Skills

If you take any magic skills you cannot then take science skills, and vice versa.

Skills can only be taken once unless otherwise specified.

Any skill that requires appropriate roleplay with no duration specified is 30 seconds.

A skill that requires uninterrupted roleplay is cancelled if you or any other participant is attacked.

Free Skills

Every PC starts with these (however NPCs may not).

One-Handed Training	You can use one melee weapon of 8”-42”.
Sense Magic	You've been trained to spot magical and alchemical anomalies. You can spot whether items and locations have magical or alchemical properties (you can see lammies and ribbons). Once per encounter with 5 seconds of touch range inspection, you can determine if an item or location or another character has an EFFECT (but no further information). Using this on a person is quite uncomfortable, like having your soul prodded.
Resilience	You’ve undergone physical training, or have unusual determination or fortitude, or maybe you’re just lucky. You can sustain an additional two mortal wounds than most before succumbing, becoming terminal on your fourth mortal wound.
First Aid	With stationary appropriate roleplay with both hands you can CURE ALL another character. With 5 seconds of touch range inspection you can determine whether a character is healthy, incapacitated, terminal or dead.
Patch Up	With 5 seconds of inspection you can diagnose any wounds another character is suffering from. Twice per day, with appropriate roleplay you can patch up a single wound on another character to suppress it until a dramatically appropriate time during the next event. You do not have to follow the Treatment on the wound card, but feel free to use it as inspiration for your patch up job.
Inflict Wound	With 5s of very clear roleplay you can call WOUND.
Search	You can search a character with appropriate roleplay miming a search; do not actually rifle through the target’s belongings without permission. At the culmination of the search the target must offer you any game items they have on them. Foci should be shown on a search, but can’t be removed (but they can be temporarily broken to disarm an invoker).
Break/Mend Weapon	Weapons, natural weapons and foci can be rendered unusable with 5 seconds of uninterrupted roleplay breaking them. This is the preferred method of disarming monsters. An item broken in this way can be restored to functionality with 30s of appropriate roleplay.

General Skills

Skill	Prerequisites	Description
Combat Training		Choose a combat school from Rogue, Warrior and Invoker. Receive the Free Skills for that school, and you can now learn the Combat Skills for it.
Melee Training		You can use an 8”-42” weapon in each hand. You can use a buckler up to 15” in diameter. You can use a weapon 42”-60” in both hands.
Polearm Training	Melee Training	You can use a weapon 60”-84” in both hands. These can be stab safe and if so can be used for thrusting. You can use a stab-safe 60”-84” spear in one hand to thrust only.
Thrown Training		You can carry up to three thrown weapons and use them.
Toughness		You have one extra hit.
Extra Toughness	Toughness	You have one extra hit and another extra hit when wearing armour.
Extreme Toughness	Extra Toughness	You have one extra hit.
Analyse Power		You can use Sense Magic an additional time per encounter. You can spend 5 seconds inspecting someone performing roleplay to determine what skill (if any) they’re using. If you possess the skill they’re using, you will also determine the exact intended outcome. All rituals are led with the “Lead Ritual” skill. For example, a thaumaturge performing the Ruination ritual would respond that they are using the Lead Ritual skill. If you also possess the Lead Ritual skill (of any element), you can then ask what the ritual they are performing will do.
Intuition		Spend at least a minute of uninterrupted roleplay discussing a particular problem, or what lies ahead, with other characters. Each participant will come to a minor realisation about the given problem. Discussing the same problem twice on the same day won't give new information.
Investigation		Spend at least one minute of uninterrupted roleplaying examining a scene or item to get information about it. Others can participate, with yourself leading the examination. Investigating the same target twice on the same day won't give new information. Investigation is good at finding mundane information about an item or scene, but is poor at divining magical properties. You will sometimes spot that things are out of place and get a hint that an Investigation might yield information.
Preparation		You have an excellent memory for skills, and with appropriate roleplay can learn a skill from a character that can perform it. You can only learn skills that you could learn yourself (so you must have any prerequisites, and you can’t learn a skill you’re locked out of due to science or magic attunement). You can only remember one skill at a time, but you can forget your Preparation in order to learn a new one. You can activate this ability once per day to gain that skill for an encounter. You cannot use any per-day abilities granted by the skill you’re replicating, including improvising rituals. You cannot learn the Combat Training skill with this. You will remember your Preparation for at most a week.
Personal Income		You gain additional income before every interactive, and this income will never be affected by political factors.
Exotic Income	Personal Income	You gain an exotic income before every interactive.
"Trader"		You can identify and estimate the value of well-known items and hazard an educated guess at the value of unknown items. You can also make a quick assessment of a character to determine if they are carrying any valuables, or specifically weapons (you can ask “OC do you have any game items?” and “OC do you have any weapons or a focus?”). You can smuggle 2 items up to the size of a dagger, or one item up to the size of a one-handed weapon. Do not hand over those items to a searcher on the completion of a search, unless you are terminal or dead. If that item is the only game item/weapon on you, also respond “No” if the Trader skill is used to assess you.
Connections		You can send messages to characters in uptime by asking a ref for a contact to meet you and pick up the message. This is primarily for delivering to NPCs, but you may deliver messages to PCs with this skill, in which case the contact will attempt to deliver it anonymously. Your contacts are only able to deliver messages to people on this plane, though cultivating contacts that can work extraplanar may be possible. This can also be used to find someone who can perform a service for you, provided that service is relatively common (if uncommon, you may be able to contact someone who knows someone). If a character who can do your desired service is known to be in the interactive, you will almost certainly just receive their name.
Inspire		Following at least 30 seconds of motivational or demotivational speech you can call “EFFECT: <Emotion>” to a single character. Once per day after 5s of oratory you can call “MASS EFFECT: <Emotion>”. These abilities can be performed on a resisting target, but can’t be performed in combat. Available emotions are: Admiration, Envy, Anger, Courage, Inspiration, Pride, Joy, Calm, Regret.
Iron Will		You can RESIST one non-EPIC COMPEL or emotion EFFECT per encounter with a declaration of resistance, individuality or other roleplay appropriate to your character. You can use this additional times per encounter, but will take a WOUND each time you do. If you RESIST an emotion EFFECT you can RESIST all further emotion EFFECTs from the same source for the rest of the encounter.
Leadership	Iron Will	Once per day with uninterrupted appropriate roleplay you can prepare any number of characters (including yourself) to grant them EFFECT: You may resist one non-EPIC COMPEL or emotion EFFECT that would interfere with a specific goal or plan until sunrise. Once per day with uninterrupted appropriate roleplay you can prepare any number of characters (including yourself) for the upcoming encounter. All participants gain EFFECT: +1 HP for the next encounter.
Smooth Talker		You know how to quickly de-escalate a situation. Following 5s of speech, you can call “MASS EFFECT: Don’t start a fight.” once per encounter. The target of this effect doesn’t feel any more or less predisposed to you, but are willing to talk instead of fighting. This skill can be used on a resisting target, but can’t be used once combat has started. You can spend at least 1 minute of roleplay to spread a rumour or plan a campaign to attempt to influence a group of NPCs who are not present, but are on this plane. Other characters can assist with this. It is likely to take time for any influence to take effect.

