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Nava the level 1 Yeek Brawler by Blackmage199

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.6.7
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CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNormal Roguelike
SexFemale
RaceYeek
ClassBrawler
Level / Exp1 / 0%
Sizesmall
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
/ 0

Primary Stats

Strength10 (base 13)
Dexterity11 (base 13)
Constitution5 (base 10)
Magic10 (base 10)
Willpower16 (base 10)
Cunning17 (base 13)

Resources

Life78/100
Stamina103/115
Healing Factor0.95714285714286
Regeneration0.23928571428571

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3

Offense: Barehand

Damage21
Accuracy21
Crit Chance4%
APR3
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower10
Crit Chance3%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower18
Crit Chance3%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)3 (30%)
Defense3
Ranged Defense3
Fatigue7
Physical Save5
Spell Save9
Mental Save11

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%
Confusion Resistance35%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 100 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.
Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Infusion: Wild
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to instantly heal yourself for 50 then cleanse 1 wound, poison, and disease effect.
Infusion: Healing

Class Talents

Technique / Pugilism1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 3
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Deliver two quick punches that deal 91% damage each, and switch your stance to Striking Stance. If you already have Striking Stance active and Double Strike isn't on cooldown, this talent will automatically replace your normal attacks (and trigger the cooldown).
    If either jab connects, you earn one combo point. At talent level 4 or greater, if both jabs connect, you'll earn two combo points.
    Double Strike
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12.8
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Attack your foes in a frontal arc with a spinning backhand, doing 126% damage. If you're not adjacent to the target, you'll step forward as you spin, gaining up to 36% bonus damage, which increases the farther you move.
    This attack will remove any grapples you're maintaining, and earn one combo point (or one combo point per attack that connects, if the talent level is 4 or greater).
    Spinning Backhand
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 21.4
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Deliver a devastating axe kick dealing 106% damage. If the blow connects your target is brain damaged, causing all talents to fail for -7 turns and earning 2 combo points.
    This effect cannot be saved against, though it can be dodged and checks confusion immunity.
    Axe Kick
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 16.1
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Lashes out at the target with three quick punches that each deal 56% damage.
    Earns one combo point. If your talent level is 4 or greater, this instead earns one combo point per blow that connects.
    Flurry of Fists
0/5
Technique / Combat techniques1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 23.5
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 44
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Rush toward a target enemy with incredible speed and perform a melee attack for 120% weapon damage that can daze the target for 3 turns if it hits.
    You must rush from at least 2 tiles away.
    Rush
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You focus your strikes, reducing your attack speed by 10% and increasing your Accuracy by 4 and critical chance by 3%.
    The effects will increase with your Dexterity.
    Precise Strikes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 26.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 25
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have learned to focus your blows to hit your target, granting +19 accuracy and allowing you to attack creatures you cannot see without penalty for the next -1 turns.
    Perfect Strike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 26.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Through rigorous training, you have learned to focus your actions for a short while, increasing your speed by 3% for 5 turns.
    Blinding Speed
0/5
Technique / Finishing moves1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: A finishing uppercut that deals 171% damage, and attempts to stun your target for 3 to 4 turns, depending on the amount of combo points you've accumulated.
    The stun chance will improve with your Physical Power.
    Using this talent removes your combo points.
    Uppercut
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: A powerful concussive punch that deals 86% weapon damage to your target. If the punch hits, all targets in a radius of 2 will take 2.14 to 10.69 damage, depending on the amount of combo points you've accumulated.
    The area damage will scale with your Strength, and the radius will increase by 1 per combo point.
    Using this talent removes your combo points.
    Concussive Punch
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 21.4
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 55
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You spin into a flying leap and deliver a powerful kick dealing 126% weapon damage to all enemies in a radius of 1 as you land. The range will increase by 1 per combo point and total damage will increase by 10% per combo point.
    Using this talent removes your combo points and you must have at least 1 combo point to use it.
    Butterfly Kick
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: A vicious finishing strike that deals 146% damage increased by 20% per combo point you have up to a max of 292%. If the target ends up with low enough life (
    Haymaker
0/5
Cunning / Tactical1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your Defense is increased by 6 for every adjacent visible foe, up to a maximum of +-12 Defense.
    The Defense increase per enemy and maximum Defense bonus will scale with your Cunning.
    Tactical Expert
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: When you avoid a melee blow from an adjacent foe, you have a 0% chance to get a free, automatic melee attack against the attacker for 76% damage, up to 1.2 times per turn.
    Unarmed fighters using it will also attempt to throw the target to the ground if the attack lands, dazing them for 2 turns or stunning them for 2 turns if the target is grappled.
    The chance of countering and number of counter attacks increase with your Cunning.
    Counter Attack
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
    Description: Increases Defense by 6 for 0 turns. When you avoid a melee blow, you set the target up, increasing the chance of you landing a critical strike on them by 5% and reducing their saving throws by 5.
    The effects will scale with your Cunning.
    Set Up
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
    Description: Systematically find the weaknesses in your opponents' physical resists, at the cost of 10% of your physical damage. Each time you hit an opponent with a melee attack, you reduce their physical resistance by 5%, up to a maximum of -5%.
    Exploit Weakness
0/5
Technique / Combat veteran1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate stamina faster (+0.0 stamina/turn).
    Quick Recovery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your combat focus allows you to regenerate life faster (+1.4 life/turn).
    Fast Metabolism
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Rigorous training allows you to be more resistant to some spell effects (+0 spell save).
    Spell Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You revel in the death of your foes, regaining 0.0 stamina with each death you cause.
    Unending Frenzy
0/5

