Eye-Poke

Hard

Defaults: Boxing-9, Brawling-9, or Karate-9.
Prerequisite: Boxing, Brawling, or Karate; cannot
exceed prerequisite skill-4.
This is a jab to the eye using an extended finger. It can
blind but it never gets the ¥4 wounding modifier for the
skull (compare Lethal Eye-Poke, below). Roll against Eye-
Poke to hit.
A hit inflicts thrust-3 crushing damage. Injury over
HP/10 cripples the eye. Any excess is lost. A miss by 1
strikes the protective bone around the eye, damaging
the face instead – but as you’re hitting bone, skull DR
(usually DR 2) protects. Hurting Yourself (p. B379) applies
if your target has any DR, not just DR 3+, or if you hit
bone.
Due to the risk of finger injury, many fighters pull this
blow (see Subduing a Foe, p. B401). Little damage is need-
ed to cripple an eye in any event!