Wood

• Coupling: makes two subsystems influence each other more strongly.

• Propagation: makes signals or stress travel farther through a network.

• Reinforcement: strengthens existing links or creates bridging links.

Offensive

Use against objects

• Force two moving parts to couple so motion in one drags the other, like linking gears that should be independent.

• Make sliding surfaces grab and heat, priming rapid change.

• Connectivity materials lose “stickiness”, therefore glue-like material fails.

• Reduce conduction pathways, preventing distribution of force and instead increase force on localized zones.

• Mute vibrational connectivity, mute sound, stop echoes, distort tuning

• Fracture load-bearing structures by creating branching cracks that prevent stable compression.

• Turn packed earth, stone, or plaster into crumbling aggregate by forcing micro fissures that prevent persistence.

Use against a body

• Overcouple muscle groups so antagonist muscles fire together. Their punch feels like moving through glue.

• Couple sensory channels so touch cross-talk becomes itch, burn, pins-and-needles. That creates the “skin crawling” effect.

• Increase nerve reactivity, and therefore pain.

• Increase reflex propagation so involuntary flinches chain through the body, breaking stance.

• Reduce effective neural conduction speed in peripheral networks, leading to delayed reactions and clumsy execution.

• Decouple motor coordination: timing between muscle groups breaks, reaction time worsens, footwork becomes sloppy.

• Reduce sensory coupling: numbness or “dead limb” feeling by isolating peripheral nerve signals.

• Cause joints to feel unseated: ligaments lose the stable compression pattern that makes movement powerful.

Offensive power ups

• Enhanced proprioceptive coupling: faster coordination, better balance, smoother chaining of movements.

• Tighter muscle recruitment: more of the right fibers fire together, giving sharper technique.

• Increased “sensory map resolution”: they feel more contact detail, which helps grappling.

• Tactical dampening: reduce their own pain coupling so they can take hits without flinching.

Defensive

Support object defense

• Reinforce joints and seams. Make a wall behave like a single unit instead of a pile of parts.

• Create fiber-webbing. A net-like reinforcement layer that distributes impact.

• Make an object resist cascading failure by decoupling sections. If one part breaks, the break does not spread.

Defensive power ups

• Better integration. Reflexes chain cleanly. Guard and footwork sync.

• Tougher connective tissue under strain.

• Reduce nerve communication, therefore pain decreases

As a tool

Support objects

• Make edges “sticky” to connect things. Repair broken objects, or assemble parts in creative ways.

• Make fuel easier to consume, flare/increase flames.

• Clean disassembly. Take apart traps, locks, mechanisms without breaking pieces by decoupling joints.

• Silence. Decouple resonant paths so machines run quietly.

• Insulation. Reduce transfer between layers.

• Debris making. Turn packed soil to loose material for digging.

• Anti-settlement. Stop foundations from locking by preventing persistent compaction.

Support a body

• Increase neuron pathways, therefore making it easier to draw creative connections.

• Heightened sensory coupling can feel euphoric or overwhelming.

• Increased interoception and fine motor coordination.

• Calm the body by reducing startle chaining, which indirectly reduces panic

• Reduce swelling

Healing

• Knit bone and tendon by strengthening bridging tissue and aligning growth along correct stress lines.

• Reconnect damaged nerve pathways in the periphery, improving sensation and motor control over time.

• Reduce scar dysfunction by reweaving fascia into functional alignment.

• Increase natural healing speed by making the repairs occur faster

• Pain suppression by reducing sensory propagation.

• Preventing chronic pain loops by decoupling miswired pathways.

• Reduce swelling and compartment pressure

Economic advantages