Magic Skills

Skill	Prerequisites	Description
Lead Ritual		Choose an element. You can lead rituals of that element that you’ve learned, improvise rituals of that element, and you learn the Consecrate ritual for that element. This skill can be taken multiple times, choose a different element each time.
Learn Ritual	Lead Ritual	Learn an additional formulaic ritual of any element. This skill can be taken multiple times, learning a new ritual each time.
Focused Thaumaturge	Lead Ritual	Once per day you can boost the effectiveness of a ritual you lead, increasing the effective power by 50%. You can RESIST any non-EPIC call that would cause you to stop the ritual.

Science Skills

Skill	Prerequisites	Description
Alchemy		You can perform alchemy to manifest first and second order partials of alchemicals. You can use 2 ingredients safely. You can experiment with new recipes once per day. You can identify a known alchemical with a few moments of roleplay. You can identify an unknown alchemical with appropriate roleplay, destroying it.
Improved Alchemy	Alchemy	You can use 3 ingredients safely. You can experiment with new recipes twice per day. When in the field, you can transmute ducatto into any basic ingredient. This is much less efficient than purchasing ingredients from the task force stores.
Advanced Alchemy	Improved Alchemy	You can manifest third order partials of alchemicals and use 4 ingredients safely. You can experiment with new recipes 3 times per day. You can use alchemicals that are Advanced Alchemist Only.
Master Alchemy	Advanced Alchemy	You can use 5 ingredients safely. You can manifest fourth order partials of alchemicals and use fabled fourth order alchemicals. Fourth order alchemicals are likely to be your magnum opus; you may only be able to fully comprehend one or two, but they will have a dramatic effect. You can experiment with new recipes 4 times per day.
Alchemical Resistance	Improved Alchemy	You can consume an additional alchemical per encounter before suffering from overdose.
Surgery		Surgery is a very common requirement for the treatment of wounds. With 5 seconds of touch range inspection you can determine the exact hits of a character. With appropriate roleplay you can autopsy a human corpse and ask one question about it.
Dissection	Surgery	With appropriate roleplay you can dissect a recently deceased non-human body to salvage usable materials from it and ask one question about it. Materials in bodies must be removed and preserved *extremely* quickly, such that each dissector can usually only dissect a single body at the end of an encounter before the rest are spoilt. Not all body types yield useful material.
Field Medic	Surgery	You can suppress wounds with the Patch Up skill two more times per day.
Rapid First Aid	Surgery	You can use 5s stationary appropriate roleplay to CURE 1 another character.
Graft		You can graft elemental material on to people, or yourself (or another surgeon or grafter can do the operation under your direction if self-surgery is impractical), which can grant new abilities, usually with drawbacks. Your knowledge of grafts means you can use one graft without mechanical drawback. If the target is unwilling the graft may be rejected.
Advanced Grafting	Graft	You can perform advanced grafts on yourself (or another surgeon or grafter can do the operation under your direction if self-surgery is impractical). There is no set list of advanced grafts, but consulting with a Keeper or task force staff could give insight on what is possible and what would be required to do it. Advanced grafts can be based on elemental grafts, or altering your own tissue with a powerful alchemical. Advanced grafts will always cause a dramatic appearance change.
Reanimate		With appropriate roleplay you can reanimate a mostly complete corpse. This can allow a conversation with the dead creature. This may fail even with a recently dead corpse. Corpses can also be reanimated with a rudimentary intelligence to perform simple tasks. Reanimated workers are not useful for combat and there is a limit to how many workers a reanimator can maintain at a time. You can also use this skill to restore a terminal character to full capability, but they will still die at the end of their terminal state unless they find a way to avert it.