Eye-Gouging

Hard

Defaults: Brawling-5, Judo-5, or Wrestling-5.
Prerequisite: Brawling, Judo, or Wrestling; cannot exceed
prerequisite skill.
This close-combat attack consists of grabbing someone’s
head and pressing your thumbs into his eyes. It usually
requires two empty hands. Roll against Eye-Gouging to hit.
Your foe may defend normally. If he fails, you grapple
him and he cannot see! He can try to break free (p. B371) as
usual on his turn.
Until your victim breaks free, you can drive your thumbs
into his eyes on subsequent turns. This counts as an attack
but doesn’t require an attack roll. Each eye takes thrust-4
crushing damage. This can cripple and blind the eyes but
never gets the ¥4 wounding modifier for the skull – the
thumbs are too short! (Exception: The GM may give some
nonhumans the perk “Long Thumbs,” in which case the
wounding modifier does apply. The same goes for fighters
with Talons or Long Talons.)
You can gouge one-handed. The attack roll is against
Eye-Gouging-4. Only one eye takes damage on later turns.