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ignite

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ignite <target> -- burn a helpless fire-weak foe with open flame

How you play
  1. Get open flame     lighter, torch, lantern, flamethrower, or flame sword
  2. Fight fire-weak prey until they are KO'd or weak (or keep swinging the flame weapon)
  3. ignite <target>    finish them with fire (or land the execute with the weapon out)

Any real fire in your kit works: a hunter lighter, a torch, a lantern, a flamethrower, or a flame sword (Ash Garage, Lawrence Mechanic, and other hunter shops stock the lighter; torches turn up in dark cellars). Ignite only works on prey that living fire can truly end -- Wendigo and Vampires for now (help incap). Each tool has its own burn lines -- a flamethrower wash does not read like a lighter spark.

Wielded flame weapons also hurt fire-weak prey in ordinary combat and can proper-kill them on a dropping blow (same finisher window as stake). Flashlights and glowing stones are light only -- not living fire.

The target must be helpless: combat knock-out, immortal stun, or about 35% health or less -- the same finisher window as stake and decapitate.
Fire Elementals still use immolate with Cosmic Charge (help immolate).
A landed living-fire finish on a Vampire or Wendigo sends the spirit to Purgatory at once -- no Earth linger (help death).

See also: help hunter | help incap | help immolate | help stake