Generic Talents

Technique / Unarmed training1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases all unarmed damage by 34% and physical power by 30 (including grapples and kicks).
    Note that brawlers naturally gain 0.5 Physical Power per character level while unarmed (current brawler physical power bonus: 0.5) and attack 20% faster while unarmed.
    Unarmed Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your mastery of unarmed combat unifies your body. Increases your Strength by 1 based on Cunning and your Constitution by 1 based on Dexterity.
    Unified Body
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: When you're targeted by a projectile, your global speed is increased by 0% for 1 turn. Taking any action other than movement will break the effect.
    Heightened Reflexes
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your understanding of physiology allows you to apply your reflexes in new ways, increasing the flat damage reduction granted by Striking Stance by 16% and causing direct critical hits (physical, mental, spells) against you to have a 2% lower Critical multiplier (but always do at least normal damage).
    Reflex Defense
0/5
Cunning / Survival1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 2 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 0, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+0 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by -1%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Attacks against you have a 0.0% reduced chance to be critical hits, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 6%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5
Technique / Conditioning1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 15
    Description: You recover faster from poisons, diseases and wounds, reducing the duration of all such effects by -107%.
    Whenever your life falls below 50%, your life regeneration increases by 1.1 for 8 turns (9 total). This effect can only happen once every 15 turns.
    The regeneration scales with your Constitution.
    Vitality
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You've learned to recover quickly from effects that would disable you. Each turn, you have a -5% chance to recover from a single stun effect.
    At talent level 2 you may also recover from Blindness, at level 3 Confusion and Pins, and level 4 Disarms and Slows.
    Effects will be cleansed with the priority order Stun > Blind > Confusion > Pin > Disarm > Slow.
    Only one effect may be recovered from each turn, and the chance to recover from an effect scales with your Constitution.
    Unflinching Resolve
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Enemies are intimidated by your very presence.
    Enemies within radius 6 have their Physical Power, Mindpower, and Spellpower reduced by 1.
    The power of the intimidation effect improves with your Physical power
    Daunting Presence
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 24
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You release a surge of adrenaline that increases your Physical Power by 0 for 0 turns. While the effect is active, you may continue to fight beyond the point of exhaustion.
    You may continue to use stamina based talents while at zero stamina at the cost of life.
    The Physical Power increase will scale with your Constitution.
    Using this talent does not take a turn.
    Adrenaline Surge
0/5
Technique / Mobility1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 8.6
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Jump back up to 0 grids from your target, springing over any creatures in your way.
    You must disengage in a nearly straight line directly away from your target (which you must be able to see).
    After moving, you gain 88% increased movement speed for 3 turns (which ends if you take any actions other than movement), and you may reload your ammo (if any).
    The extra speed and maximum distance you can move are reduced by your Fatigue level.
    Disengage
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 26.8
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 54
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your quick wit and reflexes allow you to anticipate attacks against you, granting you a 3% chance to evade melee and ranged attacks and 0 increased defense for 4 turns.
    The chance to evade and defense bonus increase with your Dexterity.
    Evasion
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 21.4
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: -16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: In an extreme feat of agility, you move to a spot you can see within range, bounding around, over, or through any enemies in the way.
    This talent cannot be used while wearing heavy armor, and leaves you exhausted. The exhaustion increases the cost of your activated Mobility talents by 130% (stacking), but fades over 32 turns.
    Tumble
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have trained to be very light on your feet and have conditioned your reflexes to react faster than thought to damage you take.
    While this talent is active, you instantly react to any direct damage (not from status effects, etc.) that would hit you for at least 72% of your maximum life.
    This requires 2.2 stamina and reduces the damage by 3%.
    Your reactions are too slow for this if you are wearing heavy armour.
    The damage reduction improves with your Defense.
    Trained Reactions
0/5
Race / Yeek1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 48
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Shatter the mind of your victim, giving you full control of its actions for 6 turns (based on your Willpower).
    When the effect ends, you pull out your mind and the victim's body collapses, dead.
    Targets with ranks at or above rare must be below 80% of their maximum life to be controlled, will be invulnerable for the duration, and will break free of the effect without dying after 3 turns.
    This effect cannot be saved against but checks instakill immunity.
    Dominant Will
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Your mind becomes more attuned to the Way, and is shielded from outside effects.
    Increase confusion and silence immunities by -9% and Mental Save by 0.
    Unity
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 75
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Yeeks live fast, think fast, and sacrifice fast for the Way.
    Your global speed is increased by 0.1%.
    If your life drops below 30% you gain 1.5 turns. This effect can only happen once every 75 turns.
    Quickened
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 4
    Cooldown: 52
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a mind power
    Description: Reach through the collective psionic gestalt of the yeeks, the Way, to call for immediate help.
    Summons up to 3 yeek mindslayers to your side for 6 turns.
    All their primary stats will be set to 25 (based on your Willpower and Talent Level).
    Your increased damage, damage penetration, and many other stats will be inherited.
    Wayist
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.1%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    (Note that brawlers will be unable to perform many of their talents in massive armour.)
    Heavy Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 4 Defense, 0% Armour hardiness, and 0% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 2 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
0/5

