if snd.class == "Syssin" then
snd.hypno_stack = { -- hypnosis affs, in priority order
 "hypochondria",
 "impatience",
 "loneliness",
 "lethargy",
 "hypochondria",
 "impatience",
 "vertigo",
 "lethargy",
 "impatience",
 "loneliness",
 "lethargy"
}
snd.starting_attack()
function snd.attack_function()
	local string = "" -- this will populate with our attack
	local call = "" -- this will be for affliction calling
	local touse = {} -- this will store the affs we still want to hit with
	local tohit = {} -- this will store the effects from touse
	local extraaff = "delphinium" -- what to use if we used everything else
	-- and how far away we are from a lock
	local missing = snd.missingAff("stupidity/paresis/anorexia/asthma/slickness", "/")
	if snd.target_locked() then
		snd.giving = {
		"a broken left leg",
		"a broken right leg",
		"hearing",
		"sensitivity",
		"voyria"
		}
	elseif snd.hypno == "running" then
		snd.giving = { -- the venoms we're going to apply while hypnosis is running, in prioritized order
		--"sight",
		"paresis",
		"clumsiness",
		"asthma",
		"shyness", -- to keep impatience stuck, this buries it
		"slickness",
		"anorexia", -- work harder on the lock than buffer affs, while hypnosis is going
		"stupidity", -- not as important, since we're running impatience
		--"vomiting",
		"allergies",
		"sensitivity",
		--"haemophilia",
		--"recklessness",
		"weariness",
		--"dizziness",
		"voyria",
		}
	else
		snd.giving = { -- the venoms we're going to apply while hypnosis is building, in prioritized order
		--"sight",
		"clumsiness",
		"asthma",
		"paresis",
		--"squelched",
		"shyness", -- to bury impatience once hypno fires
		--"vomiting", -- stick these two early, to bury scytherus
		"allergies", -- this being the second
		"slickness",
		"stupidity",
		"anorexia",
		"sensitivity",
		--"haemophilia",
		--"recklessness",
		"weariness",
		--"dizziness",
		--"voyria",
		}
	end