Improvisation

Utilizing improvised explosives is a key element to a Scoundrel's battleplan, they'll hide bombs everywhere, and detonate them at precisely the right moment to ensure maximum carnage.

The Improvisation skill breaks down into four groups: Manipulation; Reloading; Construction; and IEDs.

Manipulation

Bandoliers - IED storage, with style.

Bandoliers
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	10
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	None
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Carrying around IEDs in your hands is just plain dangerous, you know someone who lost an arm that way. Wear a bandolier, and keep your explosives stored safely! You can manually store and remove explosives from the bandolier, and any attempt to use an IED skill when you don't have the specified IED in your inventory will pull the IED from your bandolier with no chance of fumbling it.
Command	IED CONTENTS, IED STORE/REMOVE [QTY] <BOMB>
Appearance

Trigger - Trigger your IED in the crowd.

Trigger
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	30
Type	Room attack
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	20.00 seconds
Resources	None
Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and get the job done. When you trigger your IED, you'll position yourself for maximum effect, hitting everyone in the room.
Command	IED TRIGGER <BOMB>
Appearance	You make a few quick and dirty modifications to <BOMB> that you're sure will increase the radius of the resulting explosion. Careless of harm to your own person, you prime the detonation sequence and toss the explosive forward.

Sweep - Sweep for explosives.

Sweep
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	45
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	2.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
You've learned the hard way what to look for. Sweep your eye around your surroundings and quickly discern the status of any explosive in your vicinity.
Command	IED SWEEP
Appearance	You can see no explosive devices nearby.

Tripwire - They better watch their step.

Tripwire
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	354
Type	Combat utility
Base Balance Time	5.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Carefully extend a tripwire to an IED placed over an exit and watch it detonate on the next unwary traveller to pass through.
Command	IED TRIPWIRE <BOMB> <DIR>
Appearance

Forcefeed - Open wide!

Forcefeed
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	528
Type	Melee attack
Base Balance Time	5.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Do you think they're hungry? Finish the sucker off by shoving a Ripper down their throat and detonating it. To pull this maneuver off, your victim must be bound, and have more than 75% internal subsystem damage.
Command	IED FORCEFEED <TARGET> <BOMB>
Appearance

Lob - Send your IEDs flyin'.

Lob
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	787
Type	Combat utility
Base Balance Time	3.50 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Sharing is caring, so they say! Share the joy of explosions by lobbing your IEDs into adjacent rooms. Lobbed explosives are primed automatically when they are thrown.
Command	IED LOB <BOMB> <DIR>
Appearance	Compressing the detonator of <BOMB> with a click, you lob it the <DIRECTION>, then cover your ears.

Disarm - No more bomb.

Disarm
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	1531
Type	Room attack
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	40.00 seconds
Resources	None
Skillfully dismantle the firing mechanism on a primed IED, rendering it safe.
Command	IED DISARM <BOMB>
Appearance	You skillfully disarm <BOMB>.

Multibomb - Bigger boom, bigger smiles.

Multibomb
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Manipulation
Required Lessons	1531
Type	Room attack
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	40.00 seconds
Resources	None
One bomb is fine, but three, well that's just niiiice. Strap three identical IEDs together and fling them in the room, increasing the blast radius of the device to all adjacent rooms as well.
Command	IED MULTIBOMB <BOMB>
Appearance	You rearrange a few wires and circuitboards in <BOMB>'s detonator, a hair-raising sequence of modifications that makes the whole explosive more dangerous to handle. You hurl it away from you, though if you don't find cover, you will doubtless be caught in the ensuing blast.

Reloading

Fling - Throw an IED while you reload.

Fling
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Reloading
Required Lessons	60
Type	Combat utility
Base Balance Time	3.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Keep them under fire! Prime, arm, and toss an IED at your target while you reload your PIECE. This will detonate immediately.
Command	IED FLING <BOMB> AT <TARGET>
Appearance	Drawing your shoulder back, you fling <BOMB> towards <TARGET>, and it flies end over end towards it with a timer on the side counting down the seconds.

Stickybomb - Reload and place an adapted IED in one motion.

Stickybomb
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Reloading
Required Lessons	404
Type	Combat utility
Base Balance Time	3.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
So attuned are you to murder, mayhem, and the mechanism of your weapon, you can also fling out these adapted IEDs whle you reload! These specialist little bundles of explosive joy will instantly adhere to rooms, props, and exits. The same restrictions apply to this placement as the HIDE ability.
Command	IED STICK <BOMB> TO ROOM/<PROP>/<EXIT>
Appearance	Attaching a remote detonator to <BOMB>, you carefully conceal it on the ground, moving slowly so as not to trigger any accidental explosions.