Effects

talent
Striking Stance
beneficial effect
The target is in the middle of a combo chain and has earned 1 combo points.
1 Combo

Quests

You have been tasked to remove at leastg one of the threats to the yeeks.

Protect the Way, and vanquish your foes.

* You must explore the underwater lair of Murgol.
* You must explore the ritch tunnels.
Following The Way		active

Equipment

Light source
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3


A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
On hands
iron gauntlets (0 def, 1 armour)
Requires:
- Heavy armour training

1.50 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Fatigue: +1%
When used to modify unarmed attacks:
Base power: 11.0 - 15.4
Uses stats: 40% Cun, 40% Dex, 40% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +3
Crit. chance: +2.0%
Attack speed: 100%


Metal gloves protecting the hands up to the middle of the lower arm.
iron gauntlets (0 def, 1 armour)
Main armor
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 10

9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +3 (+3 eff.)
Fatigue: +6%


A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)

Inventory

rough leather gloves (0 def, 1 armour)
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / hands ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
When used to modify unarmed attacks:
Base power: 7.5 - 8.3
Uses stats: 40% Cun, 40% Dex, 40% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.3% crit chance (max 25%)
Armour Penetration: +1
Crit. chance: +1.0%
Attack speed: 125%


Light gloves which do not seriously hinder finger movements, while still protecting the hands somewhat.
rough leather gloves (0 def, 1 armour)
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 0 power out of 1000/1000.

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest

Achievements

Log

Character control switched to player.
Accepted quest 'Following The Way'! (Press 'j' to see the quest log)
Showing small healthbars and tactical borders.
Saving done.
Nava throws a finishing uppercut.
Yeek psionic activates Kinetic Shield.
Today is the 74th Pyre of the 122nd year of the Age of Ascendancy of Maj'Eyal.
The time is 11:01.
Yeek psionic activates Charged Aura.
Yeek psionic activates Beyond the Flesh.
Yeek psionic uses Infusion: Regeneration.
Yeek psionic starts regenerating health quickly.

Nava throws a finishing uppercut.
Yeek psionic is stunned!
Nava hits Yeek psionic for (15 to psi shield), 22 physical (22 total damage).

Nava activates Striking Stance.

Nava throws two quick punches.
Yeek psionic says: 'Catch her!'
Nava hits Yeek psionic for (8 to psi shield), 13 physical, (8 to psi shield), 13 physical (25 total damage).
Yeek psionic deactivates Charged Aura.
Yeek psionic hits Nava for (1 flat reduction), 23 lightning (23 total damage).

Nava deactivates Striking Stance.