who do it

Have it so that blue in LowMagic stops it and make a similar skill or something in HighMagic.

Last I checked, blue was worthless anyways . Not sure if its useful now.

I don't know if blue stops it, but if you can diagnose another person, you can do that and see if they are infiltrating.

I don't like this idea. The point of infiltration is to for people to sneak onto a channel without others knowing. There needs to be no defense for it that would alert you to it.

So.. let me just clarify. The point of Infiltrate is to infiltrate?

Infiltrate can be seen by anything showing defs, like Tristitia or Psionics.

It lets the monk hear city/commune, guild, and greathouse. NOT clans, though, unless they changed it. It is considered aggresive ( Have to declare, all that rot) and strips reflections/hits dodging or whatever that is.

Shaddus makes a valid point. Want to know if someone's trying to infiltrate? Have reflection/shield up at all times!

There was once a plan in the works to force people to infiltrate Serenwilde, then simply have someone say something to spark a conversation, knowing full well it would make them want to forget stealth. This plan has not been used yet.