Construction

Construction - Construct Improvised Explosives

Construction
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Construction
Required Lessons	5
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
All this practice has rendered your remaining fingers extra nimble! You can now rapidly construct any of the IEDs that you have learned in the Improvisation skill. You need a piece of junk to fashion your new explosive from.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT <TYPE> [WITH <MOD>]
Appearance	Using whatever supplies you have on hand, you skillfully construct 50 <BOMBS>, then add <MOD> to each. They are all slapdash and hasty, but they'll do. You casually sling 50 <BOMBS> into your bandolier, expertly avoiding any mishaps while you store them inside.

Wiring - Wire it up for a 1-2-3 punch.

'
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Construction
Required Lessons	157
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	2.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Lull the fools into a false sense of security! Wire your IED in series for three smaller blasts instead of one large one. Each explosion will come within 4 - 8 seconds of the previous.
Command	IED ADD WIRING TO <BOMB>
Appearance	With steady hands and careful competence, you divide <BOMB> up into smaller compartments to make it easier to handle.

Timer - Add a timer for delayed blasts.

Timer
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Construction
Required Lessons	689
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	2.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Apply strategic force by adding a detonation timer to your IED. This will delay any detonation by between 7 and 12 seconds.
Command	IED ADD TIMER TO <BOMB>
Appearance	You attach a crude timer to <BOMB>.

Shrapnel - Load your explosives with a painful punch.

Shrapnel
Skill	Improvisation
Group	Construction
Required Lessons	1207
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	2.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Deadly force is not enough carnage for you, so why not add blood and mangled flesh to the mix? Fill your IEDs with shrapnel and inflict anyone hit by your device with severe lacerations and bleeding.
Command	IED ADD SHRAPNEL TO <BOMB>
Appearance	Using a roll of spacer's tape that you happen to have handy, you secure a handful of sharp, broken salvage to <BOMB>, which will serve as shrapnel when it explodes.

IEDs

Ripper - Tear through flesh like butter.

Ripper
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	15
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
This high-powered shapecharge will tear through the flesh of your victims. Additionally, this is the only IED worth FORCEFEEDing to your enemy.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT RIPPER
Appearance	A handful of explosive putty.

Popper - Send blasts high into the air.

Popper
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	112
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Constructed from a rocket canister, this IED will send streams of technicolor flame into the air every 3 seconds for 15 seconds when detonated.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT POPPER
Appearance	A scavenged cylinder of rocket fuel.

Blinder - Dull their senses with a powerful flash.

Blinder
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	133
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Utilizing a powerful chemical reaction, this metal sphere will explode with a blinding flash and a deafening bang, afflicting your victim with blindess or deafness.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT BLINDER
Appearance	A palm-sized metal sphere.

Piercer - Fill the air with toxic darts.

Piercer
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	186
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Loaded with nanoinjectors, this back-alley grenade will explode and send the darts flying, injecting the victim with a toxic concoction that will do damage to their internal subsystem.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT PIERCER
Appearance	A spiny shrapnel grenade.

Pusher - Blast them away with a powerful wave.

Pusher
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	310
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
A non-lethal IED, this box will emit a powerful wave of force when detonated, sending the intended victim flying from your current location.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT PUSHER
Appearance	A heavy black box of explosives.

Zapper - Throw technology into disarray.

Zapper
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	462
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
A rudimentary and low-powered device, this explosive will send out a pulse of EM energy to tear through electronics and bots.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT ZAPPER
Appearance	A ticking electronic apparatus.

Shrieker - Drive them to distraction.

Shrieker
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	603
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Making use of an unstable fuel rod as its base, the shrieker will emit a piercing, strobe-like explosion, driving the victim to distraction. The effect of this IED scales based on the number of mind subsystem afflictions that the victim has.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT SHRIEKER
Appearance	An unstable fuel rod.

Melter - Spray corrosive acid around.

Melter
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	899
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
A favourite of working girls across the sector, this explosive device will spray a corrosive acid across the target when detonated, ruining any chance they had of being better looking than you (and increasing the damage they take by 15% for 20 seconds.)
Command	IED CONSTRUCT MELTER
Appearance	An acid-green metal canister.

Sleeper - Night night, princess.

Sleeper
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	1173
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
Using a formula you picked up from a "less than licensed" medical practitioner, this IED will send your victim into a deep sleep.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT SLEEPER
Appearance	A makeshift dart launcher.

Choker - Unleash noxious gasses.

Choker
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	1340
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
This highly volatile aerosol capsule will emit a choking gas when ruptured or detonated, dealing damage to all targets in the room every 3 seconds.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT CHOKER
Appearance	A dinged-up aerosol capsule.

Distorter - Impact their sense of time and space.

Distorter
Skill	Improvisation
Group	IEDs
Required Lessons	1750
Type	Noncombat utility
Base Balance Time	4.00 seconds
Cooldown	None
Resources	None
The IED's contents, when mixed, will induce a hallucinogenic effect, giving the sluggish affliction and distorting the victim's sense of time. The length of the effect will scale based upon how damaged their mind subsystem is.
Command	IED CONSTRUCT DISTORTER
Appearance	A cartridge of volatile chemicals.